This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QV.2ADI/499.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sandy, Pate would not know anything about the Pates as he never lived in Arkansas. He grew up in Graham, Tx. (my hometown) and currently lives in Waco. I am wondering how you know of Salado, Tx. way up there in ARk? I have been to Salado a few times and love it there. In regards to the Swaims you mentioned, unless they are two different Swaim families in Independence Co I am probably related to them. All of the Swaims came from Yadkin Co. Ark. after the Civil War. I have met Earl Swaim and wife and now they are deceased. They were very good to me and my father when we went to visit.