Do NOT hit reply Please respond to Gena Gates Lally EMAIL: irish690@pop.mindspring.com Clay Co. Ar Obits Forum http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ar/ClayObits A new message, "JOHN WILLIAM DAVID GATES," was posted by Gena Gates Lally on Mon, 12 Apr 1999 --- NAME: Gena Gates Lally EMAIL: irish690@pop.mindspring.com SURNAMES: Gates, Whitson, Herring, Rowe, England DATE: Apr 12 1999 QRYTEXT: POCAHONTAS STAR HERALD MAY 6, 1943 OBITUARY FOR JOHN WILLIAM DAVID GATES JOHN W. D. GATES AGED 60 DIED AT HIS HOME NEAR PEACH ORCHARD ON APRIL 19. HE WAS BORN ON AUGUST 27 1882, AND MARRIED TO MARGARETT MYRTLE WHITSON ON FEBRUARY 24, 1909. THEY WERE THE PARENTS OF NINE CHILDREN, EIGHT OF WHOM SURVIVE. MRS. IVA HERRING OF KNOBEL, ELVIS GATES OF SHEPPARD FIELD TEXAS, PRIVATE LEE ROY GATES, IN FORIEGN SERVICE. MELVIN GATES, REVERAND IRA GATES, EDWARD GATES PAUL GATES AND VIRGINIA GATES, ALL WHO WERE PRESENT WHEN THEIR FATHER PASSED AWAY. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, FOUR BROTHERS, JESSIE AND RUFE GATES, OF POCAHONTAS. ALVIN OF MARKED TREE, AND JIM GATES OF LUNSFORD. TWO SISTERS, MRS MARTHA ROWE OF BIGGERS AND MRS MAUD ENGLAND OF DALTON MR GATES HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH SINCE 1908 AND HAD LIVED A CONSISTENT CHRISTIAN LIFE.