Born in Bedford, Bedford County, Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of James W. Rucker Sr.
and Euphemia (Tate) Rucker
Sister of
Sarah Lucinda (Rucker) Miller, Jonathan Rucker, Henry Tate Rucker, James Reade Rucker Jr. [half], Benjamin Asbury Rucker [half], William Reade Rucker [half], Samuel Reade Rucker [half], Johanna Davis (Rucker) Price [half], Western Territory Rucker [half], Joycey Reade Rucker [half], John Wyatt Rucker [half], Joseph Burrus Rucker [half], Lucy (Rucker) Garner [half] and Robert Powatan Rucker [half]
Wife of
Severn Donelson
— married
1801 in Davidson County, Tennessee
Descendants 
Mother of
Rachel Donelson, John Jack Donelson, James Rucker Donelson, Thomas Jefferson Donelson, Andrew (Donelson) Jackson Jr, Lucinda Rucker Donelson and Alexander Donelson
Died
at age 46
in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 11 May 2015
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Biography
Will of James Rucker Rutherford County, TN Book 4, Page, 199 To my beloved wife Nancy (Read) Rucker, the plantation with the land adjoining whereon I now live with all the improvements &c belonging to the household and kitchen furniture and plantation utensils and the negros, fifteen named with all my stock of horses, cattle, hogs, sheep and poultry. To my beloved daughter Betsy Donelson two negros, to wit, Nelson and Jane and their increase.
Sources
"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:S5HF-ZKR : accessed 17 March 2019), entry for Elizabeth /Rucker/; file (2:2:2:MM33-4GJ), submitted 11 May 2011.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144245994/elizabeth-donelson
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Betsy 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 Betsy:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Betsy 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 Betsy:
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~1.56%
Carol (Newsom) Lord
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch M487434 [compare], Ancestry member cnnnlord
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~0.78%
Hans Nielsen :
23andMe, GEDmatch QC9020990 [compare], yourDNAportal HAN19083f37
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~0.78%
Jere Galloway :
23andMe, GEDmatch tq6412932 [compare]
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Mary Huddleston :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Carol Horne :
AncestryDNA
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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~0.39%
Michael Cox :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member michaelhcox
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