William
Bibb
Cole
Jr.
Born in Louisa, Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Son of William Bibb Cole Sr.
and Sarah (Byars) Cole
Brother of
Mary (Cole) Allen, Rebecca Rachel (Cole) Freeman, John Byars Cole [half] and Matilda (Cole) Freeman
Husband of
Mary (Freeman) Cole
— married
26 Dec 1816 in Clarke, Georgia, United States
Husband of
Mary P. (Evans) Cole
— married
16 Jul 1850 in Cherokee, Texas, United States
Descendants 
Father of
Richard Wesley Cole, Henry Benjamin Cole, Josiah William Cole, Melissa Ann Cole, Francis Asbury Cole, Cornelia Alice Cole, John B. Cole and Robert Finley Cole
Died
at age 61
in Larissa, Cherokee, Texas, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 2 Sep 2011
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Biography
William was born in 1795.
Came to Texas in 1849 from Fayette County, Alabama and settled on a farm 5 miles NW of Larissa on the Neches River.
Children:
Henry Benjamin Cole 1823–1906
Robert Finley Cole 1855–1916
Sources
- "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW62-TXQ : 11 January 2020), William Cole, 1816.
- "Texas Marriages, 1837-1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FX3F-YYD : 22 January 2020), William Cole, 1850.
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L7BY-53Y
Acknowledgments
Steve Cole, firsthand knowledge. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Steve and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William 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 William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William 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 William:
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~1.56%
Mandy (Wallace) Barousse
:
23andMe
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~1.56%
Gilbert Douglas :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member ke4nrl
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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%
Steph (Ott) Evans :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Warren Snell :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member wsnell
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #B391797
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Martha Whitney :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member marthalwhitney
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William Bibb Cole married in Louisa Co., Va., Jan. 15, 1789, Sarah Byars, (1763-1810), who was the daughter of John Byers, (1734-1781) and his wife, Elizabeth Thomson (1735-1810).
Near the close pf the century, William B. Cole, with others of his kin, migrated from Louisa Co., VA, to Clarke County, GA., where they lived for a number of years. Here several of his children were married. In 1819, he removed to the newly admitted State of Alabama, settling in Fayette Co., then a part of Tuscaloosa County. He died July 9, 1857, and is buried in little cemetery near Berry, Fayette Co., Ala. He was a farmer, and an outstanding member of the Methodist Church of his community.