I am trying to find DANIEL PATE. I think he was born around 1855, either in Tennessee or Arkansas. According to marriage records, in Independence Co Arkansas, DANIEL PATE (age 18) married MARY J TOTTY (age 16), December 29, 1870. I don't think the ages listed for DANIEL or MARY are correct. Their parents or guardians may have stated their ages as 18 for DANIEL and 16 for MARY, since that was legal marrying age. I have found this DANIEL PATE family in the 1880 ( June 10, 1880) Arkansas: Independence Co: Greenbrier Twsp: census, as follows: Pate Dan'l, age 25, born Ark (?), Father born Tenn, Mother born Tenn Pate Mary J, age 24, wife, born Ark (?), Father born Vir, Mother born Arkansas Pate John, age 6, son, born Ark, Father born Tenn (?), Mother born Tenn (?) Pate Mary J, age 9, dau, born Ark, Father born Tenn (?), Mother born Tenn (?) Pate Sarah, age 3, dau, born Ark, Father born Tenn (?), Mother born Tenn (?) (as you can see DANIEL and MARY are listed as born in Ark, but their children's Father (DANIEL) and Mother (MARY) were listed as born in Tenn). I can't find DANIEL in any earlier or later census. I should be able to find him in the 1860 and 1870 census, with his parents or guardians. Possibly, he was called by a name other than DANIEL and since I'm not sure of his age, I'm unable to find him. DANIEL PATE paid taxes in Independence County Arkansas 1871 through 1891. I think DANIEL and MARY must have died, before the 1900 census. I'm making this assumption because in the 1900, Ark, Independence Co, Salado Twp census, I find the following: Nash, John H (Husband of Mary J Pate) Nash, Mary J (daughter of DANIEL & MARY) and living with them: Pate, Sarah, age 22, (daughter of DANIEL & MARY) and Pate, Myrtle (daughter of DANIEL & MARY), age 7, this would place her birth date as 1883) Sarah Pate (daughter of DANIEL and MARY) married Elisha Marion Presley, June 18, 1900, in Independence County Arkansas. Sarah and Elisha are my Great Grandparents. I know this is very sketchy information, but it's all I have, other than the probably, that the Pate family, who came to Arkansas, by wagon-train, in the 1830's, and settled in White and Independence Counties, was from Tennessee (probably Jefferson County) and before that from Virginia (probably Montgomery County). Any help you can give me, in tracking down DANIEL PATE, will be very much appreciated. Carolyn Matthews McClure