Col. Isaac TATE

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The Tate Family moved to Callaway County, Missouri in 1829. Isaac at that time was 21 years old. He was six feet tall, strongly built and finely proportioned. His weight in mature years was about 210 pounds.

As he was a magnificent man physically, so he had a magnificent mind which he kept in fine working order.

At the age of 25 he married Jane Henderson and settled on the edge of Grand Prairie, on what is known as the Colonel Boyd Farm. In 1847 he moved to Tate's Prairie where he lived until his death. Colonel Tate was an intelligent, enthusiastic and successful farmer. He was not a trader nor a speculator.

He was a great friend of education. For many years and up to the time of his death he was a member of the Board of Trustees of Westminster College and no member was more constant in his attendance or gave wiser counsels as to its management through it's years of struggle for life and success.

Colonel Tate was a man of deep religious principals. These determined his conduct in everything and gave weight to his character. He was, for 54 years, a ruling elder in the Auxvasse Presbyterian Church and never allowed anything but serious sickness to keep him from the public service of God's house. He recognized God in his home and always maintained the duty of family prayer.

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Isaac married Jane Wright Henderson 14 Jul 1830, Callaway Co. MO. Jane was born 15 Jan 1812, Augusta Co. VA; died 01 Dec 1887, Auxvasse, Callaway Co. MO; was buried , Old Auxvasse Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Auxvasse, Callaway Co. MO. [Group Sheet]

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Martha married William Yates. William was born 06 Nov 1836, Callaway Co. MO; died 23 Jan 1901, Callaway Co. MO; was buried , Old Auxvasse Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Auxvasse, Callaway Co. MO. [Group Sheet]

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Clarinda married Samuel Steele McCue. Samuel was born 31 Jul 1841, Greenwood, Albemarle Co. VA; died 27 Jul 1925, Auxvasse, Callaway Co. MO; was buried , Old Auxvasse Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Auxvasse, Callaway Co. MO. [Group Sheet]

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James Nolley Tate was superintendent of the Missouri School for the Deaf in Fulton, Missouri where his wife was a pioneer in the teaching of speech and lip reading. He succeeded William Dabney Kerr as superintendent of Minnesota School for the Deaf in 1896.

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James married Mary Caroline McClelland. Mary was born ca 1858, Fulton, Callaway Co. MO; died 29 Jan 1912, Riverside Co. CA; was buried , Maple Lawn Cemetery, Faribault, Rice Co. MN. [Group Sheet]

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BIOGRAPHY

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Isaac Nesbit Tate was the son of two distinguished educators of the deaf. His paternal grandparents Isaac Tate and Jane Wright Henderson Tate were very early settlers of the northeastern prairies of Callaway county, Missouri. They had been raised within the Boone & Bryan settlement parties and had lived in Kentucky at the time of the indians raids when settlers held up in stations. This tradition is still strong in the Tate family of today.

Until he was nine, Isaac lived on the campus of the Missouri School for the Deaf in Fulton, Missouri where his father was superintendent and his mother was a pioneer in the teaching of speech and lip reading. When he was 8, a catasptophic fire swept the school one February night, leaving only one major building standing. He was part of a brigade of children that distributed blankets to the pupils who'd been routed from their home. The blankets had been obtained from the Insane Asylum adjacent to the school. This family moved to Faribault in 1896.

The Missouri School is located in Callaway County. Each year, an event called the Kingdom Supper is held there. An individual who was born and raised in the county and has left it to achieve great success is honored. The person must be one who has made an unusual effort to serve others in meaningful ways. In 1936 this award was given to Isaac Nesbit Tate who was, at that time, an officer of the Weyerhauser Corp. in Minnesota.

He had one sister, Elizabeth Tate Monroe.

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