When Thomas Gates was born on 8 January 1833, in London District, Upper Canada, British North America, his father, Hiram Gates, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Maria Sayles, was 24. He married Maria Emidia Tomasa Prudhomme on 28 December 1870, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Hornitas, Mariposa, California, United States in 1860 and Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States in 1880. He died on 13 March 1896, in Yuma, Yuma, Arizona, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
On May 27, 1850, a tornado came through Nauvoo and took the remaining outer walls of the temple. It was the most frightful thing the city had witnessed. Not just a tornado but also lightening, thunder, wind, hail and rain assailed the spot. Over time what was not destroyed by the storm crumbled until only a small amount was left.
English: variant of Gate with plural or excrescent -s. The English surname Gate has three possible origins: (i) a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘gate’ (Old English geat, dative plural gatum), denoting someone who lived by a gate or set of gates (possibly sometimes an occupational name for a gate keeper; compre Yates); (ii) in northern England, the East Midlands, and East Anglia, a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘street, road, path’ (Old Norse gata) for someone who lived by a road (compare Street ); (iii) a nickname meaning ‘goat’, from northern Middle English gate, gait (Old English gāt, Old Norse geitr).
Americanized form of German Götz (see Goetz ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Barrière (see Barriere ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesCHARLES HENRY GATES, son of Hiram Gates, and Sarah Maria Sayles was born 12 March 1828 in London District, Upper Canada. Henry was the second child and first son born to this union. Hiram Gates, …
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