Jane Arrington removed as a child of Henry Carrington Arrington and Nancy Elizabeth Stokes; her mother would have been about 53, probably beyond child-bearing age.
FamilySearch.com also shows a Henry Arrington b. 1848 as one of her children Nancy would have been 56 at the time of his birth; definitely beyond child-bearing age.
Either the date of birth, 1815, of Martha (Arrington) Thompson is wrong or the birth location is wrong since the family did not move to Tennessee until about 1823.
When Nancy Elizabeth Stokes was born in 1791 in North Carolina, her father, Thomas Stokes, was 26, and her mother, Hannah (Hill) Stokes, was 24. She married Henry C. Arrington on 7 Dec 1812, in Franklin County, North Carolina.[1] She was his third wife. The family moved to Smith County, Tennessee, ca 1823, and on to Wilson County, Tennessee after 1850. She is named in her father's will signed in 1848.[2]She died about 1850 in Wilson County, Tennessee, at the age of 59.[3]
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Nancy 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 Nancy: