100 Years of Memories as Gates Family Commemorates the Family Ownership of the Gates Farm

Robert Bernard Gates

John Francis Gates

On Saturday the descendants of Edmund Gates, Sr. and Mamie Irene Tripp Gates commemorated the hundredth year of Gates ownership of the small farm on the Arkansas River in the Big Bend community. 

The two baby boys in these photographs on the left and right are the oldest son and the youngest son born to Edmund, Sr. and Mamie Gates. Neither lived out of childhood.





These are the photographs of the nine Gates children who lived to adulthood. The photographs appear according to their birth order in the family.

Ella Edith Gates Bledsoe

              

Edmund Gates, Jr.

Mary Elizabeth Gates Roberts

Florence Martha Gates Johnston

Jess Phillip Gates

 

William Herbert Gates

James Franklin Gates  

Julia Irene Gates Newland

  

Mamie Marie Gates Judkins Tice

Below are links to the tributes to the eleven children of whom I have written. (If you cannot access by clicking on the links, try using copy and paste into your browser.)

Robert Bernard Gates - https://bernadeanjgates.blogspot.com/2014/09/robert-bernard-gates.html

Ella Edith Gates Bledsoe - https://bernadeanjgates.blogspot.com/2015/01/the- little-girl-that-left-bend-for.html

Mary Elizabeth Gates Roberts - https://bernadeanjgates.blogspot.com/2015/11/aunts- and-nieces.html

Edmund Gates, Jr. - https://bernadeanjgates.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-95th-birthday-of-my-father-edmund.html

Jess Phillip Gates - https://bernadeanjgates.blogspot.com/2014/07/ a-scared-father-smart-son-and-stonewall.html

Florence Martha Gates Johnston - https://bernadeanjgates.blogspot.com/2014/ 12/the-missing-photograph-from-panel.html

William Herbert Gates - https://bernadeanjgates.blogspot.com/2014/07/ recalling-life-of-william-herbert-gates.html

James Franklin Gates - https://bernadeanjgates.blogspot.com/2014/01/james- franklin-gates-and-his-first-trip.html

Julia Irene Gates Newland - https://bernadeanjgates.blogspot.com/2016/09/happy-birthday-to-julia-irene-gates.html

Mamie Marie Gates Judkins Tice - https://bernadeanjgates.blogspot.com/2017/06/remembering-life-that-loved-beauty.html

John Francis Gates - https://bernadeanjgates.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-75th-birthday-of-john-francis-gates.html 


I conclude this post with a short tribute to Fredrick Gates, the brother closest in age to my father.

Fredrick Daniel Gates was born on his father's 44th birthday, June 16, 1921. The birth of Freddie, as my father often referred to him, occurred two years and one day after my father's birthday. He died on his fourteenth birthday after being struck by lightning. A front page article in the June 20, 1935 issue of The Fairfax Chief  indicated the funeral was held at the Woodland Schoolhouse the following afternoon, June 17th. My father, Edmund Gates, Jr., always indicated the lightning struck the hoe that Freddie was dutifully cleaning after coming out of the field.