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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth:
According to Lorene Petersen and Jennie Lyle in their book, "Knox, James Knox, Sr. and Elizabeth Craig Knox and their Descendants" the elderest son John who was born in 1744, upon settling in the Carolinas, along with his father took over the running of the family and the homestead. He then enlisted and fought in the War of Independence for most of the duration. He returned to the homestead and upon his father's death became the sole head of the household having to care for his mother and a disabled brother. He didn't marry until most of his siblings were married and on their own. Actually 44 wasn't such an old age, even in the 18th Century. His mother lived to over 100 years old and most of the adults once they attained the age of majority lived well into what one may think as old age. The men generally were in great health, strong and unless they died in the military or caught one of the diseases of the time lived well into their sixties, seventies and even eighties. The women did the same, unless they died in child birth or again caught some disease. The average death age was very low due to so many young children dying prior to their sixth birthday. I have found that the majority of men of the time married in their twenties and early thirties, having the need to acquire a trade in order to support their future family. The women were generally in their late teens or early twenties.
Doesn't anybody wonder about the accuracy of a man born in 1744 but not marrying and having children until 1789??? That's 45 years of age and an "old man" for colonial times! These profiles are truly suspect. I'm sure Elizabeth Eoff married a Knox but probably not this one... facts matter!