Obediah
Ferguson
Born in Greenbriar Creek, Wayne, West Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of Joel Martin Ferguson
and Elizabeth (Osburn) Ferguson
Brother of
Edmund Jay Ferguson, Mary Jane Ferguson, Druzzila (Ferguson) Riggs, John Joseph Ferguson, Margaret Elizabeth (Ferguson) Salmons, James Addison Ferguson, Simeon J. Ferguson, Perlina (Ferguson) Dean [half], Cassandra (Ferguson) Crabtree, Thomas Dean Ferguson [half], Adaline (Ferguson) Preston, Sarah (Ferguson) Hutchison [half], Joel Martin Ferguson Jr. [half], Henry Ferguson [half] and Parazade (Ferguson) Artrip [half]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 25
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Aug 2020
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Biography
Obediah was born in 1817. He was the son of Joel Ferguson and Elizabeth Osburn. He passed away about 1843. Obediah's grandparents Edmund and Mary Osburn only lived about a mile from Greenbriar Creek to Where they lived on Wolf Creek in Wayne County, West Virginia.
Sources
- Virginia Archives, West Virginia Archives and census records
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Obediah by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Obediah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Obediah by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Obediah:
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Danette (Emberlin) Fuhrer 
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Danette110
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~3.12%
~12.50%
Robert Stein :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A742854 [compare], yourDNAportal ROB73981b69, Ancestry member bobstein3
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~1.56%
Judy Hawkins :
23andMe
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~1.56%
Chuck Robertson :
MyHeritage DNA
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~0.78%
Linda (Peck) Schreiber :
23andMe, GEDmatch A428345 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A428345 [compare]
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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MyHeritage DNA
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Bonnie (Crabtree) Berg :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A448956 [compare], Ancestry member bonnie4tea
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch f237102 [compare], FTDNA kit #237102
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Jaynetta (None) Conroy :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Marty (Davis) Cottrill :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member mdcottrill62
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