profile lacking resources, can 8-9 cM DNA match help confirm?

Question

My third great grandparents are Hugh Weir-3801 & Keziah Drake-9575. She is widely listed in unsourced trees as the daughter of James Drake-1997 & Sarah Paddock-400 who already had profiles here.  (Ex. Kezia Drake :https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LCQ6-DGC, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21020451/kezia-weir)

The photo of her grave marker at Find a Grave shows her date of death prior to the birth of my second great grandfather, Josephus Weir-3758, but the design of this marker, I think, is not likely to have been engraved  contemporaneously with Keziah's death. It lists Hugh Weir (d. 1879) and their daughter Sarah Weir (d. 1896) along with Kezia (d. 1842). And Josephus was born in 1844.  I have guessed this info was provided in error long after Keziah's death, or it was hand written as 1849 and misread to be 1842.  Keziah was not enumerated with the family in 1850. She was evidently counted in 1840, but not named of course.

Can anyone help locate any sources?

I added Keziah's profile here (unsourced, parents uncertain) and noted there were several DNA GEDmatch kits on James Drake's and Sarah Paddock's profiles.  I compared kits from Berens, Gallop and McKenzie and found no matches.  When I compared two kits from Megibben, one kit returned a single 8.5 cM match (gen 6.8), and the other kit returned the same match on Chr 9 as 9.6 cM (gen 5.7). (There were other DNA testers without GEDmatch kits...)

Do these results seem to be consistent with Keziah being the daughter of James Drake and Sarah Paddock?  What should next steps be?  Where are the sources? argh...

Thanks for any help!

Comments

Most of the probate records for Sullivan County, IN, that have been filmed and digitized by the LDS can be accessed only from a Family History Center or affiliate library. However, some recently filmed probate files are freely viewable at familysearch.org, and there I found the records of the estate of James Drake, probated in Sullivan County in 1865-67. The final report of the estate's administrator lists among the heirs of James Drake "The Heirs of Keziah Weir wife of Hugh Weir dec [??] now dec", who got $20 (see https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3FZ-KNTY?i=222&cat=3534604). Unfortunately, I have not found a receipt for this $20, so don't know which children of Keziah Weir signed for the $20 and thus whether Josephus might have been among them.

That final report of the estate administrator, incidentally, should also be very helpful in fleshing out the other children of James Drake.

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Thanks!

Answer 1

This is great, thank you!