Bessie
Alice
Whitfield
Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of Bryan Watkins Whitfield
and Mary Alice (Foscue) Whitfield
Sister of
Jesse George Whitfield and Nathan Bryan Whitfield I
Wife of
James Bryan Whitfield
— married
7 Jun 1882 in Demopolis, Marengo, Alabama, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Mary Annie Whitfield, Bessie Eugene Whitfield, Eleanor Foscue Whitfield, James Bryan Whitfield II, Grace Foscue (Whitfield) Bird, Alice Mehetable Whitfield and Edith Dorothea (Whitfield) Chapman
Died
at age 51
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 10 Sep 2020
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Biography
Dr. James Bryan Whitfield (3 Jun 1842 - 19 Jun 1914) married at Demopolis June 7, 1882, his cousin Bessie Alice Whitfield, daughter of Bryan Watkins Whitfield and Mary Alice Foscue, granddaughter of Gen. Nathan Bryan Whitfield of Gaineswood Plantation and Elizabeth Watkins (Whitfield) Whitfield.
Dr. James Bryan Whitfield (1842-1914) was the son of James Gaius Whitfield (son of Needham Whitfield and Penelope Lane Bush) and his wife Mary Ann Whitfield, daughter of Bryan Whitfield who married his cousin Winifred Bryan. (Information provided by Whitfield Descendant Nancy Yankie.)
Sources
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 September 2020), memorial page for Bessie Alice Whitfield Whitfield (25 Apr 1858–23 Oct 1909), Find a Grave Memorial no. 67161986, citing Riverside Cemetery, Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Nancy Yankie Sidarous (contributor 48149695) .
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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:
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