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[Vivian's Granddaughter]

My family the PHILLIPS are related to yours. We have had our dna done for the phillips side....Elizabeth Jane Boring has a Brother named James A. Boring b: b ca 1829 in NC & his 4th Great Granddaughter was my Grandmother..?Did you understand that? I am checking with my Mother to see if my uncle is going to take a DNA test & find out if any dna tests have been cross referenced with the Phillips/Whitehead? Families. Please let me know IF anything has been discovered or if this has already been done. Thank You,MM (Vivian's Granddaughter)


•  ID: I565740617
•  Name: James A BORING
•  Given Name: James A
•  Surname: BORING
•  Sex: M
•  Birth: b ca 1829 in NC
•  Death: in TX
•  Census: 1850 Blount Co., TN
•  Census: 1880 Bell Co., TX
•  Note:
birth place per 1850 census
1850 Federal Census - Blount County, TN
16th Civil District, p 242 or 121B, Dec 11
26 1770 1770 BORING John. 45, farmer, b NC
27 Rachel, 41, b NC
28 Rebecca, 22, b NC
29 James, 21, farm lab, b NC
30 Absolam, 16 farm lab, b NC
31 Will, 15, farm lab, b NC
32 Jno., 10, b NC, attended school
33 Isaac, 7, b NC
34 Rachel, 5, b NC
35 Thomas, 1, b NC

1851 Marriage bond, Boren, James to Porter, Margaret A. 13 March 1851, by Samjuel Ghormly, J. P

1880 TEXAS CENSUS BELL COUNTY
Belton beat film # t9-1290
Justice District #2 p299C (ancestry image 2)
43-24-24 PHILLIPS, Meredith, 35, farmer, can’t write, born TX
44 Medora E., wife, 19, born TX, parents born TN
45- Laura J., 9/12, born Aug of census year, TX
46- BORING, James, 51, father in law, farm laborer, born TN,
parents born TN