This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mapes, Dennis, Ennis, Gates Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QFB.2ACE/1079.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The Kansas connection is intriguing. The second wife of the Silas Gates I am researching was Myra Nancy Mapes (widow of Byron Dennis). They were married in 1888. Also, 1880 US Census for Kansas, there is a Silas W. Gates, son of Albert and Agnes Gates, living in the same county as Myra and Byron Dennis.