Charles Cate Sr. (Abt 1739-After 1811)

Sarah Baldwin (Abt 1745-After 1796)

Thomas Laurence (Abt 1733-Abt 1797)

Lucy Womack (1733-1826)

Charles Cate Jr. (1776-1824)

Lucy Lawrence (1773-1859)

Elijah "Lige" Cate (1801-1892)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: Ellen "Nellie" Davis Elijah "Lige" Cate 4 5 6 7 8 9 Born: 23 Jan 1801, Jefferson County, Tennessee 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 Marriage: Ellen "Nellie" Davis on 3 Jan 1822 in Jefferson County, Tennessee 1 2 3 Died: 26 Aug 1892, McMinn County, Tennessee at age 91 3 Buried: Niota Cemetery, McMinn County, Tennessee 3 Elijah married Ellen "Nellie" Davis on 3 Jan 1822 in Jefferson County, Tennessee.1 2 3 (Ellen "Nellie" Davis was born on 2 Mar 1803 in Jefferson County, Tennessee,3 7 8 9 died on 25 Oct 1874 in McMinn County, Tennessee 3 and was buried in Niota Cemetery, McMinn County, Tennessee 3.)

1 Sistler, Byron & Barbara, Early East Tennessee Marriages (Publication info: Nashville, TN (1712 Natchez Trace, P.O. Box 120934, Nashville, TN 37212) : B. Sistler & Associates, 1987., Physical descrip: 2 v. : maps ; 28 cm., Contents: v. 1. Grooms -- v. 2. Brides. Bibliography: v. 2, p. [404].)

2 Dodd, Jordan., Tennessee Marriages to 1825 ([database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1997. Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Tennessee.)

3 Gravestone.

4 Will of Charles Cate (Wills of McMinn County, Tennessee, WB A 59-61).

5 Manly, Elizabeth Cate, The Cates of Lower East Tennessee and Related Families.

6 U. S. Census - 1880, McMinn County, Tennesse E.D. 65, sheet 39.

7 U. S. Census - 1850, McMinn County, Tennessee, page 247.

8 U. S. Census - 1870, McMinn County, Tennessee.

9 Elijah Cate family bible record (published New York, American Bible Society, 1847: E. Cate Book, Mouse Creek, Tennessee).

10 McMinn County Heritage Book Committee, McMinn County, Tennessee, and it's [sic] people, 1819-1997.
(Waynesville, NC : McMinn County Heritage Book Committee : Don Mills, Inc., c1997. Physical descrip: iv, 538 p. : ill.,map ; 29 cm.), page 152, item 450.

11 Jefferson County, Tennessee Bibles - Cate Family Bible (This Bible record refers to the Cate family of Jefferson County Tennessee. Bible published New York; printed by Sage & Clough, 1803.)