Born in Tennessee, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Hiram Edwards
and Sarah (Bond) Edwards
Wife of
William Merritt Knight
— married
3 Jul 1847 in Wilson County, Tennessee, United States
Mother of
Mary Jane Knight, Sarah Ann (Knight) Donnell, John Lester Knight, William Lafayette Knight and Charles Foster Knight
Died
at age 44
in Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 7 Nov 2013
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Biography
Nancy was born in 1826. She was the daughter of Hiram Edwards and Sarah Bond. She passed away in 1871. [1]
Sources
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 06 June 2022), memorial page for Nancy Malenda Edwards Knight (6 Dec 1826–10 Jul 1871), Find A Grave: Memorial #19891092, citing Hurricane Baptist Church Cemetery, Hurricane, Wilson County, Tennessee, USA; maintained by Linda Hutcherson (contributor 46812647), headstone photo.
- "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHS-15FR : 10 March 2021), William M Knight and Nancy Malinda Edwards, 03 Jul 1847; citing Wilson, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. , Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 2,115,976.
- "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC67-F7X : 21 October 2021), Nancy Knight in household of William Knight, Wilson, Tennessee, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8TR-1BP : 18 February 2021), Nancy Knight in entry for W M Knight, 1860.
- "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD8X-3P3 : 29 May 2021), Nancy Knight in entry for Wm Knight, 1870.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Don Edwards for creating Edwards-6220 on 7 Nov 2013. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Don and others.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Nancy 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 Nancy:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Nancy 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 Nancy:
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~3.12%
Don Edwards
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member dmagy2
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~0.78%
Patricia (Gray) Ferdig :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch MR9280895 [compare], Ancestry member patriciajgray
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