This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pate, Moore Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kkB.2ACE/982.1.1 Message Board Post: John Wesley Pate b 1833 TN, m Mary Elizabeth Moore Ettley b 1836, His father unknown. Children Henry, Christopher & Annie. The story is some time prior to 1860 he killed a man and fled, said to join the war but at that time it had not started, 1870 the children are living with Elizabeths parents in Trinity Co. TX. 1860 the children are in LA with an aunt