This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GATES, MAY, BULLON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BOY.2ACIB/1362.1 Message Board Post: Pamela, I know we have had contact in the past and tho we found no connection I just wanted to let you know that I too search for a Polly Gates, believed to be the daughter of Valentine Gates of Sumner Co. In 1850 I find her listed in the household of J.P. and Elizabeth Gates in Wayne Co IL. Her father (believed to be, is also listed). Valentine seems to have lived in Sumner Co till I loose him about 1890. He would be quite old by then as he was born about 1810. Valentine married Anna May in Sumner Co TN in the summer of 1830. I believe Polly to be their daughter. Anna appears to have died by 1840. Good luck with your search.