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Stephen Swinney Pate and
Margaret McKinnon Pate
were my Great Grandparents.
They were the parents of my Grandmother Eunice Brooks
who was the mother of my father, Jim Brooks,
who was the father of Albert, Eugenia, J. R.., Gordon, and June.
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Stephen and Margaret Pate?
Does anyone know who might have a
picture of either?
Since this page was created, I have been given a picture of
Margaret Pate by Lindy Lee Hard, a gg granddaughter through the John
D. Brooks line.. This picture was taken after the Civil War when she was
a widow raising the family without the help of her husband who died
while in the Confederate Army. You can see by the look on her face that
she had lived a hard life. In 1868, three years after the war ended she
was put on the paupers list for Randolph County, Georgia. The Union Freedmen
Bureau was controlling the South, enforced at the point of Yankee army
bayonets, and times were HARD.
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MARGARET PATE
Wife of Stephen S. Pate
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The Pate family lived in the
neighborhood close to the John Brooks family in the 1860 census. When the
Civil War began, Stephen Pate joined the Confederate army. He was
stationed at Thunderbolt Station on the Savannah river as part of an
infantry company supporting a heavy artillery Battalion.
He became sick while there and was eventually transferred to a
Confederate hospital in Whitesville, Ga. a few miles north of Columbus,
Ga. and according his Confederate army record, there he died.
However, "I was told" by a family member that it was a family pass- down
that some of his family went to Whitesville get him at the hospital and
to bring him
home. They brought him down the Chattahoochee River to Fort Gaines,
loaded him on a wagon and started to his home. Somewhere along the way,
he died. One of the party went to his home and brought his wife and
family to where he was. There in the woods along the road, they buried
him. His grave was not marked and has not been located. I know of no way
to prove or disprove this family testimony.
Margaret Pate was born Margaret McKinnon in 1822 to John Garratt
McKinnon and Phariby Garratt. Her family was as follows:
***Children of: John Garrett McKinnon & Phariby Garrett
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> * Hugh McKinnon (B:1814) - married Nancy Jane Long
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> * Francis McKinnon (B:1817) - married William Johnson, John Garrett
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> * Sarah McKinnon (B:1819)
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* Mary H McKinnon (B: 08-31-1816 in GA / D: 01-16-1891 in Randolph
County, Ga.) -
> married William H Brooks on 01-15-1860
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> * John Garrett McKinnon (B: 1821) - married Addegeith Jane Stewart,
Louisa N
> Taylor, Caroline Stewart
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* Margaret McKinnon (B: 1822) - married
Stephen S Pate
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> * Penelope McKinnon (B: 1823) - married James Etheridge
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> * James Garrett McKinnon (B: 1824) - married Emily Davis, Ellen
Stewart
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> * William Robert McKinnon (B: 1826) - married Mary Ann brooks
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> * Elizabeth McKinnon (B: 1827) - married Henry T Nichols
His wife, Margaret lived on into the 1900s and eventually drew
a Georgia State Veterans widow's pension. She is buried near the East
side of the Mr. Hebron Church cemetery a few miles North of Carnegie,
Georgia.
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The following raw data posted on the internet. I have not had time to
integrate it into the above data..........When I get time!!!!1
A Stephen G Pate married Margaret McKinnon (my family line) in Randolph
County,
GA in 1846.
Hi my Mckinnons came from NC county unknown but the
story goes that John G McKinnon B 1779 in NC parents came from
Scotland. I just have not located where in Scotland or NC they were at.
John moved his whole family to Hancock Co Ga in 1810, this included his
children. He was married to Phariby Garrett of NC on 9-2-1813 in NC. It
has also been told he had siblings but who is a question. At this point
I have quite a bit of info on John G. and down and still solving little
pieces at a time. Can you see if there is a connection with your
McKinnon's
Re: Stephen G. Pate & Margaret McKinnon
Posted by: Joel Pate Date: December 30, 2001 at 04:15:46
In Reply to: Stephen G. Pate & Margaret McKinnon by Tom W. McKinnon of
2981
STEPHEN S PATE md MARGARET McKINNON in RANDOLPH
Co GA
1 JUL 1846. He is Stephen Swinney Pate, b 1 Jul 1823, d 1 Sep 1863 CSA
Hospital
Guyton Effingham Co GA, bur in unmarked grave. He was s/o Samuel Pate
and 2d ux
Susan Fort. She b 22 JUL 1822 Hancock Co GA, d 12 NOV 1896, d/o John G
McKinnon
and Phariby Garrett. Margaret McKinnon Pate is bur MT Hebron Cem,
Randolph, Co
GA [SOURCE: LCCN 94-60572]Suggest you scan archives of PATE-L at
RootsWeb.
Start at
http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
Re previous message. I think that a <Mary?> Pate married a John
Swinney in the
late 1700's. The Swinney's were closely associated with a THOROUGHGOOD
PATE in
the Pee Dee SC area. This female Pate could have been the daughter of
Thoroughgood. John's first Son was Cyrus Pate Swinney and his first
Daughter was
Mary Swinney. E-mail me at
cswinn@lecnet.net.
This is what I have, but it is taken from bits and
pieces, so none of this has been verified.
Phariby Garrett (B: 1786 NC / D: 09-05-1863 Randolph County, GA - buried
at McKinnon Cemetery at Carnegie, GA)
On 09-02-1813 she married John G McKinnon (B: 1779 NC / D: 04-05-1865 in
Randolph County, GA - buried at McKinnon Cemetery at Carnegie, GA)
John & Phariby McKinnon are my paternal GGGG-Grandparents. My family
descends from their son Hugh McKinnon, who was born in Hancock County, GA
I have not been able to go back any further then this.
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Linda.
Hope all is well
with you and family.
Haven't been able
to do much genealogy lately, trying to get familiar with this PC. I
think I remember once you asked about a McKinnon cemetery near Carnegie,
Ga. I haven't seen it but, when I was in Edison a few weeks ago, my
brother and I located an apparently abandoned cemetery a few miles West
of Carnegie. It was near the dead end of the road that runs past the,
now closed, Wahoo dance hall. A sign, at the dead end, pointed down a
dirt road that was blocked be a cable. Neither J. R. nor I are able to
walk through the woods. I think the cemetery was about 1/2 to 1 mile
from the dead end. The next time I go to Edison I will try to get one of
the young bucks to go with us and locate and take pictures of the
cemetery The
location was in the immediate vicinity of the 1860 McKinnon, Brooks and
Pate farms in Randolph County.
Have you made or
seen any recent posts that is of interest of our Brooks ancestors?
Take care,
Frank Brooks
This is a work in progress
Check back later
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