Born about in Elbert, Georgia, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Boyd (Willhite) Wilhite
and Elizabeth Parmer Wilhite
Sister of
Thomas Turner Wilhite and John Lewis Wilhite
Wife of
John Wesley Franks
— married
27 Nov 1854 in Abbeville, South Carolina, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Lewis Marion Franks and Alice Mabel (Franks) Lang
Died before
before about age 32
in South Carolina, United States [uncertain]
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| Created 27 Jul 2020
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Biography
Jane was born in South Carolina about 1828, the daughter of John Boyd Wilhite and Betsey Palmer Wilhite.[1]
She married John Wesley Franks in Abbeville County, SC on 27 November 1854, by Rev. William Hervey Davis (Presbyterian).[2]
During her marriage to John Wesley Franks, they had two children -- Lewis Marion Franks and Alice Mabel Franks. Jane Franks evidently died soon after the birth of her second child, Alice, or at least before 1860, because she does not appear with the family in the 1860 Census.[3]
Sources
- ↑ 1850 US Census. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data - Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census. View online at: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=5644639&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
- ↑ South Carolina Marriage Index, 1641-1965, quoting from Georgia Genealogical Magazine, No. 65-66. Ancestry.com.
- ↑ 1860 U.S. Federal Census.; Census Place: Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina; Roll: ; Page: 74; Image: 151.Online at:http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=18729089&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
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Joe Baker III
There are some anecdotal stories that Jane Wilhite Franks died in childbirth after her husband had been killed at Sharpsburg. But, she does not appear with her husband in the 1860 census, and evidently died in childbirth in 1858.
posted 27 Jul 2020 by Joe Baker III
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jane 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 Jane:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jane 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 Jane:
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~6.25%
~12.50%
Joe Baker 
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~6.25%
Frances Steed :
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Lynne (Ballew) Williamson :
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch T791808 [compare], Ancestry member lbwmson12
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