Hopkins Co TX - Mr. & Mrs. O. M. Pate, 62nd Anniversary
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Mr & Mrs. O. M. Pate Celebrate 62nd. Anniversary - Feb. 10, 1938

Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Pate today quietly celebrated their 62nd wedding
anniversary. Mr. Pate was born in Tennessee in 1855 and came to Texas in April
1857 and has lived in Sulphur Springs continuously since 1859. Mrs. Pate was
born in San Augustine in 1856 and moved to Sulphur Springs when a girl of 12
years. They were married in Sulphur Springs February 10, 1876. Mrs. Pate was
Miss Amanda C. McDaniel before her marriage. Sulphur Springs does not have nor
has ever had more worthwhile or more highly esteemed citizens than Mr. and Mrs.
Pate. They have succeeded in a financial way and have been liberal supporters
of every worthwhile cause of the community during the more than 60 years of
their married life. Mr. Pate is 82 and Mrs. Pate 81 years, and each is in
splendid health. They have a family of seven splendid sons and daughters, as
follows, who are making good in life and reflect honor on their parents in so
doing : Able Pate, Sulphur Springs; Bruce Pate, Austin; Bart Pate, Sulphur
Springs; Mrs. Henry W. Tapp, Sulphur Springs; Mrs. Ruth Pate Denton, Amarillo;
Mrs. Lawson Junell, Wichita Falls; Mrs. Osborn Connor, Wichita Falls.

In their 63rd. Anniversary, the only knew information was - Mr. Pate has a
brother, A. M. Pate, and two sisters, Mrs. Love Ardis of Sulphur Springs, and
Mrs. Bob Kirkpatrick of Dallas. Mrs. Pate is the only living member of her
father’s immediate family. Mr. Pate was born February 22, 1855, and Mrs. Pate
was born October 23, 1856. She moved to Sulphur Springs with her parents in
1871.