Born about in Bladen, North Carolina
Daughter of John Alexander Rowland
and Mary (Saunders) Rowland
Sister of
Alfred Rowland
Wife of
William Ward
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Sarah (Ward) Luper, John Ward, Jane Sterling (Ward) Thompson, Susanna (Ward) Pittman, Enoch Ward, Mary (Ward) Tate, Alice (Ward) Hedgepeth and Obedience (Ward) Sconyers
Died
at about age 52
in Walthall, Mississippi, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 9 Oct 2022
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The Birth Date is a rough estimate. See the text for details.
Biography
Martha was born about 1774. She is the daughter of John Alexander Rowland and Mary Saunders.
Unsourced birth date
- Birth date of 1774 extracted from numerous Ancestry trees and fits with father's birth in 1750 and children born 1790-1804
- previous birth of 1760 obtained from Find-A-Grave is unsourced and appears to be in error for the reasons stated above
Marriages
- to Thomas Barnes in North Carolina [citation needed]
- to William Ward about 1789
She passed away in 1826. [1]
Sources
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Martha 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 Martha:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Martha 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 Martha:
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~1.56%
Phil Duckworth
:
23andMe, GEDmatch TE199152 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch QY2345658 [compare], Ancestry member duckworthphil
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Debra Pantalion :
23andMe, GEDmatch A976238 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A976238 [compare], Ancestry member dpantalion1
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Shela Kelley :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Karen White :
23andMe, GEDmatch M572446 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member KarenWhiteMulkey
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #B12775
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~0.78%
Rebekah Holt :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Mark Lytz :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A726158 [compare]
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch LZ8288572 [compare]
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Cynthia (Bellow) Gerbig :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member sissy_gerbig94
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~0.78%
Carly Welker :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A970436 [compare], Ancestry member Carlyrthomp415
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