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Meghan Markle’s Mother Has Ancestors Who Left Georgia For Tenessee

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As for Meghan Markle, she too can trace her roots to ancestors who lived in Georgia during the post-Civil War era. Through her mother, Doria Ragland, Markle has a great-great-great grandmother who lived in Jonesboro, Georgia.

Known as Mattie, she was ten years old at the time she was recorded into the 1870 U.S. Census. Mattie’s first daughter, Claudie Richie, escaped to Tenessee with Jerry Miah Ragland. The pair would give birth to a son named Steve, who would turn out to be Doria Ragland’s grandfather and Meghan’s great-grandfather.