Married Mary Jane Merrell 23 December 1869 at the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. Joseph Smith and Daniel Well attended the ceremony. They had 12 children, 6 boys and 6 girls.
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My Grandfather, Col Hubert M. Cole, wrote that he visited his grandfather, this William E. Cole, only once when he (my grandfather) was 16 years old, and that William "died a year or two after that meeting". Col Hubert M. Cole was born in 1905, which would have put William Cole's death around 1923.
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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: