Nancy: Thank you for your response. I'll give you some of what I know/believe. My mother's maternal grandmother was Mary Frances YATES who married George M (or W or E) NEWMAN on March 4, 1862 and they had five children. She was born May 2, 1841 in Kentucky and is said to have died around 1800. His family was Catholic, hers Protestant. This is family tradition and as yet I have no "proof" of anything except my sister-in-law's notes from the 1880 census: Spencer County District #2 Mt.Eden. Census Volume 26, ED 17 or 171, sheet 10, line 13 'Father George E. Newman, mother Mary F. Newman 38 KY: children in household Mary E. Newman 17 KY, Jery(?) 14 KY, Hallie 12 KY, Lawrence 6 KY, Nora B. 3 KY (Their daughter Hallie grew up to marry William Bell Milton of Spencer County and subsequently lived in Anderson County before heading to California in mid-life -- Hallie was my grandmother) What I need is more about the Yates, especially any in Spencer and/or Anderson counties -- neighbors to Mercer and Washington counties. Can you tell me William's parents -- he's of the same generation as Mary Frances. Byron Marshall NF wrote: > > Which William Yates do you have in your line? "My" William Yates married > a Susanna Rice in 1835; Eliza Sanford Kirkland in 1848. They lived in > Mercer and Washington Counties, KY.