From "The Pioneer History of Camden Townshp"
Otis Bates, born Feb. 13, 1802, died at Osawatomic, Kansas, April 5, 1866. '
He married Cynthia Blinn, who died July 17, 1852. at age of 48.,
Phineas C.,
Lafayette,
William Pitt [Called "Pitt"], and
Kimble.
He bought the Guernsey farm, both the home place and the portion further west and sold both places to David Smith in 1855.
He removed to Kansas.
In 1850 he bought the southeast corner of the Norman Lee farm.
"Pitt" Bates went to California with Burtis Bayless, Andrew Hinman and others and died there.
His wife, known as "Eliza Pitt" kept house for Otis Bates, his wife being dead, and went to Kansas with him and married him.
It is told that when Otis Bates was ready to have the frame of his house raised, he proposed to have a temperance raising, and notified his neighbors that he would furnish cider, but on whiskey. So he sent some men to get the barrel of cider, but on the way home they passed a distillery, where they emptied out a couple of gallons of the cider and had it replaced with whiskey. The cider was soon in great demand and several men got drunk at the temperance raising.
Otis Bates, born Feb. 13, 1802, died at Osawatomic, Kansas, April 5, 1866. '
He married Cynthia Blinn, who died July 17, 1852. at age of 48.,
Phineas C.,
Lafayette,
William Pitt [Called "Pitt"], and
Kimble.
He bought the Guernsey farm, both the home place and the portion further west and sold both places to David Smith in 1855.
He removed to Kansas.
In 1850 he bought the southeast corner of the Norman Lee farm.
"Pitt" Bates went to California with Burtis Bayless, Andrew Hinman and others and died there.
His wife, known as "Eliza Pitt" kept house for Otis Bates, his wife being dead, and went to Kansas with him and married him.
It is told that when Otis Bates was ready to have the frame of his house raised, he proposed to have a temperance raising, and notified his neighbors that he would furnish cider, but on whiskey. So he sent some men to get the barrel of cider, but on the way home they passed a distillery, where they emptied out a couple of gallons of the cider and had it replaced with whiskey. The cider was soon in great demand and several men got drunk at the temperance raising.
From "The Pioneer History of Camden Townshp"
Otis Bates, born Feb. 13, 1802, died at Osawatomic, Kansas, April 5, 1866. '
He married Cynthia Blinn, who died July 17, 1852. at age of 48.,
Phineas C.,
Lafayette,
William Pitt [Called "Pitt"], and
Kimble.
He bought the Guernsey farm, both the home place and the portion further west and sold both places to David Smith in 1855.
He removed to Kansas.
In 1850 he bought the southeast corner of the Norman Lee farm.
"Pitt" Bates went to California with Burtis Bayless, Andrew Hinman and others and died there.
His wife, known as "Eliza Pitt" kept house for Otis Bates, his wife being dead, and went to Kansas with him and married him.
It is told that when Otis Bates was ready to have the frame of his house raised, he proposed to have a temperance raising, and notified his neighbors that he would furnish cider, but on whiskey. So he sent some men to get the barrel of cider, but on the way home they passed a distillery, where they emptied out a couple of gallons of the cider and had it replaced with whiskey. The cider was soon in great demand and several men got drunk at the temperance raising.
Otis Bates, born Feb. 13, 1802, died at Osawatomic, Kansas, April 5, 1866. '
He married Cynthia Blinn, who died July 17, 1852. at age of 48.,
Phineas C.,
Lafayette,
William Pitt [Called "Pitt"], and
Kimble.
He bought the Guernsey farm, both the home place and the portion further west and sold both places to David Smith in 1855.
He removed to Kansas.
In 1850 he bought the southeast corner of the Norman Lee farm.
"Pitt" Bates went to California with Burtis Bayless, Andrew Hinman and others and died there.
His wife, known as "Eliza Pitt" kept house for Otis Bates, his wife being dead, and went to Kansas with him and married him.
It is told that when Otis Bates was ready to have the frame of his house raised, he proposed to have a temperance raising, and notified his neighbors that he would furnish cider, but on whiskey. So he sent some men to get the barrel of cider, but on the way home they passed a distillery, where they emptied out a couple of gallons of the cider and had it replaced with whiskey. The cider was soon in great demand and several men got drunk at the temperance raising.
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