Born in Macon County, North Carolina USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Madison Monroe Ledford
and Mary D (Nichols) Ledford
Sister of
Charles Luther Ledford, Lucius Marion Ledford, Texas A (Ledford) DeHart, Martha Catherine (Ledford) Carpenter, Edgar Jerome Ledford, Andrew Hall Ledford, Gilbert Oscar Ledford, Bertha A (Ledford) Moffitt and Spergeon Theodore Ledford
Wife of
William T Carpenter
— married
1914 [location unknown]
Mother of
Charles Worley Carpenter
Died
at age 74
in Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina USA
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Contents |
Biography
Birth
Bessie was born in 1882. She passed away in 1956.
Residence
1900 Federal Census: Franklin Township, Macon, North Carolina, USA [1]
1910 Federal Census: Franklin, Macon, North Carolina, USA [2]
Note
Died of pleural empyema in Broughton Hospital after a 6-month stay.
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSBM-KHY : accessed 4 August 2020), Bessa F Ledford in household of Matt M Ledford, Franklin Township, Macon, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district ED 67, sheet 7A, family 119, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington D.C. : National Archives and Records Administration, 1972 ), FHL microfilm 1,241,204.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLSV-N8V : accessed 4 August 2020), Bessie T Sedford in household of Matison M Sedford, Franklin, Macon, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district ED 112, sheet 9B, family 164, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C. : National Archives and Records Administration, 1982 ), roll 1121; FHL microfilm 1,375,134.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Bessie 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 Bessie:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Bessie 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 Bessie:
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~1.56%
Elizabeth (Ledford) Landers
:
23andMe
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Douglas Green :
23andMe, GEDmatch M735651 [compare]
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Sonja (Anderson) Davis :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Van Craven :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Dawn Watson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch JJ6244693 [compare], Ancestry member cadawaca
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~0.78%
Deborah Henson :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Tracy Johnson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A303756 [compare], Ancestry member btajjj50
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~0.78%
~0.78%
Patricia Belcher :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A986005 [compare], Ancestry member psimpkins1
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Keivan Shahrokhi :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Robert Cheek :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch JR7959813 [compare], Ancestry member r_Cheek
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