Hi, Andrea!
My mom is Janet Kates McCrum. Her parents were Paul D. Kates and Erma Jeanette Wilkins of Woodbury NJ (and later Charleston WV and Swainton NJ). Paul's parents were John Kates and Myrtle Anna Rugh. Paul was born in Philly but raised in Woodbury and Cape May (Swainton) he had at LEAST one sister, Annette Maria (Nettie). My mom knew Aunt Nettie, and my grandfather died in '92, but John was absent from their lives from the time my grandfather was very young. Myrtle died in 1939 so my mother never knew her. They're all buried in a cemetary about two miles down from the turn off route9 to Avalon NJ (sorry can't remember cemetary name). But our old home is the white house across from the Wawa on Rt.9 in Swainton next to the road leading to Avalon. Myrtle took in boarders in the early 1900s. Evidently we also owned "Kates' Corner" further north on Route 9.
Don't know if you can connect any of this, but I thought I'd offer it. I am looking for ANY info you might have about my line as well. Thanks!
WHitney