James Calvin Alexander TATE

Notes:

CENSUS RECORDS

1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Granes C. A. Tate [James C. A. Tate]
Age: 17
Birth Year: abt 1863
Birthplace: Missouri
Home in 1880: District 4, Dickson, Tennessee
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's Name: Sarabell Gentry
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky
Occupation: Works On Farm
Household Members:
Sarabell Gentry 40 [Sarah A.]
Mary E. Gentry 14
Martha Jane Gentry 11
Silas A. Gentry 10
Phillipp W. Gentry 6
Edward W. Gentry 3
James C. A. Tate 17

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Excerpt from Labor News, Galesburg, IL, November 5, 1943

A Fine Trade Unionist James C. Tate

"I was born October 28, 1862, down in southwestern Missouri near the town of Licking. The town got its name from a famous 'salt lick,' you know, a natural salt spring, where the wild animals came to drink the water and lick up the salt crust along the edge of the swampy pool. The 'lick' was about an acre in extent, and the animals had licked it down about ten or twelve feet. That's how much they liked salt."

"Wild ducks were so plentiful, when I was a boy, that I often went hunting with a club and seldom returned home without two or three. We had a neighbor who used a gun and he went to town, his wagon loaded with ducks," remarked James Calvin Tate, on the eve of his eighty-first birthday.

"Hunters built platforms in trees around the 'lick' and sat there nights to shoot deer and other animals. The streams were full of fish and wild ducks and geese were to be found in every pool of water--they were so plentiful that, as I said before, a boy who wasn't old enough to trust with a gun--and that wasn't very old down in Missouri in those days--could and did kill 'em with a club or a rock thrown into a flock.

"That was soon after the close of the Civil war and I remember the soldiers going home. They often stopped at my house for a meal, and to pass the night. We had an old colored man and his wife on our place and when my parents weren't around, the colored folk, if they got a chance, locked us in a closet under the stairs to keep us, my brother and I, 'from under foot.'"

Acorns for Dinner

"My grandfather lived with us and in the evenings he would sometimes tell us about the time he fought with 'Old Hickory" at New Orleans and how he and other soldiers rolled cotton bales in front of them when they advanced and took the city from the Britishers."

Mr. Tate thought a moment and remarked: "Here's a story about General Andy Jackson that never has been printed to my knowledge. My grandfather and two other soldiers were foraging--they had no food at camp--and were tramping through the country looking for something to eat. They met the General, he was on horseback, and he stopped them for questioning. They told him, what he already knew, about the lack of supplies.

"' Well, boys," said the General, 'I had luck. Just now I found a burr oak and had dinner. Thought I might as well stock up a bit, so I'll help you out.' He did, gave each of the soldiers one of the three burr oak acorns that he had put in his pocket." Mr. Tate smiled, "Ever try an acorn for dinner? Neither did I."

Helped Build World's Fair

"When did you join the Carpenters Union?" Mr. Tate, we asked.

"In 1886, at Nashville, Tenn. Was a charter member, too. Worked in and around Nashville for a time and then went to Chicago to help build the First World's Fair. After I had that pretty well under way," Mr. Tate grinned, "a contractor I knew had a church to build in Galesburg. Came here on Oct. 22, 1892, and have liver here ever since. I like Galesburg."

"How about carpenter work? Has it changed much in the last fifty years?" we asked.

"Changed. Well I should say it has. Why, in those days we made everything on and in the building by hand. Look at the molding about your room, we had tools for every operation--guess I had a dozen or more rabbiting cutters alone. We had to do our own tennoning and mortising, even wood carving on occasions. Yes, times have changed."

"Ever belong to the Knights of Labor?"

"Yep. In 1877. Pretty nearly every union man did at one time or another in the early days. Of course, the Carpenters Union came first but we all gave the Knights a lift when we could. No, I never held office in their organization. Just tagged along with the rest."

"You have held office in the Carpenters, haven't you?"

Held Many Union Offices

"Held office? Better say offices, because I've held every office in the Galesburg local.

"Was president of the Galesburg Trades and Labor Assembly. Say, if there is any labor office in Galesburg that I did not fill at one time or another I just can't think what it might be."

"Heard from Jim recently?" Jim, Mr. Tate's son, is in the army.

"Yes, only a day or so ago. We expect to see him before Christmas. He's been in the army a year, now.

"And Myrtle?" a daughter.

"She's in Chicago and writes that she's busy in an essential war industry as a personnel director. She completed her college training some time ago and writes her mother that she likes the work. Expect her for Thanksgiving."

Feeling "Fine" at 81

Getting up from his chair, he pays The Labor News a visit now and then, he grunted a bit. "Rheumatism," he said. 'Got a twitch of it in my back today."

"Bother you much?"

"Not so much. When you are 81 you can't feel too good all the time.

"Rheumatism comes and goes, like everything else. When you are 81 and you feel fine part of the time, well, that's just dandy.

"Good bye. Will see you again. Good health and good luck."

A fine, genial and inspiring old gentleman--and a model trades unionist--just closed our office door and walked with remarkable vigor and cheeriness up Cherry toward Main Street. Our honored friend, James Calvin Tate.

Reference: Aline Brown Tate notes

James C. Tate was a baby when his father died according to him. He came with his mother, Sarah, and stepfather, William Tazewell Gentry from Missouri to (Dickson) Tennessee around 1876. He was in (Dickson) in 1880 [U.S. Census]. He went to Nashville, Tennessee and joined the Carpenter's Union there as a Charter Member in 1886. He went to Illinois in 1892 and remained there until his death.

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OBITUARY

Reference: obituary from Galesburg Labor News, May 11, 1945, copy in Aline Brown Tate notes

James C. Tate, Veteran Carpenter, Dies of Heart Attack

James C. Tate, a charter member of Carpenters and Joiners Local Union No. 360, died last Thursday evening at 10:55 following a heart attack. Mr. Tate had been in his usual health throughout the day and his death came as a great shock to his family and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Tate lived alone at 668 West north Street, the other members now living in other cities. Their daughter, Miss Myrtle Tate, who is employed in Chicago, came in Thursday evening to spend a few days with her parents and her father's death followed just a few hours after her arrival.

James Calvin Tate was born October 28, 1862, at Licking, Mo., and when young his family moved to Nashville, Tenn., where he spent his youth. He was a charter member of the Nashville Carpenters Union, which he joined in 1886. He has been a member of the International Union since that date. He went to Chicago in 1892 where he helped build the Chicago World Fair buildings. A contractor whom he knew had a contract to build a church in Galesburg and he came here in October, 1892, and has resided here since that time.

Jim Tate was active in union affairs throughout his life and held many offices of trust in the labor movement. He had served his union in all offices, including president, and was active on various committees. He had also served as president of the Galesburg Trades and Labor Assembly and had been a delegate to many State Federation of Labor conventions. Soon after coming to Galesburg he was greatly instrumental in organizing the Galesburg Labor News and had always taken keen interest in this publication. He was also active in soliciting funds for the purchase of the Labor Temple. In recent years his health would not permit the continuation of his activities but he never lost interest in the welfare of the working man. Labor has lost a truly great trade unionist in the death of Jim Tate.

Soon after coming to Galesburg, Mr. Tate was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Worden. They celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary May 18, 1943. His wife and four children survive. They are Mrs. C. J. Mulvaney, Long Beach, Calif.; Miss Myrtle Tate, Chicago; Morris Tate, Springfield, and James M. Tate, Peoria. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. Lee Brown, and a brother, Silas Gentry, of Nashville, Tenn. There are six grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at the Kimber and West Mortuary Monday, May 7, with Rev. Raye L. Ragan in charge. Burial was in Memorial Park. The pallbearers were C.O. Nelson, Swen Wedan, Harry M. Starr and P. J. Davis.

James married Mattie Judson. [Group Sheet]

1. Eva M. TATE was born ca 1887, Nashville, Davidson Co. TN.

James married Bertha Worden 18 May 1893, Galesburg, Knox Co. IL. Bertha was born 04 May 1874, Fairfield, Jefferson Co. IA; died 13 Sep 1954, Galesburg, Knox Co. IL. [Group Sheet]

1. Myrtie Ruth TATE was born 29 Jul 1895, Galesburg, Knox Co. IL; died 03 Sep 1964, Berwyn, Cook Co, IL.
2. Eugene Harold TATE was born Apr 1902, Galesburg, Knox Co. IL; died 09 Dec 1929, Galesburg, Knox Co. IL; was buried , Lynwood Cemetery, Galesbug, Knox Co. IL.
3. Joseph Manly TATE was born , Galesburg, Knox Co. IL.
4. Morris George TATE was born 11 Nov 1897, Galesburg, Knox Co. IL; died 02 Jun 1966, Springfield, Sangamon Co. IL; was buried , Roselawn Memorial Park, Springfield, Sangamon Co. IL.

