1850 Census includes Oliver Uriah GATES, his wife Catherine HULL and five of their seven children.
SCHEDULE 1 - Free Inhabitants of Lawrenceburg Township in the County of Dearborn State of Indiana enumerated by me, on the 16th day of July 1850 (name illegible).
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GATES Oliver age 48 farmer Place of Birth Connecticut
GATES Catherine age 50 Place of Birth Connecticut
GATES Edmund age 18 Place of Birth Ohio
GATES Nancy age 20 Place of Birth New York
GATES Lucy age 17 Place of Birth Ohio
GATES James age 11 Place of Birth Ohio
GATES Levi age 10 Place of Birth Ohio
SOURCE: Ancestry.com 2010.
Their first born child, Samuel, born November 11, 1826, apparently went missing. Their second child, Mary Electa, born December 27, 1827, New York, would have been age 23 at the time of this 1850 Census. However, she married Thomas HADDOCK April 3rd,1845 and would appear in a different Census.
