This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Yates, Tomlinson, Kent, Tutt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kkB.2ACE/84.295.1.1 Message Board Post: They are probably related. In fact, I may have your family in my dbase. I have a Vail Yates b. April 1895 son of Stephen Elijah Yates b 8/6/1869 in Texas and Laura O. Tutt. Stephen Elijah Yates was the son of John Stephen Yates b 1841, TX and Sarah J. (Sallie) KENT Applewhite. John Stephen Yates was the son of Stephen Yates b ca 1805 NC and Nancy Tomlinson