Hi Ellen (and others interested in the Matthew Pate-Jinks' M44 line), This won't help with finding your William B. Pate, but I did run into a Pate-Whittenberg connection in Blount County, Tennessee. (Remember that Melinda Pate assigned Daniel Whittenberg as the executor of her husband Joseph Pate's estate on 2 Nov 1852?) Using Google Books, I found a Henry Whittenberg, Sr., who immigrated from Wittenberg, Germany to Pennsylvanian and, eventually, to Blount Co TN soon after the Revolutionary War. He married Mary Pate (who is allegedly of German ancestry in this account??). The account says "He at length removed to Illinois, lived with his children, and died in this State a few years later, having reared a large family of children all of whom except William settled in Washington County (IL)." Among Henry and Mary's 5sons & 4 daughters, there were a Margaret and a Daniel Whittenberg. You can read this info (and more!) here: http://books.google.com/books?ei=64IuTPf1DoP6lwflq9ziCg <http://books.google.com/books?ei=64IuTPf1DoP6lwflq9ziCg&ct=result&dq=Washin gton%20County%20Illinois%20Pate&q=Pate&id=GxMVAAAAYAAJ&output=text&pg=PA289> &ct=result&dq=Washington%20County%20Illinois%20Pate&q=Pate&id=GxMVAAAAYAAJ&o utput=text&pg=PA289 At least that's the link that worked for me. If the link will not work, the title of the book is "The Biographical Review Johnson, Massac, Pope, Hardin Counties, Illinois-Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citzens..", Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1893. I know that there is a Margaret Whittenberg listed in Matthew Pate's estate papers: "10 Feb 1849 Matthew Pate promised to pay Margaret Whittenberg $32.00 for services received." I've tried to make the Melinda Whittenberg in this article "fit" as the wife of your Joseph, but cannot do it. This Melinda apparently married an Eliliu VAUGHN. Don't want to send you off on a wild goose chase here! Maybe someone with more familiarity with this M44 line or with knowledge the Pate-Whittenberg connection in Blount County, TN, could offer comments here? Ellen, I do have a few questions for you: Where is Josephine Johanna Pate buried? And, did William B. serve in the Civil War-or, would he have been of the right age to have served in the Civil War? Thanks, April