Died
at age 43
in Manchester, Coffee, Tennessee, United States
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Biography
Margaret was born in 1821. She was the daughter of Benjamin Sumner and Mary Ann Smith. She passed away in 1864, killed by a trip forced by the Union by boat to Louisville, Kentucky as a refugee.
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Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 12 April 2023), memorial page for Margaret Dorothy Sumner Wood (1821–Jul 1864), Find A Grave: Memorial #146076157; maintained by Anonymous (contributor 47620284), Burial Details Unknown.
"Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXV9-M5B : 7 February 2020), Robert Wood and Margrit Summer, 2 Dec 1843; citing Marriage, Cherokee, Georgia, United States, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Morrow, FHL microfilm 325,922.
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZYP-M2C : 4 April 2020), Margaret Wood in household of Robert Wood, Gilmer county, part of, Gilmer, Georgia, United States; citing family 1140, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
"Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N9BD-MZW : 3 January 2019), Margaret Summer in entry for Wm. Wood, 1911; citing Death, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, certificate , Office of Vital Statistics, Frankfort; FHL microfilm 1,904,668.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret 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 Margaret: