Major James Tate

1778 - 1849  (71 years)

• Name	James Tate
  Title	Major
  Born	1778	Moccasin Creek, Russell Co., VA
  Gender	Male
  Died	19 Apr 1849	Warren County, Tennessee, USA
  Buried	Grundy County, Tennessee, USA
  Person ID	I753	Main
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2006

  
  

  Father	Robert Tate, Jr.,   b. 1745, Augusta Co., VA ,   d. 24 Jul 1806, Moccasin Creek, Russell Co., VA  (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Mary,   b. 1758, Augusta Co., VA
  Married	1774	Rockbridge Co., VA
  Family ID	F181	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Ruth Davidson,   b. 1784, Scott County, Virginia, USA
  Married	1798	Scott County, Virginia, USA
  Children	+ 1. Robert H Tate,   b. 9 Jan 1799, Russell Co., VA ,   d. 8 Jan 1889, Livingston, KY  (Age 89 years) + 2. Mary Tate,   b. 11 Dec 1800, Russell Co., VA ,   d. 1866  (Age 65 years) + 3. Sarah Tate,   b. 22 Jan 1801, Warren County, Tennessee, USA + 4. Davidson Tate,   b. 27 Dec 1802, Russell Co., VA ,   d. 23 Feb 1885, Grundy County, Tennessee, USA  (Age 82 years) + 5. Joseph Tate,   b. 2 Jan 1809, Warren County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. Before 1840  (Age 30 years) + 6. Margaret Tate,   b. 10 Dec 1810, Virginia, USA   7. James M Tate,   b. 7 Feb 1811, Warren County, Tennessee, USA + 8. Jahaziel H Tate,   b. 9 Mar 1813, Warren County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 4 Aug 1888, Poetry, Kaufman Co., TX  (Age 75 years)   9. Johnzeel O Tate,   b. 9 Mar 1813, Warren County, Tennessee, USA + 10. Samuel Jackson Tate,   b. 15 Jun 1815, Warren County, Tennessee, USA + 11. Elan H Tate,   b. 15 Oct 1817, Grundy County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 19 Dec 1879, Decatur Co., TN  (Age 62 years) + 12. John Gooleman Tate,   b. 16 Jan 1820, Warren County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 18 Sep 1908, McLain, Muskogee, OK  (Age 88 years) + 13. Eveline Tate,   b. 1823, Warren County, Tennessee, USA
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2006
  Family ID	F179	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth Smith,   b. 8 Aug 1807, North Carolina, USA ,   d. 25 Nov 1867, Decatur Co., TN  (Age 60 years)
  Married	23 Feb 1829	Warren County, Tennessee, USA
  Children	+ 1. James William M Tate,   b. 19 Aug 1827, Grundy County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 17 May 1873, Grundy County, Tennessee, USA  (Age 45 years) + 2. Francis Asberry Tate,   b. Aug 1830, Warren County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. Madison Co., TN + 3. Meredith Price Tate,   b. Aug 1830, Grundy County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 28 Nov 1908, Gainsville, MO  (Age ~ 78 years) + 4. Nancy Tate,   b. 1833, Grundy County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 1854, Grundy County, Tennessee, USA  (Age 21 years) + 5. Elizabeth Tate,   b. 1835, Warren County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 5 Aug 1877, Henderson Co., TN  (Age 42 years)
  Last Modified	12 Dec 2002
  Family ID	F180	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Married - 1798 - Scott County, Virginia, USA Married - 23 Feb 1829 - Warren County, Tennessee, USA Died - 19 Apr 1849 - Warren County, Tennessee, USA Buried - - Grundy County, Tennessee, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Headstones

  Tate, James

  
  

  Histories

  Part I: Notes from Tate Family Reunion: August 18, 1985 Prepared for the descendants of Victor Lafayette Tate 713 at their annual Tate family reunion at the picnic area of the ranger station Savage Gulf and Stone Door. Beersheba Springs, Tennessee. Prepared by Norma Tate Robertson 4328

  
  

• Notes

  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.combs-families.org/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. 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.) 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 Caunty (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 In an email dated February 16, 2001, Bill Ansley writes: Major James Tate married Ruth Davidson. Her maiden name furnished by fults@infoave.net on 7/1998 (Ruth Savage Fults). Ruth's father was James Davidson, per same source. Major James Tate is buried at Philadelphia Baptist Church Cemetery in either Grundy Co TN or county just to the north of Grundy?...I've visited the cemetery and have viewed his stone...a large oblisque? He divorced Ruth, a matter that went to the TN state legislature, almost unheard of during that era. After the Major's death, his former wife and children by that marriage fought his will (which left them nothing) but lost. The Major owned some 26,000 acres on Grundy Mountain.