This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pate, Shanklin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/973.1.1 Message Board Post: Is your Mary E. (Pate) Anderson the dau. of Minor Pate and Martha (Shanklin) Pate. If so then we are distant cousins as well. I descend from Martha Shanklin's brother Abraham.