Maria was born in Ohio in 1833 to Jacob and Rebecca (Flohr) Shellenberger. She married her husband William in Ohio in 1855 before her parents moved to Indiana.
Sources
1850 U.S. Census for the State of Ohio, Mahoning County, Berlin Township (for Jacob Shellenbarger).
Jocelyn Fox Wilms, compiler, Mahoning County, Ohio, Marriage Records 1846-1870 (Youngstown, Ohio: Mahoning County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society, 1989), page 2.
Initial profile prepared by K. Schmugge. Changes, additions, and sources added by K. Jones.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Maria 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.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Maria: