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Submitted by: Vlouise Helmer
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Husband: Edmund Uriah GATES
Birthdate: 8 Jul 1832
Birthplace: Holmes County, Ohio
Death date: 7 Jan 1917
Place of death: Flagler, Kit Carson County, Colorado
Father: Oliver Uriah GATES
Mother: Catherine WEBB

Marriage date: 1 Oct 1856
Marriage place: Wapello County, Iowa

Wife: Harriet A. SPONSLER
Birthdate: 1834
Birthplace: Ohio
Death date: Apr 1884
Place of death: Beattie, Marshall County, Kansas
Father: John Jacob SPONSLER
Mother: Charity HALL

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Alexander Z GATES
Sex: M
Birthdate: 2 Jul 1857
Birthplace: Polk, Wapello County, Iowa
Death date: 26 May 1928
Place of death: Robinson, Brown County, Kansas
Marriage date: 2 Nov 1879
Marriage place: Kansas
Spouse's name: Sarah Catherine ROOT

Child No. 2: Sarah F. GATES
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1880
Birthplace: Lancaster, Atchison County, Kansas
Death date: 9 Jan 1938
Place of death: Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado
Marriage date: 24 Feb 1878
Marriage place: Robinson Atchison County, Kansas
Spouse's name: John A. WHITE

Child No. 3: Handford J. GATES
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1862
Birthplace: Iowa
Death date: aft 1880
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Child No. 4: Levi A. GATES
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1865
Birthplace: Iowa
Death date: aft 1880
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Child No. 5: George O. GATES
Sex:
Birthdate: Aug 1870
Birthplace: Iowa
Death date: aft Jan 1938
Place of death:
Marriage date: abt 1889
Marriage place: Kansas
Spouse's name: Elizabeth H. unknown

Child No. 6: Catherine GATES
Sex: F
Birthdate: 9 Jan 1878
Birthplace: Tecumseh, Nebraska
Death date: 1) Mr. SPEES
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Documentation:
Census: 1850 Indiana;
1856, 1860, 1870 Wapello County Iowa;
1880 Brown and Atchison Counties Kansas;
1900, 1910 Kit Carson County Colorado;
Marriage records Wapello County Iowa;
BLM land patent;
Obituary Flagler News, 1917;
Civil War roster Iowa Volunteers,
pension and service records Levi, Edmund, James GATES;
research of descendants L. Hubbard, D. Searles;
District Court Wapello County records 1887, 1894;
Wapello land deeds.