This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GATES - WILLISON - LATHANE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QFB.2ACE/1079.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Just by way of information, according to the 1978 Hope Twp. MI History, "William Gates, b. 1858, the son of Noah Gates and Mary (Lathane) Gates of Barry County, MI spent 2 years in Kansas as a young man." I don't know if this would be a clue in any ties to the Iowa Gates family. (I have no family ties - the Glenn Gates family were Hope Twp., Barry County, MI neighbors). The Hope Twp. History does have information and pictures of the William and Clara (Willison) Gates family and home on Lammers Road, Hope Twp., Barry Co., MI.