Hello, Thank you for welcoming me to the Bates site. I am looking for any relation of my husband's grandfather, whom he was named for. John Winslow Bates was born on 7-29-1905, in Lansing, Mi. He and his wife, Marcella, who was born in New York State, worked at Ford, in Detroit, until they retired. She still lives in central Michigan, but he died at 85, on 12-15-90. We also learned, from Grandpa, that HIS Grandma Bates was the daughter of a Cherokee chief. We were unable to learn her name. We also have been told that, even though Jackson and Lansig, Mi., are very near each other, no one named Bates could have been born there and related to my John's Grandpa John. Siubmitted by Polli Bates on 4-15-00.