This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.henry/3057.1.3.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Forgot to say Mary Wommack nee Oates was in Henry County Alabama in 1879. She was listed in the Henry County Alabama Marriage Records for that year. Julia Oates was also listed on the 1880 census for Henry County Alabama. There is a rumor in the family that Colonel William Calvin Oates sired children from either slaves or sharecroppers in the 1860s while living in Abbeville, Alabama.