Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of Joseph Towner
and Mary (Bronson) Towner
Sister of
Abigail Towner, Clarissa (Towner) Osborn, David Towner, Amy Towner, Lois Towner, Asahel Towner and Avis (Towner) Griswold
Wife of
Cyrus Hawkins
— married
16 May 1811 in Oxford Congregatinoal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT, USA
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 65
[location unknown]
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Biography
Olive was born about 1782. She was the daughter of Joseph Towner and Mary Bronson. She passed away in 1847.
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Sources
- James William Towner, A Genealogy of the Towner Family; The Descendants of Richard Towner, Who Came From Sussex County, Eng., to Guilford, Conn., before 1685, Los Angeles, Cal.: Times-Mirror Prtg. and Binding House, 1910. http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyoftowne00town/genealogyoftowne00town_djvu.txt.
- Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Southford Cemetery (Southford Cemetery), p. 31.
- W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 39. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Olive 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 Olive:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Olive 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 Olive:
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~0.78%
Richard Bronson
:
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch WG3357734 [compare]
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