Brief Life History of Ormus Ernest
When Ormus Ernest Bates was born on 28 March 1894, in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada, his father, Ormus Ernest Bates Sr., was 25 and his mother, Jane Eliza Woolf, was 20. He married Garnet Pinson on 9 October 1919. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Sweet Grass, Montana, United States in 1938 and lived in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 1926 and Cardston, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada in 1931. He died on 22 February 1990, in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 95, and was buried in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.
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- Ormus Ernest Bates, "Canada Census, 1931"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ormus Earnest Bates - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Ormus Earnest Bates
- Ormus E. Bates, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"
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1895
Historical Boundaries 1895: Sweet Grass, Montana, United States
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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