When Edward TATE was born on July 19, 1785, in Botetourt County, Virginia, his father, David, was 26 and his mother, Comfort, was 18. He married Lucy H. MOODY and they had six children together. He then married Jane STELLE CLUNK on March 30, 1853, in Jefferson County, Tennessee. He died on May 25, 1870, in Grainger County, Tennessee, having lived a long life of 84 years, and was buried in Rutledge, Tennessee.
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