On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:16:01 -0500 Becky Smith <nokomts(a)ktc.com>
wrote:
Sue, here's John Mount with his second wife, also Sarah CATE, a
cousin
of his first wife.
First cousin, or second?
I haven't really looked at these Sara Cate cousins before, but it
appears to me as if they are second cousins, with the common
ancestors being their g grandparents Capt. Robert Cate and Elizabeth.
It appears to me that we have Sara #1, of William P. Cate and Mary
Enyard, of John (Preacher) Cate and Catherine, of Capt. Robert Cate
and Elizabeth. Then we appear to have Sara #2, of Charles Cate Jr.
and Lucy Lawrence, of Charles Cate Sr. and Sarah Baldwin, of Capt.
Robert Cate and Elizabeth.
Is that what we are saying?
On an unrelated subject, we drove from East Tennessee to the Outer
Banks of North Carolina last week for a vacation. In the process, we
traveled through Orange County, North Carolina, ancestral home of
many of the North Carolina Cates. I have made the trip quite a few
times, but not since I started doing genealogy. So I was very
sensitive to the counties I was traveling through and the distances
involved.
Man, that would have been a rough trip for those early Cates who
migrated from Orange County into Tennessee. It took us about seven
hours on the Interstate. Once you get to Asheville, the only two
reasonable routes through the mountains into Tennessee are the Pigeon
River valley (the Interstate takes this route) and the French Broad
River valley (the old US70 takes this route, much prettier than the
Interstate). Either route is very rugged.
It's no wonder that another common route was north up into Virginia,
then west into the Virginia Valley, and then southwest into the
Tennessee Valley. It also makes it easy to see why you find records
of these Cates, for example, in Washington County, VA -- right along
the Virginia/Tennessee border and right along the migration route
down the Virginia Valley into the Tennessee Valley (it's really the
same big valley).
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Jerry Bryan
jbryan(a)pstcc.cc.tn.us