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The Bates Cemetery is located in Dekalb County on Smith Fork
Creek Road about one and one half miles from Temperance Hall.
It is one-half mile from the Smith County line in an area from
which DeKalb County was formed in 1837
36-05-80N 85-53-27W
Bates, Fox 12 Dec 1875 - 13 Mar 1933
Bates, Dellar C. 15 Oct 1884 - 16 Aug 1960
Helmontallor, Amanda G. 3 Apr 1888 - 11 July 1907
w/o R. Helmontaller
Helmontallor, Inf d/o R. & A.G. B & D 8 June 1907
Lamberson, Toney 29 May 1870 - 27 July 1909
Lamberson, Cassie 1876 - 25 Oct 1957
Lamberson, Didama 16 Dec 1844 - 16 Dec 1921 Mother *
Lamberson, G.W. 5 Feb 1835 - 11 Sept 1923 Father
Fisher, G.W. 13 May 1850 - 8 Apr 1918
Oakley, Morris 31 Jan 1873 - 29 July 1917
Oakley, McMillon 18 Nov 1899 - 14 July 1917
Oakley, Inf s/o Morris & Ollie Oakley B & D June 1902
Anderson, John fieldstone - no dates
Fisher, Giles 28 Feb 1852 - 10 Apr 1913
Fisher, Green 11 Feb 1867 - 15 June 1890 his wife
Trusty, John Riley 16 Oct 1858 - 24 Dec 1922
Trusty, Margaret A. 13 Oct 1859 - 29 July 1928
Lamberson, Thomas S. 1876 - 1935
Lamberson, Willie K 1887 - 1911
Killey, Lycurgus 25 Oct 1855 - 26 May 1930
Killey, Salley 30 Sept 1860 -
Killey, Rebecca 1 Oct 1819 - 8 Feb 1900
Killey, Roxana 12 Apr 1859 - 28 Apr 1860 d/o Rebecca
Kelley, Eliza C. 1860 -1934
Kelley, Johnnie 16 May 1889 - 23 May 1964
Hinsley, Richard age 78 d. 14 Apr 1954
Bates, Dowary 1 Nov 1907 - 17 Nov 1910
Bates, Malisa 1 Jan 1850 - 10 Dec 1915
Bates, W.R. 5 Sept 1846 - 12 June 1919
Bates, Roy no dates
Bates, Eva no dates
A large number of unmarked fieldstones.

* Didama Bates age 6 was listed in the 1850 Smith County census. Didama
Bates age 69 was also listed which appears to be her grandmother. Evidently
she married into the Lamberson family whose farm was about a mile away. JW

Names and dates from Smith Co Tennessee Cemeteries - South of the Cumberland River Page 208

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