Son of Finis Langdon Bates
and Bertha Lee "Bertie" Money

Married Annie H Koen
on 28 Mar 1894 in Shelby County, Tennessee

Children:
1. Anne Roberta Bates
      (7 Mar 1895 - 2 Dec 1945)
2. Robert Langdon Bates
      (21 Aug 1897 - 8 Oct 1974)
3. Bertram Money Bates Jr
      (20 Sep 1899 - 6 Sep 1980)
4. James Herman Bates
      (19 Sep 1901 - 29 Oct 1980)
5. George Benjamin Bates
      (14 Jul 1903 - 31 Dec 1976)
6. Olga Bates Talley
      (26 May 1905 - 27 Sep 1985)
7. Sue W Bates Davis
      (14 May 1907 – 7 Mar 1993)
8. Eleanor Higbee Bates
      (16 Sep 1909 - 21 Nov 1995)
9. William Deveaux Bates
      (1911 - 30 Apr 1967)
10. Henry Hugh Bates
      (17 Jun 1914 - 28 Dec 1944)
11. John Clifford Bates
      (28 Jul 1917 - 26 Feb 1992)


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Obituary text submitted by Faye Fuqua (#47722722):
Funeral services for BERTRAM M. BATES, SR., father of U. S. Marshall Bert Bates, will be held at 10:45 o'clock this morning at the Spencer-Sturla Chapel, conducted by the Rev. Alfred Loaring-Clark. Burial will be in Forest Hill. Mr. Bates, who was 63 years, of age, died on Monday night at Baptist Hospital following an illness of several weeks.
He was born in Carrollton, Mississippi, the son of Finis L. Bates, an attorney. His parents brought him to Memphis early in life and he attended Market Street School here. He entered the realty business on reaching manhood and was with the firms of L. C. Stacy Company, Richards & Bates, and Dean Adams. Recently he had been with the Crop Production Loan office.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Anne Koen Bates; eleven children, Bert, Roberts, George, James, Hernando, Eleanor, Sue, Olga, John, William and Hugh Bates, all of Memphis; two sisters, Mrs. S. E. Moore of Carrollton and Mrs. Walter Ford of Memphis, and a half-brother, Langdon Bates of Memphis. ~~~ THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, Memphis, TN, Feb. 28, 1934, page 20