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Speight Family DNA Results & Patriarchs ...

     
Y-DNA, mtDNA & Autosomal DNA Results are shown below.  Information on living people is kept private unless we obtain express written permission from that person to list their information.  DNA of both male and female descendants of Speight(s) ancestors are studied and listed in this project.  67-Marker Y-DNA test recommended for the Speight(s) paternal line.


DNA Confirmed Speight Family Descendant's from Speight's Bridge, Greene County, North Carolina

-1 William Speight This William Speight is the Main Speight Family Patriarch of the Speight's Bridge, Greene County, North Carolina family group line. If your Speight ancestor can be traced back to Greene County, North Carolina, then you will most likely be a descendant of this William Speight. Dates and places of birth and death for this William Speight are conflicting, but he was most likely born in Virginia.  Several different theories exist regarding the possible identity of his parents.  This project will be working to try to identify and confirm with DNA his correct parents.

--2 William Speight (Unknown - Bef. 1790 Dobbs County, NC) m. Sarah (maiden name unknown).  Wife Sarah Speight can be located on the 1790 U.S. Federal Census as head of household in Dobbs County, NC.

---3 William Speight (Est. 1723, Craven Co., NC - 1772, Swift Creek, Wake Co., NC) m. Abigail (maiden name unknown)

----4 William Speight (Abt. 1745, Wake Co., NC - Abt. 1829, Dickson, Dickson Co., TN) m. Penelope McClendon

-----5 Tabitha Speight Edwards (Abt. 1770, Wake Co., NC - unknown) m. Zachariah Edwards

------6 Oscar Jonas Edwards (Abt. 1797, Raliegh, Wake Co., NC - 23 Dec 1850, Hurstville, Jackson Co., IA) m. Dorothea "Dollie" Jones

-------7 Lucretia Edwards Pate Huling (1821, NC - 1862, Maquoketa, Jackson Co., IA) m. (1) Jesse Pate & (2) Harrison Huling

--------8 Lorinda Pate Patterson (1839, Hurstville, Jackson Co., IA - 1907, Maquoketa, Jackson Co., IA) m. Charles Hamilton Patterson, Sr.

---------9 Jesse Alvin Patterson (1866, Jackson Co., IA - 1935, Maquoketa, Jackson Co., IA) m. Ona Mazetta Wilson

----------10 Gladys Almeda Patterson Allen Fritze (1897, Maquoketa, Jackson Co., IA - 1982, IA) m. (1) Rexford Gilmore Allen & (2) Lewie Charles Fritze

-----------11 Russell Gordon Allen (1919, Maquoketa, Jackson Co., IA - 1966, Cook Co., IL) m. Stella Marie Kania

------------12 Kit# B312970 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

---3 John Speight, Sr. (1739, NC - Aft. 1814, Cheraws District, Darlington County, SC) m. Mary Jane Minshew Speight

----4 Seth Speight, Sr. (Est. 1754, NC - 1800, Greene County, NC) m. Elizabeth Vines

-----5 Lemon Speight (1791, Glasgow County, NC - 1830, Greene County, NC) m. Charity Cook

------6 Mary Cook Speight Beaman (1829, Speight's Bridge, Greene County, NC - 1880, Speight's Bridge, Greene County, NC) m. Rufus Cicero Decatur Beaman

-------7 Charity Speight Beaman Darden (1868, Speight's Bridge, Greene County, NC - 1914, Fremont, Wayne County, NC) m. William Moye Darden

--------8 Paul Clifford Darden, Sr. (1892, Speight's Bridge, Greene County, NC - 1966, Wilson, Wilson County, NC) m. Esther Louise Yelverton

---------9 Paul Clifford Darden, Jr. (1917, Fremont, Wayne County, NC - 2004, Wilson, Wilson County, NC) m. Barbara Allen

----------11 Kit# B154599 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

----4 Samuel Speight (Bef. 1755, Johnston County, NC - 1808, Greene County, NC) m. Rachel Hays

-----5 Arthur Speight (1785, NC - 1948, Edgefield County, NC) m. Catherine Tart Eason

