The following information was submitted by Contributor Diana Bilger (50858914) on September 28, 2022:

"Catherine Goodner was the daughter of Jacob Goodner and Hester White (aka Esther Witt). She was born in 1804 in Kentucky and she died in 1841 in Dearborn County, Indiana not long after the birth of her 5th child who was born in December 1840. She married William Simpson Pate on January 9, 1827 in Dearborn County, Indiana. She and her husband had 5 children -- George (b. 1831); Rhoda (b. 1833); Rosanna (b. 1837); Rachel (b. 1838); and Mary (b. 1840). Although her death date has not been confirmed, her husband married his 2nd wife in June 1842, thus, Catherine is believed to have died in 1841. Catherine was NOT buried in Vermilion County, IL. Her husband and children did not move to Illinois until sometime between 1860 - 1870 so it is more likely that Catherine was buried somewhere in Dearborn County or Ohio County, Indiana."

Discussion:

While records do indicate that the Pate-Goodner household was settled in Indiana for years before and after Catherine's death, that does not mean definitively that she died in Dearborn County or that she was not buried in Illinois. FamilySearch Contributor Curtis Lynn Older has shared a well reference chapter on Catherine's father, Jacob--including information about Catherine and her siblings (web address given below). Among other things we see that Catherine's father, uncle and at least two siblings had numberous land transactions in Vermillion County, Illinois starting in the early 1830's--so it is possible that she could have been visiting there at the time of her death. It is also possible that she was reinterred after her family moved there.

Please note that I have not been able to verify the place of death, and I am aware that the parent memorials are problematic as they have "burial details unknown," but I decided to accept these suggested edits anyway. I will be happy to make futher edits should better information/options be sent my way.

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The following information was submitted by Contributor Diana Bilger (50858914) on October 12, 2022:

Here is some additional information regarding whether it is more likely that Catherine (Goodner) Pate was buried in Indiana v. Illinois. First, Catherine's last child's, her daughter Mary Ann (Pate) Cox's, obituary (from The Little River Monitor dated 7/10/1913) stated the following: "Mary Ann Pate was born December 25, 1840 in Ohio County, Indiana." Additionally, the 1840 census listed Catherine's husband, Catherine, and their 5 children as living in Dearborn County, Indiana. (Dearborn County is the county adjacent to Ohio County.) Therefore, Catherine Pate was definitely living in Indiana in late 1840 when her daughter was born. Second, Catherine Pate's husband married his 2nd wife on June 9, 1842 in Dearborn County, Indiana. Thus, he was in Indiana in 1842 just six months after Catherine's death if she died on December 11, 1841 in Illinois. Third, the documentation that has been cited as the source of Catherine's death as taking place in Vermilion County, Illinois is the book "The Goodner Family" by Hubert Wesley Lacy written in 1960. This book does have some errors in its facts. For example, the book states that Catherine Goodner and her husband were married on January 18, 1827 in Vermilion County, Illinois. This is incorrect. There is a marriage record in Dearborn County, Indiana that states that Catherine Goodner and William Simpson Pate were married on January 9, 1827 in Dearborn County, Indiana. Thus, if the only written documentation for Catherine's death/burial is from that book, it may also be in error. Fourth, there has also been a statement that after Catherine's husband moved to Vermilion County, Illinois, he may have taken her body from Indiana to be reinterred Illinois. That seems highly unlikely. Catherine's husband did not move to Vermilion County, Illinois until 1865. (In the 1850 census he was living in Ohio County, Indiana and in an 1863 tax list, he was living in the town of Patriot, Indiana. Catherine's husband first shows up in written documentation as living in Vermilion County, Illinois in a special 1865 census. Thus, he would have moved from Indiana to Illinois in 1864. If he had dug up Catherine's body and taken it with him to Illinois, this means that Catherine's body would have been in the ground for 23 years at the time it was dug up. Also, Catherine's husband had been married to his 2nd wife for 22 years and they had had 4 children. To me, it seems very unusual for a man to dig up his 1st wife's body after that many years. Due to all of the facts above, I still believe that Catherine (Goodner) Pate was buried in Indiana. I guess there is a slight possibility that after her daughter was born in December 1840, that the Pate family traveled to Illinois, Catherine died there in 1841, and then her husband immediately moved the entire family back to Indiana where he married his 2nd wife 6 months later. However, the only written documentation that Catherine and her husband were in Illinois in 1841, is the book which already has incorrect information about what state Catherine's and her husband's marriage took place so I'm not fully convinced the information about Catherine in that book is totally reliable.