Notes:

Information from "Texas County Missouri Heritage, Volume II"

Submitted by Nellie Gatchel

James A. Tate was killed at the Battle of Vicksburg, MS on July 3, 1863. He enlisted at Licking, MO on January 1862, Confederate 1st and 4th Consolidated Regiment. He was on the Company Muster Roll, November and December 1862. He was last paid on October 30, 1862 and for each two months until it shows him killed.

Notes from Aline Brown Tate

Very little is known about James Tate and Sarah A. Flowers Tate----especially James Tate. They were living in (Texas) near Licking, Missouri when the boys were born. According to the son, James C. Tate, his father was serving in the Army during the Civil War in the New Orleans, Louisiana area. His mother received word he was sick. She took the two small boys and a slave to drive the oxcart; two barrels of salt to use as money and went to Louisiana to see her husband. When they got there she was told he had died of small pox and already buried. That was when small pox was raging there. She came back to Missouri, and later married again.

CENSUS RECORDS

1850 United States Federal Census
Name: James A Tate
Age: 11
Birth Year: abt 1839
Birthplace: Alabama
Home in 1850: District 2, Warren, Tennessee
Gender: Male
Family Number: 266
Household Members:
Name Age
Douglass Tate 36
Sarah Tate 26
James A Tate 11
John A Tate 7
Louisa A Tate 5
Lorenza D Tate 2
America M Tate less than 1 year

1860 United States Federal Census
Name: James A Tate
Age in 1860: 20
Birth Year: abt 1840
Birthplace: Alabama
Home in 1860: Sherrill, Texas, Missouri
Gender: Male
Post Office: Licking
Value of real estate: View Image
Household Members:
Name Age
James A Tate 20
Sarah A Tate 22
Joel S Tate 3 months
James F Flowers 12 [brother-in-law]

MILITARY RECORDS

Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865
Name: James Alexander Tate
Birth Date: abt 1839
Age: 23
Enlistment Date: 1862
Military Unit: Eighth Infantry, Sk-Z

James married Sarah Ann Flowers 13 Jan 1858, Sherrill Township, Texas Co. MO. Sarah was born 1838, Kentucky; died , Cheatham Co. TN. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Information from "Texas County Missouri Heritage, Volume II"

Submitted by Nellie Gatchel

After James Alexander Tate's death, Sarah married William T. Gentry. He had come to the Mountain Grove area in 1854. Somehow he became involved with Union persons in skirmishes and was captured and taken to Springfield, MO to the Federal Stockade where he was held. Later, when released, he came home to find that his wife, Sarah had died.
[Note: the information about his wife dying, was not Sarah since she lived until the 1880's. It may have been his first wife, Martha Carr Gentry, who died in 1862 that the person supplying this information is referring to.]

CENSUS RECORDS

1860 United States Federal Census
Name: Sarah A Tate
Age in 1860: 22
Birth Year: abt 1838
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1860: Sherrill, Texas, Missouri
Gender: Female
Post Office: Licking
Household Members:
James A Tate 20
Sarah A Tate 22
Joel S Tate 3 months
James F Flowers 12 [brother]

1870 United States Federal Census
Name: Sarah A Gentry
Age in 1870: 32
Birth Year: abt 1838
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1870: Piney, Texas, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Houston
Household Members:
William G Gentry 58
Sarah A Gentry 32
Mary E Gentry 4
Martha J Gentry 3
Silas A Gentry 1 month
Joel S Tate 10
James C A Tate 8

1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Sarabell Gentry [Sarah A. Gentry]
Age: 40
Birth Year: abt 1840
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1880: District 4, Dickson, Tennessee
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky
Occupation: Keeps House
Household Members:
Sarabell Gentry 40
Mary E. Gentry 14
Martha Jane Gentry 11
Silas A. Gentry 10
Phillipp W. Gentry 6
Edward W. Gentry 3
James C. A. Tate 17

Notes:

Notes for JAHIEL DOUGLAS TATE:

Texas County, Missouri was formerly Ashley County. Texas County was organized February 14, 1845 from Shannon and Wright Counties. The new County was named for the Lone Star State. Houston, the county seat, was named for General Sam Houston, the "hero" of San Jacinto. Townships in the county are Boone, Burdine, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Current, Date, Jackson, Lynch, Morris, Ozark, Pierce, Piney, Roubidoux, Sargent, Sherrill, and Upton. The Texas County courthouse was destroyed during the Civil War, it burned on February 12, 1881 and again on December 14, 1930.

Information from "History of Cooper County", by W. F. Johnson, 1919 and "Tate Families of Southern States", by Metzel and Updike, 1972.

