OBIT: Mary (Keim) FOLK BATES, 1930, native of Somerset County, PA 

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MARY KEIM BATES

  Mrs. Mary Keim Bates, born in Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, Pa., May 10, 
1850, died at Carleton, Neb., Jan 28, 1930, aged 79 years, 8 months and 18 days.  
In early childhood she was christened and confirmed in the English Lutheran 
Church.  In 1867 she was married to Henry J. Folk and to this union two children 
were born, Ida May and William Henry, both preceding her in death.  After the 
death of her husband in 1870, she lived with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
Keim and with the family emigrated to Nebraska in May, 1880, settling on a farm 
near Bruning, Thayer County.  On Nov. 28, 1880, she became the wife of Walter C. 
Bates of Carleton and a mother to his four young children.  To this union were 
born four children, the youngest of whom, Earl C. Bates, is deceased.
  For over 40 years Mrs. Bates was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of 
Carleton; faithful and active until infirmities would not longer permit.  She 
courageously bore the sacrifices and hardships of the early settlers.  In 
subsequent years, during her confinement to the home, she was patient and 
cheerful to the last.
  She leaves her husband, W. C. Bates, the children; Mrs. Stella Booth, Ft. 
Worth, Texas; Frank Bates, Hastings, Neb.; Harvey and Walter J. Bates, Carleton, 
Neb.; and Mrs. Mamie E. Smith of Blanca, Colo; two brothers, William Keim of 
Bloomington, Neb.; and Harrison Keim, of Bruning, Neb.; a sister, Mrs. Savilla 
Bender of Imperial, Neb.; 37 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and one 
great-great-grandchild, besides many other relatives and friends.

Meyersdale Republican, February 13, 1930