When Lela Mae Pool was born in January 1875 in Pickens County, Georgia, her father, William, was 27 and her mother, Martha, was 27. She married Clarry Lymon Giles on February 23, 1893, in Floyd County, Georgia. She had four children by the time she was 27. She died on January 26, 1944, in Floyd County, Georgia, at the age of 69, and was buried in Cherokee County, Alabama.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lela Mae by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lela Mae: