Bessie was born about 1892. She was the daughter of Burt Welsh and Nellie Stalker. She passed away about 1988.
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Personal knowledge as to her being Sadie (Welsh) Keesler’s sibling. I have vague memories from childhood but remember my great aunt to be a lovely, sweet woman. Dates of birth and death obtained from her headstone and Find A Grave, created by my 2nd cousin and her granddaughter.
United States Census, 1900, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M34R-D2X : accessed 9 February 2020), Bessie Welch in household of Burt T Welch, Damascus Township, Election District 1 Galilee town, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 113, sheet 10B, family 226, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,495.
United States Census, 1920, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVSD-W52 : accessed 9 February 2020), Bessie Whitmore in household of Thomas Whitmore, Cochecton, Sullivan, New York, United States; citing ED 112, sheet 2A, line 4, family 30, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1264; FHL microfilm 1,821,264.
United States Census, 1930, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHHN-66Z : accessed 9 February 2020), Bessie I Whitmore in household of Thomas A Whitmore, Damascus, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 8, sheet 9B, line 84, family 249, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2154; FHL microfilm 2,341,888.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Bessie 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 Bessie: