Victor Lafayette TATE

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Source: Thomas Jefferson Barnes Papers Film 634-2, TN State Archives, Folios H101 - V192, Tate folio #181

TATE - Victor Lafayette Tate, died at his home in Beersheba Springs November 21. His funeral was held from the Grace Chapel Church at Beersheba November 28, with Revs. Bean, Poole and Killian officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Born in Grundy County, July 2, 1867, he was a son of John A Tate and Martha Hicks Tate. He is survived by widow, Mrs Carrie Tate, three sons, Wiley Tate of Beersheba Springs, Herbert Tate, of Chattanooga and David E. Tate of Raleigh, N. C., six daughters, Mrs. Hans Hegge of Cleveland, Mrs. Ruby Gross of Palmer, Mrs. Naomi Melfi of Nashville, Mrs. Oliver Anderson of Nashville, Mrs. Hazel Lane of Doyle and Mrs. Victoria Morrison of Beersheba Springs and two brothers, Will Tate of Beersheba Springs and John A. Tate, of Oklahoma.

Southern Standard Newspaper, Warren County, TN - December 6, 1946, Page 14

Victor Lafayette Tate, 79, died at his home in Beersheba Springs, on November 21. The funeral was held from the Grace Chapel Church at Beersheba on November 23, with Revs. Bean, Poole and Killian officiating. Burial was in the Chruch Cemetery. Born in Grundy County, July 2, 1867, he was a son of John Tate and Martha Hicks Tate. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Carrie Tate, three sons, Wiley Tate of Beersheba Springs, Herbert Tate of Chattanooga and David E. Tate of Raleigh, NC; six daughters, Mrs. Harry Hegge, of Cleveland, Mrs. Ruby Gross of Tracy City, Mrs. Oliver Anderson of Palmer, Mrs. Naomi Melfi of Nashville, Mrs. Hazel Lane of Doyle and Mrs. Victoria Morrison of Beersheba Springs; and two brothers, Will Tate of Beersheba Springs and John A. Tate of Oklahoma. Arrangements by the High Funeral Company.

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Victor married Carrie Hadley Coppinger. Carrie was born 19 Aug 1875, Altamont, Grundy Co. TN; died 13 Jun 1951, Grundy Co. TN; was buried , Grace Chapel Cemetery, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN. [Group Sheet]

1. Mary Louise TATE was born 02 Dec 1890, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN; died 07 Nov 1975.
2. John TATE was born 15 Mar 1892, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN; died 15 Mar 1892, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN.
3. Martha Elizabeth TATE was born 19 Jun 1893, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN; died 06 Mar 1924, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN.
4. Joseph Carpenter TATE was born 20 Mar 1895, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN; died 16 Mar 1942, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN; was buried , Grace Chapel Cemetery, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN.
5. Wiley Millard TATE was born 24 Feb 1897, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN; died 20 Feb 1971, Grundy Co. TN; was buried , Altamont Cemetery, Altamont, Grundy Co. TN.
6. Ruby Willis TATE was born 20 Feb 1899, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN; died 23 Apr 1965, Tracy City, Grundy Co. TN.
7. Clara Agnes TATE was born 17 Feb 1901, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN; died 03 Feb 1903, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN.
8. Allie Jean TATE was born 01 Jul 1903, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN; died 08 Apr 1985, Sewanee, Franklin Co. TN; was buried , Plainview Cemetery, Tracy City, Grundy Co. TN.
9. Frances Alma TATE was born 08 Jan 1906, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN; died 17 Sep 1940, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN; was buried , Grace Chapel Cemetery, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN.
10. Hubert Carl TATE was born , Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN.
11. Naomi Lee TATE was born 15 Oct 1911, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN; died 01 Jan 1975.
12. Hazel Anna TATE was born , Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN.
13. Carrie Victoria TATE was born , Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN.
14. David Eugene TATE was born , Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN.

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Excerpt from Tate Families of the Southern States, Volume II, 1984, by Laura W. Mentzel & Ethel S. Updike

John J. Tate family bible now in possession of Oscar Tate.

G. S. Tate et al vs. Virgil Hill, et al

In this course, the death of one of the complainants, J. J. Tate, was suggested and admitted in open court, and it being admitted in open court that Elizabeth Tate, F. M. Tate, R. D. Tate, J. S. Tate, E. M. Tate, W. M. Tate, J. A. Tate, Mary Creighton, and V. L. Tate as the children, and Agness Boyd, Fannie Nunley, Mary Northcutt and Lucy Northcutt are the grandchildren and only heirs at law of the said J. J. Tate, deceased and Frank Boyd is the husband of Agness Boyd and John Creighton is the husband of Mary Creighton and J. J. Nunley is the husband of Fannie Nunley, on motion of K. P. Pearson, solicitor of complainant, this suit is filed in the name of the above mentioned parties as heirs at law of the said J. J. Tate, and the cause ordered to stand in the same plight and condition as it was at the time of the death of the said J. J. Tate. (No date given. Page and book not readable.)

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John married Martha Hicks 11 May 1845, Grundy Co. TN. Martha was born 01 Dec 1829, Grundy Co. TN; died 13 Dec 1906, Beersheba Springs, Grundy Co. TN; was buried , Armfield Cemetery, Grundy Co. TN. [Group Sheet]

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Excerpts from "Tate Families of Southern States", Metzel and Updike, 1972

Son of Major James and Ruth Davidson Tate. His family emigrated shortly to Smith County, TN, but it became Warren County, TN in 1807 where he grew up. His family settled near Collins River, McMinnville, TN. He married Sally. Her parents were born in VA. References: Family data, Federal Census 1850 Grundy County, TN, pages 686-92; 1860 pages 435-172. Dennis Tate records; James Striegel Tate records; Buddy Duke stated that they moved to Livingston County, KY in 1880 with Vance Lockhart's family. Bible owned by Maggie Savage of Palmer, TN in 1972.

Warren County, TN Platt Book, 1835 - 1839, Page 185

Surveyed June 3, 1837 for Robert Tate, 5000 acres by entry dated May 15, 1837, No 4438 on the waters of Collins River and Brush Creek on the left hand fork of Collins River below Wm. Knight's, it being the NE corner of a 5000 acre survey in the name of Elan Tate, also the beginning corner of a 5000 acre survey in the name of John G. Tate, crossing Hills Turnpike Road, waters of Brush Creek, crossing Hills Turnpike, including and platting out 62 1/2 acres of older title. James Tate and John Tate, CC. The above survey was transferred to Stephen Haight. Isaac Hill, DS, June 21, 1837. Sent on June 27, 1837 by W. Sims.

Robert married Sarah (Sallie) Lockhart. Sarah was born 1800, South Carolina; died 11 Aug 1860, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

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Excerpt the Tate Families of Southern States, Volume II, Laura Metzel and Ethel Speer Updike, 1984, and transcripts from Tennessee Militia Muster Rolls, Source location: NA, Washington DC, RG NO. 94, Stack Area 9W3, Row 17, Compartment 20, Shelf Bottom, Box 239 No. NNRI/M, described under record identification as 1 Brown NA Box, Copelands W. Tenn Militia Muster Rolls.)

More information is annotated and displayed at http://www.rootsweb.com~combs/records/tn-war14.htm.

Born in 1778 in Big Moccasin Creek, a spur of Clinch Mountain on the Holston River, some 15 miles from Lebanon, Russell County, VA. Son of Robert and Mary Tate. Here he grew up and married Ruth Davidson, daughter of James Davidson (Davison) of Russell and Scott Counties, VA (1826 Scott County, VA Wills), in 1798. It is believed that he migrated to Warren County, TN before his father died in 1806 with Ruth and children.

He and Ruth Davidson had thirteen children. They were divorced before February 23, 1829 when he married Elizabeth Smith. He and Elizabeth were the parents of five children.

That he was the son of Robert and Mary Tate of Russell Co. VA was recited in a deed dated October 14, 1816, Russell Co., VA, when the heirs of Robert Tate decided to dispose of certain land. James and wife Ruth; John and wife Dicey; Robert and wife Susannah; Alexander and wife Delilah and Mary "Polly" and husband Marady Price, met and sold the land to their brother Joseph Tate. The mother Mary who was also in Warren Co., TN, signed her dower to the son Joseph Tate who remained on the old plantation in Russell Co., VA.

Major James Tate also executed a will. He died testate April 19, 1849, buried in Philadelphia Cemetery, 13 miles south of McMinnville, TN. The will was contested, went to the Supreme Court of TN. The widow, Elizabeth received most of the estate. However, all of the children were named. Robert and Davidson Tate were named administrators.

