I also had a marriage of Murdock Brown & Miranda Pate as 24 Feb 1879 -- On the 1870 Richmond Co, NC census Murdock Brown's wife is listed as Margaret - b. 1831 On the 1880 Richmond Co, NC census Murdock Brown's wife is listed as Maranda - b. 1850 So it looks like the 1879 year is correct. Jinks