Dear Pate List People! Please think on the Dyersburg Pates and their TANGLED web. I have my Eliza. Ann Pate bn 1800, TN, who married Henderson Clark (e) 1797, KY. The marriage took place in the Huntsville, Madison Co, Al area. They move west to Dyersburg in 1827 with oldest son Charles P. Clark. Also in the group is Jane Milliken and her husband Stephen Pate who had married in Madison in 1814 and their son Andrew Jackson Pate bn 1815 (Madison Co Al and named after the houseguest-the future president Andrew Jackson-in the home and returning from the battles in NO). Stephen Pate's brother Mathew (who would later marry Jane Milliken Pate and have their only son E. Cain Pate bn 1831) was with this group as well as an older woman of sufficient age to be Stephen and Mathew's Mother and several young male and female Pates with both Mathew (and the older lady) and Jane Milliken Pate. (All of these are listed on the 1830 Dyer Co Tn Census). In the same group is Zachariah Ruc! ker and his wife, Susan Pate 1805 Tn who also had married in Madison Co, Alabama. Susan in town lore is considered to be the sister of my Elizabeth Ann Pate Clark. At the time time William Miller has come with his first wife. Later when he remarries after her death, he marries Mary Ann Pate (called Polly) who was bn 1823 in Al. In 1850 she is living with James Pate , son of Stephen Pate of the 1817 Madison Co Al will. Court documents in 1851 say that she and Mathew Pate (not the one married to Jane Milliken Pate) are two of the eight children of Stephen Pate deceased of Dyer Co. So you have in the 1830 Dyer Census 1)my Henderson Clark and his wife Eliz. Ann Pate, 2)Mathew Pate with older lady and other teenage and older males, 3) Jane Pate and more children than can be accounted for 4) James Pate, wife and blended family to include Mary Ann Pate daughter of Stephen Pate 5) Zach Rucker and his wife Susan Pate (( One thing all better remember is that the Rucker list continues to insist that Susan Pate is Susan Pope and forget that the same marriage list in Madison Al has Zach Rucker as Zach Burke. I have a copy of the letter from the Grandaughter where she states the grandparents names (Pate and Rucker)and that they were married in Madison Co Al. )) Any glimmer would help on this tangle. Meredith Back from wandering!