This particular person, Thomas Francis McBride, born July 1882, is my grandfather. He was born in Paterson, Passaic County, NJ. His parents are James McBride, born in New Jersey around 1860 and Ann Ruddy McBride born in 1858 in Ireland. My grandfather died in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia in 1939. My grandmother was Rosa Lee Harris McBride. My father was one of three boys and four girls born to Rosa and Thomas McBride.