Douglas and Sarah (Price) Tate, the former of whom was born in Warren County Tenn., and the latter in Jackson County ALA., who came with their family to Sherrill Township., Texas County, Missouri in 1852 and settled on a farm in Texas County where they spent the remainder of their lives. Douglas Tate and wife were the parents of 11 children of whom Louisa Tally was the fourth in order of birth.

The names and ages of children born in Warren County, TN were confirmed by the Warren County, TN 1850 Census. On that Census it indicates that he was a farmer whose land was worth approximately $300.

He married his second wife, Rachael C., a widow with three daughters. E., b. 1855; Harriett McLaughlin, b. 1860 AR and Adaline McLaughlin, b. 1862, AR. These children were listed in the Sherill, Texas County Census of 1870, pg 479-34 and 1880, pg 368-272.

Douglas and Rachael had two additional children, Thomas J. Tate, b. 1871 and Emma Tate, b. 1874 in Sherrill Township.

Information from "Texas County Missouri Heritage, Volume II" Submitted by Nellie Gatchel

In 1859, Jahiel bought land in Sherrill Township of Texas County as did his son James A. Jahiel's brother, Elgan was living in Texas County during the 1850 Census.

CENSUS

1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Douglass Tate
Age: 36
Birth Year: abt 1814
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1850: District 2, Warren, Tennessee
Gender: Male
Family Number: 266
Household Members:
Douglass Tate 36
Sarah Tate 26
James A Tate 11
John A Tate 7
Louisa A Tate 5
Lorenza D Tate 2
America M Tate less than 1 year

1860 United States Federal Census
Name: J D Tate
Age in 1860: 40
Birth Year: abt 1820
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1860: Sherrill, Texas, Missouri
Gender: Male
Post Office: Licking
Household Members:
J D Tate 40
Sarah Tate 37
John A Tate 18
Laura Tate 15
Lorenza D Tate 13
Marica Tate 10
Philander Tate 7
Silas Tate 5
Julia F Tate 3
Sharill Tate 1 month

1870 United States Federal Census
Name: J D Tate
Age in 1870: 57
Birth Year: abt 1813
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1870: Sherrill, Texas, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Licking
Household Members:
J D Tate 57
Rachel Tate 48
America Tate 19
Lorenzo Tate 21
Philander Tate 18
Newton Tate 15
Julia Tate 13
Shirrell Tate 10
E Mcglaughlin 15 [stepson]
Harriet Mcglaughlin 11 [stepdaughter]
Adaline Mcglaughlin 7 [stepdaughter]

1880 United States Federal Census
Name: Jahiel D. Tate
Age: 65
Birth Year: abt 1815
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1880: Sherrill, Texas, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Rachel C. Tate
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Occupation: Farmer
Household Members:
Jahiel D. Tate 65
Rachel C. Tate 50
Loranzo D. Tate 30
Harriott Mclaughlin 20 [stepdaughter]
Adaline Mclaughlin 18 [stepdaughter]
Thos. J. Tate 9
Emma Tate 6

LAND RECORDS

Land Patents were issued to Jahiel Duglass Tate:

NWSE Sec. 27, Twnshp. 33-N, Range 9-W Texas County, MO - 40 acres - December 1, 1853 Doc. # 15054, Bureau of Land Management

NESW Sec. 27, Twnshp. 33-N, Range 9-W Texas County, MO - 80 acres - August 1, 1860 Document #38701, Bureau of Land Management

SENW Sec. 27, Twnshp. 33-N, Range 9-W Texas County, MO - (same)

SWNE Sec. 27, Twnshp. 33-N, Range 9-W Texas County, MO - 40 acres - August 1, 1860 Document 38408, Bureau of Land Management

N1/2NE Sec. 27, Twnshp. 33-N, Range 9-W Texas County, MO - 80 acres - August 1, 1860 Document 37885, Bureau of Land Management

Jahiel married Sarah Price. Sarah was born 1824, Jackson Co. AL; died aft. 1860, Texas Co. MO. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

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Notes:

Source: "The Tate Families of Southern States", Metzel and Updike, 1984 and references Russell Co. VA Will Book, 2, Page 132; Warren County Deed Book 5, Page 537; Warren County Deed Book, page 470, 486. Inv. page 225; Deed Book, page 470-471; Deed Book 0 pg. 1; Clyde E. Durnil. Barnes Papers.

