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BATES
FAMILY CEMETERY, TOWN OF HANCOCK, BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS
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BATES
FAMILY CEMETERY, TOWN OF HANCOCK
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Located
on Lebanon Mountain Road
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Bates,
Marie Cole |
b.
1825 d. 1898 |
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Grandmother
of Mr. Lindon Wallace Bates, Jr. He was a Saloon Class Passenger
on the Lusitania and was lost in the disaster. See more about
him below* |
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Bates,
Capt. Wm W. |
b.
1828 d. 1910 |
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*Lindon Bates, Jr. (1883 – 1915), 32, was an engineer, writer,
politician, and a graduate of Yale University. Bates was on
his way to Belgium to organize war relief. Aboard Lusitania,
he was on deck with Amy Pearl when the submarine U-20 torpedoed
the ship. He assisted Warren and Amy Pearl in searching for
their missing children while the ship was sinking. Lindon Bates
was lost in the Lusitania
disaster and his body was recovered, #16 by Islands of Doolin
and Aran. |
Lindon Wallace Bates, Jr., was born on 17 July 1883 to Lindon
Wallace Bates and Josephine White in Portland, Oregon, United
States. Lindon, Sr. was an engineer and a non-graduate
member of Yale’s Class of 1879 S. Lindon’s paternal grandparents
were Wallace Bates, United States Commissioner of Navigation
(1889-1892) and Marie Cole.
Lindon’s parents sent young Bates off to England to be
educated at the Harrow School. He then came back to attend
Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He claimed
that he took the select course in the Sheffield Scientific School
because he had heard it was easy, only to discover that he had
been fooled. His junior year received honors in history.
His senior year Lindon was awarded second prize in political
economy, and given honors in history and political science.
He received his Ph.B. from Yale in 1902. That fall he
returned to Yale to continue studies in engineering for another
year. |
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