When Benjamin Sumner Jr. was born in 1790 in Pickens, South Carolina, his father, Benjamin, was 22 and his mother, Mary, was 20. He was married three times and had 26 children. He died in 1872 in Cherokee, Georgia, having lived a long life of 82 years.
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Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 26 July 2020), memorial page for Benjamin Sumner (1790–1872), Find A Grave: Memorial #146076823; maintained by Anonymous (contributor 47620284), Unknown.
1800 United States Federal Census
1820 United States Federal Census
1830 United States Federal Census
1840 United States Federal Census
Georgia, Property Tax Digests, 1849
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZYV-XK8 : 4 April 2020), Benjamin Sumner, Cherokee, Cherokee, Georgia, United States; citing family 1082, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Benjamin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Benjamin: