Jinks, This is my family. Catherine King and John Pate were married April 22, 1869, at Seguin, Guadalupe Co, TX. I have not been able to confirm that this John Pate is the same John Pate listed on the 1860 US Census of Santa Clara Co, CA. Do you have anything that might confirm this idea? John and Catherine's son, Ben Davis Pate, was the only son to have issue. John Henry died young of typhoid. "Uncle Will" and Fanny [buried at <A HREF="http://www.southerncemeteries.org/williams/williams.htm"> Williams Cemetery</A>] divorced and never had any children. Ben and "Amner's" had 7 grandchildren - 6 still living. We have only an entry in our Family Bible and a memorial tribute written by the retired Confederate Gen. Henry E. McCulloch to guide us. The Memorial said his parents were John and Mary Pate, but many people went to TX trying to evade their past. If anyone can place our John Pate [1836] with his parents and/or siblings, we would be forever grateful. Thanks for any assistance here. Grace Kayser <Amner@aol.com> In a message dated 4/26/03 11:03:31 AM Central Daylight Time, PATE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > X-Message: #2 > Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:31:27 -0500 > From: Jinks Lee <jinksp@juno.com> > To: PATE-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <20030425.113128.2608.0.jinksp@juno.com> > Subject: [PATE] > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > John Pate, b. 20 Aug 1836, d. 31 Dec 1875 TX > md Catherine Mahala "Kittie" King, b. 12 Nov 1848 TX > > Children: > John Henry Pate, b. 9 Feb 1870 TX, d. 24 Jun 1887 TX > William Lee Pate, b. 29 Jul 1872 TX, d. 22 Jan 1945 CA > md Fannie Idell Williams > Benjamin Davis Pate, b. 12 Mar 1875 TX, d. 13 Dec 1950 NM > md Cornelia Amner Spencer > > This family was in 1860 Santa Clara Co, CA; 1870 Guadalupe > Co, TX and the widow was still in Guadalupe Co, TX in 1880. > Jinks