WILLIAM EDWARD GATES  -  July 28, 1851

The children of William Edward never knew what their birth years were.  He kept changing them around trying to insure they would not be drafted into the Army.  As a matter of fact, they probably would not have been drafted as their eyesight was so bad.  William Edward, the father of Mary DeLillian Gates Simmons, was considered to be a lazy man by the family