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Dr William Tertius Capers Bates

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Birth	:	16 Jul 1848 Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA
Death	:	16 Oct 1928 Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA
Burial	:	Saint Pauls Methodist Church Cemetery, Saint Matthews, Calhoun County, USA
Coordinate	:	33.6683900, -80.7775350
Description	:	Per his death certificate found on Ancestry.com: he was a son of Region Wesley Bates, born in Newberry, S.C. and Elizabeth Evans, born in Orangeburg Co., S.C. He was married at the time of his death but his certificate does not name his spouse. He was born in McCantsville and was a retired physician. He died of chronic endocarditis, angina pectoris and uremia. The informant was W. T. C. Bates Jr., of Orangeburg, S.C. From the book, South Carolina, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1920 (two volumes), page 353: William Tertius Capers Bates, M.D.,... Read More	Per his death certificate found on Ancestry.com: he was a son of Region Wesley Bates, born in Newberry, S.C. and Elizabeth Evans, born in Orangeburg Co., S.C. He was married at the time of his death but his certificate does not name his spouse. He was born in McCantsville and was a retired physician. He died of chronic endocarditis, angina pectoris and uremia. The informant was W. T. C. Bates Jr., of Orangeburg, S.C. From the book, South Carolina, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1920 (two volumes), page 353: William Tertius Capers Bates, M.D., who since 1916 has lived retired at Columbia, was for a number of years a prominent figure in the life of the state, serving three terms as State Treasurer. He was a boy soldier of the Confederacy, and in later life satisfied his ambition for useful work in the profession of physician, as a planter and banker, and always has exemplified the finest fidelity to the ideals of citizenship and personal manhood. Dr. Bates was born at McCantsville, in Orangeburg County, S.C., July 16, 1848, son of Dr. Rezin W. and Elizabeth (Evans) Bates, through his father being of English ancestry and through his mother Welsh. His father likewise practiced medicine and was identified with planting. He was at one time a member of the State Legislature. While he has lived beyond the age of three score and ten, Mr. Bates has achieved long life and performed a great deal of useful work against the handicap of physical weakness. He has seldom for a long consecutive period enjoyed robust health. As a boy he lived much outdoors, and acquired a fondness for nature and manual labor that no doubt prolonged his years. When he was sixteen years of age in 1864 he entered the Confederate army. After the war he prepared for college at Pine Grove Academy and in 1868 received his M.D. degree from South Carolina College, now the University of South Carolina, and was valedictorian for his class. He was also a student in the Bellevue Medical College of New York City in 1868-69, and while in active practice was a constant student of medical literature and wherever possible sought association and acquaintance with the leading men of his profession. Dr. Bates was in active practice from 1869 until 1896. His home was in St. Matthews until 1881, when he moved to Columbia and made a specialty of diseases of the mind and nervous system. While a resident of Columbia he was elected president of the Richland County Medical Society. When he had to give up his profession on account of failing health he returned to his old home at St. Matthews in 1896, and there found other interests to engage his time. He was elected and served as president of the Bank of St. Matthews, and again returned to Columbia for his service as state treasurer, serving from November 1890, until February 1897. In 1916 Dr. Bates again located at Columbia and built his present beautiful home in Wales Garden. At the time of his resignation in 1919, Dr. Bates was the oldest living trustee of the University of South Carolina, and for more than twenty years was devoted to its upbuilding and prosperity. He is a member of the Chi Psi college fraternity, a Knight of Pythias, and a democrat, and affiliated with the Methodist Church. December 23, 1872, Dr. Bates married Miss Mary B. Wannamaker, of the prominent Wannamaker family of South Carolina. She died in 1910, and on December 26, 1911, Dr. Bates married Miss Lillian Rigby Dally. Mrs. Bates, who has been a leader in civic and social affairs of the state for several years, was born in New York, but was reared under the best of southern influence. She is a daughter of John Richard and Sophia (Sullivan) Dally. Her maternal great-grandmother was Lady Eleanor White of the Irish nobility. The Daily family came originally from England and were identified with the early colonial period of New York City. Mrs. Bates spent part of her early girlhood in Charleston and part at Port Royal in the romantic and historic Rapahannock Valley of Virginia. She began her musical education in the Academy of the Visitation at Georgetown, D.C. and is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music. He fame as a musician is a deservedly high one, and she is widely known in all the cultured centers of the South. Mrs. Bates is president of the Music Club of Columbia, and is vice regent of the Columbia Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and also a member of Wade Hampton Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. Doctor and Mrs. Bates have a son, William Wesley Bates, who was born at St. Matthews May 28, 1916.

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Dr William Tertius Capers Bates's memorial is located at: Saint Pauls Methodist Church Cemetery, Saint Matthews, Calhoun County, USA.
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Dr William Tertius Capers Bates death on 16 Oct 1928 in Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA
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Latitude: 33.6683900
Longitude: -80.7775350

Family Members:

Parent

Dr Rezin Wesley Bates

(1819 - 1892)

Mary Elizabeth Evans Bates

(1817 - 1890)

Spouse

Lillian Rigby Dally Bates

(1875 - 1980)

Mary Butler Wannamaker Bates

(1853 - 1911)

Siblings

John Evans Bates

(1843 - 1844)

Dr Lucius Bellinger Bates

(1846 - 1930)

Rezin Wesley Bates

(1850 - 1850)

Mary Ann “Mamie” Bates Epting

(1851 - 1926)

Margaret Leah Bates Zimmerman

(1854 - 1910)

Francis David Bates

(1856 - 1933)

Elizabeth Sarah “Lily” Bates Wannamaker

(1859 - 1923)

Infant Daughter Bates

(1859 - 1859)

Gertrude Evilina Bates

(1862 - 1890)

Children

John William Bates

(1914 - 1914)

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Coordinate: 33.6683900, -80.7775350

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