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/482.1.1.2.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Vicki, I appreciate the information you supplied. I am a Wahkiakum County, Washington resident, researcher and the Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum curator (volunteer). My main emphasis is how families relate to our Wahkiakum County history. It is really tempting to do large portions of family genealogies but there just isn't time so I usually check when they arrived in Oregon or Washington and when they migrated to our county and whose reacords and when they left as well as their death location. The date that Cynthia York Gates drowned in the Columbia River in Cathlamet, Washington is a hard one, July 1874 because we had no newspapers in our area and may have to check microfilm for Portland or Astoria to verify her death. If she was buried in the Cathlamet Pioneer Cemetery she may have had a wooden marker and it may have been missing when it was finally surveyed. --Kari Kandoll