After running a Leeds Method chart using the DNA matches connected to my Mom and her sisters, I think a new hypothesis is emerging on my Mary Alice Cain research question. I have been noticing a recurring set of matches with the surnames Gibson, Street, Coomer, Jesse, and England, all concentrated in Adair County, Kentucky. This is the neighboring county to Metcalfe.
In the 1880 US Census, Nancy Jane Flatt's half-brother William Burr Flatt was living in Adair County. He married Margaret Coomer in 1872. I am still not able to see Nancy Jane and children in the 1880 Census, and it does seem they were not enumerated in the records that year. The Leatherwood District where William and Margaret were living, is only a few miles away from Edmonton in Metcalfe County where Nancy Jane was a pauper in 1878.
On the MyHeritage matches, one strong match with 106 cM is a direct descendant of this same group of Gibson and Coomer people located in Adair County. The Leeds chart revealed a group of matches, first a Gibson father matching my Mom with 162 cM, my aunt Linda with 180 and my aunt Patty with 193. This father had a son and daughter who also show up as strong matches (110, 165, 130 for one; 44, 130, 160 for the other). Two other related high matches in this group have 153 and 144 cM in common with my Mom.
When I refreshed the relationships for Nancy Jane to see what ThruLines might show based on this DNA hypothesis, I now see 89 potential matches to the mother of the strongest candidate match. I'll take a closer look at this family in the next post.
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