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Below is a family biography included in The History of East Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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I. M. Cate, farmer, was born in Sevier County, Tenn., May 13, 1850, the son of Perry and Sarah (Underwood) Cate. The father, born in Sevier County, in 1820, was a farmer and merchant in Sevier County for several years, before and after the war, but is now a farmer, and a highly respected member of the Baptist Church. Joshua, the grandfather, was born in North Carolina, and came, when two years old, with his parents, to the Indian-infested regions of East Tennessee. An aunt was killed by the Indians in North Carolina. The mother was born in 1820, in Sevier County, the daughter of George Underwood, a farmer. She was a Baptist, and died in 1873. Our subject attended school at Dandridge, Mossy Creek, and Dumplin Valley, and in 1871 engaged in farming and saw milling in Jefferson County. He owns 160 acres in the Eleventh District, and also eighty-three acres, seventy-three of the first and fifty of the last, in timber. He also owns, with his father, a saw and grist mill, with a daily capacity of 4,000 to 6,000 feet of lumber and 100 bushels of corn. He is a Baptist, a Mason, and a highly respected man. May 3, 1870, he married Millie, a daughter of J. M. and Mary (Denton) Thomas, and born May 26, 1851, in Cocke County. J. M. was born in 1825, the son of George Thomas, of England, and died in January, 1886. Mary was born in 1827, the daughter of Abraham Denton. She is a Baptist, and now lives in Jefferson County. Their children are Ida C. (1871), Sallie A. (1873), Mollie E. (1876), Effie C. (1878), Perry B. (1882) and Lora E. (1886). The wife is a Baptist.
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