Before Virginia was four months old her mother died. [2]
Virginia died 8 November 1853 in Jackson County, Tennessee at the age of one year and fifteen days. The obit says that Virginia was buried by her mother's side, but does not give a location for the burial.
Sources
↑ Nashville and Louisville Christian Advocate, issue of December 15, 1853, page 4, obit by Joel W Whitten in Gainesboro, Tennessee November 21, 1853, "daughter and only child of J Harvey and Martha A Kerr"
↑ Smith, Jonathan Kennon Thompson, Genealogical Abstracts From Reported Deaths The Louisville And Nashville Christian Advocate And The Nashville Christian Advocate 1852-1856, Copyright Jonathan K T Smith 1997, page 35, taken from the issue of April 21, 1853, Martha Kerr died 15 February 1853
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Virginia 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.
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