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/CFC.2ACI/291.572.1 Message Board Post: Thomas David Gates was born on 29 Aug. 1820 and was the second son of Thompson Gates who had a grant for 40 acres on Tucker's Creek in Wirt County. Thompson Gates is buried in a private graveyard about 2 miles from Elizabeth, West Virginia (in Wirt County). Thomas David Gates and his wife Eliza Anna Marsh are buried in the Spring Hill Cemetery at Charleston, West Virginia. According to their tombstone inscriptions, Thomas D. Gates died 6 May 1907, and his wife, Eliza Anna died in 1901. Alexander Perry Gates was born in 1842 and died 19 June 1923. He was a Charleston photographer. He and his wife Mary Leonard (1843 - 1920), had 2 children: Amelia Gates Proctor (1866 - 1952), and J. Leonard Gates (1874 - 1944). J. Leonard Gates continued the family photography business. Lovell C. Gates died on 15 July 1926. He came to Charleston, WV in December 1870 and operated a grocery business. Lovell was a drummer boy in 1864 with Co. E of the 141st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving under Capt. Rothgreb. Lovell's son, John C. Gates was the business manager of a newspaper in Missouri. Almond David Gates died 17 April 1933. He was the West Virginia State Treasurer for 8 years. He had 6 children by his first wife Clara, and 1 son by his second wife, India. His second son, McClain Tempeton Gates was a vaudeville performer. His third son, Chester M. Gates was a summer stock actor and a Fred Astaire dancer. (Chester's widow, died in March 1999 at the age of 101.) Almond D. Gates, youngest son, Alexander P. Gates, was an attorney, a colonel in War War II, and served as the president of the Charleston, WV Chamber of Commerce. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Charles Amos Gates (1858 - 1923) was also a Charleston, WV grocer. He and his wife, Clara, had two children. Their grandson, C. Bernard Gates, Jr. was a banker in Charleston, WV.