I need help finding the father of James Kelton Bates, who was born in Alabama in 1844. He was in the Tallapoosa County, AL census in 1850 along with his mother, Elizabeth Johnson Bates Clopton and her second husband, Martin Clopton. Elizabeth and James's father divorced sometime prior to 1848. There were Bates families in Autauga, a neighboring county. Does anyone have ancestors in that part of Alabama?