The Tate Exodus from Clark Co, Kentucky, to Iowa and Missouri

In 1851, Waddy Tate, his wife Rutha, and their five unmarried children ages 7, 9, 14, 18, and 19 trekked the 600 miles from Clark Co, Kentucky, to Davis Co, Iowa. It appears that Waddy's three married daughters and their families were part of the emigration: Eliza and Preston Anderson and their five children ages 3, 4, 8, 10 and 11; Ann and James Anderson (Preston's brother) and their five children ages 2, 3, 6, 8, and 10; and following four years later, Amanda and Amos Norton with their two children ages 2 and 3.
Within ten years, Waddy's five Kentucky-born children who were single in 1851 met and married their spouses in Davis Co, Iowa. After Waddy's wife Rutha died in 1860, he moved with his son Richard to Macon Co, Missouri, a mere 40 miles south. In 1870, the families of Waddy's eight children in Iowa and Missouri were enumerated as follows:
* Eliza and Preston Anderson seem to have died, but their five Kentucky-born children are probably in Iowa
* Ann and James Anderson live in Davis Co, Iowa - 16 children;
* Amanda and Amos Norton live in Appanoose Co, Iowa - 5 children
* Richard Tate and wife Mary live in Macon Co, Missouri, with their 13 children; Waddy lives with a granddaughter
* Rutha and Isaac Edwards live in Davis Co, Iowa - 9 children
* Martha and Zephaniah Rogers live in Appanoose Co, Iowa - 3 children
* Elizabeth and George G. Phillips ? Missouri or Kansas
* Euphania and Sylvester Bailey live in Davis Co, Iowa - 5 children
When Waddy and his son Richard and family moved to Macon County in 1863, they would have been welcomed by the several families of Waddy's brothers Simpson and William, and sister Susannah Tate Miller, already there. Susannah and Maxey Miller and family were in Missouri by 1831; Simpson Tate and family moved to Missouri in the 1830s; William Tate and family in the 1840s.
In 1860 then, Waddy's siblings already in Macon Co, Missouri, were enumerated as follows:
* Simpson and Lucy Tate live in Liberty Twp, Macon Co - 2 of 9 children still at home; the other 7 nearby
* Susannah and Maxey Miller live in Independence Twp, Macon Co - 4 of 7 children at home; the other 3 nearby
* William and Elvina Tate live in La Plata Twp, Macon Co - 8 children at home
Waddy's sister-in-law Sophia Tate and five of her 10 children with Richard were in Buchanan Co, Missouri, in 1850 (Richard was back in Kentucky). Waddy's brother Thomas Jefferson Tate and wife Armilda and their 8 children moved to Clay Co, Missouri, in the 1860s; Waddy's brother-in-law David Oldham, widower of Waddy's sister Martha, moved to Newton Co, Missouri, at about the same time, along with Martha's 4 children. Waddy's Aunt Ede and William Poston were early pioneers in Missouri, moving there shortly after it became a state in 1820; they had eight children in St Francois Co in 1840.
Thus only four of Waddy's 12 siblings remained to die in Kentucky: John (d 1855), Nancy (d 1889), Zedekiah (d abt 1870), and Zachariah (d aft 1878).