Born in Michigan City, La Porte, Indiana, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Amos Fairbanks
and Mary (Bartholomew) Fairbanks
Sister of
Alva Fairbank and Viola Jane (Fairbanks) Valencia
Wife of
Christopher Frederich Merkley
— married
17 Jan 1858 in Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Descendants 
Mother of
Sarah Frances (Merkley) Virgin, Jacob Nathaniel Merkeley, Christopher Amos Merkley, Alva Marion Merkley, Martha Elizabeth (Merkeley) Pugmire, Lucy (Merkeley) Pugmire and Susie (Merkeley) Cleveland
Died
at age 66
in Saint Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Jun 2014
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Biography
Xarissa was born in 1838. Xarissa Fairbanks ... She passed away in 1904. [1]
Sources
- ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Paul Brown, Thursday, June 26, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.
- Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America 1633-1897 (Boston, MA: pub. by the author [American Printing & Engraving Co.], 1897)
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Xarissa 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 Xarissa:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Xarissa 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 Xarissa:
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~0.78%
Gordon Patton
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23andMe, GEDmatch LA7060480 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch KP1862094 [compare], Ancestry member gordon_patton
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~0.78%
~1.56%
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