This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/9233.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi! John B Crates 1836 - 1910 is the father of John Valentine Crates 1892 - 1948. Emily A. Crates 1842 -1888 is John B's first wife. John Valentine's mother, Annette Stratton Crates Olmstead is buried in the Westfield Cemetery with her second husband, Hoyt Palmer Olmstead. John Valentine Crates is buried not to far from his mother and step-father. Iva M. Crates mother Adeline Stratton Butts was a sister to Annette. John Valentine and Iva M. Butts Crates were my husbands aunt and uncle. Julia