Son of Addison and Harriet (Fields) Bates

Married: Edith Shultz on February 22, 1894 in Hillsdale-Hillsdale County, Michigan
Children: Gladys L., Clifford H. and Lenna Gertrude Bates

When a young man he worked in French's Drug store and later worked for a year in Detroit.

He owned a farm on Baw Beese Lake Road for 57 years

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1870 FEDERAL CENSUS Cambria Township-Hillsdale County, Michigan
Living with parents: Addison and Harriet Bates; siblings: Celia, Libbie, and Addie Bates; grandfather: Mills Field


1880 FEDERAL CENSUS Cambria Township-Hillsdale County, Michigan
Living with father: Adison Bates; siblings: Celia, Elizabeth, Addie, George and Lottie Bates

1900 FEDERAL CENSUS Cambria Township-Hillsdale County, Michigan
Living with wife: Edith Bates; children: Gladys L. and Clifton H. Bates
OCCUPATION: Farmer

1910 FEDERAL CENSUS Cambria Township-Hillsdale County, Michigan
Living with wife: Edith Bates; children: Gladys L., Clifton H. and Linna G. Bates
OCCUPATION: Farmer

1920 FEDERAL CENSUS Cambria Township-Hillsdale County, Michigan
Living with wife: Edith Bates; children: Gladys L., Clifton H. and Linna G. Bates
OCCUPTION: Farmer-General Farm

1930 FEDERAL CENSUS Cambria Township-Hillsdale County, Michigan
Living with wife: Edith Bates; daughter: Gladys L. Bates
OCCUPATION: Farmer

1940 FEDERAL CENSUS Cambria Township-Hillsdale County, Michigan
Living with wife: Edith Bates; daughter: Gladys Bates; son and grandson: Clifton and Lymnan Bates
OCCUPATION: Farmer

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OBITUARY: The Hillsdale Daily News, Wednesday, November 29, 1944, Page 3

CHARLES BATES
PASSES AT 82

Well Known Local Farm-
er Son of Hillsdale
County Pioneers

Charles Bates, 82, well known Hillsdale county farmer for most of his life, passed away Tuesday afternoon at his home, 156 South Broad street. Death followed an extended Illness.

Born in Steamburg April 30, 1862, Bates was the son of the late Addison and Harriett Field Bates. When a young man he was a clerk in French's Drug store, and later worked for a year in Detroit. Aside from that his entire life had been lived in Hillsdale and vicinity. Prior to his retirement three years ago the family owned, and lived for 57 years, on the farm on Baw Beese Lake road recently destroyed by fire.

Surviving are the wife, Edith Shults Bates, to whom he had been married fifty years last February 22; two daughters, Mrs. F. E. Mensing of Toledo, Ohio and Miss Gladys Louise Bates at home, and an employe at the Buchanan company; a son Clifford H. Bates of Bucksport, Maine; a sister, Mrs. Orlan Mack, of Hillsdale; a brother; George Bates; and ten grandchildren, two of whom, Pfc. Harold Francis Mensing and Lt. Lyman Addison Bates, are over seas. Also there are several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at St Anthony's Catholic church with the Rev. Fr. George Fitzgerald and Fr. William Malewitz of Flint officiating and a prayer service at the home at 9 a.m. preceding the church rite. Rosary will be held Friday at 8:30 p.m. Interment will be in St. Anthony's cemetery. The body was entrusted to the Miner Funeral home.

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