Died
22 Feb 1856.
Lewis Fork, Wilkes, North Carolina, USA.
alt day.
26 Feb 1856.
Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA.
Found multiple copies of death date. Using 22 Feb 1856
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4BG-WG4 : 9 November 2014), Tilman Yates, Wilkes county, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States; citing family 1556, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
"North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F36S-76N : 20 February 2021), Tillman Yates and Polly Bumgarner in entry for Jessee Franklin Yates, 26 Apr 1918; citing Pineswamp, Ashe, North Carolina, reference cn 95, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,892,357.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Tillman 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 Tillman:
~0.78% ~3.12%Robert Styles :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A023952[compare], yourDNAportal ROBcf8d98ff, Ancestry member RRSTYLES
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Yates-3171 and Yates-278 appear to represent the same person because: Death year is off, but as this profile is not connected, I believe it to be the same person.