Note: Judge Joseph Sauer's Obit indicates that his daughter was "Mrs Lawrence Bates"

~~The Courier Journal (Louisville, KY) 4 Dec 1895, Wed
LaGrange, KY – Dec 3 (1895) The remains of Joseph I Bates, who was murdered in Gadsden AL last Saturday night, reached this place at 1:15pm today in charge of his father-in-law, Judge Joseph Bauer. Interment tomorrow morning.

~~The Courier Journal (Louisville, KY) 5 Dec 1895, Thu
Chattanooga, TN, Dec 4 – The Travelers’ Protective Association today employed eminent counsel at Gadsden and Birmingham, AL to prosecute to the bitter end Daughdrill, the man who killed Bates, the Louisville drummer, at Gadsden last week.

~~The Courier Journal (Louisville, KY) 1 Dec 1895, Sun
Gadsden AL, Nov 30 – I N Daughdrill tonight shot and fatally wounded J J Bates, a traveling street. Bates travels for the Peaslee-Gaulbert Company of Louisville, KY and had gone into the saloon to sell some bottles. He ordered a bottle of Appolinaris and was talking to the proprietor when Daughdrill walked up and entered the conversation. Bates told him he was talking business and did not wish to be interfered with. Daughdrill then applied an epithet to him and Mr Bates faced him and said “You ought not to call me that; you have no right to.” whereupon Daughdrill drew a pistol and fired. The ball entered just above the heart. Bates staggered out of the saloon and fell into the arms of the Courier-Journal Correspondent, who took him to a nearby drug store.
Physicians were summoned immediately and they pronounced the wound fatal.
At midnight he seems to be resting easily, but his chances to live are rather slim. He is a prominent traveling man of exemplary habits and seems to worship his wife and three children, who living in Montgomery, AL. He is about 38 years old.

Mr Will Gaulbert said last night that Mr Bates had been in the employ of the Peaslee-Gaulbert Company for about four years and he was regarded as one of the best men the firm had on the road. He was a quiet, peaceable man about 40 years of age. His family at one time lived in this city. Mr Bates came to Louisville from Knoxville, TN about four or five years ago. In Knoxville, he was connected with a drug house.

~1922 Louisville City Directory: Lavinia Bates (widow J R)

~~1900 Census, La Grange, Oldham, KY
Lavinia L Sauer Bates b Dec 1862 KY Widowed
Sons: Joseph B Age 17 and Harry S Age 15
(Joseph's Death Record shows:
Father's Name: Joseph I Bates
Father's Birth Place: Louisville, KY
Mother's Name: Mary L Saver
Mother's Birth Place: Kentucky)

~~Oldham, KY Marriage 23 Nov 1881; Lavinia Sauer & Joseph Bates b 1858

~~1880 Census, Spring Fork, Grayson, KY
Joseph Bates Age 23 (1857) KY

~~1870 Census, Haynes, Grayson, KY
Mother: Elizabeth Bates Age 40
Joseph Age 12 (1858) KY