Margaret: I think the Jeremiah Pate you are looking for is Jeremiah Pate b 1 May 1801 TN d 30 Mar 1885 AL. He is buried at Mt Gilead Church Cemetery in AL. Part of the cemetery is in Geneva Co AL and part is in Houston Co. This Jeremiah Pate was one of the youngest to serve with Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. The Battle of New Orleans was 1814. Before Andrew Jackson was President of the United States he was Governor of the Territory of Florida. Jackson County and the City of Jacksonville in FL are named in his honor. He, and perhaps officers and soldiers under him were given land grants in Florida for their service. There is no census evidence that Jeremiah Pate 1801-1885 was in Florida. There MAY be some BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land grant information showing him in Florida. I'd have to research this point. For the most part he was in what is now Geneva Co AL. He was enumerated in the 1840 census of Dale Co AL, page 13; in the 1850 census of Dale Co AL, page 220, the 1860 census of Dale Co AL, page 708, Newton PO, site 1403/1403; 1870 census of Geneva Co AL, page 596, Geneva PO, site 362; and 1880 census of Geneva co AL, page 662, Geneva PO, site 210/212. Jeremiah Pate married twice; 1 Martha Tindell ca 1823 2 Melinda A E Stewart 20 Mar 1859 Marvin Williams [shwillms@mindspring.com] has done a substantial amount of research on this line. Joel