This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cates/Thompson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hBB.2ACE/998.4.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks Kelly for looking for me. I have him there marrying a Cynthia Washburn but he is Alec Thompson by then. He supposed to have crossed the TN River, killed a man and changed his name to Thompson. He settled in Marshall Co as a Thompson but is a Rufus A Cates up until 1870 in Ballard Co., KY and after that I lose him until 1900. Just thought he may have been in Trigg Co-where some older ones of his kids(still living but can't remember cause they were too young them) thought he was and lived at Golden Pond. Thanks again and maybe he'll show somewhere. LOL.