For Judy Mount. Jackson Aaron Pate b ca 1840 d ca 1864 is NOT the Jackson Pate you are looking for. From the information you provided, it is my OPINION, your Jackson Pate PERHAPS is Jackson Pate, son of Booker Pate and Priscilla Thompson. He and his wife Mariah were in the 1850 Census of Tishomingo Co., MS Jackson Pate died after the 1850 census and before the 1860 census. His widow Mariah, was enumerated in the 1860 census of Tishomingo Co, MS Jackson Pate left a Will in which he named his wife, Mariah * * *MSWILLS* * * *State of Mississippi * *Tishomingo County* * * *In the name of God Amen. * *I Jackson Pate of the county of Tishomingo and State of Mississippi being sick and weak in body, but of perfect mind and memory thanks be to God, calling into mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament. That is to say, principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be burried in decent Christian burial order at the discretion of my executors, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection, I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God. And, as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise, and dispose of the same in the following manner and form: * * * *Item the 1st I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mariah Pate all of the estate that belongs to me at this time, commencing on my real estate, that is to say one quarter section of land known in the place of the Chicksaw Cession by no range 111 East Township no 2 south east quarter of section no 4 and also the personal estate that belongs to me after paying all just debts and demands and also all notes and accounts that is in my hands of my own making. All wills and bequests void previous to this date, this 27 of August 1838. * *Jackson Pate * *Witnesses: * *Dial Mills * *T. I. Tollison * *James McAffee * This will was made in 1838. I have nothing on the probate of this will. It is OPINION that your Jackson Pate was enumerated in the 1840 Census of Itawamba Co, MS (page 151). There is some evidence that this Jackson Pate was previously married to a Mahala McCown and divorced her by means of a Bill of Divorce granted by the Alabama legislature about 1831-32 Perhaps you can find an ancestral link in the following chart from the P1 file of the late Jinks Pate Lee--: 1-Jackson Pate (about 1805-) +Mahala Mc Cown (about 1805-) +Mariah Unknown (about 1814-) . . . . 2-William Henderson Pate (about 1837-about 1865) . . . . +Rebecca Ann Washburn (about 1839-about 1878) . . . . . . . . 3-Mary J Pate (1859-) . . . . . . . . 3-Julia Pate (1863-1935) . . . . . . . . +John H Shurbet (estimated 1851-) . . . . . . . . 3-William Henderson "Bill" Pate Jr (19 June 1865-8 June 1956) . . . . . . . . +Idilia Elizabeth "Ila" Harris (10 October 1868-26 December 1948) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Herman Harris Pate (25 September 1886-2 February 1966) . . . . . . . . . . . . +Vola Esmond Hopkins (10 July 1895-3 October 1983) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Carrie Alice Pate (8 August 1889-2 January 1946) . . . . . . . . . . . . +Harry Eames (estimated 1887-) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Ollie Adele Pate (5 November 1891-June 1956) . . . . . . . . . . . . +Charles L Emerson (about 1889-) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Eunice Pate (5 January 1895-10 March 1895) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Eula Mae Pate (7 April 1896-14 September 1918) . . . . . . . . . . . . +Bert Smith (estimated 1894-) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Floy Pate (3 June 1899-7 October 1906) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Purnie Pearly "Pauline" Pate (12 August 1902-2 February 1998) . . . . . . . . . . . . +Jimmie Currie (estimated 1900-) . . . . . . . . . . . . +Joe Elfred (estimated 1900-) . . . . . . . . . . . . +Emanuel Osuna (estimated 1900-) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-(M-Child 8) Pate (30 September 1905-22 April 1906) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Flora Caveta Pate (19 April 1907-17 April 2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . +Robert W Baumgartner (estimated 1905-) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-James William Pate (8 May 1910-4 September 1979) . . . . . . . . . . . . +Margaret Bryant (estimated 1912-) . . . . . . . . . . . . +Millie (??)-Pate (estimated 1912-) . . . . 2-Mary Jane Pate (about 1839-) . . . . +Thomas Billings (1834-) . . . . 2-John B Pate (about 1844-) . . . . +Amanda Elizabeth "Betty" Echols (1844-) . . . . . . . . 3-Mary Francis Pate (1865-) . . . . . . . . 3-James L Pate (1867-) . . . . . . . . 3-Martha Pate (1870-) . . . . . . . . 3-Ann G Pate (1873-) . . . . . . . . 3-Theophins Pate (1875-) . . . . . . . . 3-Joseph Pate (1876-) . . . . . . . . 3-Virginia Pate (1878-) . . . . . . . . 3-Viola Pate (1879-) . . . . 2-James Marshall Pate (about 1845-) . . . . +Jane Turner (about 1847-) Joel l-- PATE DNA PROJECT http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pate-dna-project Sharing Our Past, Our Present and Our Future PATE LIST SERVE [email protected] A free E-Mail Forum for PATE Researchers