When Gertie Marie Yates was born on 28 October 1909, in Hartselle, Morgan, Alabama, United States, her father, William Berry Yates, was 22 and her mother, Mary Davison, was 22. She married Clarence William Eugene Smith on 19 August 1933, in Morgan, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 10 June 1962, in Hartselle, Morgan, Alabama, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Hartselle, Morgan, Alabama, United States.
English: from Middle English yates ‘gates’, plural of yate, Old English geat ‘gate’, hence a topographic or occupational name for someone who lived by the gates of a town or castle and who probably acted as the gatekeeper or porter. Compare Gates . Alternatively, a variant of the singular form Yate, with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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