Yes, I have been through all the records available, both through the county website and on ancestry.com. This note was a mistake as it should have been direct rather than thru the list. Bill B On Dec 6, 2009, at 3:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > William have you looked closely at all the cemetary listings available > online Boone County Cemetaries.. Also look in Carroll County > Sarrah Longview Texas > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "William G. Bates" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 3:59 PM > Subject: Re: [ARBOONE] Obituaries > > >> I am looking for any kind of information on the following: >> >> Willliam J. BATES and his wife Sarah Jane WELLS. I have their marriage >> and the census information and her death and burial information. I only >> have an approximation, After 1924, for his death but have not found where >> he is buried yet. He purchased property in 1876 through the Harrison land >> office described: E1/2NE sec 6 T19N R22W Carroll County. This location >> is in the Carrollton TWP that was barely across the county line when Boone >> Co was formed and since I believe his son (next on list) took over the >> farm when WJB died, this would be Long Creek area. The 1910 census also >> shows an orphan, Johnnie F. TAYLOR, living with the family. Willand Sarah >> had three children: William Zachariah BATES (full name from WW I draft >> registration); Mary E. BATES-Mar 1893 married unknown PORTER; and John >> Rubin Leslie BATES-11 Sep 1897 (full name from WW I draft registration. >> Nothing on him from that date.) >> >> William Zachariah BATES and his wife Mary F. Will was born 7 Aug 1890 in >> Boone County (believed to be Long Creek homestead), died 28 Oct 1948 Boone >> County but I have not found where he is buried yet. Mary - All I have on >> her is she was born in 1896 Tennessee (from censuses). They had four >> children which I have dates only from the censuses; Hattie Q. BATES-1914, >> Gladis E. BATES-Oct 1916, Walsie M. BATES-1922, and Juanita O. BATES-1924. >> >> Special Note: There is another William J. BATES in the Carroll County >> area before 1900 who is from Alabama, extremely close in age (Same Year), >> Married to Paralie PRICE-dau of Gov Sterling PRICE of St Louis, Mo and >> they have two sons, Sterling Price BATES and Robert Lee BATES, and a dau >> but offhand I do not remember her name. This family moved to Texas >> (Runnels County) sometime before 1900. >> >> A little more background: William J. BATES is the youngest son of >> Zachariah and Lavina BATES from York County, South Carolina through >> Madison County, Tennessee. Zach's family left Tennessee probably on a >> wagon train from Obion County, Tennessee probably late spring/early summer >> 1850. We believe they dropped out of the train in the vicinity of >> Carrollton with all but one son settling in Sebastian County before The >> War. The one son who was in Washington County before the War also moved >> to Sebastian County shortly after the war. All the boys were "drafted" >> into the Confederate Army in Sebastian County except for the one in >> Washington County. William initially tries to settle down in Sebastian >> County but for some reason we do not know about he files to purchase >> property in Carroll County (Before Boone formed) and moves up there but is >> probably still considered "transient" on the 1880 census and not >> enumerated. Will returned to Sebastian County not too long before he was >> d! >> eeded the property. >> >> Sorry for how long this is but this is all the information I have been >> able to find online and I live in El Paso, Tx. >> >> En El Nombre JESUS DE CHRISTO >> Texas Bill >> On Dec 5, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Michelle Ross wrote: >> >>> Hi Listers, >>> >>> I do lookups for obituaries and special newspaper articles. Please >>> contact me direct [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. >>> >>> Michelle >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message