Born in Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of Cornelius B. Lawson
and Affa (Miller) Lawson
Sister of
George Thomas Lawson and William Miller Lawson
Wife of
Andrew Jackson Frum
— married
20 Dec 1857 in Harrison County, Virginia
Descendants 
Mother of
Mary Frances (Frum) Ross
Died
at age 64
in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Feb 2018
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Biography
Affa was born in 1838. As an adult she was a small woman of about five feet, weighing about 100 pounds. Affa Jane Lawson married Andrew Jackson Frum on December 20, 1857 in Harrison county, Virginia. (WV after 1863) They settled on Wiseman's Run, Marion county, WV and later moved onto a farm about a mile west of the church on the pike. Affa died of lung trouble in Doddridge County in 1902 after raising eleven children. Andrew died three years later of bright's disease. They are both buried at the Victory Cemetery (also recorded as the Wolverton Cemetery). Edited biography originally appeared on the Find A Grave page devoted to Affa[1].
Sources
- West Virginia Marriages, 1854-1932", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR42-HYQ : 30 January 2020), A J Lawson in entry for Andrew J Frum, 1857.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Affa 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 Affa:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Affa 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 Affa:
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~6.25%
~12.50%
Nancy Shrader 
:
23andMe, GEDmatch A468244 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A468244 [compare], Ancestry member najash70
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~1.56%
Rich Frye :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Anonymous Coker :
23andMe
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T177666 [compare], FTDNA kit #70525
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~0.78%
Isha Kuhns :
23andMe, GEDmatch M717770 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member ikuhns
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~0.78%
Jim Morris :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch UK9475575 [compare], Ancestry member jim_morris2831
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