Born about in Murphysboro, Williams, Tennessee
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Pettus Smithson
and Mary Jane (Hargrove) Smithson
Sister of
William Bennet Smithson, Newton Forrest Smithson, James Alby Smithson, Lucy Elizabeth (Smithson) Stone, Dollie Alice (Smithson) Reese, Clarissa Virginia Smithson, John Thomas Smithson, Unknown Smithson, Mattie Zenobie Smithson and Florence Lee (Smithson) Waddle
Wife of
Leonidus Levere Reese
— married
18 Jul 1888 in Center Point, Howard, Arkansas
Descendants 
Mother of
Etta (Reese) Harter, William Pettus Reese, Fate La Feat Reese, Mary Eudora (Reese) Shaw, Little Nancy Reese, Ora Mayhew (Reese) Tippie, Lottie Ella Mae (Reese) Lay and Waymon Newton Reese
Died
at about age 87
in Texas, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Jul 2013
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Biography
Mary was born in 1864. She passed away about 1952. [1]
Sources
- ↑
Memorial:
Find a Grave (has image)
Find A Grave: Memorial #43968594 (accessed 14 December 2022)
Memorial page for Mary Frances “Fannie” Smithson Royster (1867-13 May 1952), citing Aurora Cemetery, Aurora, Wise County, Texas, USA (plot: 3, 8, 606).
- "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNWQ-P1Q : 12 August 2017), Fannie Smithson in household of John S Smithson, Hardin, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 57, sheet 681A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,044.
Acknowledgments
- Thank you to Dee Horn for creating Smithson-249 on 23 Jul 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Dee and others.
- Thank you to Dee Horn for creating Smithson-250 on 23 Jul 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Dee and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Fannie 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 Fannie:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Fannie 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 Fannie:
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~12.50%
~25.00%
Dee Horn 
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M562609 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch M562609 [compare], Ancestry member dx2_horn
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Josiah Franklin :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A598926 [compare], Ancestry member josiah4007
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LK LaPlante
Nan (Lambert) Starjak
LK LaPlante
Smithson-250 and Smithson-249 appear to represent the same person because: Similar dates and places, differences seem to be spelling variations, same PM.
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by LK LaPlante
Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Please change privacy status to Open, as required for all persons born over 150 years ago or died over 100 years ago. Thanks!
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on Smithson-250 (merged)
by Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Rejected matches › Mary (Smith) Alexander (abt.1870-1953) › Mary Eliza (Rice) Morgan (1862-) › Fannie E Smith (1863-)
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