I can't answer your questions about the marriage(s) of Eliza Pate Jourdan (Jordan). I was in Vienna Public Library and found that article on a divorce and thought someone might be interested. As I read the article, it appears that William Henry Pate is the son and he was born in Oct after the husband left her 31 Aug. 1957. I found the three counties that I searched each had some overlapping records and that made for easier research. I was there to find info on Josephine Johanna Pate and I left more confused then ever. The mother of Josephine had several marriages and there seems to be children associated from each marriage. Marriage and divorce was the name of the games being played. Josephine J Pate married a Maddox and they are the great grandparents of my husband. I do know that Josephine Pate and Maddox are buried in Carter County Oklahoma. My mother-in-law lived to be 95 years old and died a couple of years ago and the family spoke of and visited her grandparents. If you connect and would like more info, I will help if I can. By the way, Maddox was born and came from Beaver Damm, Ohio County Kentucky. Married there had one daughter. Wife disappears from records and Maddox moved with baby daughter to Montgomery County Kansas and lived there for about nine years. His father (his mother had died) and two brothers were in KS with him. The father went and one brother went back to Ky (one brother died in KS) while Virgil Stewart Maddox took his small daughter and went to Texas. In Texas is where Maddox and Pate married. Let me know if I can help. ellen