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/UeB.2ACI/1471.1 Message Board Post: My grandfather, James Davis Bates, is 97 years old and the youngest of 12 children from David Hoke Bates and Sally Elizabeth Barton Bates in Northern Greenville County.