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Pvt Samuel S. Bates
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Birth: 1847, England
Death: Feb. 27, 1924
Clinton County
New York, USA

(Birth year is estimated)

Private, New York Volunteers (Union Army)
Civil War veteran

Company F, 5th New York Cavalry Regiment

Grand Army of the Republic member


     Samuel Bates immigrated to the United States in 1863 by way of Canada.
     He joined the Grand Army of the Republic, Angell Post 411 in Mooers, New York on July 10, 1893. He was discharged on August 23, 1899. A 1901 newspaper article lists him as being a member of Samuel Cannon Post 374 in Mooers Forks and being elected surgeon.
     - Researched and written by R. Boas, FindAGrave.com member number 47304667.


BATES, SAMUEL.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, March 23, 1865, at Plattsburgh; mustered in as private, Co. F, March 23, 1865, to serve one year; mustered out with company, July 19, 1865, at Winchester, Va.
     - "Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the Year 1894, Volume II: Registers of the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Regiments of Cavalry, N. Y. Vols., in the War of the Rebellion," James B. Lyon, State Printer, Albany, New York, 1895, pg. 18.


Period of Service: March 17 or 23, 1865 - July 19, 1865 or August 1865

Occupation: Farmer, soldier, "surgeon"
Cause of Death: Unknown
Aged: Abt. 77 years


[Note: I am in possession of a copy of Samuel's Naturalization Declaration dated October 19, 1876.] 
 
Family links: 
 Spouses:
  Celestia Maria Emerson (Bates) Soden (1851 - 1914)*
  Mary Ann Soden Bates (1852 - 1903)*
 
 Children:
  Jennie Bates (1869 - 1878)*
 
*Calculated relationship
 
Inscription:
SAMUEL BATES / DIED FEB 27 [illegible] [1924] / Ć. 77 Ys. / MARY A. SODEN / HIS WIFE / DIED APR. 15, 1903. / Ć. 51 [sic., 50] Ys. / — / BATES
 
Burial:
Walker Cemetery
Clinton County
New York, USA
 
Created by: R. Boas
Record added: Aug 03, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 55839710
Pvt Samuel S. Bates
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Pvt Samuel S. Bates
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