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/BOY.2ACIB/1367.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Caren - thanks for this info. The Osman Preston Gates I have was b. Apr. 1861; I have his parents as Silas Cook Gates and his mother as Lactana Morris. My Osman (I love having an Uncle Os!) lived and died in Watseka, IL. Does any of this track with any info you may have? Osman and his wife Philonese Vaillancourt had three children, all born before the turn of the last century (duh) but my info is limited thenceforth. Lemme know if I am on the right track if these folks are related to those you are researching. Dee