Born in Virginia
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Reuben William Lunsford
— married
30 May 1792 in Bath County Virginia
Wife of
John Higgins
— married
18 Oct 1800 in Bath, Virginia, United States
Descendants 
Died
at age 100
in Ohio, United States [uncertain]
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Biography
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Name Mary Dennison Spouse Rubin Lunsford Marriage Date 30 May 1792 Marriage Location Bath County, Virginia Household Members
NameAge NameMary Dennison NameRubin Lunsford
Mary Higgins
Birth unknown
Death 26 Apr 1870
Burial
Saint Joseph New Cemetery
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
Sources
Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800
"Our Family Heritage" by Verna Lunceford Peterson, Zula = Lunceford Shoffner, and Edward Shoffner "The Lunsford Family" by Mrs. Ralph Lunsford "Annals of Bath County, Virginia" by Oren F. Morton Revolutionary War Pension & Bounty Land Warrant Application Files http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LUNSFORD/1996-06/0835809351 Rubin Lunsford received a land grant of 80 acres in Bath County, Virginia in 1857. 1. Margaret (Dennison Lunsford) Higgins applied for a widow's pension on Reuben Lunceford's service in the Virginia Continental Line on Feb. 18, 1857 from her home in Lawrence County, Ohio. It states that Reuben was drafted, served 18 months and that he came from Amherst County, VA . Margaret stated she was married to Reuben Lunsford in 1791 Bath County, Virginia and she had been a widow for 12 years.
Mary Margaret Dennison Lunsford Higgins was 80 years old when she requested Reuben's pension. She seems to have confused the Revolutionary War with the War of 1812. Reuben's military service documents report that he served in the War of 1812.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaret:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaret:
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~1.56%
Michael Pearcy
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A928227 [compare], Ancestry member mpearcy56
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~0.78%
Jackie (Hunter) Rowbotham :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
~3.12%
Erin (Card) Jackson :
23andMe
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~0.39%
Brandon Buckle :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T357479 [compare], FTDNA kit #480128
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Rejected matches › Mary (Denison) Griswold (abt.1772-abt.1845)
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D > Dennison | H > Higgins > Margaret (Dennison) Higgins
Categories: St. Joseph New Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio
John died about 1790-his wife Mary was a widow in the 1791, 1792 & 1793 Tax Record for Bath Co. VA. So Mary died after 1793.
John & Mary had 3 sons & several daughters- John, Thomas, Jonathan & Margaret
Thomas was married to Eleanor Redding & in 1857 he was the attorney for his sister Margaret who was trying to get Reuben-her 1st husband-pension.
http://www.johnbrobb.com/Content/DENNISON/DEN-VA-Taxes.pdf See PG. 128
edited by Nancy Yeager
Reuben Lansford was her 1st husband. They married May 30,1792 in Bath Co. VA. They had 3 children William, John & Mary Ann. NO REUBEN. On Oct. 18, 1800 in Bath Co. VA she married my grandfather John Higgins. They had 6 kids. Nancy, James, Elizabeth, John, Margaret & Thomas. Some people have her parents as James Lewis Dennison & Nancy Anderson but there's NO proof of this so far. That's not her grave at the above findagrave link.