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/BOY.2ACIB/1460.1 Message Board Post: I believe I have seen that spelling Elihu, used in a census that was taken in Lawrence Co MO. I believe it was 1n 1860 or perhaps just after the war in 1870. I was researching my Gates line there and wondering if they went to TX after the war ended. I assumed it was a spelling mistake for the name Elijah. I am searching for my lost gr gr gr grandfather Michael Gates. He and his wife Catherine Ann Cline Gates (Caty Ann) seem to disappear from Lawrence county after 1860. Michaels sons fought for the southern cause and I do know some of the confederate sympathizers removed MO to TX