Born in Fayetteville, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States
Daughter of [father unknown] and Margaret (Smeltzer) Hairston
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Kays Meek
— married
1821 in ,Lincoln Co,Tn
Descendants 
Mother of
Robert Meeks and Rufus Jackson Meek
Died
at age 68
in Marshall, Mississippi, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Jan 2017
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Biography
Buried in Meek Cemetery.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 August 2020), memorial page for Mary “Polly” Hairston Meek (5 Sep 1805–7 Mar 1874), Find a Grave Memorial no. 46717168, citing Meek Family Cemetery, Laws Hill, Marshall County, Mississippi, USA ; Maintained by Anonymous (contributor 46605034) .
- "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4LD-R5N : 9 November 2014), Kays Meek, Marshall county, southern division, Marshall, Mississippi, United States; citing family 437, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- "United States Census, 1860", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6GF-9Z2 : Wed Oct 04 17:52:30 UTC 2023), Entry for Mary Meek and Thomas P Meek, 1860.
Research Notes
- Find a Grave post says that Margaret Smeltzer Hairston is the mother of Mary Ann Hairston Meek born 1805, which may mean that Margaret Smeltzer Hairston is the mother of the above.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Polly 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 Polly:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Polly 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 Polly:
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~3.12%
~12.50%
Dorothy (Eddins) Allison 
:
23andMe
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~1.56%
Deb Roberts :
23andMe, FTDNA kit #B205679
+
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member DCROBERTS
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A839411 [compare], FTDNA kit #891786
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~1.56%
~12.50%
Marcus Allison :
23andMe, GEDmatch M920665 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch CX4824839 [compare], Ancestry member mallison1982
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