Alexander lived at Big Moccasin Creek, a spur of Clinch Mountain and on the Holston River, Russell County, VA. He may have been a minor when his father Robert Tate signed his will on July 29, 1796 (executed February 3, 1807), Russell County, VA. He married Delilah Henderson, a Canadian girl. Alexander remained in Virginia until the settlement of his father's estate in 1816. He purchased 100 acres on August 5, 1817, in Warren County, TN. This was witnessed by John and Robert Tate. He and his brother John settled on Dry Creek on the line of Warren and what became Van Buren County, TN out of McMinnville, TN. He died there intestate in 1847. His administrator was Douglas Tate*. ) (Inv. date torn out.)

In 1820 they were living in Warren County, TN with three sons under 10, a daughter, under 10. In 1830 two boys, one 15-20, the other 10-15, the daughter 15-20. Apparently one son died before 1830.

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

Alexander, Aaron, John, James and Robert (H.) Jr., all continue to appear in the public records of Warren County, Tennessee and of Grundy County, Tennessee which was founded from Warren County in 1844.

The earliest settlement in Warren County was at the junction of Hills Creek and Collins River near present-day Irvine college. Alexander and John lived there on Dry Creek which is a tributary to Hills Creek. They remained residents of Warren County.

Alexander died in testate about 1847 in Warren County. He had children, Douglas, Elgan, and Sophronia. All three migrated to Missouri. U.S. census records for Texas County, Missouri show the families of Douglas and Elgan.

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LAND RECORDS

Warren Co., TN Deed Book A: pg 470/1. 5 Aug 1817. Enovch Jobe to Alexander P. Tate, both of Warren Co., for $700.00, 100 acres on Rocky River (granted to Jobe by State Grant No. 548, certificate No. 63, dated 21 July 1807)..the south boundary of the Military district. Also 25 acres from grant No. 6947, Certificate No. 874. Reg. 14 Jan 1818.

Warren County, TN Platt Book, Volume I, 1824-1827 - Page 185. Entry No. 679, dated August 16, 1824.

Surveyed for Alexander Tate, 50 acres on Rocky River below where the Stage Road crosses the same which road leads through the land, (the following was crossed out: bounded as follows by the Turkey Creek mountain on the SW, by Mitchell on the North and West by the river), SW corner of Tate's survey of 100 acres. Mitchell's line, SE corner of said Mitchell's, Darky (Darby?) Morris', Durant's line, NE corner of said Tate's survey of 100 acres. Surveyed December 13, 1825, James Maberry and Peter Akins, CC. Sam Worthington, DS.

Page 203. Entry No. 308, dated July 3, 1824

Surveyed for Zachariah Hembree, 50 acres on Rocky River. Thomas Arnold's line, Alexander Tate's line, including his improvement, January 3, 1926, Wiley Hembree and Benjamin Hembree, CC. Sam Worthington, DS

Warren County, TN Platt Book, Volume 2, 1827 - 1835 - Page 110

Surveyed March 10, 1829 for Thomas Mabry & George Cole, 100 acre entry dated February 7, 1827, No. 2194 on Rocky River adjoining of James Hembrees & others, SW corner of a 20 acre survey of said Hembry's at the north edge of Rocky River, line of Alex Tate, Mitchell's line, Brewer's corner, a 100 acre survey in the name of said Mayberry and Cole. Wm. Johnson & Isaac P. Williams, CC Geo. W. Durly, Ds. May 23, 1829. Given to register October 6, 1829.

Page 230

Surveyed December 2, 1830 for George W. Durley, 112 acres, entry dated February 14, 1829, No. 2732 on the waters of Rocky River adjoining of Thomas Arnold and others, SW corner of a 40 acre survey standing a little north of west from a spring said Arnold made use of, John Pain's corner, NE corner of said Arnold's 50 acre survey, Ja' Woods line, foot of the mountain, Alex Tate's line, Arnold's west boundary of his 40 acre tract. Zachariah Emry and Wiley Emry, CC Geo. W. Durly, DS, August 10, 1831. Sent on October 1, 1832 by G. W. Durley.

Warren County, TN Platt Book, Volume 3, 1835 - 1839 - Page 337.

Surveyed November 29, 1838 for Joel J. Hembree, 19 acres by entry dated March 26, 1831, No. 3246 on south side of Rocky River, corner of Daniel Sewell's 100 acre survey. Alexander Tate's line. Charles Coal and Geo. Brewer, CC. A. Higginbotham, PS. June 29, 1839. Sent on July 4, 1842 by D. Lawrence.

Alexander married Delilah Henderson. [Group Sheet]