Born [location unknown]
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Benjamin Matthews
— married
1811 in Tennessee
Descendants 
Mother of
Thomas Mathews, Mary Ann (Matthews) Kenneday, Elizabeth (Matthews) Fugate and George Washington Matthews
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Jan 2017
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Biography
Mary Ann Shoopman, daughter of Jacob Sylvester Shoopman and Mary Polly Owens. Wife of Benjamin Matthews and mother to his 12 children. Mary Ann died sometime after the U.S. Federal census was taken in 1860 and 1965 when the Illinois State census was taken. She and Benjamin were founding members of Clear Creek Regular (Primitive) Baptist Church in Cass County, Illinois and later joined Union Regular (Primitive) Baptist Church by letter in Aug 1832.[1]
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Polly 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 Polly:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Polly 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 Polly:
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~1.56%
Jennifer (Bales) Kirkpatrick
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A442406 [compare], Ancestry member Jrktx65
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~0.78%
Kara Kirkpatrick :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A314677 [compare], Ancestry member Jrktx65
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Rejected matches › Mary Matthews (1797-) › Ann Mate (1795-) › Ann (Stratton) Matthews (abt.1795-abt.1866)
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