This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ic.2ADI/1721.1 Message Board Post: My great great grandfather was born in Ohio, took his discharge in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and was in Geneva, Alabama in 1900. There was another William H Bates in Ohio near my great grandfather. Wonder why my great grandfather settled in the south, being from Ohio? Wouldn't be surprised if they were related. Town in Alabama was near the Georgia state line. Respectfully, Jerry White