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Frances Tyner

Female Abt 1768 - 1853  (~ 85 years)


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  • Name Frances Tyner  [1
    Birth Abt 1768  South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 15 Jul 1853  DeWitt County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1848, Sabine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 79 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1790  Georgetown District, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Blackburn,   b. Between 1794 and 1796, Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1860, Perry County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 67 years)
     2. Alexander S. Blackburn,   b. Abt 1797, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Feb 1863, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 66 years)
     3. Harriett Blackburn,   b. Abt 1798, Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     4. Armstrong Irvine "Joel" Blackburn,   b. 11 Oct 1801, Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Sep 1867, Marion County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
     5. Feliciana Blackburn,   b. 5 Sep 1803, Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Jul 1876, Lawrence County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
     6. Ferdinand Boon Blackburn,   b. Abt 1806, Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1883, Covington County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 78 years)
     7. Frances Amelia Blackburn,   b. 10 Apr 1812, Marion County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Jul 1875, Meansville, San Patricio County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
    Family ID F695  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Jun 2010 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1768 - South Carolina Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Bef 1790 - Georgetown District, South Carolina Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 15 Jul 1853 - DeWitt County, Texas Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [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).