Great Grandfather was a millwright, mechanic, and carpenter, also a Hard Shell Baptist Preacher, as they were called long ago. They always owned negroes and treated them very kindly. Grandfather John's place joined his father's farm. He was a very pious and upright man and belonged to The Missionary Baptist Church, at the Hopewell Church near his home. When he died the people placed a monument over his grave because of his upright and honorable life.
Sister is dead.
The rest of us have no families. William B. Bate, Humphrey Bate, and James Bate. William Bate was a prominent lawyer of Gallatin and Nashville, and was Colonel of the 2nd Tennessee Regiment of the Confederate Army, and was made a General after the battle of Chickamauga. He was Governor of Tennessee twice and was represented for 18 years in the U.S. Sentate. He died at Washington.