This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hayes, Gates, Williams Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iJB.2ACE/652 Message Board Post: Does anyone around the Ripley area know my cousin? She is the niece of my grandmother Minnie Williams Hayes. My mother and her brothers would like to get in touch with her and her siblings as they have not heard from them in many years. Lois had a restaurant in the area and I don't think she was married. Lois mother was Dora Williams Hayes Gates (1898-1977) and father was James Wilson Hayes(1871-1946). Keeping my fingers crossed....................