Hoping some new folks are on the list...so am reposting. Lucretia BATES b. 1803 d. 1884, husband may have been Reuben. Son William had at least one child, Homer BATES b. 1869 m. Mary Ellen TIFFANY. Their ch: Ada, Edward, Ida, Homer H., Albert, Russell, Mary Ellen and Floyd Alfred my father-in-law b. 1814. Homer was b. in Canaan and Mary Ellen in Hillsdale, she was the dau of Edward and Nancy TIFFANY. Any help with these families would be much appreciated. Thank you. Loretta Bates