Fellows GATES

Father: Elias GATES
Mother: Polly //

Family 1: Mary WILLIAMS

(1) J. Smith family records, February 10, 2002.

  1. Elias GATES
  2. Rachel GATES
  3. Nathan GATES
  4. Freeman GATES
  5. George GATES
  6. Elizabeth GATES
  7. Caroline GATES
  8. Sarah GATES
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Notes

Updated December 13, 2013. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) 1860 United States Census for Michigan, Ionia Co., Orange (Orange Post Office): Page 312, September 22, 1860.

Fellows GATES is head of household, married to Mary [WILLIAMS] GATES. He is 58 years old, a farmer with real estate valued at $800 and personal estate valued at $300, and was born in Vermont. Children in the household are Rachel, George, Caroline and Mary.

(2) 1860 United States Agricultural Census for Michigan, Ionia Co., Orange Twp., Orange Post Office: page 87; June 1, 1860.

- Name: Fellows GATES
- Improved Acres: 15
- Unimproved Acres: 25
- Cash Value of Farm: $800
- Value of Farming Implements: $10
- Milk Cows: 4
- Working Oxen: 2
- Other Cattle: 2
- Swine: 1
- Value of Livestock: $185
- Indian Corn, Bushels: 40

(3) 1870 United States Census for Michigan, Ionia Co., Orange Twp., Ionia Post Office: page 6; June 2, 1870.

Fellows GATES is head of household, married to Mary [WILLIAMS] GATES. He was born in Vermont, is 68 years old, and a farmer with real estate valued at $1,500 and personal estate valued at $350. He is eligible to vote. Their son Freeman and wife live two households away.

(4) 1870 United States Agricultural Census for Michigan, Ionia Co., Orange Twp., Ionia Post Office: page 3; June 1, 1870.

- Name: Fellows GATES
- Improved Acres: 20
- Woodland Acres: 20
- Cash Value of Farm: $1500
- Value of Farming Implements: $20
- Horses: 2
- Milk Cows: 1
- Other Cattle: 3
- Sheep: 8
- Value of Livestock: $160
- Winter Wheat, Bushels: 20
- Indian Corn, Bushels: 50

(5) LDS FamilySearch 1880 United States Census database for Orange, Ionia Co., MI. Family History Library Film 1254584, NA Film Number T9-0584, Page 243C.

Fellows GATES is 78 years old and born in Vermont. His parents were both born in Connecticut. He is head of household, a farmer, and married to Mary [WILLIAMS] GATES. There are no other individuals listed in the household.

(6) 1880 United States Agricultural Census for Michigan, Ionia Co., Orange: Supervisor's District 2; Enumeration District 99; page 3; June 16-17, 1880.

- Name: Fellows GATES
- Tilled Land: 32 acres
- Unimproved Land: 8 acres
- Value of Farm: $2000
- Value of Implements: $75
- Value of Livestock: $240
- Cost of Building and Repairing (1879): $10
- Wages Paid for Farm Labor (1879): $20
- Estimated Value of All Farm Production (1879): $574
- Acres Mown: 6
- Acres Hay: 8
- Horses: 2
- Milk Cows: 2
- Other Cattle: 1
- Cows Purchased: 1
- Cattle Hold Living: 3
- Pounds of Butter: 275
- Swine: 1
- Barnyard Poultry: 7
- Dozens of Eggs: 45
- Oats: 1 acre; 25 bushels
- Wheat: 20 acres; 418 bushels
- Apples: 1 acre; 25 trees; 10 bushels; value $3
- Wood: 15 acres cut; value $10

(7) Michigan, Deaths and Burials Index, 1867-1995 via Ancestry.com

- Name: Fellows GATES
- Birth Date: abt 1803
- Birth Place: Vermont
- Death Date: 16 Feb 1893
- Death Place: Orange, Ionia, Michigan
- Death Age: 90
- Occupation: Farmer
- Race: White
- Marital Status: Widowed
- Gender: Male
- Father Name: Elias GATES
- Mother Name: Polly GATES
- FHL Film Number: 960506

(8) J. Smith family records, February 10, 2002.

- This source includes a rather comprehensive 27-page review of Fellows GATES and his descendants.
- Fellows GATES was the son of Elias and Polly GATES, both of Connecticut.
- He "... was born in Vermont in 1802, married Mary WILLIAMS in 1827, and moved to near Niagara Falls, New York, thence to Buffalo, NY, thence to Camden, Ontario. In 1855 he settled in the Township of Orange, Ionia County, Michigan where he died Jan. 15, 1893."
- "The GATES family lie in Tuttle Cemetery... Orange, Ionia County , located on Kelsey highway W. of M66"

(9) "Portrait Biographical Album of Ionia and Montcalm Counties, Mich." Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1891, pages 432 -435. Portrait of Elias GATES.

"ELIAS GATES who resides on section 29, Orange Township, Ionia County, is the son of Fellows GATES, a native of Vermont, who was born in 1802. The grandfather of Elias was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Fellow GATES, a native of Massachusetts, bore the maiden name of Mary WILLIAMS. After her marriage to Mr. GATES in 1826 they resided for years in Canada. Then for five years in New York before returning to Canada. They came to Michigan in 1855, and settled on a heavily timbered farm in the wilderness, and taking up forty acres began clearing it. The father remained on this land for thirty-six years, but has never voted here. His wife died in 1881 at the age of seventy-five years. She was a member of the Free Will Baptist Church. All of their eight children are now living. Our subject; Rachel; Mrs. W. BARBER; Sallie; Mrs. THORPE; Nathan; Freeman; George; Elizabeth; Mrs. W. CARBAUGH; and Caroline, Mrs. LEFFINGWELL..."