I am so glad to find someone who knows about my Gates...actually, I wasn't sure there were any still living there. My grandmother was Irene Gates..born in 1898 and died in 1985. Her parents were Jacob Marion Gates/Nancy Jane Thomas. I posted a photo of their family of 7 children on the Green Co. web page. My grandmother married Richard Neal Compton but they were only married about a year when he died...leaving her in 1914 a 16 year old widow with a 3 month old son ---my dad. My grandmother remarried and they moved to St. Louis where my dad grew up and I still live. Anyway, to make this even longer---my grandmother was very close to her Gates sisters but they died long ago...and I don't have many ties to any of their relatives now... I also have few Compton ties. We didn't even know any of them until my sister and I got interested in genealogy and went to Delaplaine in the early 1980s to say hello! to them! I have done a lot of genealogy on all those lines but would love to meet relatives still there!! Any information you could provide would be great. As I said, I know more about the people who lived 100-300 years ago than I do those alive now! Gail Compton