Newton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Dr. Horace J. Bates December 27 1882
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The Georgia Enterprise, Jan. 5, 1883
DEATH'S SAD ROLL
  On Wednesday night, December 27, Dr. Horace J. Bates died at his home in 
Covington, after a severe attack of pneumonia. Aged about 87 years. Dr. Bates
was born in New York, but had made this city his home for sixty-two years. He
represented Newton county in the Legislature as a Democrat when the Whig party
was strong and powerful, and we believe he served one term in the Georgia
Senate.- He was a man who had no thirst for office but never refused to serve 
his county when called upon to do so. By industry and an energy possessed by 
few, he fought poverty from his door and died an honored and a wealthy man. He
leaves children, grand-children, and aged widow, besides friends all over the
country to mourn his death.
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The Georgia Enterprise, Jan. 12, 1883
In Memoriam
  Dr. Horace J. Bates was born in Newport Herkimer county, N. Y., November
10th, 1796. He emigrated to Georgia in 1813, and settled in Eatonton, where
he remained until March 1828, when he removed to Covington, where after a long
laborious and successful life, surrounded by a most worthy family, and all of
the comforts that wealth could give, he died December 27, 1882.
  Dr. Bates was a most remarkable man, in many respects, worthy of a fuller
biographical sketch, for the benefit of young men, than the present writer
can now prepare. Suffice it to say, that inspired with a laudable ambition to 
provide for himself and make his mark in the world, he left all the endearments 
of his paternal home and in a land far away among strangers, without the 
appliance of wealth or the patronage of the great, trusting alone in the virtues
of diligence, industry and frugality, with justice to all men, he received not
only wealth, but that which is far better, the respect, confidence and esteem
of his contemporaries.
  But, best of all, many years ago, during his young manhood, he gave his heart
to God, united with the Church, and it is believed, lived and died in hope of a
glorious resurrection, to immortal life and youth.

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