Looking for any connection if any of Wade Bates and Ephriam Bates of Rutherford and McDowell Counties NC.
Also if there is a connection between these families and a Waightstil Avery. Ephriam Madison Bates named one of his sons Avery Wastsil Bates.

Ephriam Madison Bates married a Cyntha Hunter 1844 in Rutherford County NC.

Humphrey Bates married a Rachel Mitchell in 1788 in Rutherford Co., NC., are these families connected?

Thanks
James