Samuel Gates Jr.

Samuel Gates Jr. was born on January 23, 1783, in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and died on October 23, 1870, in Lunenburg, Vermont. He was the father of George William Gates, who was born in Lunenburg, Vermont, on March 5, 1807, and died on July 5, 1890, in Independence. Samuel Gates Jr. was also the grandfather of George Porterfield Gates, born on April 2, 1835, in Lunenburg, Vermont, and who died on June 25, 1918, in Independence, Missouri. George Porterfield Gates was the father of Margaret Elizabeth Gates, born August 4, 1862, in Independence, Missouri, and who died December 5, 1952, in Washington, D.C. Margaret Elizabeth Gates was the mother of Bess Truman, the wife of Harry S. Truman, the President of the United States from 1945 to 1953.