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William Harvey Bates

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William Harvey Bates

Birth
Lamar County, Texas, USA
Death
17 Jan 1935 (aged 59)
Lamar County, Texas, USA
Burial
Paris, Lamar County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 03-02-05
Memorial ID
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Husband of Nannie Gertrude Gramley Bates.

Father of Lucille, Gladdis and Thomas A. Bates.

Maternal grandparents were Simeon and Penelope Kirkpatrick.

His WWI Draft Registration Card, a legal document, has his name and signature as William Harvey Bates. His parents used Harvey in early census records and he used William H. in the 1910 and 1930 census'. Harvey is used on his stone.

Obituary published 18 Jan 1935 in "The Paris News", Paris, Texas:

"W. H. BATES DIES THURSDAY EVENING

William Harvey Bates died at 6 o'clock Thursday evening at his home on North First-and-a-Half Street, where he had been seriously ill this week.

The funeral was announced for 3 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Manton-Fry Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. J. Roby Ward, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, assisted by the Rev. Ben F. Browning of Bonham Street Methodist Church, burial being at Evergreen cemetery.

Mr. Bates, who was 59 years old, had lived in Paris many years and had engaged in business here as a cotton buyer.

Survivors are his widow, three children, Mrs. Clifford Barnes and Mrs. Frank Campbell of Paris and Thomas A. Bates of Fort Worth; two sisters, Mrs. Percy Garrett of Fort Worth and Mrs. Frank Jackson of Lawton, Oklahoma, and one brother, Joe Bates of Paris."
Husband of Nannie Gertrude Gramley Bates.

Father of Lucille, Gladdis and Thomas A. Bates.

Maternal grandparents were Simeon and Penelope Kirkpatrick.

His WWI Draft Registration Card, a legal document, has his name and signature as William Harvey Bates. His parents used Harvey in early census records and he used William H. in the 1910 and 1930 census'. Harvey is used on his stone.

Obituary published 18 Jan 1935 in "The Paris News", Paris, Texas:

"W. H. BATES DIES THURSDAY EVENING

William Harvey Bates died at 6 o'clock Thursday evening at his home on North First-and-a-Half Street, where he had been seriously ill this week.

The funeral was announced for 3 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Manton-Fry Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. J. Roby Ward, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, assisted by the Rev. Ben F. Browning of Bonham Street Methodist Church, burial being at Evergreen cemetery.

Mr. Bates, who was 59 years old, had lived in Paris many years and had engaged in business here as a cotton buyer.

Survivors are his widow, three children, Mrs. Clifford Barnes and Mrs. Frank Campbell of Paris and Thomas A. Bates of Fort Worth; two sisters, Mrs. Percy Garrett of Fort Worth and Mrs. Frank Jackson of Lawton, Oklahoma, and one brother, Joe Bates of Paris."


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