Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of John B. Gover
and Elizabeth Muliken (Duvall) Gover
Sister of
Samuel Gover Sr., Mary (Gover) Legg, Margaret (Gover) Garrett, Nancy (Gover) Cooley, Elizabeth (Gover) Winchester, William Gover and John Gover
Wife of
James Griggs
— married
20 Feb 1795 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Jul 2010
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Biography
Ruth Gover aka Goven
- Birth:
- Death:
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The marriage record between Ruth Goven and James Griggs gives the date as 20 February 1795, location Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States.
Sources
- ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X5YP-G25 : 6 August 2020), Ruth Goven in entry for James Griggs, 1795.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth 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 Ruth:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth 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 Ruth:
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~1.56%
Mary (Williams) Henderson
:
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Carl McBee :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch J7249 [compare], FTDNA kit #57509
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~0.78%
Sally Stovall :
23andMe, GEDmatch M567125 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch M567125 [compare], Ancestry member jbulgier71
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~0.78%
Daniel Legg :
23andMe, GEDmatch AB5793605 [compare]
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Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch N182659 [compare]
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~0.78%
Kim (Cooley) Gorrell :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch QW1959935 [compare], yourDNAportal KIM576a9fd0, Ancestry member kcgorrell
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~0.78%
Dawn Taylor :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A530852 [compare], Ancestry member dawntaylor2
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~0.78%
Nancy (Robertson) Wotring :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T332593 [compare], FTDNA kit #841085
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~0.78%
Terry (MANN) Mann :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #252775
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