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My name is Dorsey Wayne Franklin. I am a gggg grandson of John and Phoebe Parker Franklin, last of Burke County, NC.I've researched this couple for forty years, and have shared most of my findings with other interested Franklin family researchers in a book entitled: JOHN FRANKLIN, AN AMERICAN HERO AND HIS PROGENY. The book is out of print, but may be found in libraries in Dallas and Sherman, Texas; Newland, Morganton and Raleigh, NC: and in Haverhill and Boston, MA.
My ggg grandfather, Samuel, Sr., had a brother named Jonathan. Jonathan Franklin is the ggg grandfather of my wife, Margaret. She and I are fifth cousins. Margaret's mother was a Franklin. Her family moved into Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma through William Franklin, son of Jonathan and Rachel. My line migrated through Samuel Joseph Franklin, Jr., into Georgia and Texas and beyond.
Our lineage is as follows:
DWF
Dorsey Wayne Franklin - TX, AR, MO, OH b. 3-1-1927
Otis Howard Franklin - TX b. Jan 17, 1900
John William Franklin - GA, TX b. Sept. 5, 1863
George Washington Franklin - GA< TX b. October 1832
Samuel Joseph Franklin, Jr., - NC, GA b. 1807
Samuel Joseph Franklin, Sr. - NC b. 1780
John Franklin - MA, VA, NC b. 2 June 1729
David Franklin - MA, b. 4 May 1692
Jonathan Franklin - ? MA, b. ca. 1640/1645
MAH
Margaret Ann Hopkins - AR, MO, OH -
Edna Ray Franklin - OK, AR 1920 (married a Hopkins)
James William Franklin - b. 1889
William T. Franklin - IN, MO, OK, AR b. 2-7-1866
William Franklin - NC, TN, IN, MO 12 July 1800
Jonathan Franklin - NC, TN, IN b. ca. 1774-1776
John Franklin - MA, VA , NC b. 2 June 1729
David Franklin - MA b. 4 May 1692
Jonathan Franklin ? MA, b. 1640-1645
The above lineage has been proved by Y-DNA testing. Through my association with L. David Roper, Franklin family Y-DNA guru, I found two Franklin cousins, both of whom live in the northeastern United States. One, William George Franklin, who resides in New Jersey, descends from Jonathan Franklin, as does, two, John Benjamin Franklin, who lives in Philidelphia.
Jonathan's son, John Franklin, married twice. First to Hulda Arnold, and secondly to Keziah Pierce. William George descends from John and Hulda, and John Benjamin descends from John and Keziah. The Jonathan in this paragraph was David Franklin's brother.
Y-DNA is a genetic fingerprint. Every father passes his Y-DNA to his son, and the son passes it to his son and on and on. The female carries only the X chromosome, and not the Y chromosomes as does the male. Simply, if a male passes his Y chromosome to a female she will have a boy. If he pass an X she will have a girl.
Therefore, if William George Franklin, John Benjamin Franklin and Dorsey Wayne Franklin have the same Y-DNA
fingerprint,it is beyond doubt that we are related. It is beyond argument that we share the same paternal fathers and grandfathers great and many times great.
The three of us submited samples of our Y-DNA to a company that tests such samples. We each had 37 LOCI tested. The result is that all the significant LOCI matched. We three share the same Y-DNA; herefore, we are related.
WHAT THIS MEANS;
It is certain that John Franklin of Burke County, NC, born 2 June 1729, is a grandson of Jonathan Franklin and Sarah Smilh, Massachusetts pilgrim.
I spent thousands of dollars chasing the paper trail. For about $250.00 I confirmed John Franklin's parantage through Y-DNA testing. It took about two weeks to get the results from the DNA testers, versus the years it took chasing paper.
For those of you who still like the paper trail, here's a clue. When David Franklin and Elizabeth Ayres married, the notice said he was from HULL. Turns out that's HULL, MASSACHUSETTS, not HULL, ENGLAND! I barked up that wrong tree for twenty years. Google Hull, MA. Nice.
Please forgive mistakes. I'm 80, hunt and peck, and don't see well.
Dorsey Wayne Franklin
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