This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gates, York Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5cB.2ACI/482.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Recently Martin Fenimore made an inquiry at the Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum regarding the Thomas Waterman Gates family and I'm checking my different county sources to see what I can find for him. I can track this family in our county by land records starting in 1872 and Martin says that Cynthia York Gates drowned in the Columbia River along with a 12 year old boy when the steamboat left the Cathlamet, Washington dock. I have not found any death or cemetery records in our county for her yet. I would appreciate any information on this family for our museum genealogy section.