This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gates, Dennis, Mapes, Stephenson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BOY.2ACIB/1403 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on Silas S. Gates, a farmer in Barry County, MI. He had an older sister named Louisa whose married name was Stephenson. She is widowed and living with him on the 1920 Census for Barry County, along with her son, Roy Gates. On the 1910 Census, Silas is married to Mira N. Gates, and they have two teenage sons from her first marriage, George and Bertus Dennis, and two adopted daughters, Frances and Lillian Gates. I think Silas and Mira were married in 1900, but I haven't found a marriage record. She was the former Myra Mapes Dennis, daughter of Albert Dennis of Barry County.