Records:  Bates, Thomas Jackson, Unknown Co., KY
Sunday, February 27, 2000

Submitted by;  kanichi@theriver.com  (Linda Katherine Jenkins Wensel)
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Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and
Biographical.

Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers,
1884.

Monroe County Biographical Sketches, Marion Township, p. 674

Thomas Jackson BATES, an old settler and farmer of Monroe County, was
born in Tennessee May 7, 1820, and is the third of the five children
born to Charles and Eda (McCOLLAN) BATES, natives of Virginia and
Kentucky respectively. The family came to Bloomington, this county, in
1830, remained a few months, then went to Illinois, but returned to
Bloomington in 1832. December 13, 1840, Mr. BATES married Mary
HENDRICKSON, daughter of Ezekiel and Susan (WALLS) HENDRICKSON, and
native of Lawrence County. Two children, Charles D. and Ezekiel, were
born to this marriage. Mrs. BATES died September 28, 1854, and on August
3, 1856, Mr. BATES married Eliza SMITH, of Miami County, Ind., a native
of Monroe County, and daughter of Hugh and Jane (GIDDINGS) CORR. To this
union have been born the following children: Thomas Jefferson, who was
born May 20, 1857, in Miami County, and who married, February 26, 1883,
Nettie BILLINGS, of Daviess County, and daughter of Jesse and Sarah
(MILLER) BILLINGS; Martha E. and Mary Jane (twins), Laura, Sarah, Maria
and Hattie. Mr. BATES settled on his present farm in 1859, and is the
owner of 180 acres; he was formerly a Granger, and in politics is a
Democrat. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812; his wife’s mother
is an inmate of his home, and is in her ninety-seventh year; his wife’s
father, Hugh CORR, settled in Bloomington Township in 1821, and finally
settled where Hindostan now stands, in Washington Township.

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