------6 Rachel Speight Moye (1813, NC - 1886, Greene County, NC) m. Gilbert (or Elbert A.) Moye

-------7 Sarah Catherine Moye Darden (1836, NC - 1863, Speight's Bridge, Greene County, NC) m. William A. Darden

--------8 William Moye Darden (1861, Speight's Bridge, Greene County, NC - 1905, Fremont, Wayne County, NC) m. Charity Speight Beaman

---------9 Paul Clifford Darden, Sr. (1892, Speight's Bridge, Greene County, NC - 1966, Wilson, Wilson County, NC) m. Esther Louise Yelverton

----------10 Paul Clifford Darden, Jr. (1917, Fremont, Wayne County, NC - 2004, Wilson, Wilson County, NC) m. Barbara Allen

-----------11 Kit# B154599 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

----4 William "TowHead" Speight, Sr. (Abt. 1757, Dobbs County, NC - 1828, Lawrence County, MS) (listed on many family trees as William Myrick Speight, Sr.) m. Lydia (maiden name unknown)

-----5 William Speight, Jr. (1787, Dobbs County, NC - 1842, Mississippi River Bank, Louisiana, USA) (listed on many family trees as William Myrick Speight, Jr.) m. Rebecca Hopkins Speight

------6 Jonathan M. H. Speights (1828, Mississippi - 1912, Sabine County, TX) m. (1) Emily A. Scott Speights, (2) Rebecca Frances Halbert Speights & (3) Elizabeth Masie "Lizzie" Davis Speights

-------7 Dr. John William Speights (1856, Sabine County, TX - 1922, Milam, Sabine County, TX) (son of Emily A. Scott Speights) m. (1) Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Wilson Speights & (2) Mary E. Head Speights

--------8 Dora E. Speights White (1886, Milam, Sabine County, TX - 1964, Port Arthur, Jefferson County, TX) (daughter of Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Wilson Speights) m. Cade Drew White, Jr.

---------9 Beulah Emily White Buckley Hoffpauir (1906, Sabine County, TX - 2008, Friendswood, Galveston,TX) m. (1) Roy Young Buckley & (2) Mikel W. Hoffpauir

----------10 Dora Elaine Buckley Williams (1926, Hemphill, Sabine County, TX - 1963, Port Arthur, Jefferson County, TX) m. Charles Ray Williams

-----------11 Kit# 590211 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

-----5 Shadrack Speight (Abt. 1795, GA - Abt. 1880, Leake County, MS) m. Nicey Hood

------6 Nancy Lafayette Speight Flowers (1823, Lawrence County, MS - 1905, Leake County, MS) m. Benjamin Franklin Flowers

-------7 William Shadrach Flowers (1849, Leake County, MS - 1919, Conway, Leake County, MS) m. Bettie Josephine Evans

--------8 Laura Mae Flowers Allen (1894, Leake County, MS - 1955, Leake County, MS) m. Rawleigh Mims Allen

---------9 Cecile Mae Allen Manley (1912, MS - 1998, Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM) m. Francis Jack Manley

----------10 Kit# 531890 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

---3 Francis Speight (1746, NC - Bef. 1790, Speight's Bridge, Greene County, NC) m. Alice Faircloth Speight

----4 Jonathan Speight (Abt. 1775, NC - 1857, Washington County, GA) m. Sarah Barnes Speight

-----5 Judge William Francis Speight (1813, Greene County, NC - 1871, Quitman, Brooks County, GA) m. Sarah Anna Maria Young Speight

------6 Charles Edward Speight (1867, Quitman, Brooks County, GA - 1895, Quitman, Brooks County, GA) m. Laura Louise Standley Speight Cullen

-------7 Clara Ella Speight Jones (1894, Hague, Alachua County, FL - 1970, Lithia, Hillsborough County, FL) m. William Henry Jones

--------8 Minnie Lee Jones Gatlyn (1923, Hillsborough County, FL - 2015, Brandon, Hillsborough County, FL) m. Lloyd Lambert Gatlyn

---------9 Kit# 269567 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

----4 Martha Speight Fields (1777, Greene County, NC - 1867, Henry County, TN) m. John Fields, Sr.

