Born in Robertson, Tennessee, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Josiah C. Fort
and Piety (Horn) Fort
Sister of
Whitmel Hill Fort, Henry Fort, William Fort, Catherine Branch (Fort) Grubbs, Sarah Battle (Fort) Wimberly, Joel Battle Fort, Elias Joseph Fort and Garner McConnico Fort [half]
Wife of
Ambrose Dudley Bourne I
— married
30 May 1819 in Todd, Kentucky, United States
Mother of
Ambrose Josiah Fort Bourne and Piety Horn (Bourne) Grisard
Died
at age 41
in Tennessee, United States [uncertain]
[uncertain]Profile last modified
| Created 27 Jan 2013
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Biography
Charity E. Fort, daughter and 4rth child of Josiah Fort and Piety Horn, was born 6/15/1796 in Robertson County, Tennessee, the year Tennessee became a state. She died 5/17/1838 and was buried beside her son Ambrose J.F. Bourne in the Josiah Fort Cemetery.
She married 5/30/1819, (as his third wife), Rev. Ambrose Dudley Bourne 1772 - 1823. He was called Ambrose. They had two children. Per Homer T. Fort, Drucilla Stovall Jones, A family called Fort: The Descendents of Elias Fort of Virginia. West Texas Printing Company, 1970. Page 441.
Sources
- Burial place is East Of Elk Fork Creek & 1/2 Mile South Of Mint Springs Road.
- Charity E. (Fort) Bourne: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/2776-3VK Lists her parents, siblings, spouse, 3 children. The only source links to this record!
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Corinna Lakey for creating WikiTree profile Fort-223 through the import of Pozder_Lakey Family Tree_2013-01-25_01.ged on Jan 27, 2013.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Charity 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 Charity:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Charity 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 Charity:
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~1.56%
Bobby Yeary
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A013286 [compare], Ancestry member daleadad1
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Olan Smith :
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~0.78%
Dale (Yeary) Davidson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A704702 [compare], yourDNAportal DALff41efbe, Ancestry member daleadad1
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