Date of birth:  Feb 13, 1833 in Washington Co. AR

Name of father:  Henderson A. Bates, of Blount Co. TN

Name of mother:  Nancy Miller, daughter of James
Miller and
 Elizabeth Reed of KY

Profession: Surveyor
Civil Office: County surveyor
Education:  Cane Hill
Military service: King’s Reg.
Political Party: Democrat
Organizations:  Mason

Wife & date of marriage: Clementine P. Dyer, 1859,
daughter
 of Joel Dyer and Ann Falkenton of AR
Children:
 James Miller Bates
 Charles Dyer Bates
 George Samuel Bates
 Stephen Bates, Lincoln, AR
 William Bates
 Joe Bates, Fayetteville, AR