Jul-28-2018                   
             Husband: Ira Bates    
                Born: Oct-30-1892          in Folsom, Wetzel Co, WV  1,2,3,4
                Died: Feb-  -1975           4
             Resided:                      in Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV  5
              Census: 1900, 1920           in Grant District, Wetzel Co, WV  
              Father: Frederick Lee Bates   (1867 - 1934) 
              Mother: Laverna Young   (1870 - 1940) 
                Wife: Sarah E. Starkey     
             Married: Feb-20-1913          in Wetzel Co, WV  6
                Born: Dec-  -1895          in Wetzel Co, WV  7 (see note 1)
                Died: Mar- 4-1923          in New Martinsville, Wetzel Co, WV  8
              Buried:                      in Fairview Bapt (aka Five Points) Cemetery, near Rinehart, Harrison Co, WV  9
      Cause of death:                      surgical operation  8
              Census: 1900, 1910, 1920     in Grant District, Wetzel Co, WV  
              Father: George Washington Starkey   (1864 - 1936) 
              Mother: Virginia Frances Fleming   (1868 - 1954) 
           M Child 1: Wayne Bates      
                Born: ca 1914               10
              Census: 1920                 in Grant District, Wetzel Co, WV  
           F Child 2: Mildred Bates      
                Born: 1915                 in Wetzel Co, WV  1,11
                Died: 1971                  11
              Buried:                      in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV  12
              Census: 1920                 in Grant District, Wetzel Co, WV  
             Husband: ___ Suthard  
           M Child 3: Paul Henry Bates      
                Born: Oct-16-1917          in Folsom, Wetzel Co, WV  13,2
                Died: Jun-17-2003           13,2
              Buried:                      in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV  9
             Resided:                      in Morgantown, Monongalia Co, WV  5
              Census: 1920                 in Grant District, Wetzel Co, WV  

Sources:
(1) West Virginia Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(2) Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line], Ancestry.com. 
(3) National Archives and Records Administration, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (Ancestry.com online 
database) 
(4) Social Security Death Index. 
(5) Social Security Death Index, Social Security card issued in West Virginia before 1951. 
(6) Wetzel County Marriage Records, New Martinsville, WV, 
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11601170&Type=Marriage. 
(7) 1900 Census, Wetzel County, WV. 
(8) Wetzel County Death Records, New Martinsville, WV, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=4896930&Type=Death. 
(9) Findagrave.com. 
(10) 1920 Census, Wetzel County, WV. 
(11) Headstone (year only) 
(12) Findagrave.com, Name on headstone:  Mildred Jones Suthard. 
(13) Headstone. 

Event Notes
Note (1) Birth date on headstone is 1893.  But the 1900 Census shows it as Dec 1895,
while age 13 and 23 in the 1910 and 1920 censuses would put it in about 1897. 
Age 16 in her Feb 1913 marriage record would put her birth in about 1896/97. 
Age 26y 1m 21d in death record calculates to a birth date of Jan-11-1897.







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