When Mary Jennie Bates was born in July 1846, in Watertown, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Walter C. Bates, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth M. Fuller, was 24. She had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Edwin F. Barnes. She lived in Plymouth, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States for about 20 years and Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1900. She died on 7 March 1910, in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
English: variant of Bate with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also common in Ireland.
Americanized form of German Betz . See also Betts .
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