Mary WILLIAMS

Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown

Family 1: Fellows GATES

(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.

Mary [WILLIAMS] GATES is married to Fellows GATES, head of household. She is 54 years old and was born in Massachusetts. Children in the household are Rachel, George, Caroline and Mary.

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

Mary [WILLIAMS] GATES is married to Fellows GATES, head of household. She was born in Massachusetts, is 64 years old, and is keeping house. Their son Freeman and wife live two households away.

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

Mary [WILLIAMS] Gates is 73 years old and born in Massachusetts. Her father was born in Connecticut and her mother was born in Massachusetts. She is keeping house and is married to Fellows GATES. There are no other individuals listed in the household.

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

- This source includes a rather comprehensive 27-page review of Fellows GATES and his descendants.
- "She was a native of Massachusetts, but had lived a good part of her life in Canada, till about thirty years ago, when they settled..." in Ionia Co., MI.
- "She had been a professor of religion for more than half a century, and was up to the time of her death, one of the most active workers in the Freewill Baptist Church."

(5) "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. THOREP; Nathan; Freeman; George; Elizabeth; Mrs. W. CARBAUGH; and Caroline, Mrs. LEFFINGWELL..."