The name he was born with was Dr. John H. Hubbard, son of Dr. John H. Hubbard and Louisa Mitchell Hubbard Lee on June 27, 1854 near Houston, Texas County, Missouri. He changed his name and fled Missouri around 1870 or 1871. Read the bottom of the bio for more information.
Husband of Hattie Ida (Jones) Bates & Cora (Compton) Bates
Corsicana Semi Weekly Light
Tuesday Feb 10, 1925
Dr. William A. Bates
Apr 17, 1852 - Feb 6, 1925
WELL KNOWN PURDON PHYSICIAN DIED IN WACO SANITARIUM
Dr. W.A. Bates, aged 72, and for many years a resident of Purdon, died last night at Provident Hospital, Waco, where he had been for some weeks under treatment.
The deceased is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. D.E. Dickson, Corsicana; Mrs. Allie Mitchell of Purdon and a little son.
The funeral will take place from the family home at Purdon tomorrow at 2 p.m. with interment in the Dresden Cemetery.
The services will be conducted by Rev. I.R. Darwood, of Purdon and Rev. Tom Smith of Hillsboro.
Dr. Bates was a native of Tennessee, and located at Purdon in 1885.
During all these years he was a good and useful citizen, taking much interest in all that was for the betterment of his community and aside from the practice of his profession he found much time to be of other use to his community. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him and will be missed by all in the community where he had lived so long.
Husband of Hattie Ida (Jones) Bates and Cora (Compton) Bates.
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Letter from E. H. Green to his granddaughter, May 12, 1989:
I may not have told you of your great, great, grandfather's (Frank Payne Hubbard) brother, Bill (John H. Hubbard).
He was more skilled with a gun than most, and i those days everyone carried one. The country really was quite young then and sparsley settled. One night in Houston, Missouri he became involved in an argument in a card game with a gambler by the name of Jefferson White. In the resultant shootout he, Bill, killed White and took it on the run. For sometime he hid out in a place known as Sweet Potato Cave, where he was taken provisions by various ones of the family - surreptitiously, of course. Later he lived briefly at his brother, Dr. Jim Hubbard's home in Mountain Grove, Missouri. There he pretended to be an expert on violin repair. he did play the 'fiddle' country style. While at Dr. Jim's, he became interested in medicine and drifted on out to Colorado where he studied it under the name of William Bates. In those days, of course, the study of medicine and the practice of it was more informal than now.
After that he entered into the practice of medicine at a little Texas town named Kennedy (actually Purdon), I believe. There he raised a family, all this under the name of William Bates. After a long and respected career he died. His survivors, in settling his affairs came across some hidden correspondence with a family named Hubbard in Missouri. Bill had stayed in touch. Mystified, the family wrote the Hubbard family and then the whole story came out. The respected Dr. Bates was not named Bates at all.
The Bates and Hubbard family visited and became quite good friends. None of this would have happened if White had not tried to run in an odd card.
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Similar story also told in book titled, Texas County Heritage, published 1989, page 504. (Kelly Green Donovan)
Husband of Hattie Ida (Jones) Bates & Cora (Compton) Bates
Corsicana Semi Weekly Light
Tuesday Feb 10, 1925
Dr. William A. Bates
Apr 17, 1852 - Feb 6, 1925
WELL KNOWN PURDON PHYSICIAN DIED IN WACO SANITARIUM
Dr. W.A. Bates, aged 72, and for many years a resident of Purdon, died last night at Provident Hospital, Waco, where he had been for some weeks under treatment.
The deceased is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. D.E. Dickson, Corsicana; Mrs. Allie Mitchell of Purdon and a little son.
The funeral will take place from the family home at Purdon tomorrow at 2 p.m. with interment in the Dresden Cemetery.
The services will be conducted by Rev. I.R. Darwood, of Purdon and Rev. Tom Smith of Hillsboro.
Dr. Bates was a native of Tennessee, and located at Purdon in 1885.
During all these years he was a good and useful citizen, taking much interest in all that was for the betterment of his community and aside from the practice of his profession he found much time to be of other use to his community. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him and will be missed by all in the community where he had lived so long.
Husband of Hattie Ida (Jones) Bates and Cora (Compton) Bates.
____________________
Letter from E. H. Green to his granddaughter, May 12, 1989:
I may not have told you of your great, great, grandfather's (Frank Payne Hubbard) brother, Bill (John H. Hubbard).
He was more skilled with a gun than most, and i those days everyone carried one. The country really was quite young then and sparsley settled. One night in Houston, Missouri he became involved in an argument in a card game with a gambler by the name of Jefferson White. In the resultant shootout he, Bill, killed White and took it on the run. For sometime he hid out in a place known as Sweet Potato Cave, where he was taken provisions by various ones of the family - surreptitiously, of course. Later he lived briefly at his brother, Dr. Jim Hubbard's home in Mountain Grove, Missouri. There he pretended to be an expert on violin repair. he did play the 'fiddle' country style. While at Dr. Jim's, he became interested in medicine and drifted on out to Colorado where he studied it under the name of William Bates. In those days, of course, the study of medicine and the practice of it was more informal than now.
After that he entered into the practice of medicine at a little Texas town named Kennedy (actually Purdon), I believe. There he raised a family, all this under the name of William Bates. After a long and respected career he died. His survivors, in settling his affairs came across some hidden correspondence with a family named Hubbard in Missouri. Bill had stayed in touch. Mystified, the family wrote the Hubbard family and then the whole story came out. The respected Dr. Bates was not named Bates at all.
The Bates and Hubbard family visited and became quite good friends. None of this would have happened if White had not tried to run in an odd card.
