Born in Illinois, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Leonard Orr
and Ida Virginia (Melius) Blakesly
Sister of
Leonard Orr, Aggie Bell Orr, Fay Templeton (Orr) Boone, May Z (Orr) Lippus and John William Orr
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 38
in Huntington Park, Los Angeles, California, United States
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Biography
Bessie was born in 1896. She was the daughter of James Orr and Ida Melius.
She married Clarence Joseph Wendling. They had two children.
She married Robert H. Menelaus. They were both listed as divorced in 1930 but on her death certificate, he was the informant and listed her as married.
She passed away in 1935.[1]
Sources
- ↑ "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLY1-Z4FW : 22 October 2019), Bessie Menelaus, 1935.
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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 ancestors' 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 ancestors' 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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~0.78%
Fran (Sparks) Sparks Dobbins
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M961020 [compare], yourDNAportal FRA9bbf2b4c
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~0.78%
Charlotte (Read) Kensil :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A615295 [compare], Ancestry member charkensil
+
MyHeritage DNA
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~0.78%
Diane Read :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A082851 [compare], Ancestry member Schnurr3
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~0.78%
Eric Orr :
Autosomal DNA Test
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