Elizabeth Stanley was one of my
4th great-grandmothers. She was born in Rowan County, North Carolina,
15 Mar 1761 in the section which later (1770/71) became Guilford
County.
It
is believed that her parents were John and Ann (Ballard) Stanley.
Elizabeth
married Francis Frazier about 1783. Her sister Susanna married James
Frazier and her sister Marjorie married John Frazier, who were both
brothers of Francis. This makes a number of possible double cousins.
Francis
and Elizabeth were members of the Quaker church in North Carolina and
as many others did, they moved to Ohio with their nine children about
1810. It was in Highland County, Ohio, where a daughter (my 3rd
great-grandmother Sarah) and two of their sons married children of
Stephen and Margaret (Thornburgh) Hockett, making another set of
double cousins for me.
The
family moved on to Indiana about 1817 and it was there that Francis
died in 1830. As so often happens in this time period, I haven't yet
found information about Elizabeth's death.
I
wrote about Margaret (Thornburgh) Hockett on 10 Jan 2017. Then I
noted that there were 21 DNA matches to her on the DNA circles on
Ancestry.com. Now I checked today and from her circle there are 7
matches who. from their family trees. are also descendants of
Elizabeth. Since that DNA might have come from any one of the four
(Francis, Elizabeth, Stephen or Margaret) and it is rather far back,
I still like to think that maybe it was some of Elizabeth's DNA that
was passed down to me.
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