The following was provided by Mrs. Jinks Pate Lee of Bossier City, La. that she located in the Ordinary Records of Warren County, Georgia;
William Walker, Pension Agent
In the matter of the application of Mrs. Sarah Ivey for pension on account of military service rendered by Sterling Ivey - alias Sterling I. Pate.
— I, R.W. Hubert, Ordinary of Warren County, Georgia do hereby certify that I am near sixty one years of age and was born and reared in about one mile of where the said Sterling I. Pate lived and died. I certify that he died on the 8th day of December 1879 and I as a clergyman officiated at the funeral. I further certify that it was generally understood that the said Sterling I. Pate was an illegitimate child of a woman named Pate and his father was named Ephraim Ivey, that he was invariably called by the people Sterling Ivey. I further certify from personal observation that whenever he signed his name to documents as witness or otherwise, he signed as Sterling I. Pate. His name is thus as a witness to my father's will on record in this, my office. That his father recognized him as his child and treated him as such and this fact was also generally known and he was called Ivey because of his fathers name and that Sterling Ivey and Sterling I. Pate are the same person.
Witness my hand and official seal this 27th day of May 1882.
R.W. Hubert, Ordinary
