Tombstone Reads:
Kelcy L. Bates, March 21, 1851 - November 9, 1907; Sleep On Sweet Mother, Take Thy Rest, God Called Thee Home, He Thought It Best.
(The tombstone shows her name spelled as "Kelcy" but all other records show it as "Kelsey")

From The St. Paul Mountain Air newspaper, August 15, 1931:
Mrs. John Howell of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Don Howell of Fayetteville, were in St. Paul a short time on Thursday. They came to visit the grave of the former's mother, Mrs. Leighton Bates, at the Riverside Cemetery. (Mrs. John Howell is Bessie Mae BATES, who was the daughter of James Leaton & Kelsey LEE TIDWELL Bates.)

Kelsey Lee TIDWELL married Charles O. Evans on 18 August 1870, in Newton County, Missouri. They had no children.

Kelsey Lee TIDWELL married Rev. Leander Painter about 1875; and they were the parents of three daughters. Rev. Painter died on 19 October 1885. Their daughters were: Corda Ella PAINTER Gyger; Cora Lee PAINTER Cochran; and Ollie Ann PAINTER Purdy.

Kelsey married James Leaton Bates about 1888 and they were the parents of two daughters and one son: Bessie Mae BATES Howell; Edith Murl BATES Cochran; and Don Clayton Bates.

In the 1900 census, James Leaton & Kelsey Bates are found living in Rogers Mill County, Oklahoma. In the 1890's and early 1900's, the St. Paul area of Madison County, Arkansas, was a place with many jobs due to the harvesting of the virgin timber from the hills. A railroad came into the St. Paul area and dozens of sawmills sprang up. Advertisements were placed in many newspapers in the surrounding states, saying that jobs were available in the St. Paul area for anyone who wanted to work. Many, many families from other states who had no connection to this area, came to St. Paul to work in the timber industry. One can only assume that the James & Kelsey Bates family came to the St. Paul area for this reason, and while they were living there, Kelsey died in November 1907 and was buried here in the Riverside Cemetery at St. Paul. In the 1910 census, James L. Bates is found listed as a widower and was living in Hood County, Texas.