________________________
Similar story also told in book titled, Texas County Heritage, published 1989, page 504. (Kelly Green Donovan)
The name he was born with was Dr. John H. Hubbard, son of Dr. John H. Hubbard and Louisa Mitchell Hubbard Lee on June 27, 1854 near Houston, Texas County, Missouri. He changed his name and fled Missouri around 1870 or 1871. Read the bottom of the bio for more information.
Husband of Hattie Ida (Jones) Bates & Cora (Compton) Bates
Corsicana Semi Weekly Light
Tuesday Feb 10, 1925
Dr. William A. Bates
Apr 17, 1852 - Feb 6, 1925
WELL KNOWN PURDON PHYSICIAN DIED IN WACO SANITARIUM
Dr. W.A. Bates, aged 72, and for many years a resident of Purdon, died last night at Provident Hospital, Waco, where he had been for some weeks under treatment.
The deceased is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. D.E. Dickson, Corsicana; Mrs. Allie Mitchell of Purdon and a little son.
The funeral will take place from the family home at Purdon tomorrow at 2 p.m. with interment in the Dresden Cemetery.
The services will be conducted by Rev. I.R. Darwood, of Purdon and Rev. Tom Smith of Hillsboro.
Dr. Bates was a native of Tennessee, and located at Purdon in 1885.
During all these years he was a good and useful citizen, taking much interest in all that was for the betterment of his community and aside from the practice of his profession he found much time to be of other use to his community. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him and will be missed by all in the community where he had lived so long.
Husband of Hattie Ida (Jones) Bates and Cora (Compton) Bates.
____________________
Letter from E. H. Green to his granddaughter, May 12, 1989:
I may not have told you of your great, great, grandfather's (Frank Payne Hubbard) brother, Bill (John H. Hubbard).
He was more skilled with a gun than most, and i those days everyone carried one. The country really was quite young then and sparsley settled. One night in Houston, Missouri he became involved in an argument in a card game with a gambler by the name of Jefferson White. In the resultant shootout he, Bill, killed White and took it on the run. For sometime he hid out in a place known as Sweet Potato Cave, where he was taken provisions by various ones of the family - surreptitiously, of course. Later he lived briefly at his brother, Dr. Jim Hubbard's home in Mountain Grove, Missouri. There he pretended to be an expert on violin repair. he did play the 'fiddle' country style. While at Dr. Jim's, he became interested in medicine and drifted on out to Colorado where he studied it under the name of William Bates. In those days, of course, the study of medicine and the practice of it was more informal than now.
After that he entered into the practice of medicine at a little Texas town named Kennedy (actually Purdon), I believe. There he raised a family, all this under the name of William Bates. After a long and respected career he died. His survivors, in settling his affairs came across some hidden correspondence with a family named Hubbard in Missouri. Bill had stayed in touch. Mystified, the family wrote the Hubbard family and then the whole story came out. The respected Dr. Bates was not named Bates at all.
The Bates and Hubbard family visited and became quite good friends. None of this would have happened if White had not tried to run in an odd card.
________________________
Similar story also told in book titled, Texas County Heritage, published 1989, page 504. (Kelly Green Donovan)
Husband of Hattie Ida (Jones) Bates & Cora (Compton) Bates
Corsicana Semi Weekly Light
Tuesday Feb 10, 1925
Dr. William A. Bates
Apr 17, 1852 - Feb 6, 1925
WELL KNOWN PURDON PHYSICIAN DIED IN WACO SANITARIUM
Dr. W.A. Bates, aged 72, and for many years a resident of Purdon, died last night at Provident Hospital, Waco, where he had been for some weeks under treatment.
The deceased is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. D.E. Dickson, Corsicana; Mrs. Allie Mitchell of Purdon and a little son.
The funeral will take place from the family home at Purdon tomorrow at 2 p.m. with interment in the Dresden Cemetery.
The services will be conducted by Rev. I.R. Darwood, of Purdon and Rev. Tom Smith of Hillsboro.
Dr. Bates was a native of Tennessee, and located at Purdon in 1885.
During all these years he was a good and useful citizen, taking much interest in all that was for the betterment of his community and aside from the practice of his profession he found much time to be of other use to his community. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him and will be missed by all in the community where he had lived so long.
Husband of Hattie Ida (Jones) Bates and Cora (Compton) Bates.
____________________
Letter from E. H. Green to his granddaughter, May 12, 1989:
I may not have told you of your great, great, grandfather's (Frank Payne Hubbard) brother, Bill (John H. Hubbard).
He was more skilled with a gun than most, and i those days everyone carried one. The country really was quite young then and sparsley settled. One night in Houston, Missouri he became involved in an argument in a card game with a gambler by the name of Jefferson White. In the resultant shootout he, Bill, killed White and took it on the run. For sometime he hid out in a place known as Sweet Potato Cave, where he was taken provisions by various ones of the family - surreptitiously, of course. Later he lived briefly at his brother, Dr. Jim Hubbard's home in Mountain Grove, Missouri. There he pretended to be an expert on violin repair. he did play the 'fiddle' country style. While at Dr. Jim's, he became interested in medicine and drifted on out to Colorado where he studied it under the name of William Bates. In those days, of course, the study of medicine and the practice of it was more informal than now.
After that he entered into the practice of medicine at a little Texas town named Kennedy (actually Purdon), I believe. There he raised a family, all this under the name of William Bates. After a long and respected career he died. His survivors, in settling his affairs came across some hidden correspondence with a family named Hubbard in Missouri. Bill had stayed in touch. Mystified, the family wrote the Hubbard family and then the whole story came out. The respected Dr. Bates was not named Bates at all.
The Bates and Hubbard family visited and became quite good friends. None of this would have happened if White had not tried to run in an odd card.
________________________
Similar story also told in book titled, Texas County Heritage, published 1989, page 504. (Kelly Green Donovan)
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