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James Benjamin OLIPHANT

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Name James Benjamin OLIPHANT Birth 4 Dec 1886 Burns, Dickson County, Tennessee Gender Male _FSFTID KP7Z-T1H _FSLINK https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KP7Z-T1H _UID CDFD4C1D281C49A19D2E5D32DABB414ADB92 Death 15 Aug 1931 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan Burial Martin Garton Ce, Burns, Dickson, TN Person ID I5669 Carney Wehofer July 2025 Last Modified 14 Dec 2024
Father James Monroe OLIPHANT, b. 15 Apr 1853, La Vergne, Rutherford, Tennessee d. 22 Dec 1904, Williamson County, Tennessee
(Age 51 years)
Mother Frances Rosannah "Rosa" GARTON, b. 15 Mar 1851, Burns, Dickson County, Tennessee d. 15 Aug 1935, Bon Aqua, Hickman County, Tennessee
(Age 84 years)
Marriage 4 Nov 1875 Dickson County, Tennessee Family ID F2517 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Emma May CARTER, b. 28 Jun 1892, Williamson, Tennessee d. 5 Dec 1959, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
(Age 67 years)
Marriage 22 Aug 1909 Williamson, Tennessee Children 1. Lucille Esterlena OLIPHANT, b. 18 Aug 1925, Redford Township, Wayne, Michigan d. 17 Sep 2001 (Age 76 years)
Family ID F536732406 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 14 Dec 2024
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Notes - Biography
James was born in 1886. He was the son of James Oliphant and Rosa Garton. He passed away in 1931.
James married Emma May Carter and together this were the children: Myrtle Odell Oliphint Female 1911– 1993 • Lillian May Oliphant Female 1913– 1979 • Mary Catherine Oliphant Female 1915– 1994 • James Washington Oliphant Male 1917– 2003 • Clarence Everett Oliphint Male 1919– 1991 • Mildred Pauline Oliphint Female 1921– 1998 • Margaret Lowise Oliphint Female 1923– 1998 • Lucille Estalina Oliphint Female 1925– 2001 • Dorothy Lee Oliphint Female 1929– 1994 •
DNA
Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confirmed by an autosomal MyHeritageDNA test match between Karen Schilling and Jim Carney, her 2nd cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are James Oliphant and Rosa Garton, the great grandparents of Karen Schilling and great great grandparents of Jim Carney. Predicted relationship from MyHeritageDNA: 2nd cousin 1x removed, based on sharing 65.9 cM across 6 segments.
Citation generated by DNA Confirmation app, version 3.02 (updated 25.Sep.2024) - Carney-4356 11:07, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
Sources
Jim Carney https://www.jnlcarney.com/carney/ birth/death/marriage certificates, census, familysearch.org, etc
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