This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ua.2ADI/420.1 Message Board Post: JoEllen, the Bates family in Dade County were well known during their life time here. I did not find an Eva Bates on our censuses, 1870 and 1880. For Eva's father to have been listed as a "full blood" Cherokee both parents would have had to have been full bloods OR his mother a full blood. Have you checked any of the rolls? Sue