To all: My Orange CO NC lines that are known to me are CATE/S - HORN- McGEE. I really would appreciate any assistance on them. CATE/S - I am descended from William Cates who m. Frances McGee 12 of June 1797. Th bm was Henry Hunt. I have no other information on the McGee line other than Frances was b. abt 1780. William Cates was b abt 1776 in OJ CO but I have been unable to determine who his parents were. Some think his father was Benjamin Cate m. Mary _ and others think it was Lazarus m. Margaret __. It was suggested that I obtain copies of the marriage bond of Wm and Frances and compare Wm's mark with the mark a Wm made on Benjamin's will of 1798, to see if it would show that the Wms were one and the same. The marks did not appear to be similar to me and they were made just a few months apart. Perhaps there is someone out there that is researching the above Wm and Frances that may have more data than I have. Norwood Cates was the son of Wm and Frances. He was b abt 1815 in OJ CO. He married Elizabeth Adeline HORN on 21 May 1841 in Oj CO NC. The bm were David Whitaker and Moses Leathers, Jr. In 1858 David Whitaker was given the Power of Atty to represent Norwood in the settlement of his father's estate in Oj CO. (Norwood was then a resident of Rutherford CO TN). I have not been able to find any HORN family to associate my Elizabeth Adeline HORN with. HORN - the only possible Horns that I have found that might have been related to Elizabeth Adeline was the following: James F. Horn m. Elizabeth Whiteker 14 Oct 1845 Oj CO with Norwood's brother, Lazarus Cates as the bm. ( I think James might have been her brother). Then there was James HORN who m. Elizabeth REDDING 4 Apr 1810 with Stephen Redding as the bm. Due to the names James and Elizabeth I think this could be the parents of the James who m. in 1845 and my Elizabeth Adeline. I would like contact with anyone researching the HORN family. Regards, Bettye ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange List archives are at http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver/NCORANGE-L/97/