Anna Pate (1794-1868)

Biography
Anna Pate was born September 27, 1794 in Troy City, New York, the daughter of John Pate and Esther Green.

All of her children were born in Madison County, New York, were The family heard the Gospel and were baptized.

Anna received her endowment on January 10, 1846 in the Nauvoo Temple along with her daughter, Mary Ann and her husband, James Miller Jones..

As they were gathering with the saints to go West, Hezekiah, aged 70, died and was buried in Nauvoo, Illinois. This left Anna to make her way to Zion without her companion of 30 years. She settled in Mona, Juab County and died there at the age of 74 on March 8, 1868 and was also buried in Mona.

Marriage and Family
At age 18 she married Hezekiah Partridge (1772-1842), a widower with eight children whose youngest was born the last day of the year in 1811, and married him October 6, 1812 in Brookfield, Madison, NY. One can only suppose that his first wife, Katherine Selden, died soon after her baby Nancy was born. The children ranged in age from 17 years down to 9 months of age when they married.

Anna and Hezekiah’s first child, a son, Selden Hezekiah, was named for Katherine. Anna and Hezekiah were the parents of 14 children - 12 sons and two daughters. (1) Selden who married Martha Hull, (2) Jarred, (3) John Elmer who married Sophia Morgan, (4) William D who married Ann Marie Sawyer, (5) Henry F who married Jerusha Wescott, (6) Mary Ann, who married James Miller Jones, (7) Amos L who married Tabithal Coffman, (8) Jonathan William who married Marianna Whitaker, (9) Seldon, (10) William Charles who married Mary Smith, (11) Samuel, (12) Lafayette, (13) Daniel, and (14) Rachel. Her last two children died the very days they were born in 1833 and 1835.