Maude and John Bate

November 16, 1958         OUR LIFE IN DETAIL    Maude and John Bate           

by Maude Bate

 

   Sitting here just thinking of the past--when you get old it seems you live in the past.  My life was a very simple one.  I was a happy-go-lucky one up to a certain part of my life.  Up to 15 years I was kept home much of my life.  At 16, I met friends--boy friends--and had some experiences with a few.  One I came home with from singing practice.  His sister, Josie Murdock, was a bosom friend of mine.  Her parents were better off than mine.  She played the piano-not very good, but I wished I could do as good, as I was a lover of singing and music.  She bought the music and taught them to me, I sang them.  I sang with a quartet-Heber Wagstaff, Jimmie Richie, Mrs. Phoebe Daybell, and I.  Josie's brother would walk me home.

HISTORY OF WILLIAM E. BATE

                                                                 by John T. Bate

William E. Bate was born May 12, 1846 in Staffordshire, Potreries, Hanley England.

At that time financial conditions were very serious which prevented the children from going to school.  At six years old he worked with his father in the coal mines and worked very hard helping push the car loaded with coal.

The family consisted Father, Peter, Hannah, brother, Herbert, my father,William; Sister, Emily and brother Samuel.

William Bate

Born Staffordshire, Pteriss, Hanley Co. England on May l2, l846

I was taken to work in the coal pits by my father before I was 7 years old, with 5 miles to walk morning and evening for 3 years.  The pit was l00 yards deep.  I had to rise to the morning by 3:00 o'clock.

My father's name was Peter Bate, born in Staffordshire England.  My mothers maiden name was Margaret Cross, born Liverpool, Lanchire, England.

William Bate

LIFE HISTORY OF WILLIAM BATE Written by Edward William Bate

William Bate was born May 12, l846 at (poteries) Hanley, Staffordshire, England. My father Peter Bate, was born in Bucknell, Staffordshire, England in l8l4. My mother's maiden name-Margaret Cross Bate was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. I was taken to work in the coal pit by my father before I was seven years old, with five miles to walk morning and night for over three years. The pit was one hundred yards deep. I got up in the mornings at three o'clock.

John Thomas Bate

HISTORY OF JOHN THOMAS BATE

Written July 1950 by JOHN THOMAS BATE

Born January 8, 1878 at American Fork. Very cold and a blizzard. I should know, I was there.

Nothing much happened after that, that I remember, until I was about four years old. I used to go across the street to Grandmothers place. My grandmother Bate married Samuel Vowels. We used to go over and she would always have a jar of molasses cookies to give us.