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Custom Field:<_FA#> Knowledgable Coal Miner@S08545@Date of Import: Oct 19, 2000 Custom Field:<_FA#> Location: MorganfieldBrøderbund Family Archive #318, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected States/Counties, 1860, Date of Import: Jul 10, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.318.1.35829.15@S08545@Date of Import: Oct 19, 2000 Custom Field:<_FA#> Page #: 475Brøderbund Family Archive #318, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected States/Counties, 1860, Date of Import: Jul 10, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.318.1.35829.15@S08545@Date of Import: Oct 19, 2000 Custom Field:<_FA#> Year: 1860@S08545@Date of Import: Oct 19, 2000 REFN: 551 [Sarah Robinson Tate.ged] John Tate, practical miner of Commercial Point, is the son of John and Mary Ann (Baxter) Tate. His parents were from Durham County, England, and went to Pennsylvania in an early day. They both died in 1851. The subject of this sketch was born in Schuylkill County, Penn., in the year 1837. His parents moved, while he was young to Ohio and then to Crittenden County, KY., where John spent about three years in school. They died of the cholera, when he was quite young, and left him with his younger brothers to support, and consequently he did not get as much school traininng as he would otherwise have received; still he is a man of more than ordinary information, and talks intelligently upon any subject, but especially well upon geology and coal. He first married Ruth Elizabeth Walker, of Morganfield, in 1856. She bore him seven children, four of whom are still living. He next married in 1871, Sarah Ellen Walton, of Crittenden County, KY but whose parents were from England. five children were born to them, two of whom are still living. His second wife died in Christian County, September, 1883. He took her remains to Ark Lodge Cemetery, In Caseyville. Three of his children have married, viz: Elizabeth Ann, to Calvin Shaup, a very flourishing farmer, of Kansas: John Henry, to Eliza Probasco, and Mary Ann To David Leonard Smith, Of Tennessee. The children at home are William, Calvin and Thomas Alexander. Mr. Tate has been engaged largely in opening coal mines, having operated in Missouri, in Battery Rock Mines, Illnois, and in Christian, Hopkins, Henderson and Union Counties, Kentucky. Having spent the most of his life in mines, he has become well acquainted with the plans for opening them. Of the thirteen coal veins in the earth, he has mined in twelve, and knows all their characteristics. He was the principal mover in the "Wallace Mine," at Commercial Point, and struck the vein of coal, known as No. 9, and mined much good coal from a vein between five and six feet thick. If the contemplated improvements upon Tradewater, and the proposed O.V.R.R. & M. County, , build their railroad, it will be one of the most profitable points in the county for mining operations. Mr. Tate is a member of the Odd Fellows, in which he has held all the chairs up to Vice Grand. He is a man of deep thought, of good principle, and is highly esteemed by all who know him. Source: History Of Union County, Kentucky, 1886. Reprint copyright 1967. Page 607 & 608[Brøderbund Family Archive #318, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected States/Counties, 1860, Date of Import: Jul 10, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.318.1.35829.15] Individual: Tate, John County/State: Union County, , KY Location: Morganfield Page #: 475 Year: 1860 Buckman Mine The Buckman Mine is situated on on the farm of H.J. Wallace, near Commercial Point. It is entered by a slope which opens upon the southern side of the hill on which Mr. Wallace's residence now stands. It is in the ninth vein of the lower coal measures, and is from five feet four inches to five feet seven inches thick. This is undoubtedly the best coal that has ever been mined in Union County. The vein being of such superior quality, and at the same time so thick, makes it peculiarly valuable. It was opened in
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