Because Susan Mary Lassiter's daughter's description of her mother's life (including married to David Pate) has been on and off the web when I've tried to look for it, I finally tossed a copy up onto my own web site: http://geographile.com/genealogy/lassiterpate.html In particular, I added some personal notes at the bottom, including that the expanded account on familytreemaker.com muddies some of my childhood info, that given their circumstances and a house fire, the high chair in my kitchen, which I'd always been told "came around the horn in a sailing vessel" after David Pate made it, probably didn't. I wonder if anyone here knows enough about David Pate's family to say where the chair might have come from. I linked it from that page, but it's also here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42614915@N00/60174850/ I welcome any other information or contact from that family, as well as more of David's background (I knew he'd come from Illinois, but not of Virginia before that). Susan Mary's is pretty well documented in Lassiter (with multiple spellings) history to before the family's arrival in Virginia in the late 1600s. Thanks, Mary _____________________________________________________________ Get your free email address @wrexham.net ---> http://www.wrexham.net