Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1909 — DR. J. W. BATES DIES. [ARTICLE]

DR. J. W. BATES DIES.

Brother of N. S. Bates of Rensselaer. Follows Wife To Grave After Three Months. Indianapolis, May 4.—Dr. J. W. Bates died yesterday at his home in' Broad Ripple of pneumonia. He was one of the best-known men in that community and. among the medical fraternity of Indianpolis. He 1 had practised medicine for twentysix years. About three months ago his wife, Mrs. Birdie Bates, died of ptomaine poisoning. His wife's death bore heavily upon him and it is believed had something to do with the lowered state of his vitality preceding the attack of pneumonia. | Dr. Bates was on the Broad Ripple l town boardy which ordered the first) cenftnt walks for the village. He| was a member of the committee which built the high school and j helped in the erection of both the Methodist and Christian Churches of that placed He always was activel in civil and social life and a practical politician. Dr. Bates was born in Castleton, Ind., Aug. 9, 1857. His early, schooling was in this vicinity. While yet a youth he taught school. He was graduated in medicine from the I Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio. He returned to Broad Ripple, after his graduation in 1883 and I had been practicing there ever since. 1 In 1891 he married Miss Birdie Butterfield, daughter of Luke Butterfield, in Broad Ripple. Two children survive, Miss Modessa Bates and Miss Geneva Ann Bates. The funeral will be held at the Broad Ripple Christian Church at 1 o’clock tomorrow afternoon with burial at Union Chapel