Joel, Thanks for answering. Davis Pate doesn't appear to be a help to me, as I had hoped. Thanks again. Carol Joel Pate wrote: >Carol: >Davis W Pate seems to be part of the Pate line that was in the Caesar Creek Twsp, Dearborn Co, IN and Catlin Twsp, Vermilion Co IL. He is buried in Ionia Twsp, Jewell Co KS. I found no evidence that he spent time in Iowa. > >He had a g/SNL, Mark Welch, and a g/DNL, Netta Hanson, who were born in Iowa, but these were the only Iowa connections I found. > >His individual summary from the GedCom file I am working on provides as follows- > > > >