Draft registration lists James as a mail carrier. [1]
Sources
↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-25085-70590-27?cc=1968530 : accessed 15 February 2015), Missouri > Kansas City no 16; P-Z > image 1040 of 1657; citing NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
"United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M38W-C53 : accessed 15 February 2015), Rosa Tate in household of James B Tate, Cuivre Township Bowling Green city, Pike, Missouri, United States; citing sheet 1A, family 1, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,882.
"Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1802-1969", index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2CCD-HRF : accessed 15 February 2015), James Robert Tate and Cecilia Margaret O'Connor Roecker, 1942.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or 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: