John Jackson Tate

Male4 October 1869–4 November 1949

Brief Life History of John Jackson

When John Jackson Tate was born on 4 October 1869, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Humphrey Pose Tate, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth A Guess, was 34. He married Mary Ellen Layne on 7 April 1895, in Grundy, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States for about 5 years and Civil District 6, Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 4 November 1949, in Daus, Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Layne Cemetery, Dunlap, Sequatchie, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Jackson Tate
1869–1949
Mary Ellen Layne
1874–1954
Marriage: 7 April 1895
Carrie Ellen Tate
1897–1984
Felton Humphrey Tate
1900–1965
Virgie Tate
1902–
Sewilla Dolly Tate Pickett
1903–1981
Selena J Tate
1906–2003
Mable L Tate
1909–1986

Sources (15)

  • John J Tate nel documento di Unknown, “Tennessee, Birth Records (ER Series), 1908-1912”
  • John N Tate, "United States Census, 1910"
  • John Tate nel documento di Felton Humphrey Tate, “Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966”

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  • Marriage
    7 April 1895Grundy, Tennessee, United States
  • Children (6)

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    Siblings (9)

    +4 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Age 1

    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

    Age 9

    When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.

    1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

    Age 21

    This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

    Name Meaning

    English (northern):

    from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Tate (Old English Tāta, from tāt ‘happy’).

    usually a variant of Tait .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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