-----5 Michael Fields (1806, Greene County, NC - 1876, Carroll County, TN) m. Elizabeth Moore Fields

------6 Martha B. Fields Prince (1832, AL - 1903, Weakley County, TN) m. Jefferson R. Prince

-------7 Margaret Louisa "Lula" Prince Forrester (1872, Weakley County, TN - 1943, Graves County, KY) m. Francis Marion "Frank" Forrester

--------8 Odie Elwin Forrester (1897, Weakley County, TN - 1984, Martin, Weakley County, TN) m. Ida Onie Brandon Forrester

---------9 William Dudley Forrester (1920, Martin,Weakley County, TN - 1999, Mayfield, Graves County, KY) m. Rachel Jean Morris Forrester

----------10 Kit# 540694 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

-----5 Frances Fields Speight (1809, Greene County, NC - 1871, Henry County, TN) m. William Thomas Speight (son of Josiah Speight & Susannah "Susan" Brown Speight

------6 William Isaac Speight (1850, Henry County, TN - 1918, Prairie County, AR) m. Martha Jane Ashby Speight

-------7 Dock Franklin Speight (1874, Prairie County, AR - 1947, Pulaski County, AR) m. Mary Oliver Rooker

--------8 Mary Evelyn Speight Campbell (1914, Prairie County, AR - 1999, Prairie County, AR) m. Walter Franklin Campbell

---------9 Private

----------10 Kit# 62666 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

-------7 Charles Whitney Speight (1879, Prairie County, AR - 1918, Prairie County, AR) m. Gertrude Leonda "Gertie" Smith Speight

--------8 Brooks Edison Speight (1902, Prairie County, AR - 1935, Pope County, AR) m. Mary Aleatha Gross Speight

---------9 Charles James Speight (1930, Prairie County, AR - 1988, Washoe County, NV) 

----------10 Kit# B105237 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

Note: This project is in need of additional Family Finder Autosomal DNA as well as Y-DNA participates who descend from the Speight family group from Speight's Bridge, Greene County, North Carolina.  Y-DNA is also needed from a male Speight who descends from the Speight family group from Gates County, North Carolina and who are believed to be the descendants of the immigrant Francis Speight (Abt. 1614, England - Bef.21 Apr 1684, Nansemond County, VA), so that we can determined whether these two Speight family groups will ultimately connect on their paternal line.


-1 Seth Speight (1773, Dobbs County, NC - 1857, Greene County, NC) m. Susannah Sukey Edwards Speight

--2 Elizabeth Speight Walston (1806, Greene County, NC - 1874, Greene County, NC) m. Silas Walston

---3 Phillip Irwin Walston (1829, Greene County, NC - 1873, Greene County, NC) m. Mary Elizabeth Ruff Walston

----4 Frances "Fannie" Walston Dixon (1859, Greene County, NC - 1924, Greene County, NC) m. Richard Dobbs Speight Dixon, Sr.

-----5 Richard Dobbs Speight Dixon, Jr. (1895, Greene County, NC - 1977, Greene County, NC) m. Lola Delle Moore Dixon

------6 Private

-------7 Kit# 610966 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA)

Note: There were two different, but related, men named Seth Speight who were close in age, both died around the same time period, and both lived in Greene County, NC in the early 1800's.  Most certainly, these two men were closely related cousins on their paternal Speight family line.  The DNA Participant above, Kit# 610966, descends from the Seth Speight who married Susannah Sukey Edwards.  The other man named Seth Speight (1781, Dobbs County, NC - 1854, Greene County, NC) married a woman named Ann (maiden name unknown). One of these two men named Seth Speight was the son of Seth Speight, Sr. and Elizabeth Vines Speight and "possibly" the grandson of John Speight, Sr. (1739, NC - Aft. 1814 Cheraw's District, Darlington County, SC) and Mary Jane Minshew Speight.  The other man named Seth Speight was the son of Francis Speight (1746, NC - Bef. 1790, Speight's Bridge, Greene County, NC) (brother of John Speight, Sr.) and Alice Faircloth Speight. John Speight, Sr. and Francis Speight are believed to have been brothers whose parents are believed to have been William and Sarah Speight from Johnston, Dobbs, and Greene Counties, NC.  This Seth Speight family line will ultimately connect to the above Main Speight Family Patriarch, William Speight.  This project is in need of additional Family Finder Autosomal DNA participates who descend from both of these two men named Seth Speight as well as from other closely related Speight family descendants in order to determine and prove with DNA their correct connection points.  Y-DNA is also needed from a direct male descendant with a solid paper trail from each of these men named Seth Speight as well as Y-DNA from a direct male descendant of Seth Speight, Sr. (husband of Elizabeth Vines Speight).


