This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crittenden, Ates Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4gC.2ACE/816.1 Message Board Post: I have an ancestor, Frances Crittenden b. 1806 in St. Helena Parish, LA. She married Calvin Stephen Ates in LA. When he died in 1835, she moved to MS with her sons. Many family stories point to her having some sort of Choctaw connection. She died in Smith Co., MS in 1890. Do you know of this Frances? Thanks, Ann