Born about in Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of George Overton Pettus
and Elizabeth Wyatt (Hundley) Pettus
Sister of
Lucinda (Pettus) Crenshaw, Elizabeth (Pettus) Barnes, Wyatt Hundley Pettus, George Washington Pettus and Barbara (Pettus) Lee
Wife of
John Pettus Smithson
— married
6 Sep 1841 in Charlotte, Virginia
Descendants 
Mother of
Harriet E. T. (Smithson) Weaver, Overton Pettus Smithson, Thos J Smithson and Caroline Virginia (Smithson) Rhone
Died about
at about age 37
in Williamson, Tennessee, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 13 Sep 2018
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Biography
Clarissa was born about 1815. She was the daughter of Overton Pettus and Elizabeth Hundley. She passed away about 1852, and her husband remarried.
Acknowledgements
Created by Tom Pettus
Sources
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC67-9V9 : 23 December 2020), Clarissa Smithson in household of John P Smithson, Williamson, Tennessee, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Clarissa 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 Clarissa:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Clarissa 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 Clarissa:
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~3.12%
Gina Pettus
:
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A475131 [compare]
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~3.12%
Tom Pettus :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A316177 [compare], Ancestry member trrpettus77
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~3.12%
Anne Pettus :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A143986 [compare]
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~3.12%
Bernadine Pettus :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A381567 [compare]
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~3.12%
Robert Pettus :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T407329 [compare]
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