This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bates, Seale Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JS.2ADE/401.393.410.1 Message Board Post: I don't have anything on your Eliza Ann Bates. Baalam Bates did have a dtr. named Rachel Elizabeth. His children were born after 1830. I believe he had a brother named Standmore, though unconfirmed, also in Lowndes Co. according to land holdings and census records. They were from SC.