Hello, Sandy! I am in contact with my uncle, Boyd Tate, in Layton, UT. You have talked to Boyd, haven't you? Boyd and I worked together to conclude that Joseph Laurence Tait must have had two wives, "Miss Martha Bartlett", whom he married in 1844 in Sparta, Hancock, GA, being the second. We believe that the first wife must have died in child birth, of Martha Jane Tate in 1843. We're trying to verify that the subject Martha Branch was the first wife.