Born
14 Sep 1807 in
Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Ancestors
Sister of
Andrew J. Gower ,
Lorenzo Dow Gower Sr. ,
Margaret (Gower) Gatlin ,
Mark Robertson Gower ,
Abel Blakely Gower ,
Nancy Gower ,
William Thomas Gower ,
Charlotte Tennessee (Gower) Russell ,
Lucy Ann (Gower) Shuster ,
Sarah (Gower) Newsom ,
James Gower ,
John H. Gower ,
Nancy Cynthia A. (Gower) Wyatt and
Leonidas F. Gower
Wife of
William Newsom II
— married
24 Dec 1832 in Davidson, Tennessee, United States
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified 18 Jan 2024
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Biography
Lavina was born in 1807. She was the daughter of William Gower and Charlotte Garland .
Sources
Gower Family Bible pages . TSLA Bible Collection, Donated by Marty Baxter Reich, April 2018.
Woodard, J. E. History of the Gower Family . Nashville: Harry V. L. Gower, 1920.
"Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ7P-XC1 : Fri Oct 20 11:32:19 UTC 2023), Entry for Wm Newsom and Levinia Gower, 24 Dec 1832.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lavina 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 Lavina:
~1.56%
Michael Hogue :
23andMe , GEDmatch QD5519841 [compare ]
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AncestryDNA , GEDmatch QD5519841 [compare ] , Ancestry member MLHogue57
~1.56%
Barry Hogue :
AncestryDNA
~1.56%
Karen (DeMoss) Daye :
AncestryDNA , GEDmatch A781960 [compare ] , Ancestry member kad1970
~1.56%
Donald Gatlin :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T664840 [compare ] , FTDNA kit #194209
~0.78%
E. Gatlin :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA , Ancestry member Leopard522
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T371957 [compare ] , FTDNA kit #238380
~0.78%
~3.12%
John Corn :
AncestryDNA , Ancestry member corncrib157
~0.78%
Jerry Mead :
AncestryDNA
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T154498 [compare ] , FTDNA kit #527312
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MyHeritage DNA
~0.78%
Jimmy Curley :
AncestryDNA , GEDmatch YL4535198 [compare ] , Ancestry member James_Curley
~0.78%
Joyce Smith :
AncestryDNA , GEDmatch GJ9934069 [compare ]
~0.78%
Brenda (Epley) O'Brien :
AncestryDNA , GEDmatch LX8898267 [compare ]
~0.78%
R N :
MyHeritage DNA , GEDmatch FZ8790875 [compare ]
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