Josiah
William
Cole
Born in Fayette County, Alabama
Ancestors 
Son of William Bibb Cole Jr.
and Mary (Freeman) Cole
Brother of
Richard Wesley Cole, Henry Benjamin Cole [half], Melissa Ann Cole, Francis Asbury Cole, Cornelia Alice Cole [half], John B. Cole [half] and Robert Finley Cole [half]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 5 Mar 2015
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Biography
Josiah was born in 1824. He is the son of William Cole and Mary Freeman.
Josiah had three sons who served in the Civil War.
Leander W. Cole served in Company C of the 3rd Regiment Texas Cavalry, CSA. He was wounded at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri on 10 August, 1861, and died two days later. He was the first Civil War veteran from Cherokee County, Texas, to be killed in action.
Levi H. Cole served in Company F of the 3rd Regiment Texas Cavalry, CSA. He died on 9 November 1862.
William F. Cole served in Company D, 17th Regiment Texas Cavalry, CSA. He died near Atlanta, Georgia, in 1864.
Sources
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHP1-63N : 5 April 2020), Josiah W Coh, Fayette county, Fayette, Alabama, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Josiah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Josiah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Josiah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Josiah:
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~1.56%
Glenn Mallard
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A759107 [compare], Ancestry member mallgln
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~1.56%
Mary Brooke (McEachern) McElreath :
MyHeritage DNA
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~0.78%
Mandy (Wallace) Barousse :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Gilbert Douglas :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member ke4nrl
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Rejected matches › William Cole (1826-) › William Jones Cole (bef.1825-1825) › William Thomas Cole (abt.1823-1898) › William Colley (1824-) › William Koehl (1824-1886) › William Cole (abt.1823-1902) › Joe Call (abt.1826-aft.1862) › William A. Cole (abt.1822-1903)
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