Greetings,
I requested some information from the May Library in Burlington, NC,
and this was included. It doesn't fit with what I was looking for, but
I thought I would pass it along.
Source: Alamance Gleaner, April 5, 1888
Marriage
CATES, A. B., mayor of Burlington
DOWDY, Emma, of Burlington
Sunday April 1, 1888
by H. C. Zachary, J.P.
Source: Alamance Gleaner, December 15, 1898
Obit
We regret to chronicle the death of Dr. A. B. Cates, of Burlington.
Last Friday morning he was helping to inventory his stock of drugs
which he had assigned a short while before. He was depressed by various
troubles, and while he was in the store, it is said, he mixed a dose
of strychnine which he drank. In less than an hour afterward he was a
corpse. He had many warm friends who deplore the rash deed that ended
his life. He was about 45 years old and leaves a wife.
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Also, from the Alamance County Index to Vital Statistics - 1913 to 1962,
the following deaths are listed (this is not a complete list, I only
have one page):
Read across: year of death, name, place, father
1923 Cates, Ida F. Burlington S.M. Rhey
1924 Cates, Frances Adeline Burlington Lewis Cates
1924 Cates, Elizabeth C. Melville William Crawford
1924 Cates, Annie H. Melville S. H. Cates
1927 Cates, S. H. Jr. Burlington S. H. Cates
1927 Cates, Mary Lily Col Thompson Henry Bardshaw
I hope this is helpful to someone!
Take care,
-Ken
-Ken Cates, NH <kcates(a)ix.netcom.com>
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