Simon GATES

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Excerpt from "The New England and Historical and Genealogical Register": They removed to Westminster, Mass. His land was in the part of Westminster included in Gardner when that town was established. He served in the Crown Point Expedition under Capt. Abijah Hall, 15 May to 13 Dec. 1759. He was again in service the following year from 4 March to 27 Nov., under Capt. Silas Brown, in the campaign for the total reduction of Canada. In 1759 he was mentioned as a son of Amos Gates; residence, Stow. In his enlitment, 26 Feb. 1760, he was described as 21 years of age.

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In Memory Mr.
Simon Gates
who died March 11
1903 in the 64th
year of his age

Simon married Susannah REED on 27 May 1766 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co., Mass.. Susannah was born on 4 Dec 1745 in Woburn, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 18 Dec 1833 in Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abigail KNOWLTON. Abigail was born about 1772; died on 28 Jan 1855 in Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah TAYLOR. Sarah was born on 11 Apr 1779 in Ashburnham, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; died on 31 Jul 1863 in Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Phebe MOSMAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: ? MOSMAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Deborah GEARY. Deborah was born on 21 Oct 1790 in Sterling, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; died in 1846; was buried in Green Bower Cemetery, Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Abel Gates was the son of Nathan and Abigail (Knowlton) Gates of Gardner, Massachusetts. Abel was a corporal in the 5th Regiment, U.S. Army Regulars, from 1820 to 1825 during the Frontier Wars in the Michigan Territory. As lieutenant of the Fifth Rifle Regiment, Company C, he served under General Snellen in the war of 1812, participating in the battles of New Orleans and White Plains. At the close of the war he engaged in farming for four years, then in the packing business in Missouri. He married Mary Burns following his army service and first settled in Pike County, Missouri where all of there ten children were born. Later he lived in Cole County and finally in Adair County where he passed away.

Family/Spouse: Mary Jane BURNS. Mary was born on 5 Jun 1807 in Ireland; died in 1888 in Novinger, Adair Co., Missouri; was buried in Union Cemetery, Novinger, Adair Co., Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living in Westminster, Worcester Co., Washington

Family/Spouse: Betsey KEMP. Betsey (daughter of John KEMP and Sarah SHATTUCK) was born on 19 Apr 1802 in Pepperell, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 27 Dec 1886; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Asa RAY. Asa was born on 10 Jun 1798 in Westminster, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; died on 8 Feb 1870 in Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ann Maria JACKSON. Ann was born on 3 Jun 1814 in Westminster, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; died on 17 Jun 1902 in Westminster, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; was buried in Woodside Cemetery, Westminster, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nancy KEMP. Nancy (daughter of John KEMP and Sarah SHATTUCK) was born on 26 Aug 1814 in Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; died on 19 May 1896 in Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; was buried in Crystal Lake Cemetery, Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Simon married Laura Elvira BANCROFT on 23 May 1839. Laura was born in 1813 in Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; died on 7 Jun 1887 in Everett, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; was buried in New Cemetery, Ashburnham, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Horace married Louisa FAIRBANKS on 1 Jul 1852. Louisa was born on 7 May 1816 in Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; died on 21 Jun 1887 in Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dennis married Lucy P. WARE about 1848. Lucy was born in 1810 in Winchendon, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; died on 18 Oct 1883 in Westminster, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Gardner, Worcester Co., Massachusetts . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Samuel HALE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Amos P. SPAULDING. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abigail ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Living in Bee Branch, Chariton Co., Missouri
• Census: 1880, Living in Mt. Vernon, Whatcom Co., Washington
• Census: 1885, Living in Skagit Co., Washington
• Census: 1887, Living in Skagit Co., Washington
• Census: 1900, Living in Mt. Vernon, Skagit Co., Washington

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Much that recalls times of trouble for the American Union is suggested by the life of the late John B. Gates, one of the pioneers of Skagit county and Whidby island, who died January 12, 1905, after a career full of years of activity and of good deeds. At the time of his death Mr. Gates resided on the place he had cleared of the virgin forest and that is now the home of his widow and those of his children who still surround her. Mr. Gates was a native of Missouri, born in Pike county on October 6, 1831. His father was Abel Gates, a native of Massachusetts and son of Colonel Gates of Revolutionary fame. It was in the schools of Missouri that John B. Gates gained his education, and it was there also that he imbibed the spirit of loyalty to the cause of the Southern states in their great conflict with the American Union. the year 1862 found him enlisted in the Confederate army, in which he served throughout the war, rising to a sergeancy in his company.

At the close of the conflict he returned to his native state, bringing with him a bride of South Carolina, Sarah Turner, whom he had married at hamburg in the Palmetto state in the closing days of the Lost Cause. Mr. and Mrs. Gates resided in Missouri until 1871, when they came to Washington and took up a homestead near Mount Vernon, the place now sheltering Mrs. Gates and on which she has had many unusual experiences incident to pioneer life in a new country. For five years much of Mr. Gates' time was spent on Whidby island, working for others, but during that time he cleared twenty-three acres and commenced the orchard and meadow land home which was his until death. Robert Turner, the father of Mrs. Gates, was a native of Dublin, Ireland, coming to the United States with his parents when eighteen years of age. the Turners settled in Edgefield county, South Carolina, and resided there until his death. At the outbreak of the Civil war Mr. Turner cast his fortunes with those of the Confederacy and during the engagement resulting in the fall of Fort Sumter, received a wound from the effects of which he died. Mrs. Turner, the mother of Mrs. Gates, was a native of Wales, but came to South Carolina with her parents when a child. Mrs. Gates was born in South Carolina and received her education there. She was twenty-four years of age when she married. To the union ten children were born: John, Robert, Edwin, Lamora, Adaline and Dortha, all deceased; David and Henry A., at home, and two married daughters, Mrs. Mary L. Moore and Lillian M. Slosson, having homes, respectively, near Mount Vernon and on Whidby island. the family generally are Methodists, though David has embraced the Catholic faith. John B. Gates' widow is still living on the land which her husband wrested from its native state to become one of the farm homes of the Puget sound country. She vividly remembers her early days on that ground, the woods alive with wild beasts and recalls with distinctness the circumstances under which many of her domestic animals were carried off under her very eyes by the bears. She has lived to see the wilderness of trees turned into human habitations, the wild creatures disappear, and to note the work done by herself and her husband in effecting the transformation from forest to family fireside.

John married Sarah A. TURNER about 1865. Sarah (daughter of Robert TURNER and Louisa ?) was born on 26 Nov 1838 in Edgefield Co., South Carolina; died on 27 Mar 1909 in Mount Vernon, Skagit Co., Washington; was buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Skagit Co., Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary JAQUITH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter PERLEY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]