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Bessie E Smith Bates

Birth: 25 Nov 1899
Death: 24 Sep 1967 (aged 67)
Burial: Smithtown Baptist Church Cemetery

Smithtown, Mobile County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
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Roman H Bates

1896–1965 (m. 1918)

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Roy Lee Bates

1929–2016

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