Eliza F. Jakes was the daughter of John "Jack" Jakes and his 2nd wife Nancy Eoff Jakes. She was born in Bedford County, Tennessee where she married on 24 July 1872 to Robert Lee Burks. She and Robert had 3 children and were in Texas in October of 1880 when their middle child and only daughter, Ida Frances Burks was born. The returned to Tennessee around 1885 according to the article about Robert Lee Burks' death(see below) I have not found them in the 1880 census yet but hope to soon. I know they were in TX by October but don't know if they were there earlier in the year. They returned to Tennessee and lived in Livingston(Overton Co TN) from what I can tell. That is where Eliza lived out the remainder of her life. Eliza's daughter died several years after Eliza's husband passed. My own Jakes kin live a long life and Eliza is no exception. She died 15 November 1947 from complications of pneumonia and a fractured left hip at the age of 94 and is buried in Breeding Cemetery in Overton County, Tennessee, USA. The Breeding cemetery is likely the family graveyard of Eliza's son-in-law Dr. William Martin Breeding, husband of her daughter Ida Frances Burks Breeding.
This family is interesting and has several doctors and pharmacists. I hope to do profiles on the families of each of their 3 children.
Where was the family in the 1880 census? I know they should be in Texas somewhere unless they were missed.
There were many Tennesseans who went to TX during the period from 1880-1900 but I'd like to know why they went? Also, what brought them back?
Earlier today I received notification via email that FamilyTreeDNA has made some changes that will bring them in compliance with the new European data protection law known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you have an account or accounts with them you should have received this notice. Check your Spam folder or filters if you haven't received a copy.
Changes to these settings will take effect May 28, 2018.
Privacy & Sharing--The ability to opt out of match email notification but still participate in matching.
Project Preferences--The ability to select an access level for each individual Group Administrator.
Updates to Account Information, and Genealogy sections of the My Profile page.
While you are logged on checking out the settings, you might as well make sure you have assigned a beneficiary for your account. Also, please fill in the info for your earliest known ancestor if you can and make sure you are using the correct ancestors. See my previous blog post on this topic.
A match with Shared Matches from both sides of my family.
When sorting thru DNA matches at AncestryDNA, I like to note the connection for each of my matches as being thru the ancestors of one of my four Grandparents. Both my parents have ancestors who were in Tennessee in the early 1800s. Most of the time I will only be connected to the match on one side. There a few times when I will have multiple connections. See the example below with Bill who shares matches with me who are from my PGF's Mom(King/Manire) and my MGF's Mom(Pittman/Adcock) He has no tree and trying to figure this one out will take seeing the segments in a chromosome browser.
Thru my admin and shared links, I can tell how much DNA Bill shares with Me, my sister, and my mother. Unfortunately, we did not begin DNA testing until after my Dad had passed so he was never tested.
Shared matches only show those in common who share at a 4th cousin level(Ancestry's minimum for 4th cousins is 20 cMs) I noticed that my Mom isn't listed as a shared match.
After looking at Mom's amount of shared DNA with Bill, I'm really hoping I will be able to check this match in a chromosome browser so I can identify the grandparent(s) who passed on the 2 segments I received. On checking Bill's match with my sister's test it appears they do not share any DNA within the range that Ancestry would report. This is a good example of randomness of DNA inheritance. I've written to Bill and asked if he was planning on uploading to GEDmatch, MyHeritage or FTDNA. Hopefully, I will get the opportunity to view the segments in a chromosome browser and see what occurred.