Frances Tyner

Abt 1768 - 1853  (~ 85 years)

• Name	Frances Tyner  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1768	South Carolina   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	15 Jul 1853	DeWitt County, Texas   [1]
  Notes	She might have instead been born in North Carolina. Per affidavit of Richard Eugene Blackburn (courtesy of Mary Frances Smith Fisher, by way of Rozier Dedwylder), she was a sister of Sarah Tyner who married Robert Lott who was murdered at his home on Black Creek by the Copeland Gang in 1844. Mary Frances Smith Fisher notes that her father might be Benjamin Tyner. Blanche Toole of Sabine County instead shows her maiden name as IRVINE. This may simply have been speculation based on son Armstrong Irvine Blackburn's middle name. Mary Frances Fisher Smith had in her notes, from Dr. Johnie L. Reeves of Austin, the following obituary: The Gonzalez Inquirer Gonzalez, Texas 16 July 1853, page. 3, Col. 1 Microfilm, The Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center, Austin, Texas Died after a prolonged illness, on the 15th inst., at the residence of Col. W. Means, Mrs. FRANCES BLACKBURN, age 93 years. She emigrated to east Texas in 1843, thence to western Texas in '49. She was a warm and devoted Christian, having been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 45 years, during which time she was the subject of many and severe trials, all of which she bore with Christian meekness and resignation. She was indeed, and in truth a help-mate for her husband, he being a minister of the Gospel, also a member of the Masonic Fraternity. She ever manifested a deep interest in the salvation of the souls of her fellow beings. She was an affectionate mother, always endevouring to train her children in the way they should go, and instilling into their minds the principles of the Divine Word. She left a number of relatives and friends to mourn her loss, but they mourn not as those having no hope. Dr. Reeves notes that if the age of death (93) is correct, Frances should have been born ca 1760 versus 1768, as previously supposed. (Research): Census Listings: 1850 Census Texas, Dewitt County, Enumerated 11 Sept 1850 48-48 William Means 40 M Farmer $10,000 Ga Francis Means 39 F Miss Ferdinand B. Means 19 M La Margaret L. Means 17 F Tx Sarah F. Means 13 F Tx Napolean F. Means 11 M Tx William B. Means 9 M Tx Francis Blackburn 82 F SC (Medical):The child of a direct female descendant of Frances Tyner (Elizabeth Blackburn>Caroline McGrew>Jane Allen>Viola Fullen>Nina Fuller>son Tom McLemore) had their mtDNA analyzed, and it was predicted as H, with only one difference from the Cambridge Reference Sequence, 16519C, which is a fast moving marker. Mitochondrial haplogroup H is a predominantly European haplogroup that participated in a population expansion beginning approximately 20,000 years ago. Today, about 30% of all mitochondrial lineages in Europe are classified as haplogroup H. It is rather uniformly distributed throughout Europe suggesting a major role in the peopling of Europe, and descendant lineages of the original haplogroup H appear in the Near East as a result of migration. Future work will better resolve the distribution and historical characteristics of this haplogroup. On her Clan Helena website, Amelia Reimer writes that, "Whether just by chance or by the guiding hand of natural selection we do not know, but Helena's clan has grown to become the most widespread and successful of the Seven Daughters of Eve. Her children have reached every shore, settled every forest and crossed every mountain range. Helena's descendants can be found from the Alps in the South to the Scottish Highlands and the Norwegian fjords in the North, and as far east as the Urals and the Russian steppes. Helena was born about 20,000 years ago on the strip of land that joins France and Spain, near what is now Perpignan. She belonged to a family of hunters, who harvested the rich oyster beds in the lagoons of the Carmargue to supplement their diet of meat. Helena's clan arrived in Europe from the Middle East, pushing their way along the Mediterranean, constrained to the narrow strip of land that was still habitable. Not long after she was born, the glaciers that covered the Pyrenees, which Helena could see on a clear day only thirty miles from her camp, began to draw back as, little by little, the summers grew warmer. Some of her clan moved south of the mountains, up the valley of the Ebro to the West to reach the lands of the Basque, where they remain to this day. The most adventurous of her children took advantage of the climatic improvements and journeyed ever northwards to join the great movement of hunters across the plains of France. We know that they reached England around 12,000 years ago because DNA recovered from a young male skeleton found in Gough's Cave in Somerset shows that he too belonged to the clan of Helena. [Same cave as Cheddar Man, but 3,000 years older.] "
  Person ID	I1712	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Family	Gabriel Blackburn,   b. Abt 1769, Sampson County, North Carolina d. Abt 1848, Sabine County, Texas (Age ~ 79 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1790	Georgetown District, South Carolina   [1]
  Children	1. Elizabeth Blackburn,   b. Between 1794 and 1796, Feliciana Parish, Louisiana d. Aft 1860, Perry County, Mississippi (Age ~ 67 years)   2. Alexander S. Blackburn,   b. Abt 1797, Tennessee d. 2 Feb 1863, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana (Age ~ 66 years)   3. Harriett Blackburn,   b. Abt 1798, Feliciana Parish, Louisiana d. Yes, date unknown   4. Armstrong Irvine "Joel" Blackburn,   b. 11 Oct 1801, Feliciana Parish, Louisiana d. 19 Sep 1867, Marion County, Mississippi (Age 65 years)   5. Feliciana Blackburn,   b. 5 Sep 1803, Feliciana Parish, Louisiana d. 15 Jul 1876, Lawrence County, Mississippi (Age 72 years)   6. Ferdinand Boon Blackburn,   b. Abt 1806, Feliciana Parish, Louisiana d. Aft 1883, Covington County, Mississippi (Age ~ 78 years)   7. Frances Amelia Blackburn,   b. 10 Apr 1812, Marion County, Mississippi d. 14 Jul 1875, Meansville, San Patricio County, Texas (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F695	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2010

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1768 - South Carolina Marriage - Bef 1790 - Georgetown District, South Carolina Death - 15 Jul 1853 - DeWitt County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S451] Wagstaff, Bettye Bragg-Family Researcher [bfwag@jas.net], Correspondence and Family Group Sheets dated August 1995 exchanged between Bettye Bragg Wagstaff of Bronson, Texas and Mary Frances Smith Fisher of Jackson, Mississippi, copies in files of Melinda McLemore Strong of San Antonio, Texas (Reliability: 3).