Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of Jonas Powers Jr.
and Jerusha (Harmon) Powers
Sister of
Jonas Powers, Nancy Eunice (Powers) Newberry, Esther (Powers) Newberry, Oliver Powers and Jerusha (Powers) Steele
Wife of
James Allen Newberry
— married
1805 in Wyeth County, Virginia
Descendants 
Mother of
Mary (Newberry) Doyle, Joseph Barnett Newberry, James Allen Newberry Jr., Elizabeth (Newberry) Tennison, Bethia (Newberry) Hughes, Henry Newberry, Samuel Newberry, Rebecca Susan (Newberry) Ammerman, Lydia (Newberry) Ammerman and Jesse L. Newberry
Died about
at about age 86
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 18 Oct 2020
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Biography
Lydia was born April 19, 1787, daughter of Jonas and Jerusha (Harmon) Powers. Her family had come from Vermont and eventually settled in the eastern part of Virginia. She was the youngest of ten children, three of whom married Newberry men. Lydia married James Allen Newberry about 1805 in Wythe County, Va. He was born in 1775 in Montgomery County, the son of Samuel and Bethiah (Begley) Newberry. Lydia passed away in 1870 in Maries County, Missouri. Children of James and Lydia:
- Mary Newberry b. 9-16-1806; m. Farmer Lafayette Doyle 10-26-1826
- Joseph Barnett Newberry b. ca 1809; m. Louisa Vernon Eubank 1832
- James Allen Newberry Jr. b. 3-20-1810
- Elizabeth Newberry b. ca 1813; m. Harrison M. Tennison 1-19-1837
- Bethia Newberry b. ca 1815; m. William Hughes 7-22-1835
- Henry Newberry b. ca 1816; m. Nancy Swift ca 1837
- Samuel Newberry b. ca 1818; m. Frances Capehart ca 1820
- Rebecca Susan Newberry b. 7-25-1824; Sanford Ammerman ca 1851
- Lydia Newberry b. 4-19-1826; m. William Ammerman 8-15-1843
- Jesse L. Newberry b. 4-28-1828; d. 1899
Sources
- Newberry, John Allen. The History and Genealogy of the Newberry Family 1066-1943. Huntington, West Virginia: Gentry Bros. Printing Company, 1943.
- Our American Newberry family: jnhargrave.wordpress.com
- ancestry.com
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lydia 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 Lydia:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lydia 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 Lydia:
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~1.56%
Marie Walker
:
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #824881
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~0.78%
Ann (Powers) Turner :
23andMe, GEDmatch AQ676808C1 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A886007 [compare], Ancestry member APTurner
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~0.78%
Laura Newberry :
23andMe, GEDmatch PB2766892 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A305616 [compare], Ancestry member mailboxforlaura
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~0.78%
Bruce Parman :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Tammy (McFarland) Mellert :
23andMe, GEDmatch RQ7489536 [compare]
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~0.78%
Bennette Harris :
23andMe
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~0.78%
John Davis :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Jdavis80111
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~0.78%
Robert Sparks :
AncestryDNA
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