I concur. Guess my subject line should have been "Pate-Fitzgerald-Harris TX" So Aunt Francis was aunt by marriage rather than Fitzgerald blood. Fair enough. All of this points out the value of using allied surnames to work your way around a brick wall. There is a posting by a Fitzgerald researcher on the PATE venue at GenForum that gives rise to this. Wiley Alston Jarrell 15610 Edenvale Friendswood Texas, 77546 wajarrell@earthlink.net 281-482-3671 http://genforum.genealogy.com/pate/ Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Fitzpatrick" <sharon.fitz@sbcglobal.net> To: <PATE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 12:46 AM Subject: Re: [PATE GENEALOGY] Pate-Fitzgerald TX > Sorry, Joel, but I have to disagree with you about the relationship of > Joseph F. Pate and the Harris family. > > Joseph F. Pate was very likely the brother of Amanda Pate who lived with > Francis C. Fitzgerald. I believe that Francis Caroline Harris > Fitzgerald was the widow of Jackson J. Fitzgerald (the 17 year old on > the 1850 San Augustine County census you cite below). There is a > cluster of Fitzgerald, Pate and Harris family members in Grayson County, > TX in 1880 (which you identified a couple of years ago and for which I > will be eternally grateful). I am pretty sure that Robert Harris (with > whom Joseph was living) is a brother of Frances Harris Fitzgerald. > Grayson County deeds indicate that Robert Harris' wife's maiden name was > LOW. She was the daughter of Henry and Mary Jane LOW. > > Joseph Francis did have a sister Sarah E., but she was born in TX in > 1862. I have no idea what happened to her. Robert Harris' wife was > born in Illinois in 1856. > > Let me know if you can see problems with the above. Some of it is > circumstantial I know. But I do have the list of Joseph's siblings > names from a family Bible and a tintype of the elder Jackson Fitzgerald > turned up in Joseph's daughter's estate sale. > > Thanks, Sharon > > Joel Pate wrote: > > Sharon: > > > > Mary Jane Fitzgerald b ca 1829 Maury Co TN d TX before 1880 census > > Father: Jackson Fitzgerald b 19 Dec 1795 Pittsylvania Co VA d 17 Oct 1882 San Augustine Co TX, bur Thomas Family Cemetery, San Augustine Co TX > > Mother: Sarah Moore B 21 Nov 1795 Orange Co NC d 30 May 1840 San Augustine Co TX, bur Thomas Family Cemetery, San Augustine Co TX > > > > 1850 > > SAN AUGUSTINE CO > > P 336 ------------JACKSON FITZGERALD 54 W/M FARMER VA 1796 > > 78/78 -------------CATHERINE FITZGERALD 30 W/F TN 1820 > > SAN AUGUS-- MARY FITZGERALD 18 W/F TN 1832 > > TINE -------------JACKSON FITZGERALD 17 W/M TN 1833 > > ----------------------EDMOND FITZGERALD 15 W/M TN 1835 > > ----------------------FRANCIS FITZGERALD 13 W/F TN 1837 > > > > Joseph T Pate b 30 Aug 1826 md Mary J Fitzgerald 10 Mar 1856 San Augustin Co TX > > > > Francis C Fitzgerald was Aunt to Amanda Pate in 1880 Grayson Co > > Amanda Pate dau of Joseph T Pate and Mary Jane Fitzgerald, both of whom apparently were deceased by 1880 census > > > > The one that finally hit me was 1880 Grayson Co > > Joseph F Pate 12 was not adopted son of Robert Harris and Sarah Harris. > > He was BNL to Robert Harris and bro of Sarah E Harris > > Joel > > > > > > > >