Beckham County, OK - Obits: Charles H. Bates, 1920
18 Aug 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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BATES, CHARLES H.
(15 Jul 1920, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Last Friday evening Monroe Bates received a telegram that his father
Charles H. Bates had died at Kinsley, Kan.  The news came as a great shock
as Monroe was looking for his father here about the 15th of this month.
Mr. Bates was driving through in his car, and had stopped at the home of
C. J. Miller whose post-office is Spearville, Kans.  She wrote he had been
there assisting in harvest, and had complained a few days before of not
feeling well, but after a short time he went back to work.  On (the) day
he died he had not been feeling well, and laid down for a while.  When
they went to call him for dinner, they found him dead.  He did not seem to
have had a struggle, laying there as peaceful as though asleep with arm
under his head.  The doctors said it was heart trouble.  Mrs. Miller said
they all loved him and he was always so considerate of everyone, and his
death was a great shock to him.
The body arrived here Monday and taken to Grubitz & Son's undertaking
parlors.  Tuesday afternoon was taken in their motor hearse to Rosehill
cemetery near Berlin, funeral services being in charge of Rev. O. A.
Pankey of Elk City.  The body was laid to rest beside that of his first
wife and other relatives.
Charles Henry Bates was born in Worchester, Mass., Jan. 16th, 1857.  He
moved to Illinois with his parents where he was reared and schooled.  He
moved to Aurora, Neb., when he was grown where he later married Miss
Elizabeth Holben.  They went back to Illinois for three years, again spent
three years in Nebraska, moving to Denver, Colo., in July 1890.  In 1896
they moved to eastern Oklahoma coming to Berlin in Roger Mills county, in
1900.  His wife died August 12th, 1912.  On May 20th, 1916, he married
Mrs. Louise Shaner, and in February of this year they moved to Denver,
Colo.  Mr. Bates was a man who made many friends, one who ever welcomed
them in his home, was a farmer stockman, and at his death owned the farm
that they filed on in the early day.  He was a hard working man, and his
many kind acts will be ever remembered.  We lived neighbors to them when
we first came to Oklahoma.
(15 July 1920, Sayre Standard, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
The presence in this city yesterday of W. P. Moffett who has been in
Oklahoma City for several months, was occasioned by the death of C. H.
Bates one of the pioneer residents of Grimes country.
He was well known in this county and in city of Sayre, having been one of
the first settlers near Grimes.  He was a close neighbor of the Moffett
family.
Mr. Bates left this country about two years ago and moved to Colorado. 
Last week he started by automobile for a visit with old friends here and
was stricken with heart failure while driving through Kansas.  His body
was prepared for burial and shipped to Elk City where his son, Monroe
Bates lives.  A funeral was held from that place Tuesday afternoon and the
remains were buried in the family plot at Grimes.
Mr. Moffett came out from Oklahoma City to attend the funeral.  Bates was
a highly respected citizen and has many friends here who regret his
departure to the great beyond.
(22 July 1920, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
An Old Resident of Grimes Section, and Buried There.  Last fall C. H.
Bates, an old resident of the Grimes section, sold out his farm property
and moved to Denver, Colorado.  A few weeks since he started on an auto
trip to his old home in Oklahoma, coming down through West Kansas. 
Harvest was at its hight (sic) and the high wages lured the old gentleman
into stopping to take charge of a large stacking job.
He worked several days, and was making fine headway, when July 8, the
extreme heat became too much for him, and he was compelled to give up
during the middle of a forenoon, going to the farm barn to rest in the
shade.  When the hands came in from the field for dinner, Mr. Bates was
found dead.
His son, Monroe Bates, now residing at Elk City, was notified, and the
remains were brought to Grimes for burial.  Mr. Bates was a pioneer
resident, widely known in that section, and his many friends are grieved
to learn of his sudden death.