Jerry, in the Pate family, Joel appears to have been a family named used often. There were several Joel Pates, One was the son of Dolly Pate (daughter of Ben Pate) and his father was David Levi Smith. This Joel was an illegitimate child. Dolly Pate later married David Levi Smith. Patricia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Brock" <Jerry@brock.net> To: <FLHOLMES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:14 PM Subject: Re: [FLHOLMES] Nancy Elizabeth Pate > Max, > > I have an Elizabeth Pate, b. abt 1843 in Holmes County, FL. She was the d/o > Alexander Lloyd Pate, brother of Benjamin T. Pate. > Who was the parents of Joel Pate? > > Jerry > At 01:31 PM 11/25/2002 -0600, you wrote: > > >BTW, Nancy Elizabeth Pate 1864-1955 marr 23 Feb 1891 FL. to Thomas Wilson > >Yates 1869-1953 FL., s/o Levi Yates 1836-1908 FL. and Elizabeth Pate 1843 > >AL.-aft1885, d/o Joel Pate 180?-aft1870 and Elizabeth Sloan 180?-aft1880 > >Nancy Elizabeth had a sister that marr a McKnight and another sister that > >marr a Taylor. I think these families lived in or around Geneva, AL. and > >Holmes/Washington FL. > >I would love to know who were the parents of sisters Nancy Elizabeth > >Pate-Yates, Mrs. Pate-McKnight and Mrs. Pate-Taylor. (Also rumored to be > >granddaughters of Jeremiah Pate and Martha Tindell) > > > >Thanks, > >Max in FL. > >xamilil@wfeca.net > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >