James Lorenzo Payne was born about 1862 and lived in Lawrence, Ohio all of his life.[1].
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In 1882, he married Mary Alice Higgins. They had a daughter, Bertha in 1883. Sadly, Mary passed away the day after the child was born from a cerebral hemorrhage.[3]
He then married Martha King in 1889. They had five children. [4]
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James 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 James: