Dear List, Jinks has found that Siata Pate who was with Andrew Jackson Pate in 1850 has given her 1/8 interest in the estate of Stephen D. Pate to Mathew D Pate. It says that Wm McCoy and "Scota", his wife sell to Mathew their interest in the estate of the late brother Stephen D. Pate. Several questions??? It would appear that Mathew D Pate who was living with James Pate in 1850 is then not only the sibling of "Polly" Pate Miller wife of William Miller but also Siata kwho was living with AJ Pate. This would give three of the eight children claimed by Mathew D. Pate in the Gibson and Dyer court documents. Who are the others? Can someone pick others out of the 1850 families in Dyer. Can we consider the the "idiot" Stephen (1850 census) bn 1826, living with James is of the eight? He was bn in Alabama. G. W., male is bn 1815 AL. Jane 1822, RA 1834 (Male). When you look at the 1830 stick figures with Jane Milliken Pate Pate (married to the two brothers Stephen and Mathe! w), there are numbers of people unaccounted for! Another interesting fact is that in that most Southern and CSA of states, a W. J. McCoy of Dyer is with a USA Union unit. Are there any McCoys out there looking at Pates??? L. M. McCoy is living with Martha Susan Thurman Bell Pate (widow of Andrew Jackson Pate) in 1860. Ideas???? Meredith Also does anyone know if Mathew who married Jane Milliken Pate had been married before? I am interested in both family belief and proof. There has got to be a glimmer somewhere!