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Surnames: Zimmerman, Pate, Yarbrough
Classification: Query
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According to Pate researcher, Audrey Young, on 11-18-1809, in Morgan County, Phillip
Zimmerman deeded an acre to deacons Charles Pate and Thomas Yarbrough for a
"preaching place". [Don't know her source.] Can anyone identify that church?
If anyone has a description of the location of that acre, then I can probably identify the
church from old maps.
Other potential attendees of the church were Edward, John, and Thomas Pate, also in Morgan
County in at least the 1809-18 years. On the tax rolls for 1818, Thomas was deleted and
James was added. By 1820, all were gone except Edward.
Demonstrating his loyalty to the Baptist church, Charles was apparently in Tuscaloosa
County, Alabama, by July 1820 when Big Creek Baptist Church was established. He was named
one of two deacons of the church on 8-26-1820.
I will deeply appreciate any information anyone could provide.
A. J. Pate