Mary ???

Notes:

The McDaniel/Scarborough/Lutman tree on WorldConnect INCORRECTLY shows her as Susan Mary McShan of Union, South Carolina.

Several member trees on Ancestry.com have this incorrect information as well.

The maiden name of Daniel's wife, Mary, has currently NOT been proven.

In an undated clipping titled LOCKHART ADDS TO HAWTHORN HISTORY from the JASPER NEWS BOY, provided to me by Kenneth Morgan, Carolyn Lockhart writes:

"...DANIEL (born 1802 in North Carolina) and MARY MORGAN....were Cherokee Indians and are buried in the woods at Roganville in Jasper County... "

In a letter to Melinda Strong, dated 4 September 1999, Carolyn further speculates that Mary Morgan could be "a Proctor because the Jone's witnessed a will in the adjoining county to Decatur for a Thomas Proctor. It is my personal belief (I never researched) that ...it was not feasible to register White-(Native) American marriages...they were frowned upon." It is interesting that marriage records can be found for all of Daniel's brothers, but no record can be located for his marriage to Mary. Carolyn added that "when Elizabeth was born in North Carolina in 1830--the family in North Carolina were running from the government who was about to push all the Indians to Oklahoma in 1836, so they packed up & headed for Georgia---because the Jones took part in running the Creek Indians out of Georgia in 1838."

Jo Ann Lee Gartig wrote, on 12 September 1999, that "All of my life I have heard that there was an Indian somewhere in the Lee family, but none of my aunts or uncles knew which branch. It was a surprise to hear it was not on the Lee side, but the Morgan side, which I had never suspected. I learned from Bonnie Jones Smith (great granddaughter of Elizabeth Morgan and chairperson of the Newton County Historical Commission) that it was Mary, wife of Daniel. Bonnie's older sister, Verbal, who died in an auto accident about 1995, told Bonnie that Mary was an Indian. It seems that when Verbal was in her early teens, her grandmother Sara Jane told her about her Cherokee Indian grandmother." Robert Wall of Pearland was also told tales by his grandmother of the Morgan's Cherokee ancestry while he was growing up.

In order to attempt to help prove the numerous family stories that Mary was a full blood Native American, a direct female descendant of Mary's volunteered to take an mtDNA test.The test was done by FamilyTreeDNA in Houston. They tested the mtDNA for HVR1 (16001 to 16569). The test was designed to show her mtDNA, any differences from the Cambridge Reference Sequence, and the meaning of probability between matches. The test would pinpoint which of the "The Daughters of Eve" Mary and her direct female descendant could be traced back too, as well as identifying the ethnic and geographic origins, both recent and far distant. Among other features, this test would indicate matrilineal Native-American Ancestry, and which of the 5 major groups that settled in the Americas were the most probable ancestors.

The volunteer had the following line of descent from Mary:

Mary* (Unknown), wife of Daniel Morgan
Elizabeth* Morgan, wife of Sion Jones
Sarah Jane* Jones, wife of Henry Cochran Jones (not related)
Ida* Jones, wife of Charles Gibson
DAUGHTER of Ida and Charles (private)
GRANDDAUGHTER of Ida and Charles (private)

The mtDNA results came back as HV, or Helena, a primarily European haplogroup, most prevalent in Western Europe. The single difference from the Cambridge Reference Sequence was CRS 16311 C. The HV results preclude Native American ancestry on the matrilineal track -- the haplogroup would have to be A, B, C, D or a variety of X to show matrilineal ancestry as Native American. Therefore it appears that Mary Morgan's mother WAS NOT a full blooded Native American. It is still possible, however, she had native american ancestors, but if so it was not through her direct maternal line.

We do now know that Mary's maternal line reaches back to the Helena Clan. Helena is from the Greek and means "light." This clan's descendants are the most numerous in Europe, having started 20,000 years ago from a hunting family in the Dordogne region of the ice-capped Pyrenees in southern France. As the climate warmed, Helena's descendants trekked northward to what is now England, some 12,000 years ago. Members of this group are now present in all European countries.

Prof. Sykes and Oxford University researchers in England have identified seven ancestral matriarchal groups from which all Europeans appear to be descended. Every European can trace his or her evolutionary history back to the seven ancestral mother groups, also referred to as the Seven European Daughters of Eve. Sykes et al obtained buccal cells from 6,000 individuals and analyzed the samples using the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis. It is known that mtDNA mutates at a very slow rate, such as 1 mutation in every 10,000 generations or 20,000 years. So they figured that the women would have lived between 8,000 and 45,000 years ago. What is amazing is that all seven of the genetic groups appear to be descended from the Lara clan, one of three clans that still exist today in Africa. This is called the African Eve theory. It was proposed in the late 1980's by Allan Wilson, Mark Stoneking and others. The African Eve theory states that all humans share a common African ancestor. Migration routes of the 7 daughters are at this site:

http://www.oxfordancestors.com

As of 2002, there are believed to be 36 distinct genetic groups worldwide. From Patrick Guinness, "In mtDNA, there are a maximum of 14 mutations between all humans (so far)."

Mary married Daniel Morgan before 1826. Daniel (son of Rueben Morgan and Dorcus Newton) was born about 1800 in North Carolina; died before 1886 in Roganville, Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Morgan Cemetery, Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Unable to locate a marriage record for them, even though the marriage records for his siblings were located.

The McDaniel/Scarborough/Lutman tree on WorldConnect INCORRECTLY shows her as Susan Mary McShan of Union, South Carolina.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bigdocmcd&id=I184136

The maiden name of Daniel's wife, Mary, has currently NOT been proven.

1. Sarah Morgan was born about 1826 in North Carolina; died before 1859 in Texas.
2. James M. Morgan was born on 23 Jan 1828 in North Carolina; died on 8 Aug 1888 in Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Withers Cemetery, Jasper County, Texas.
3. Elizabeth Morgan was born on 31 Dec 1830 in North Carolina; died on 13 Dec 1902 in Kirbyville, Jasper County, Texas; was buried in Magnolia Springs Cemetery, Magnolia Springs, Jasper County, Texas.
4. Rueben Morgan was born about 1832 in North Carolina; died before 1870.
5. Owen Morgan was born about 1834 in North Carolina; died after 1886.
6. Dorcus Morgan was born about 1836 in North Carolina; died before 1886.
7. Daniel Morgan was born about 1838 in North Carolina; died before 1886.