Eliza Runyan was born in 1853 in Cleveland County, NC to Reuben H. Runyan and Margaret S. Gibbons Runyan. She married John Henderson Rippy. She died in Rippys Township, Cleveland County, NC and is buried at New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery in Earl, NC.
"North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP95-T74Y : 9 March 2021), John H Rippy and Eliza Runyan, 4 Feb 1875; citing Cleveland, North Carolina, United States, p. , North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History; FHL microfilm .
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC6J-G2C : 14 January 2022), Elezar Rippy in household of John Rippy, Township 3 Rippys, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
"North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3DB-K65 : 20 February 2021), Eliza Rippy, 22 Jul 1928; citing Earl, 3, Cleveland, North Carolina, reference 367, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,907,457.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Eliza by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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