Born about in Colony of Virginia
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Benjamin Cheatham
— married
17 Nov 1747 in Amelia, Virginia
Descendants 
Mother of
Anngillicha Ann (Cheatham) Pitchford, Mary Cheatham, Sarah (Cheatham) Farmer, Stephen Cheatham Sr, Phebe (Cheatham) Farmer, Martha Cheatham, Richard Cheatham, Tabitha Cheatham and Joel Cheatham
Died about
at about age 77
in Henrico County, Colony of Virginia
Profile last modified
| Created 28 May 2011
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Biography
On November 17, 1746, in Amelia county, Virginia, Grace Williams married Benjamin Cheatham. (See images)
Benjamin Cheatham in the Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850 Name: Benjamin Cheatham Gender: Male Spouse Name: Grace Williams Spouse Gender: Female Marriage Date: 17 Nov 1747 County: Amelia State: Virginia Source Information Ancestry.com. Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Dodd, Jordan R., et al.. Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850. Bountiful, UT, USA: Precision Indexing Publishers.
The Will of Benjamin Cheatham, son of the immigrant, Thomas Cheatham, is recorded in Chesterfield Will Book 1, page 550. His heirs are his sons: Stephen, Richard and Joel. His wife, Grace Williams Cheatham, his daughter, Phebe Cheatham, the wife of Elam Farmer, Sarah Cheatham, wife of Lodowick Farmer, Angellicha Cheatham, wife of Samuel Pitchford; Martha Cheatham, wife of Jesse Witt, Mary Cheatham and Tabitha Cheatham. [1]
Sources
- ↑ Descendants of Thomas Farmer who came to Virginia in 1616 ... by Ellery Farmer, Biltmore Press, Asheville, North Carolina, 1956, page 44, digitized 2018: https://archive.org/details/descendantsoftho00farm/page/44/mode/1up
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Grace 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 Grace:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Grace 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 Grace:
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~0.39%
Wendell Waye
:
23andMe
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Carl McCalmant :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member CARLMCCALMANT37
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~0.39%
Diane (Maze) Slocumb :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Timothy Manning :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch FR5745427 [compare]
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~0.39%
Ronda (Nelson) Pack :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch JB5651668 [compare], Ancestry member HolyCow2700
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~0.39%
Lyn (Brown) Faw :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch JS8378809 [compare], FTDNA kit #MK61552
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~0.39%
Shirley (Burchfield) Adams :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch YX3035291 [compare], FTDNA kit #879167
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~0.39%
Gerald Burchfield :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T584420 [compare], FTDNA kit #540207
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~0.39%
Kathy (Snoke) Mintz :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #617476
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Rejected matches › Elizabeth (Williams) Downing (abt.1700-) › Tabitha (Osborne) Cheatham (1676-abt.1756)
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That would be awesome I adopted her and have not been able to get back to her. She married my 9th Great Grandfather. Thanks.. Nancy