William S. Tate
William S. Tate was born in Georgia about 1880. In 1910 he was living at Cumming, the seat of Forsyth County in the hills north of Atlanta, with his wife Mary Ophelia and four children: William, eight; Cleo, six; Mary Kate, four; and Louise, a baby. Ten years later he was still near Cumming, and the family had grown by four more sons, Henry, Wheeler, Herbert and Clyde.
In the early 1920s the Tates lived in the Antioch community on a Cumming rural route, and the Antioch column of the county paper followed them almost every week: Sunday visits to the Wheelers, the Davises, the Williamses and the Pilgrims, a business trip to Buford, a day at Stone Mountain, a singing held at the Tate house on a Thursday night in 1924. His mother was living at Cumming in 1922. That year he applied to administer the estate of W. M. Tate of Forsyth County, very probably his father, and in 1923 he sold the estate's lands at Cumming and its corn, fodder and cotton seed.
On a Sunday in October 1923 the visitors at the Tate house included Arthur Cheek and his wife and his brother Martry Cheek, all of Douglasville. On Christmas Eve that year Martry Cheek married William's daughter Cleo at the Tate home. The next June William and his wife were called to Douglasville because Cleo had had an operation. They came home the next afternoon "reporting that she was much better."
By 1949 William and his wife were living at Gainesville in Hall County, where Cleo took her baby Nancy to see them.
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Cite: Heirology, "William S. Tate (b. 1880)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/william-s-tate-1880-6278c9.