Plumas County Obituaries John Pate Submitted by Brad Sharpe This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter. All persons donating to this site retain the rights to their own work. Weekly Appeal � 6/18/1875, Pg. 5 Pacific Coast Items � John Pate, at Coldwater, Plumas county, died on May 30th, aged 66 years and 7 months. Also two days later, of the death of his son, George Pate, at the same place, aged thirty-five years and five months. The old gentleman had been for many years been a resident of Butte county, and was known to most of the inhabitants of Bidwell Township. The young man�s death was occasioned by a severe cold caught while swimming his horse across the mountain streams going for medical aid for his father.