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Pate/Turner Family Bible
Collection Summary
Title
Pate/Turner Family Bible
Date
1820s-1960s
Extent
1 archival box
Name and Location of Repository
Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence (Mo.)
Reference code: MGC 2013-PTFB
Processed by: Nicole Schlagel, 2016; finding aid created by Nicole Schlagel, 2016
Name of Creator
Pate, Isaac H. [original owner]
Turner, Mary Effie Proctor
Biographical History
Isaac H. Pate was born on March 1, 1821 in Tennessee. He married Cynthia Jane Hanna in Ohio County,
Indiana on November 9, 1848. Together Isaac and Cynthia had four children; Wilson, Mary Jane, Sarah
Ann, and Albert. Cynthia died August 22, 1897 and was buried in Dillsboro, Dearborn County, Indiana.
Isaac died in April 1905 and was buried in Dillsboro, Dearborn County, Indiana. Isaac’s daughter Mary
Jane married William Everett Turner on November 10 1869 and they later moved to Nodaway County,
Missouri. Mary Jane inherited the family Bible upon her father’s death.
Mary Effie Proctor Turner was given this bible at the death of Mary Jane Turner, her mother-in-law and
Isaac Pate’s daughter. Mary Effie was born on October 2, 1877 and married Robert Allen Turner June 6,
1900 in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri. Together they had six children. Before Mary Effie died in
1941, she passed the Bible to one of her daughters.
Scope and Content
This collection consists of the family Bible for the Isaac H. Pate and Robert Allen Turner families. This
Bible contains family records for births, marriages, and deaths for multiple generations. Also included in
this collection are family unit charts, handwritten genealogy, and a bookmark.
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Collection Inventory
System of Arrangement
These records are arranged in 2 series.
Series 1, Pate/Turner Genealogy
Folder 1, Family Unit Charts
Folder 2, Handwritten Pate genealogy
Series 2, Bible
Folder 1, Family Record sheets [scanned]
Folder 2, Bookmark from Bible
Folder 3, Bible
Rights and Access
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use by appointment.
Physical Access
Records within this collection are housed within file folders. The Bible is secured with cotton typing tape
and wrapped in acid-free tissue paper.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Languages and Scripts of the Material
Materials in the collection are entirely in English.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated to the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected for this collection.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals owned by the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Notes
The following sources were consulted during the preparation of the biographical history:
Ancestry.com. Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Dodd, Jordan. Indiana Marriages to 1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations Inc, 1997.
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FindAGrave.com. “Cynthia Jane Hanna Pate.” Accessed June 2, 2016.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6400329
FindAGrave.com. “Isaac Harmon Pate.” Accessed June 2, 2106. http://www.findagrave.com/cgibin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6400411&ref=acom
FindAGrave.com. “Mary Jane Pate Turner.” Accessed June 2, 2016.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=69229946&ref=acom
FindAGrave.com. “Wilson Pate.” Accessed June 2, 2016. http://www.findagrave.com/cgibin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=pate&GSfn=wilson&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=17&GScntry=4&G
Sob=n&GRid=6282842&df=all&
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