Tombstone inscription birth year: 1888, but census records indicate 1885. Obituary also indicates birth as 1885. Marie Jeanette was also listed as Mary Jane and Marie Jane - maiden name Rowell - married John Thomas Rowell and then Roscoe H. Beverly. (FindAGrave)
Burial
Forrest Cemetery, Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama, USA [1]
Obituary
The Gadsden Times, Gadsden, Alabama - Saturday, August 18, 1962, page 2:
Mrs. Marie Jeanette Beverly, 77, Rainbow Drive, died yesterday at a local hospital after an extended illness. Funeral service tomorrow 2 p.m. Rainbow City First Baptist Church and burial in Forrest Cemetery. Surviving husband, Roscoe Beverly; one daughter, Doralee Sexton, Ft. Payne; one son, H.T. Rowell, Talladega; one brother, C.C. Rowell, Mt. Vernon; 4 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. She was a native of Vossburg, Mississippi and a resident of Gadsden since 1916. She was a member of Rainbow City First Baptist Church. Collier-Butler Funeral Home directing.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MP82-JDT : accessed 30 March 2022), Mary J Rowell in household of John T Rowell, Beat 5, Jasper, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 22, sheet 17A, family 37, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 744; FHL microfilm 1,374,757.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1GC-GYD : 5 January 2021), Marie Beverly in household of R H Beverly, Election Precinct 28 Gilbert, Etowah, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 28-58, sheet 2B, line 48, family 29, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 31.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Marie 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.
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