This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gates Sawyer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BOY.2ACIB/280.1 Message Board Post: Eric, I know yours is an older post but maybe you have new information. I am interested in Geo W. Gates and Martha Jane Neal. My grandmother (step)'s name was Martha Jane Gates b. 1883 in Jewell Co., Kansas. She married Jesse Eugene Sawyer b. 1870 in Iowa. They had 12 children....9 in Nebraska and 3 in Oregon. I have not been able to find their parents, but George and Martha Gates looked promising. There is the Jewell Co connection and the same name, Martha Jane. The census says that grandma's parents were born in Ohio.....whoever they were. Another bit of information I found is that Geo. W, was in the Penitentery at Leavenworth in 1880. Martha is alone in Jewell Co. She has 3 Gates children, 2 Loper children and a couple of grandkids.......so unless he got out before 1883 my grandmother doesn't belong to this family and I am still at a dead end. Thanks for reading through this. Margaret