Hiram Rhodes Revels was born 27 Sep 1827 and died 16 Jan 1901 and was an America Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born free in North Carolina and later moved to Ohio, where he was voted before the Civil War. He was elected by the Mississippi legislature to the United States Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870-71 during the reconstruction era, as he was the first African American to serve in either house of the United States Congress.

Hiram Rhodes Revels had no male sons and just had daughters, it’s impossible to get yDNA testers from him to test. I was able to get a great Nephew Male Revels from one of Hiram’s brothers to do the yDNA test, and with the help of GenebyGene, we were able to get BigY-700 done. Hiram Rhodes Revels falls under the E-M2 YDNA Haplogroup and with his BigY-700 results, his downstream SNP showed to be E-BY147197, which is about a 4000-year-old SNP and can be downstream by more BigY-700 test being done.

How is his BigY Results related to the other Revels of the E-FT380130 or the O-BY60500 group? E-BY147197 and E-FT380130 are related in the paternal YDNA line, they’re not related because of the Revels name. E-FT380130 and E-BY147197 most common male ancestor was about 7050 BCE with the E-L485 SNP. This was a time well before surnames even started. The E-FT380130 is the main Revels haplogroup in the area where Hiram Rhodes Revels was born. Which E-FT380130 has more than one source matching up to each other to make them the main Revels line in the area. It is clear evidence that Hiram’s father or his father’s father was either a child who took the Revels name from a Revels female or he was just a slave who took on the Revels name. With the O-BY60500 and Hiram Rhodes Revels, they are simply just not paternal related. E-BY147197 and O-BY60500 is no match. This doesn’t mean that they not related in other ways, just means they not related in a paternal way. It’s possible that Hiram Rhodes Revels father or Grandfather was related through his mother to the E-FT380130 and the O-BY60500 line, this can only happen through a female.