Born about in Izard County, Arkansas
Ancestors 
Daughter of Benjamin Carson Simmons
and Addie Elizabeth (Jacobs) Simmons
Sister of
Hazel (Simmons) Chadwick
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 93
in Fulton County, Arkansas
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Biography
I called her Aunt Lela. She lived alone for years in Oxford. In her younger days she ran a café in Oxford, Izard County, Arkansas. She had a stroke in 2002 and after a 2nd stroke, passed away in the hospital at Salem, Fulton County, Arkansas. She was always very sweet to me, her great niece.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lela 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 Lela:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lela 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 Lela:
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~0.78%
~6.25%
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