This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PATE/ NELSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wV.2ADI/1551 Message Board Post: Hit a hard brick wal l!!!!!! John Pate, but could be a John Samuel Pate, or not. His son sed he was named after him born abt.1848 Alabama. came to Arkansas, how or when un-known. very poor people. lived ,Old Nigro Hill IN 1887, now called George town. married Jane Nelson, 1878 White co Arkansas. John's father from Alabama. mother from N. Carolina.