This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pate, Stewart, Stuard, Keene, Funderburg(k) Yocum Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zJB.2ACE/2064 Message Board Post: Searching for ANY information on Pate/Stuard/Stewart From Tennessee to Missouri prior to 1851. Some Pate and Stuart families first appear in Platte County, MO until 1851. Leroy Pate and Mary Stewart were married in 1853 in Buchanan County. Buchanan Co., MO 1860 Census Ray Pate age 43., Mary Pate age 35, Sewel W. age 6, Trousdale age 5, Winfield age 2, Vacso and Viola age 1, Sophronia Stuard age 10 Hannah Stuard age 51. All the adults were born in Tennessee and the children in Missouri. I have a copy of land survey for property that Leroy Pate bought in Sugar Lake, Missouri in 1851. Leroy Pate dies in 1862. (Can not find where he is buried) Mary is named executor and on probate it lists Sophronia along with the other children as her children. Apparently Leroy adopted Sophronia as her marriage certificate says Saffronia Pate to Columbus Keene in Buchanan Co., MO. Saffronia (Sophronia) Pate Married Columbus Keene in Buchanan County, MO in 1865. I also have copy of papers from a law suit that Vasco Pate, Viola Pate and Trousdale Pate file in 1899 for the property of Leroy Pate. Mary Pate died in 1897, and can not find where she is buried either.) It says that Saffronia's (Pate) Keene's children have no rights to the property as the ONLY living relatives of Leroy is Vasco, Viola and Trousdale Pate. (It must have been nasty!) Then I found Columbus Keene is appointed guardian of his children in 1890. I have a Funderburk connection that with Sophronia and Columbus' son George W Keene married a Maggie May Funderburk. THE ONLY thing I have on Maggie May Funderburg(k) is her death certificate with her father as George W Funderberg and mother Fernity or Furnneta Yocum. The first name is very hard to make out. Any information to help me shed some light would be sooo greatly appreciated! ~Debby Moulden-Frerichs~ Researching the names ~*Keene, Waters, Parks, Robson, Hopewell, Yocum, Pate, Funderburk(g) , Stuart, Moulden, Turley, Randel, Fowler *~ http://home.mindspring.com/~debby11/index.html