In 1806 he met with some of his brothers (he and four of his brothers, Aaron, Alexander, John and Robert, are listed on the 1820 Warren County, TN tax rolls) and others to petition for a New County where they lived, consequently in 1807 Warren County was organized. James and his brother Robert settled in a remote section of the County, on Taylor Creek, until after he married his second wife (Elizabeth Smith) and moved to the mountains, in what later became Grundy County, TN. He accumulated a considerable amount of land (over 20,000 acres) in the valley, as well as on the Cumberland Plateau where he maintained a distillery. (Warren County was a major producer of apple brandy during his lifetime.)

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James Striegel Tate Papers, Tennessee State Library and Archives 1742 - 1980

James and Ruth sold their Virginia lands between 1801 and 1805.

James and Robert H. lived on Taylor's Creek near to Mt. Olive and Philadelphia Church where James is buried. The formation of Grundy County in 1844 left them residents thereof and they remained as afterward.

James died testate in Grundy County on April 19, 1849. His first wife was Ruth by whom he had 13 children. They were divorced about 1827 -- 28 and on February 23, 1829, he married Elizabeth Smith, a much younger woman. They had five children, the oldest of which was apparently born out of wedlock. I, in common with most of the Tates of Grundy County, am a descendant of James and Ruth Tate. He left more records of himself than any of the others.

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MILITARY SERVICE

He served in the War of 1812 at the rank of Captain, later promoted to Major and was known as Major Tate from that time on. He served as a Justice of the Peace for Warren County and was prominent in business and public affairs. Warren County Militiamen in the Creek Indian Wars of 1814, Captain James Tait's (Tate) Company, Col. Stephen Copeland's 3rd West Tennessee Regiment, General Thomas Johnson Brigade. The Creek Indian Wars of 1814 were classified by the U. S. Government as a "sub-war' of the War of 1812. Several militia companies were organized from the area of Warren County, TN and it's adjacent counties, including that of Capt. James Tait. Not only did Capt. Tait muster and pay rolls survive, but so did his personal pay voucher which specified dates, actual miles traveled and locations. The militia records of 1814 are particularly valuable to researchers because so many of these men were under 20 years of age--too young to have appeared on the 1812 Warren County tax lists, and often gone by 1820. The following is an exact transcription from the original records:

Voucher: The United States to James Tait, Capt.

For transporting 1100 lbs. his private baggage as a Captain in the Regiment of West Tennessee Militia, commanded by Col. Stephen Copeland composing part of Genl. Thos. Johnson's brigade; ordered into service of the United States, on an expedition against the hostile Creek Indians from the 28th Jan to the 18th day of May 1814 viz.

From Fort deposit (?) to Fort Strother 53

From Thence to Fort Williams 59

From thence to Tahopehsa & back to Ft. Williams 105

From Ft. Williams on ti---m March

by way of Caharvlea (?) to Fort Deposit (?) 157

From thence Fayetteville the primary

place of rendevious 57

Miles --------miles is 431

$34.48

Less $ 4.24

/s/James Tait $30.24

I do swear that the witin account is just and true, and that I performed the different marches, agreeable to the distance herein charged; and that on no part of the said several routes and distances was I allowed any public transportation whatever, for my private baggage allowed me as a Captain owing to a deficiency of the public means of transportation (sic) in said regiment or brigade, and that I have never received any money or other compensation from the United States in lieu thereof, or any part thereof herein charged, to the best of my knowledge and belief.

James Tate Capt.

Sate of Tennessee

Warren County (sic)

Sworn to and subscribed before me

this 9th day of Jan 1817

John Cunningham

Justis of the peace

I certify that James Tait (sic) who filed this Claim served a Captain in the Regiment under my command which Regiment composed a part of Genl. Thomas Johnstons Brigad of West Tennessee Militia in the service of the United States and that he performed the different marches as herein charged or stated.

Signed Stephen Copeland - Col

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James married Ruth Davidson. Ruth was born ca 1784, Scott Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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Ruth Davidson, daughter of James Davidson (Davison) of Russell and Scott Counties, VA (1826 Scott County, VA Wills), in 1798.

James and Ruth Davidson had thirteen children. They were divorced before February 23, 1829 when he married Elizabeth Smith.