If numerous unsourced online trees are correct, "Tempy" may be identified as Cynthia Temperance (Duke) Lawson, who passed away after 1860.[2] Census records are unreliable and list her birth as either 1790 in South Carolina[3] or 1792 in Virginia,[4] so this claim seems to remain plausible but unproven.
↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8QG-F8L : 23 December 2020), Tempe Lawson in household of Hiram Lawson, Union, Union, South Carolina, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
See also:
"The Dukes" by Karen Mae Smith in The Stockdale Star, 18 March 1982
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Cynthia 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 Cynthia: