John Wallis Bates
and Sarah
Walthrop
John Wallis Bates b 17 May
1779 Washington Co VA d May 1843 Letcher Co KY at age 63, buried Bates
Cemetery, Kona, KY, s/o
William Bates and Margaret
Young. (also see
John Wallis Bates). John Wallis Bates m. 22 Apr 1812 Letcher Co KY to Sarah Walthrop (various
other spellings Waltrip, Walthorp, Waldrop) KY. (1850
Letcher Co KY Census and 1860 Letcher Co KY Census). Children of John Wallis Bates and Sarah Walthrop Waltrip;
John Wallis Bates Jr
b about 1813 VA d before 1900 Knott Co., KY m. about 1835 Floyd Co KY to Elizabeth Hall
b about 1807 d/o
William J "Gunsmith
Billy" Hall and Margaret Johnson.
Margaret Peggy Bates b about 1815
m. 29 Mar 1834 Perry Co., KY to Payne
Johnson b 2 May 1807 TN s/o
William Johnson and Lucy
Ann Ayers.
Martha Irby Bates b 11
Dec 1816 d 18 Apr 1895 at age 78 Laurel Co., KY m. 20 Mar 1834 Perry Co KY to
Joseph Craft b 7 Dec 1816 Floyd Co KY d 5 Dec 1886 Laurel Co KY age 69, s/o James Craft
and Drusilla Hammons Hammonds. Martha Irby Bates and Joseph Craft are
buried at the Sue Bennett College, London, KY.
Eliza Agnes Bates b 7
Mar 1819 Russell Co VA d 1 Feb 1892 Letcher Co
KY at 72 years of age buried Payne Gap Cemetery,
Letcher Co., KY m. about 1840 to
Joel Ellis Wright b 7
Jul 1817 Russell Co VA d 24 Sept 1879 KY age 62, buried in the Payne Gap
Cemetery, Letcher Co., KY, s/o
Joel Martin Wright and
Susannah Bates?
Jesse Bates b about 1821 m.
Elizabeth Asbury
b about 1825. Jesse Bates
m. 2 Aug 1874 to
Ibby Victoria Berry
b 10 Oct 1850 Lee Co VA d 24 Jun 1928 d/o William "Will"
Berry and Rosemond Carter. Ibby Victoria Berry m.
William P "Petie" Holbrook b 2 Feb 1863 Letcher Co KY d 2 Jan
1916 buried Millstone, Letcher Co KY s/o
Jesse S Holbrook and
Elizabeth "Lizz" Adams.
James Bates b
about 1823 Letcher Co KY d 11 Apr 1864; buried Bates Cemetery, Kona, KY; m. 26 Feb 1843 Letcher Co KY
to Elizabeth Adams b about 1824 d Jul 1880 age 56
years, d/o
Benjamin Adams and Nancy Holbrook. James Bates was tortured and murdered
by Union soldiers in the Civil War. When his brother,
Martin Van Buren Bates,
found out about it, Martin took vengeance upon the killers in return for what
they did to his brother.
Robert Bates b 24 Aug 1825 KY d 25 Sept 1921 Knott
Co KY m. 3 Mar 1869 to Sarah C Lee b 1842 d 1927 Vicco, Perry Co KY, d/o
Martin Lee and Fanny Cook. Robert Bates m. VA 2nd to
Phoebe
Lee, d/o Martin Lee and Fanny Cook. Robert Bates m. 22 May 1888
Letcher Co KY to
Elizabeth Bentley b 16 Dec 1870 KY d 6 Jan 1956 Letcher Co KY
buried Bates Cemetery, Colson, Letcher Co KY, d/o
Aaron Rice Bentley and Dorcas Hall.
Sarah C Lee m. 23 Jan 1909 Knott Co KY to
Samuel Miles Cook
b Aug 1850 Russell Co VA d about 1922 Lothair, Perry Co KY, s/o John Anderson "Ance" Cook and
Drucilla "Ciller" Huffman. Samuel Miles Cook m. 6 Feb 1867 to 1st
Clarinda Roark
b May 1847 d/o James Roark and Elizabeth Mullins. Robert Bates was a captain in
the 7th Cavalry, CSA. He was state representative from Letcher Co KY between
1880 and 1884. While serving as a state legislator, he pushed through the bill
establishing Knott Co as a separate county from Letcher, Perry, and Floyd
Counties.
Uriah Bates b about 1828 Letcher Co KY d 12 May 1862 of Measles at Camp Wilson, Gate City, VA
at the age of 33, buried Gate City VA on a farm (There are 14 graves marked
with memorial markers where he is buried), m. 14 Oct 1849 Letcher Co KY to
Lettisha "Lettie" Adams
d/o
Benjamin Adams and
Nancy Holbrook. Uriah enlisted in the Confederate
Army on 1 Nov 1861 near Pound Gap, VA. He was a Private in Co. F 5th Kentucky
Infantry. He was listed on the 30 Apr 1862 roll as sick and in the hospital. (Source).
Sarah Ann
Bates b 26 Jan 1830 Perry (now Letcher) Co KY d
6 Nov 1906 m. 12 Mar 1852 Manchester KY to
William
Mullins b 23 May 1830 in Pike Co KY d 3 May 1908 Laurel Co KY s/o
Booker Mullins and
Mary Polly Newsome.
Henderson Bates b about 1832. According to the Bates Family Website he had two families.
Henderson m. 23 Nov 1850 Letcher Co KY to Martha Robinson b about 1823 VA.
Henderson and Martha had at least 6 children together. Henderson also had at least 5
children with Elender Dale. Henderson lived with Elender Dale in Letcher Co.,
KY.
More About Henderson Bates.
Mary Jane Bates b about 1836 d at age 16.
Martin Van Buren Bates, The Kentucky
River Giant" b 9 Nov 1837 in Perry Co., KY d 19 Jan 1919
in Seville, Ohio at 81 years of age. Martin Van Buren Bates was the famous
"Kentucky Giant" who was known for being a perfectly formed giant person. He was
very handsome. He was the son of
John Wallis Bates and
Sarah Walthrop. Martin Van Buren Bates
m. 17 June 1871 in the "St. Martin in the Fields Church", London, England
to Anna Haining Swan (aka Hannon Swann) b 6 Aug l846 New
Annan, Nova Scotia d 5 Aug 1888, 1 day before her 42nd birthday, buried Mound
Hill Cemetery, Seville OH, d/o
Alexander Swan and Ann Graham. Martin m. 1901 Seville OH to 2nd to
Annette Lavonne Weatherby
b 1870 d 1940, d/o J. W. Weatherby. Martin was in the Civil War and there are articles aplenty about his Civil War
days. You can read about him in several places on the internet including
another link on our site with
Articles About Martin Van Buren Bates. Some of his links are; The
Scott Co., TN Chronicles. He's also on the
Wikipedia
Website.
Martin and Anna held (and maybe still do
hold) the record for the tallest couple. She was an inch or so taller than he.
More about
Anna Haining Swan.
More About Anna and Martin
More About Martin V B Bates
More About Martin Van Buren Bates
After Anna's death on 5 Aug 1886, Martin married Annette Lavonne Weatherby.
They married in 1887 (other source gives marriage date of 1901, Seville, OH). Annette Lavonne Weatherby
was of average height.
See an online illustrated storybook version of the life of
Anna Swan and Martin Bates.
On Nov 9, 1845 Martin Van Buren Bates was born
near Whitesburg, Kentucky into the home of John Wallis Bates and Sarah
Walthrop Bates. Martin was the youngest in the
family with six brothers and five sisters and was educated at Emma-Henry
College, Washington Co., Virginia.
When the Civil War broke out between the North and South, Bates joined, being
the son of a slave owner. He enlisted as a private in the Fifth Kentucky
Infantry C.S.A., on Sept 15, 1861 and served with this company until
1863, having been promoted several times. He was captured at Pikeville, KY and
taken to Camp
Chase, OH
He continued to fight with a different company and rose to the rank of
Lieutenant, later promoted to Captain, where he remained until the end of the
war.
When he stopped growing at the age of twenty-eight he stood 7 feet, 9 inches
and weighed 470 pounds. People found his size somewhat unusual, so in 1865 he
began exhibiting himself as a curiosity. He did this for five years, traveling
all over the United States and Canada.
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