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/1498 Message Board Post: My name is Angela Perez. My great-grandfather is Dan Jesse Gates . He is from Alabama. He left home at 14 and moved to Texas to live with his brother,Franklin Carter Gates who was married to Sarah Lee. My grandfather later married Margarette Kirby. She was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin Kirby and Matilda Powell. But, I would like to connect back to the Alabama Gates. My great-grandfather's mother may have been Native American. Any help would be appreciated.