Alfred Rush Tate (1933)
BARKLEY, EBERHARDT, GEE, HAZZLEWOOD, RHYNO, SPROUL, STEVENS, TATE
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:22
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 8, 1933
Page 4, Column 4MORTUARY - Alfred Rush Tate
Alfred Rush Tate, son of Lee Tate and Sarah, his wife, was born on the 13th of February, the year 1850, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Sarah Eberhardt, mother of the deceased, was born January 2, 1807, daughter of Adolph Eberhardt, staff officer to General Lafayette. Lee Tate, father of the deceased, was born August 10, 1802, in Virginia. The family moved to Oskaloosa in 1865, where the father passed away in 1872 on his 70th birthday.
A. R. Tate was the youngest of eleven children, born to this union. He was educated in the district schools of Fayette, Mahaska county, and in 1874 moved to Madison county, where he settled on a small parcel of rough land. This has been added to, improved and successfully operated until the present time.
On the 2nd of November 1880, Mr. Tate was united in marriage with Miss Artiemecia Gee, who was born in Davis county of the marriage of William Gee and Mary Elizabeth Barkley Gee. To A. R. Tate and his wife were born six children, five of whom survive: Ralph Arthur, Fontana, California; Edith Rhyno of Des Moines; Beth Stevens of Indianapolis; Helen Sproul of Des Moines and Alfred Lee of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Gladys Hazzlewood died October 21, 1929. Mrs. Tate also survives her husband.
Mr. Tate was a member of the Presbyterian church and active for many years in the Masonic order. On November 24, 1932, he was awarded life and honorary membership in the Masonic order in recognition of his 50 years of membership and service in Masonic and Eastern Star work.
He is survived by his wife, five children, eleven grandchildren and one great grandson.
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