Alverne Hollingsworth posted information and an inquiry on the PATE venue at Genforum (message 2936) Her posting-- James Pate (1800-1856), who married Marina Gay, was a son of James Madison Pate (1775-1831)and his first wife Mary? James & Marina are buried in High Pine Baptist Church Cemetery, Randolph Co, AL. James Pate's gravestone reads: Pate, James Born in Jasper Co., GA Mar 8, 1800 Jul 23, 1856 My mother is R.S. Pate Pate, Marina [Gay] Aged 73 yrs 6 mos 1 da Dec 15, 1802 Jun 16, 1876 w/o James Pate 'My Mother-R. S. Pate' Was this James Pate specifically listed in James Madison Pate Sr's LWT? Where did he die? The R S Pate who placed monuments on graves of his parents (James Madison Pate Jr and Marina Gay Pate) was their son Robert Stell Pate (1842-1917). Alverne asked: Was James M Pate Jr specically listed in the LWT of James Madison Pate Sr? Where did James Madison Pate Sr die? He died in Fayette County GA between May and Sep 1831. following is the content of his will and probate abstract. James M Pate Jr is named in the will and in the probate record: Will Book A, Page 9 Fayette Co, GA Dated: 16 May 1831 Probated: 5 Sep 1831 WILL OF JAMES PATE, SR In the name of God Amen, I, JAMES PATE, SENIOR, of the County and State aforesaid knowing the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the time it may happen and that the Lord giveth and taketh blessed by his name. I have thought to make this my last will and testament in a pecuniary point to wit: Item 1st: I give and bequeath unto my wife CATY PATE the sum of five dollars. Item 2nd: I give and bequeath unto my son JOHN PATE three cows and calves and furniture. Item 3rd: I give and bequeath unto my son THOMAS PATE three cows and calves and one grey horse saddle & bridle. Item 4th: The ballance of my property both real & personal after the payment of my just debts I desire my executors (after having sold enough for the payment of my debts) to have divided into ten shares as equal as practicable and I authorize my executors to appoint the persons to make the said division and I give and bequeath unto my six sons, JAMES PATE, JOHN PATE, CHARLES PATE, SEABORN PATE, WILLIAM PATE, THOMAS PATE, and my son-in-law, SQUIRE POSEY one share each to be assigned them by lot or otherwise. The remaining three shares I give and Bequeath unto my executors one share in trust for and for the use of my daughter PHEBE YANCEY during her life and at her death to be equally divided among her surviving children. One share in trust for and for the use of my daughter, FRANKY HARRISON during her life & at her death to be equally divided among her surviving children and the other share in trust for and for the use of my daughter WINNY BLAND during her life and at her death to be equally divided among her surviving children. Item 5th: I hereby nominate and appoint THOMAS B GAY and my son JAMES PATE my executors to this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other wills heretofore by me made. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this sixteenth day of May Eighteen Hundred and Thirty One. Signed Sealed published and declared by the above named JAMES PATE SENIOR to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subsented our names as witnesses in the presence of the testator. JAMES PATE Witnesses: (Sealed) N BLANCHARD JOHN D STETT SIMON WHITAKER Abstracts Fayette County, GA Probate Records 1824 1871 LCCN 94-61886 The Undersigned Selected by the Executors of the LWT of James Pate, Sr, decd, to divide into 10 Shares and to Distribute amoung the Legatees Page 329 - 330 10 Shares as follow: Charles Pate - negro boy, Bob James Pate - 70 acres on the W side of Lot of Land No, 171, Fayette Co. Seaborn Pate - 85 acres Squire Posey - 100 acres, includes part of Lot 150 John Pate - Maria, negro woman Winey Bland - Ben, negro man Grady Harris - Spencer, negro boy Phebe Yancy - Daphney, negro woman Thomas Pate - negro girl, Mary William Pate - negroes, Viney and Hannah Recorded: 25 Feb 1836 James M Pate Jr and his wife Marina Gay Pate relocated from Fayette Co GA to Randolph Co AL prior to 1840. Joel