-1 John Francis Speight, Sr. (1804, NC - 1860, Edgecombe County, NC) m. Emma Lewis

--2 Seth Exum Speight (1849, NC - 1927, NC) m. Alice H. Barlow

---3 Alice M. Speight Dyke (1878, NC - 1947, NJ) m. Herbert H. Dyke

----4 Herbert Gordon Dyke (1908, Laurel Co., MS - 1993, Monmouth, NJ) m. Barbara E. Hart

-----5 Private

------6 Kit# B249016 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

This project is in need of additional Family Finder Autosomal DNA participants who descend from the above John Francis Speight, Sr.  Y-DNA is also needed from a direct male descendant with a solid paper trail to John Francis Speight, Sr.


-1 Unknown Speight (Possibly either John Speight, Sr. or his brother, Moses Speight who both moved to Cheraws District, SC)

--2 Silas Speight (Abt. 1770, NC - Aft. 1860, Fayette County, GA) (Also lived in Cheraws District,Darlington County, SC and Gwinnett County, GA) m. Nancy (maiden name unknown, but could "possibly" be Craft)

---3 Robert Thomas "Bobby" Speight (1811, Darlington County, SC - 1900, Haralson County, GA) m. (1) Lucy Ann Dillard Speight & (2) Mary Ann White

----4 Sgt. Thomas Dillard Speight (1834, Gwinnett County, GA - 1862, Knoxville, TN) (Died in Civil War at the Battle of Knoxville) (son of Lucy Ann Dillard Speight) m. Jane C. Waddell Speight Shaddrix

-----5 Martha Thomas Speight Davis (1860, Haralson County, GA - 1948, Morgan County, AL) (Also lived in Blount County, AL) m. Joseph "Lukie" Davis

------6 William Robert (E. Lee) Davis (1893, Blount County, AL - 1983, Morgan County, AL) m. Rachel Commensie Laura Cara Tine "Clara" Lively Davis

-------7 Private

--------8 Kit# B6107 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA), Gedmatch# A727860

---------9 Kit# B9366 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA), Gedmatch# A006156

--------8 Kit# B67492 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA), Gedmatch# A624122

--------8 Kit# B6345 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA), Gedmatch# A139480

--------8 Private

---------Kit# B9867 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA), Gedmatch# A248519

------6 General Dewey Davis (1900, Blount County, AL - 1989, Morgan County, AL) m. Zoney Rose Brown Davis

-------7 Kit# 268468 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA), Gedmatch# T561611

-------7 Dallon Howell Davis (1936, Morgan County, AL - 2006, Craighead County, AR) m. Lillie Mae Brown Davis

--------8 Kit# B6361 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA), Gedmatch# A849856

--------8 Kit# 256055 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA), Gedmatch# T855766

--------8 Kit# B6360 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA), Gedmatch# A636736

---------9 Kit# B78494 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA), Gedmatch# A744671

---------9 Kit# B78513 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA), Gedmatch# A855012

---------9 Kit# B78525 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA), Gedmatch# A273146

---3 Margaret E. Speight Norris Conway (1819, Darlington County, SC - 1886, Washington County, IN) m. (1) Henry C. Norris & (2) Bernard Conway

----4 William S. Norris (1853, GA - 1919, Washington County, IN) (son of Henry C. Norris) m. Phoebe Jane Roberts Norris

-----5 Carrie Bell Norris Morris (1889, Washington County, IN - 1927, Maricopa County, AZ) m. Rolland Everett Morris

------6 Carlton Glen Morris (1910, Washington County, IN - 1984, Gila County, AZ) m. Maud Beals Morris

