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From: Joel Pate <>
Subject: [PATE] E C Pate Dyer Co., TN
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:25:19 -0400


Brenda
Researching census records for Tennessee 1850 and 1880 is extremely
frustrating. The enumerators seemed to have been instructed to use
initials rather than spell out the names. I agree with Joe Neal, the E
C Pate you were looking for was most likely - Elnotha Cain Pate b 10
SEP 1830 in Dyer Co, TN d 6 NOV 1905 in Dyer Co., TN.
In 1850 he was Cain Pate age 19 Student living in the H. Clark household
in Dyer Co., TN.
On 25 Feb 1858 Elnotha Cain Pate married Lucy F Pierce in Dyer Co., TN -
*SHE b 17 APR 1833 NORFOLK CO VA d 26 May 1874 Dyer Co TN **[SOURCE:
LCCN 85-235881] *
In 1860 he was E C. Pate, head of household, in Dyer Co., TN
Could not find him in the 1870 census unless he is mis-identified as
Nathan Pate in Dyer Co., TN
In the 1880 census he was Cain Pate head of house in Dyer Co., TN
In 1891 voters rolls there was an E C Pate in Jackson Co., TN
In the 1900 census of Dyer Co., he was enumerated as James C Pate

Dyer County Graves*
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*_CLARK CEMETERY, DYER Co, TN_*

*E C PATE10 SEP 1830-06 NOV 1905*

*E C PATE JR27 NOV 1867-14 SEP 1886*

*LUCY F PATE (AGE 41)1833-21 MAY 1874*

*LOU PATE KIRKPATRICK14 APR 1862-23 NOV 1889*

*[Ux of J D Kirkpatrick]*


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Good biographic statement posted by Sam Alsup
E. C. Pate, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Dyer County in 1830,
and is a son of Matthew and J. (Milliken) Pate. The father was a farmer,
and died in Dyer County in 1834. His widow died about ten years late.
Mrs. Pate was married to Stephen Pate previous to her marriage with
Matthew Pate. They were brothers. Of a family of three children, our
subject is the only one living. He was educated in the schools of his
neighborhood and attended school for two sessions in Dyersburg. At the
age of eighteen he began clerking in a drug store in Dyersburg, and
continued that occupation for about two years and a half. In 1851 he
began keeping a grocery store in partnership with E. G. Smith, but sold
out in about a year. Mr. Pate was then elected constable and served in
that capacity and as deputy sheriff for several years. February 25,
1858, he married Lucy Pierce, who was born in Norfolk, Va., April 17,
1833, daughter of Luther and Elizabeth Pierce. She was brought to Dyer
County, Tenn., when an infant. Here the father died in 1847, and the
mother in 1859. Mr. and Mrs. Pate have five children: Bettie, Sarah Lou
(Mrs. J. D. Kirkpatrick), Mary Maggie, E. C. and Annie Lee. After
marriage Mr. Pate began farming, but in 1866 moved to Dyersburg, where
he has since resided. In the fall of 1867 he resumed the grocery
business, but gave it up at the end of three years. In 1870 he was
elected magistrate and filled that office four years, when he was
elected trustee of Dyer County, and was re-elected. The last two years
he served as trustee and tax collector combined. After his term of
office had expired he resumed the grocery business, but sold out in
1873. Since that time he has farmed. He owns 320 acres of land north of
Dyersburg and 50 acres where he resides. He is a man much esteemed for
his many sterling business and social qualities, and bears an
unblemished reputation. He is a demitted member of the I.O.O.F. and a
Democrat in politics. His wife died May 26, 1874, and since then his
daughters have kept house for him.

Jinks' file M152

Joel



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