Ypsilanti Gates was born 7/3/1830 in Chautauqua Co., NY, and is found in the 1850 census in Mercer Co., IL, living with the family of Seth Gates (most likely her brother) and his wife Lydia. She married William Sutton 3/10/1858 in Mercer Co., IL, and died 12/9/1893, buried in Mercer County. The 1880 census indicates her parents were born in Massachusetts. Her name has appeared various ways in the census, such as Epsalina, Essaline, Epysalurto. Research did not turn up parents for Seth Gates, either. Born 11/2/1825 in New York, died 1877 in Illinois, married Lydia Beal Andrews 4/3/1845 in Warren Co., IL. I would like to know who her parents were. She has been said to be the daughter of Benjamin Gates (b. 1774 in CT or VT) and an unknown second wife (not Lydia Butler). It's certainly a possibility as Benjamin Gates died in nearby Hancock County, Illinois, perhaps about 1842, as well as his son Benjamin Butler Gates before the 1850 census. Shirley Siltala Tucson, AZ