Fayette County, Indiana - Biographical sketches, 1917 (part 16 of 16)

Reared on the home farm in Connersville township, James H. Tate (second) received his schooling in the local schools and has spent most of his life farming, though for a couple f)f years he was successfully engaged in the feed business at Connersville. giving up that business in order to return to the farm, where he might give his assistance to his aging father, whose death occurred in the fall of 1916. It was in 1903, following his marriage, that the second James H. Tate beg;in farming for himself on a rented farm north of Connersville, and there he made his home for seven 3'ears, at the end of which time he moved to his present farm, the same being located just south of the place on which he was born, and there he has continued to reside, he and his family now being very pleasantly and very comfortably situated. Mr. Tate is a Democrat, as was his father before him, and for two years he served as deputy sheriff of Fayette county. He has been quite successful in his farming operations and besides owning a share in the old home farm, has bought other lands until now he is the owner of one hundred seventyfour and one-fourth acres and has a well-improved and profitablv cultivated farm.

On October 6. 1903, James H. Tate was united in marriage to Hallie Gertrude Bradburn, who was born in Brookville in the neighboring county of Franklin, daughter of Albert E. and Mary E. (Stewart) Bradburn, the former of whom, a lifelong farmer, spent the later years of his life in Fayette county, dying here on August 4, 1909, and the latter of whom is now making her home with Mr. and Mrs. Tate. Mr. and Mrs. Tate have three children, Mildred Marguerite, James H., the third, now called "Junior," and Alma Gladys. Mr. Tate joined the Methodist church on his twentieth birthday and he and his wife are both members of that church, taking an active interest in the various beneficences of the same. Mr. Tate is a member of the Modern Woodmen and in the affairs of that organization takes a warm interest.

Curtis L. Tate

Curtis L. Tate, one of Fa}'ette county's best-known and most substantial farmers and the proprietor of a fine farm of one hundred acres and a comfortable home on the Rushville pike, about four miles west of Connersville, m Connersville township, was born in that same vicinity and has lived there all his life. He was born on January 17, 1872, son of James H. and Louisa ( Halsted) Tate, well-known residents of that neighborhood and further and more detailed reference to whom is made elsewhere in this volume.

Reared on the home farm in Connersville township, Curtis L. Tate received his schooling in the district schools of that neighborhood and remained at home, a valuable assistant in the labors of developing and improving the home place, until his marriage in 1902, when he began farming on his own account. For two years he rented land and then he bought his present farm of one hundred acres on the Rushville pike, four miles west of

In igoj Curtis T.. Tate was united in niarriai^e tn Marv ('. I'.niwn. who was horn in Madison county, this state, in 1S83. dausliter of l-~lijali and Melissa Ellen (\\'hite) Brown, the former of whom was Ixirii in Perry county, Ohio, and the latter in the state of Iowa, who came to Fayette county in 1887 and located on a farm alwut four miles ><mth of where the Tates now live. About 1897 Eli.iah Brt)wn sold that farm and returned to Madison county, where he si-ent the rest of his life, his death occurring- in i')i,v ;iiid where his widow is still livint,^

Mr. and Mrs. Tate have four children. Ruby Thelma. Garnet Zelma, Catherine Curtis and OHia .\rthur. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and take an earnest interest in the affairs of the same, as well as in the general social activities of the community in which they live, helpful ill furthering all causes having to do with the advancement of the common welfare.