This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pate Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kkB.2ACE/982 Message Board Post: We have a GGGrandfather b 1833, that disappeared in the late 1850 leaving two children with an aunt, he told the older boy that he had killed a man in Nacogdoches and had to flee the country. No known record of him sense. Does anyone know of this story?