Hi Aunt Monta, I am Nancy Sue McAvoy Dinkins, my connection to your Pate family is as follows: my mother: Frances Marion Pate (1922-) married Eugene Foster McAvoy her father: William Yancey Pate Sr.(1880-1950) Married Flossie Eugenia Stephenson his father Thomas Mitchell Pate (1835-1905) married Sarah Cotton (Mrs. Pitts) his father John Pate (1801-1878) married Evaline Bates his father James M. Pate Sr. (abt 1775-1831) married Mary Nancy