Posted on: Ottawa County Ok Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Ottawa/10482 Surname: Gaines, Lavelle ------------------------- Barbara, none of those names ring a bell. But Sapulpa does. My ggrandfather was Enrique Gaines, when he left Tex. he abandoned my ggrandmohter living her with 3 small children. He changed his name to Henry Ginnis and lived in Ada, Ok where he married a woman by the name of Mary Ritchie and had 7 children with her, when she died he remarried her sister and had 8 children with her. He died in Norman Ok in the State Hopt. and is buried Kellyville near Sapulpa, Ok. Henry Gaines' father was Frank Gaines who is listed in the 1870 census as being from N.C. in this 1870 census he is with Josephine his wife. We haven't been able to trace him back any furthur than 1870 or have yet to find anymore info on this Josephine. She is listed as being from Mexico. Frank Gaines is listed in the 1880 census with wife Manuela DelToro also from Mexico. And Frank lists his father as being from Penn. and his mother from Scotland. They are listed in the 1880 census with their children : Joseph age 9,,Alice age 6,,Henry age 4 (my ggrandfather)Marcos (Mark) age 2,,Guadalupe Caroline age 1/12,, Angela born 1882,,Francisco born 1884,,Marie born 1887,,Petra Adelaida born 1889. Marcos (Mark) marries Juliana in 1898 In Texas and they have one child named Frank born in 1899. In later census his two youngest daughters list their father as being from Mass. I then finally find a Gaines family in Framington Mass with among their listed children one being a Franklin Gaines born around the time my gggrandfather would've been born. What else do you have on your Gaines line ?? Also, I have thru ancestry.com a Criminal Case File for a Henry Williams also know as Henry Gaines. Its in the Ft. Smith Criminal Case Files, dated 1866-1900. Western District of Arkansas. His crime adultery. Rose