Re: Clark Bates, Henry Bates, Massachusetts 1800-1860?
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Re: Clark Bates, Henry Bates, Massachusetts 1800-1860?
Julie Sisco 10/08/08
With the help of an incredible genealogy friend in Massachusetts, I've now learned a great deal. Clark was born (Henry) Clark Bates, son of William Henry Bates and Laura P. Prince, on Mar 13, 1837, and died Oct 4th, 1865 of typhoid.William Henry Bates' parents were Lebbeus Bates and his second wife, Melitiah Robbins.Laura Prince's parents wereWilliam Prince and Phamela Hall.Clark Bates had three siblings, Laura Jane Bates. Mary Ellen Bates, and Charles Franklin Bates.His father, William Henry Bates, had a brother, WilliamAlbert Bates (I know, confusing), and a sister, Mary Jane bates who had died at about age 8.William Albert Bates was married to Ora or Orry Hall.Wm Albert and Orry had children Edward Graham Bates, Alma Lillian Bates, and Martha Bates.
Following Clark's death, his wife Lucy Jane remarried, to a Francis Janes Parsons, and then died herself several years later, leaving her three Bates children orphans at ages 10. 12, and 14.Thanks to an identification on the picture of Lucy's sister-in-law, Celina Brewster, I am fairly certain that Celina and her husband ,Charles Brewster (Lucy's brother) finished raising Lucy and Clark's oldest daughter, Helen Brewster Bates.Although I am still in the dark about where son Winthrop Franklin Bates went, I now know that my g-grandmother Nettie Eugenia Bates, youngest child of Lucy and Clark, went to live with, and was adopted by, her maternal aunt, Mary Ellen Bates, and Mary's husband, Calvin Tower Bartlett, a butcher in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In addition, Calvin was in a business with a William Dexter Crosier, who was married to one of Clark Bates' othersisters, Laura Jane Bates.
Clark and several of his relatives are buried in North Cemetery, in Worthington, Massachusetts.