This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gates,Jones,Thompson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BOY.2ACIB/584.762 Message Board Post: I am related to the Gates from Ms. also. Not sure if William is one of them. Go to Marion County Mississippi website, goto cemetaries, goto Mount Gilead Cemetary. There are graves of the Lott family here. Also( not listed) are Gates family graves. I have been to this cemetary and know they are there. If the names Patrick Gates b.1817 or John Quincey Gates b.1854 are names you have heard before please contact me by E-mail or call 251-987-1717 and ask for Steve. Thanks and good luck.