-------7 Kit # B40102 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder & AncestryDNA)

--2 Josiah Speight (Abt. 1775, Dobbs County, NC - 1839, Greene County, NC) (Also lived in Cheraw's District, Darlington County, SC) m. Susannah "Susan" Brown Speight

---3 William Thomas Speight (1813, Greene County, NC - 1899, Henry County, TN) m. Frances Fields Speight (daughter of John Fields, Sr. & Martha Speight Fields)

----4 William Isaac Speight (1850, Henry County, TN - 1918, Prairie County, AR) m. Martha Jane Ashby Speight

-----5 Dock Franklin Speight (1874, Prairie County, AR - 1947, Pulaski County, AR) m. Mary Oliver Rooker

------6 Mary Evelyn Speight Campbell (1914, Prairie County, AR - 1999, Prairie County, AR) m. Walter Franklin Campbell

-------7 Private

--------8 Kit# 62666 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

-----5 Charles Whitney Speight (1879, Prairie County, AR - 1918, Prairie County, AR) m. Gertrude Leonda "Gertie" Smith Speight

------6 Brooks Edison Speight (1902, Prairie County, AR - 1935, Pope County, AR) m. Mary Aleatha Gross Speight

-------7 Charles James Speight (1930, Prairie County, AR - 1988, Washoe County, NV) 

--------8 Kit# B105237 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

Note: Documentation in addition to Autosomal DNA matches with people who are not yet members of this project indicates that Silas Speight listed above was a brother of Matthew Speight (husband of Orpha Mercer Speight), Joshua Speight (husband of Sarah "Sally" McBride Speight), and Josiah Speight (husband of Susannah "Susan" Brown Speight).  There were two men located in Cheraws District, Darlington County, SC who were of the age to have possibly been the father of this Speight family group.  One was John Speight, Sr.(1739, NC - Aft. 1814 Cheraws District, Darlington County, SC) husband of Mary Jane Minshew, and the other was John's brother, Moses Speight (Est. 1740, NC - Bef. 1806, Cheraws District, Darlington County, SC) (wife unknown).  John Speight, Sr. and Moses Speight were the sons of William Speight (Unknown - Bef. 1790, Dobbs County, NC) and his wife Sarah (maiden name unknown) and the grandsons of the above Main Speight Family Patriarch, William Speight.  Additional Family Finder Autosomal DNA  is needed from descendants of Silas Speight, Joshua Speight, Matthew Speight, and Josiah Speight for triangulation and DNA chromosome comparisons so that their correct father can be determined.  Y-DNA is also needed on this family line from a direct male descendant with a solid paper trail to Silas Speight, Joshua Speight, Matthew Speight and/or Josiah Speight.  



DNA Confirmed Spight Family Descendant's from Mississippi 

-1 Ephraim Jordan Spight (1849, MS - 1926, Shelby County, TN) m. Phillis Henderson Spight 

--2 Ernest Virgil Spight (1878, MS - 1944, Marion County, IN) m. Mary Elizabeth Coward Spight

---3 William Herman Spight (1900, Shelby County, TN - 1990, Marion County, IN) m. Erma Mae White Spight

----4 Kit# 797618 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

-----5 Kit# 572524 Y-DNA (37-Marker) & Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

-----5 Kit# 710861 Autosomal DNA (FTDNA Family Finder) 

Note: Paper trail ends with Ephraim Jordan Spight.  Ephraim can be located on the 1880 US Federal Census in Tunica, MS.  His Civil War service record shows that he was born in "Tippo County, Mississippi" which was most likely Tippah County, Mississippi.  Thomas Spight (6 Feb 1779, Jones County, NC - 18 Jun 1857, Ripley, Tippah County, MS) (husband of Rebecca Mumford) and their children lived in Tippah County, MS during the time that the above Ephraim Jordan Speight was born.  Thomas Spight's family were slave owners. Y-DNA and autosomal DNA from descendants of other Spight's family lines from Tippah County, MS is needed to join this project so that their DNA can be compared with the Kits listed above.  So far, we expect surnames Morris and Hinnant to also be a match this Spight paternal line.

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