This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gates Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BOY.2ACIB/1372 Message Board Post: I am trying to find any information on the Gates family from Burke County, NC from 1850 to 1960. George Gates is my great Grandfather and I cannot find any records of him before his death in 1943. The name of the town he lived in was known as the Silver Creek Township (Morganton,NC)