Bib016-NCCA3
COLUMBUS CO, NC
BIRTHS
EDWIN JOHNSON
PATE, 24
Sep 1808 in NC
s/o Benjamin & Drusilla Johnson Pate
CATHERINE ANN
CAMPBELL, 18
May 1811 in NC
d/o Daniel & Jane Downie Campbell
w/o Edwin Johnson Pate
Their children
- all born in North Carolina:
FRANCIS MARION
PATE (Son) 21
Jun 1828
WILLIAM
WASHINGTON PATE 02
May 1830
EDWIN ARNOLD
PATE 26 May 1832
EDWARD DANIEL
PATE 08
Oct 1834
DRUSILLA JANE
PATE 07 Jun 1837
Note: Married
William James Meares, son of
Bethel &
Elizabeth Ann Council Meares on
16 Sep 1858. He
was born 06 Nov 1828 and died
23 May 1907
North Carolina
Grandparents
Mattie Baldwin Harvey
CATHERINE ANN
PATE 27
Jan 1840
MALCOLM DOWNIE
PATE 09
Apr 1842
MARY CAROLINE
PATE 23
May 1844
EUPHAMIA
VIRGINIA PATE 12
Jul 1846
MARJORIE
MELISSA PATE 26
Feb 1849
ORRA EMMA PATE 17
Jun 1852
PRESTON JOHNSON
PATE 24
Oct 1855
DEATHS:
EDWIN JOHNSON
PATE 19
Jan 1862
CATHERINE ANN
CAMPBELL PATE 05
Jan 1862
FRANCIS MARION
PATE 03
Mar 1862
EDWARD DANIEL
PATE 27
Sep 1875
EUPHAMIA VIRGINIA
PATE 08
Jan 1862
MARJORIE
MELISSA PATE 17
Jan 1862
ORRA EMMA PATE 18
Jan 1862
CATHERINE ANN
PATE, w/o JOHN COUNCIL 01 Mar
1897
EDWIN ARNOLD
PATE 14 Feb 1898
PRESTON JOHNSON
PATE 16
Oct 1898
WILLIAM
WASHINGTON PATE 24
May 1905 (in SC)
MALCOLM DOWNIE
PATE 30
Aug 1915
DRUSILLA JANE
PATE MEARES 13
Apr 1932
The story is
told by Mrs. DRUCILLA JANE PATE MEARES, a native of Columbus County and
resident
of both Columbus & Bladen Counties, relates: Brother DOWNIE went to Wilmington on a ACL train.
There were some
sick soldiers on the train with typhoid pneumonia. They were from Georgia. He
caught the
disease from the sick soldiers. He was taken sick and came near dying.
The rest of the
family that was at home caught the disease from DOWNIE. Father, Mother, one
brother, three
sisters died in January 1862. Sister,
CAROLINE, took my baby brother,
PRESTON home
with her. He was very sick but the Doctor stayed right by him and he pulled
through and got
well.
My oldest
brother, MARION, came from his home and stayed to help nurse the sick ones. He
caught
the disease
went home and died. Brother, EDWARD,
caught the disease waiting on the sick ones
and was very
sick but pulled through and got well. Brother, WILLIAM, got a furlough came
home
when the family
all got sick to help wait on them. He caught the disease and came near dying.
He got better.
His company gave him a discharge till he could get well. When they called him
to report, his
company had gone to Virginia.
When our folks
all died brother, WILLIAM, ARNOLD and DOWNIE were left at home by themselves.
We were living
near Council, Bladen County, NC on the SAL Railroad. We were making turpentine
for a living.
NOTE BY JINKS
PATE LEE;
This family was
in Columbus Co, NC from 1830 to 1870.
(Desc Chart
NC11.3)