William
E
Fortson
Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of Richard F Fortson
and Nancy (Ham) Fortson
Brother of
Delancy A Fortson, Sophia H Fortson, Elijah R Fortson, John B Fortson, Henry A Fortson, Lucy J Fortson and Eugene W Fortson
Husband of
Mirtis (Thomas) Fortson
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
William T Fortson and Dates Fortson
Died
at age 85
in Elbert, GA
Profile last modified
| Created 9 Jul 2011
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Contents |
Biography
This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.
Burial
- Burial:
- Place: Falling Creek Cemetary
Sources
- WikiTree profile Fortson-56 created through the import of clements.GED on Jul 9, 2011 by John Clements. See the Changes page for the details of edits by John and others.
Notes
- Note NI0702
- Continues:
- Elbert County GaArchives Deaths.....Fortson, William E. August 13, 1919
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- Chandler Eavenson yonahdells@@alltel.net October 25, 2007, 4:38 pm
- Name: Fortson, William E.
- Date Of Death: August 13, 1919 Time:
- Place Of Death: Elbert Co., Eliam Dist.
- Residence: Elbert Co., GA
- Gender: Male
- Race: W
- Age: 86
- Marital Status: Unk
- Spouse: , None Shown
- Date Of Birth: September 8, 1833
- Place Of Birth: Elbert Co., GA
- Mother's Name: Unavailable, Not shown
- Mother's Birthplace: Unavailable
- Father's Name: Fortson, Richard
- Father's Birthplace: Elbert Co., GA
- Cause Of Death: Cancer of mouth and face
- Hospital: Unavailable
- SS Number: Unavailable
- Occupation: Farmer
- Funeral Home: Murray
- Doctor: A.S.J.Stovall
- Coroner: Unavailable
- Informant: ----- Anderson
- Date Of Burial: Unavailable
- Place Of Burial: Falling Creek cemetery
- Date Recorded: August 15, 1919
- Source Of Record: Online GA Death certificates
- Certificate No.: 10951
- Additional Comments:
- This is apparently the same person listed in an Elbert Co. cemetery book as
- William E. Fortson, born 1883, died August 1919, buried in the Falling Creek Baptist Church cemetery, with info no marker was found and the info obtained from other sources.The birthyear shown in the cemetery book is incorrect, as indicated by the death certificate.
- File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/elbert/vitals/deaths/fortson236gdt.txt
- This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/
- File size: 1.9 Kb
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's 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 William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's 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 William:
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~0.78%
~3.12%
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~0.39%
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~0.39%
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