This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bates, Wilson, Hopper Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4h.2ADI/1687 Message Board Post: Looking for info. on Alfred Bates who settled in Ripley County, IN, and his wife Margaret. Children included Jane, b 1818, married Lewis B. Wilson; Elizabeth, b 1821, George, b. 1823, Dorothea, b. 1824, Margaret, b. 1826, married Barnabas Hopper. He was in the War of 1812. Enlisted at Flemmingsburg, KY on 27 Jul 1812. He was in Capt. Richard Hightower's company, 17th US Infantry, Col. Well's Regiment. In 1813 he was in the Battle of the River Raisin & taken prisoner 22 Jan 1813. He was paroled at Fort George, Canada. Honorably discharged 28 Jan 1814 at Cincinnati, OH. Pension #14246.