Sharlotte, you are just as much a descendent of Joseph S. Pate, and you have the information...just go ahead and post his memorial on Find a Grave yourself. If any other descendent has anything to add, they can add it by posting flowers. There is nothing that dictates who can post a memorial and who can't. I am one of many who volunteers and post for Find a Grave. Alverne Hi, Joel and all Pate family genealogists, Because he is my ancestor, I would like to add a listing for Joseph S. Pate, Sr. (1815-1868) at the Find-a-Grave site (http://www.findagrave.com). I have a bunch of graves at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr 8> &GRid=17213186&MRid=19199118&. Before I add a listing for Joseph, however, I have some questions of the group. >Would it be better if one of you (a descendent of his second wife), rather than I (a descendent of his first wife), established the site? >Is the draft of what I have below accurate? >What other information should be added to the draft? Joseph Samuel Pate, Sr. was born about 1815 in the Bulloch County area of Georgia. On June 7, 1838 in Twiggs County, Georgia, he married his first wife Mary Amelia Murrow Pate Downs (buried at Liberty Chapel Cemetery in Bryan County, Georgia). They had two children: Edna Josephine Pate Downs and William James Pate. When the couple separated, and Joseph went on to remarry and leave the state, children in the family were told the lie that while delivering the mail between Savannah and Louisville, Georgia he and his horse disappeared in Shivers Swamp, never to be seen again. In fact on August 17, 1846 in Early County, Georgia, Joseph married Mary Jane Carraway (buried somewhere in Texas), and they had seven children: Martha A. Pate Derrick and William Jackson Pate, both born in Georgia; Charles Thomas Pate, born in Mississippi; and Rebecca Martha Pate Bass, Joseph Samuel Pate, Jr., James Benton Pate, and Nancy A. Pate Goen, all born in Texas. Joseph Samuel Pate, Sr. died in 1868 in Tyler County, Texas and is probably buried in an unmarked grave in either Campground Cemetery or Magnolia Cemetery in Tyler County, Texas. Thanks, Sharlotte Donnelly [email protected] http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/o/n/Sharlotte--N-Donnelly/ CyberDefender has scanned this email for potential threats. Version 2.0 / Build 4.03.29.01 Get free PC security at http://www.cyberdefender.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message