MY BATES FAMILY, Page 3

 

 

            SAMUEL ALLEN "Sam" BATES

            (son of James Charlton “Chat” Bates and Charity Ann Horton)

Born Feb. 18, 1884 in Newton Co, Georgia                                

Died Feb 3, 1963 in Georgia.

Buried in the Bates Cemetery, Covington, Newton County, Georgia.

 

Married on June 28, 1903 in Newton Co, GA to:

 

AMANDA JANE "Mandy" SMITH

(daughter of James Richard “Dick” Smith & Martha Alice “Mattie” Hardman)

Born December 1884 in Newton Co, Georgia

Died about June of 1914 in Newton Co, Georgia.

Buried in the Bates Cemetery, where a big white rock is located (no headstone).

 

(See photo of Sam Bates and some children here)

 

Their children:

1-SUDIE JANE BATES (b. April 9, 1904-d.Jan 8, 1998 Concord, NC),

m. FRED FITZU HAMPTON. Grandparents of Julie Hampton Ganis.

 

2-EXIE TINE BATES (b.Mar 25, 1905-d.May 9, 1964).

Married HENRY DREW McRAY (b.May 1, 1906-d.Sep 19, 1936 GA)

Buried at Bates Cemetery.

 

3-CARY O'NEAL BATES "Ted" (b.Oct 31, 1906-d.July 23, 1973),           

Married PHENA PENNINGTON (b.June 11, 1906-d.Jan 1, 1977).

Buried at Bates Cemetery.

 

4-MATTIE MAUDE BATES (b.Apr 28, 1908-d.Sept 25, 1988).

Married BROOKS PEEBLES.

Buried at Bates Cemetery.

           

5-FEWIE VELTON BATES (b.Oct 1909-d.in 1910).

He was named after a Dr. Holmes.

Buried at Bates Cemetery. No marker.

 

6-GLADYS MAE BATES (b. Nov. 11, 1911). Never married.

 

7-WILLIAM LAMAR BATES "Top" (Dec 3, 1913-Jan 17, 1971)

Married RUTH YANCEY.

Buried at Bates Cemetery.

 

 

 

Amanda Smith Bates had red hair, which possibly explains her "Smith temper" that Grandma Sudie told me about! She died about June of 1914 “when the plum trees were in bloom” (per her daughter, Sudie Bates Hampton, who was 10 years old at the time).

 

After Amanda died, Sam Bates married Mary Magdelena "Lena" Johnston. She was born Oct 25, 1892 in Newton Co, GA, and died Nov 22, 1971 in Cobb Co, GA. She is buried in Bates Cemetery. Her sister was Mrs. Myrt Womack, her brother was Troy Milton Johnston.

 

Sam and Lena's children:

8-EPPIE LOU BATES (b.Apr 27, 1918-d.Jan 1, 1991).

Married FRED OLIVER SOUTER, Jr (b.July 21, 1914-d.June 5, 1975).

Buried in Mt. Harmon Memorial Gardens in Austell or Mableton, GA.

 

9-FRANCES "Tis" BATES (b.about 1920-d.Dec 31, 1991).

Married JOSEPH ALFRED SOUTER.

Their son is JOE SOUTH, the Grammy award-winning musician that

wrote the song "Games People Play", among others.

                                   

10-JACK BATES (b.about 1921-d.Oct 2, 1995). Single.

            Buried at Bates Cemetery.

 

11-BILLY SAM BATES

1st m. PATSY EUGENIA BARTON.

2nd m. PEGGY LINDA MANN

3rd m. Ms. KITCHENS

 

 

 

Grandma Sudie Bates Hampton told me that her father, Sam Bates, used to read a lot of novels, and named his children after characters he read about. Sam also played string instruments, especially the guitar and banjo, and he wrote songs and "had a pretty good singing voice."

 

Before he married, he went to Arkansas to visit relatives, but didn't like it very much out there, so he went back to Georgia and wrote a song about what a bad place that was!

 

Sam rented a log cabin from "old man Gaither" after he and Amanda got married. They always lived in Newton County, Georgia. But after Sam and Lena married, they moved to S.C. for a while in the 1920’s. Then by 1937, Sam lived with J.C. Bates in Mansfield, GA, and in 1938 Sam and Lena were living in Atlanta on 432 Windsor St.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to all my Bates cousins that have contributed information!

 

This page created March 23, 2001 by Julie Hampton Ganis

 

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