This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: yates Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Bd.2ADE/738 Message Board Post: I have located information about one of my ancestors, James C. Yates, who evidently established a plantation in Texas Court Ground near Franklin before the Civil War. What would this land have been? Does anyone have information about this? Thank you.