Margaret Avery Pate

c.1794-Nicy (& Micajah Midyett); c.1796-John William Brooks; 1798-Benjamin Samuel Brooks; 1804-Joseph Brooks; 1806-Simeon Brooks; 1808-James Stevens Blackman Brooks; c.1810-Frederick Nash Brooks

paternal aunts & uncles:

1800-Eliza Warren; 1807-Winifred McEwen; 1809-Rev. William "Alexander" Avery; 1811-Drury Vinson Avery; 1813-Troy; 1815-John Avery; 1817-Reuben T. "Sidney" Avery; 1820-Henry Avery

1822-James A. Avery; c.1825-Sarah Elizabeth Avery (McDouglad)(Hall)

(John not proven to be brother of BGHB; Troy and Reuben T may be same person)

Gibson County marriages show James Pate marrying "Unia" Avery 2-13-1843 (eight months before BG was born)

NOTE: if she is his first wife, and age is accurate, she had her first child at 14

(The Pates are household 495. Her father is household 493 and her sister Sarah Elizabeth Babb is household 498. RL Avery, whom I think is her uncle Reuben T. Sidney Avery--is household 496.)

NOTE when children's birth order deviates from chronological, it often indicates they are not all of the same parents

J.M. Pate, age 41, "B. Smith", real estate value $1000, personal estate $1000, born Alabama

(The Pates are household 443. Her father is household 441. Household 443 is her uncle Reuben T. Sidney Avery. Household 446 is Henry Babb, her sister's husband)

Son Bolin Green (BG) Pate was in the Civil War. Full account from his pension application papers on his page (many thanks to Alice Peterie for sending the copy). BG Pate married in 1866 in Gibson County to Mary A Williams.

James M. Pate is buried in the Avery Cemetery in Crockett County. His birth date is given as 2-14-1819 but the stone is broken so that the death date is illegible. For some reason some internet sources list his death date as 1-29-1906 but I believe this is incorrect. Because Margaret appears to be listed as the head of the household in the 1870 census, in the 1871 tax list and seems to be the sole parent with son James in 1880, either James M. Pate died before 1870, or he stopped living with her for some reason favorable enough to still earn him a place in her family's graveyard.

Maggie Pate, age 38/39, farmer, real estate value $500, personal estate $500, born TN

2-10-1871 date of signature on will of her father, BGHB Avery, Gibson, TN Will Book G, page 202. To wife Charity: half of stock, so Jonas and Katy may make a living, house and land on which she lives, beginning line of James F. Avery's 40 acre tract, so as to include the graveyard, and over to the corner of the gin field, including the field to the lane. To son W.A.G. Avery: the rest of the tract to live on. To son James F. Avery: 50 acres. Daughter Martha has had $400 worth of land in Arkansas; must make account to estate before she shares. Grandson B.G. Pate owes me some notes and accounts and he has acted very strange. It is my will that two-thirds of what he owes me be collected and paid his sisters Amanda and Emily. Grandson B.G. Tatum: $150 put to interest, and when he is twenty years old, principle and interest to be paid to him. All others equally. Executors: sons H.B. and James F. Avery

NJ/NT? Warmath, age 26, farmer, born TN of parents born TN (same for all but last)

Email July 2007 from Jinks Pate-Lee said, in part, "I visited with some of John York Pate's descendents in TN several years ago and they had a framed picture of the Pate family tree hanging on the wall--I copied everything I could from it. There is a Bible record, but don't know who has the Bible--it belonged to Ella Izora Pate Wright--shows birth and death of Bolen Green Pate--he is buried in the Pate Cemetery in Dyer County. Alice Peterie is the one who sent me the Bible records--Ella Izora (Pate) Wright was dau of Bolin Green Pate, and she was b. 26 Jan 1877, married Louis Calvin Wright on 23 Dec 1894. Bolen G also served in the Civil War and applied for a pension in 1910...Bolin Green Pate born 17 Oct 1843, Amanda born Nov. 1848, John C (b.1852), Mary E. (Nichols--1853), Sarah F (Quinley -1855), James F born 4 Apr 1865. I show John York Pate d. 21 June 1961 -- and his marriage is recorded in Crockett Co, TN. I really don't think the marriage to Marina Early is his... Bolen G's pension record shows: served in Capt McMurray's Co; 22 TN; Co K; Cons 12 TN; CSA, Civil War Jan 1910 Pension Appl #11734, Dyer Co TN; BG Pate born Dyer Co on 17 Oct 1843; wife died in 1884; had 2 girls and 2 boys."