Census records are all over the place with the birth year estimates.
Sources
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSBT-5LK : accessed 7 December 2018), Chessie M Faw in household of Jacob J Faw, Reddies River Township, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 155, sheet 7A, family 119, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,224.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLSS-6M5 : accessed 7 December 2018), Chessie M Faw in household of Jacob J Faw, Reddies River, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 175, sheet 1B, family 11, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1135; FHL microfilm 1,375,148.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZVC-JZD : accessed 7 December 2018), Chessie A Faw in household of Jacob J Faw, Reddies River, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States; citing ED 181, sheet 8A, line 38, family 155, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1329; FHL microfilm 1,821,329.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X37G-MWR : accessed 7 December 2018), Chessie H Faw in household of Jacob J Faw, Reddies River, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 20, sheet 4B, line 58, family 78, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1728; FHL microfilm 2,341,462.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KW7V-66Y : 15 March 2018), Chessie Faw, North Wilkesboro Township, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 97-20, sheet 32A, line 21, family 521, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2988.
"North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGSK-MLY : 10 February 2018), Chessie Helen Nichols, 17 Feb 1979; citing Elkin, Surry, North Carolina, v 7A cn 7478, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,984,521.
"Find A Grave, Inc.", FindAGrave.comChessie Helen Faw Nichols accessed 15 July 2022; Find A Grave: Memorial #241562993, Records of Mountlawn Memorial Park, North Wilkesboro, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Chessie by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' 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 Chessie: