Born in Wilkes, Georgia, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Pitt William Milner
and Apsylla Clark (Holmes) Milner
Sister of
John Holmes Milner, Mary (Milner) Callaway, Penelope (Milner) Eason, Susannah Willis (Milner) Johnston, Rebecca Ozburn Osborn (Milner) Gorman and Pitt Wells Milner
Wife of
William Sims
— married
2 Mar 1815 in Jones County, Georgia, USA
Descendants 
Mother of
James Monroe Sims, Pitt Milner Sims, Apsilla Milner Sims, William Henry Sims, Penelope Susan (Sims) Stewart, Elizabeth D Sims, Nancy Rebecca (Sims) Ponder, Andrew Jackson Sims, Benjamin Franklin Sims, Jonathan M Sims and Sarah Zipporah Sims
Died
at age 61
in Jackson, Jackson, Louisiana, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Mar 2012
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Biography
Elizabeth Milner was born August 26, 1797 in Wilkes, Georgia, United States.[1] She was a daughter of William Pitt Milner and Apsylla Clark Holmes.[1]
She married William Sims on March 2, 1815 in Jones County, Georgia, United States.
She died August 8, 1859 in Jackson, Jackson, Louisiana, United States of tuberculosis.[1] She was buried at Mount Zion Cemetery, Vernon, Jackson, Louisiana, United States.[2]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Louisiana Tombstone Inscriptions, 1812-1970 Elizabeth Sims, 8 Aug 1859; citing Death, Louisiana, United States, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C
- ↑ Find A Grave, memorial page for Elizabeth Milner Sims (26 Aug 1797–8 Aug 1859), Find a Grave Memorial no. 16599368, citing Mount Zion Cemetery, Vernon, Jackson Parish, Louisiana, USA.
Year: 1850; Census Place: Division 60, Monroe, Georgia; Roll: 78; Page: 50A
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Federal Mortality Census Schedules, 1850-1880, and Related Indexes, 1850-1880; Archive Collection: T655; Archive Roll Number: 22; Census Year: 1859; Census Place: Jackson, Louisiana; Page: 169
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth:
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~0.78%
Mickey Smith
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23andMe, GEDmatch M185415 [compare]
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #337639
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~0.78%
Manley Manley :
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A575211 [compare], Ancestry member dcm70
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Kay Emfinger :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Melba (Dopson) Sanders :
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Andrea Taylor
Milner-1696 and Milner-287 appear to represent the same person because: same person
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