Lurannah Chenoweth's husband, Zachariah Wilson, was a 60-day draftee in the Revolutionary War, (6) a weaver by trade, and the brother of Edward Chenoweth's wife Mary Wilson. They were Guernsey County pioneers, having moved to Ohio from Pennsylvania about 1813 when the county was a wilderness. (7) In 1825, when Matilda Jane was born, the Wilsons were in Guernsey County while the Gordons were in adjacent Muskingum County. By then, the relationship between the sisters had become especially close; Elizabeth attended to Lurannah as she gave birth to her third daughter, and was with Lurannah when Zachariah died in 1828. (8) There is a suggestion, admittedly speculative but nonetheless probable, that Matilda Jane's birthplace was the home of Elizabeth Chenoweth Gordon. The search for Matilda Jane by Bob Crane
The mtDNA test by Sarah's direct descendants shows that while her connection to Lurannah Chenoweth Wilson could be as close as one generation, it could also have occurred earlier. Testing also established that Matilda Jane, Sarah Wilson and Lurannah Chenoweth Wilson were not related to Edward Chenoweth's wife Mary Wilson, whose mtDNA haplogroup was T2c1d1.
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