DNA and Other Evidence Suggests a Relationship Between Mary Boan Johns, Charles Wesley Boan and John Lewis Percy Boan

 
For many years I struggled with the identity of my maternal 2^nd Great Grandmother. All I knew about her came from the 1850 Chesterfield County Census. That information was that:

• Her name was Mary and she was born about 1815 in South Carolina
• She married my 2nd Great Grandfather - Shadrach John/Johns
• They had 4 children; 2 sons and 2 daughters
• One of those sons (Joseph Henry) was my Great Grandfather

Then my friend and fellow researcher Marie Gulledge Wiggins told me about two land deeds in the Register of Deeds Office at Chesterfield, South Carolina these two deeds were:

• DB 5, Page 598-599 -- Jas. Eddings & Others to W. T. Goodwin Deed
• DB 6, page 177 -- S. Johns & Others to Alice Goodwin Deed
• http://carolinafamilyroots.blogspot.com/2012/03/amanuensis-monday-land-deed-db-6177.html

These two land deeds were very insignificant in that they were transferring a small plot of land, 8 acres, from Shadrach and Mary to the Eddings and Goodwin families. These 8 acres were estate lands of Mary Boan/Bone, deceased; some say Mary Therrell Boan, mother of:
 
Ann Bone Eddings, wife of John Ellis Eddings, Sr.
Rebecca Bone,
Mary Bone Johns, Wife of Shadrach Johns
Effy Bone Goodwin, Wife of William Thomas Goodwin

On the other hand the parties’ names within the two deeds were very significant.
First, the land deed was dated 6 December 1866 and stated that the Shadrach Johns family was of Washington County, Florida. Three of the four children of Shadrach and Mary were named along with a son-in-law, Joel Toler, husband of Alice Catherine Johns Toler, H. J. Johns; not named is Thomas H. Johns, son of Shadrach and Mary and he is presumed deceased.
 
Other parties named within these two deeds were: 
 
James Eddings, Ann Eddings, W. H. Eddings, F. T. Eddings, Rebecca Bone, Alice Goodwin, Mary Boan/Bone, deceased, Effy Goodwin, William T. Goodwin
Witness were E. Rushing, James Grant, 
 
So all parties are either daughters of Mary Bone, deceased; her Son-in-laws, grandchildren, or witnesses to the land deed transaction. 
 
For a while this line has remained static with no additional leads to push forward; that is until DNA became popular within the past few years. Over three years ago, I tested with FTDNA, then Later with 23and me and finally with Ancestry. 
 
Now with DNA, we have additional evidence of Mary Boan/Bone Johns ancestry and connections to the Boan/Bone of Chesterfield County. I believe that Mary Bone is a daughter of Archibald Boan thus making her a sister to Charles Wesley Boan and John Lewis Percy Boan or she and they are 1^st cousins.
 
First, we have the proven DNA connection to Charles Wesley Boan

My line on the left and Charles Wesley on the right; I have 7.1 centimorgans shared across 1 DNA segments with this researcher and Charles Wesley Boan descendant. 
 
Next we have the DNA Connection to John Lewis Percy Boan.

My line on the left and John L. Percy on the right; I have 10.7 centimorgans shared across 2 DNA segments with this researcher and John L. P. Boan descendant. 
 

With another John L. P. descendant I share 61 centimorgans across 6 DNA segments.
 
The DNA and land deed evidence all proved that Shadrach Johns wife Mary was/is a Boan descendant related to John Lewis Percy and Charles Wesley Boan, sons of Archibald A. Boan and his wife Mary Walton.
 
 
 








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[1] Ancestry.com DNA = A244596
[2] Family Tree DNA = F205903
[3] 23andMe = M141800
[4] GEDMatch.com