This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roberts, Gates, Davenport Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BOY.2ACIB/1451.4 Message Board Post: My great grandfather was Ira A. Gates born 19 July 1823 on the Huntington Farm, in Ridge Mills [a suburb of Rome] in Oneida County, New York. He died in 1904 in Rome. He had two daughters, Frances and Isabella. Could this be the family of the bible?