Individual Details
Farr Humphry Bates
(5 Feb 1831 - 1883)
Farr Bates was the older twin brother of Dr. Thomas Benjamin Bates. They were born on 5 Feb 1831.
The year of birth on the gravestone of Farr Humphrey Bates is in error. The marker was made quite a few years after the death Farr Humphrey Bates in 1883, and the correct birth year, probably a handwritten 1831, was misread by the engraver as 1827.
The father of Farr Humphrey Bates was Farr Bates, and the 1830 Union Co., SC census shows Farr Bates had no wife or children when it was taken. Farr must have married Catherine Getzendanner soon after the 1 Jun 1830 census because their twin sons, Farr Humphrey Bates, and Thomas Benjamin Bates, were born on 5 Feb 1831.
Further proof for the correct birthdate of Farr Humphrey Bates lies in the fact that his mother, Catherine, had been married previously to Benjamin Sanders, who did not die until 9 Dec 1828. Catherine had given birth to Benjamin's daughter, Catherine Sanders, on 21 Jun 1827, so she was a widow with a young child when she married Farr Bates sometime in the last half of 1830. With Catharine Sanders being born in the middle of 1827, it would have been impossible for Farr Humphrey Bates to also have been born in 1827.
In the 1840 census, Farr Humphrey Bates and his brother, Thomas, are both counted in the bracket of "age 5 & under age 10." This confirms Farr Humphrey Bates was not born in 1827 but after 1830. In addition, the 1850, 1870 and 1880 census records for Farr Humphrey Bates give his age as 18, 37, and 47, respectively, all of which establish his birth date after 1830 and show the 1827 date is in error.
We know Farr Humphrey Bates was older than his twin brother, Thomas Benjamin Bates, because Farr is always mentioned before Thomas in the probate records of their father, Farr Bates, who died intestate in 1841.
During the Civil War, Farr Humphrey Bates served for six months in 1861 in the 1st SC Infantry, Company E. From 1862-1865, Farr served as a 2nd Lt. in Harlan's Company of SC Cavalry, and then as a 2nd Lt., promoted to 1st Lt., in the 5th SC Cavalry, Company K. Farr was wounded in the hand at the battle of Trevilian Station that was fought 11-12 June 1864 in Louisa Co., VA. He was also severely wounded in the thigh at McDowell's Farm, VA, on 1 October 1864.
Farr Humphrey Bates never married.
The year of birth on the gravestone of Farr Humphrey Bates is in error. The marker was made quite a few years after the death Farr Humphrey Bates in 1883, and the correct birth year, probably a handwritten 1831, was misread by the engraver as 1827.
The father of Farr Humphrey Bates was Farr Bates, and the 1830 Union Co., SC census shows Farr Bates had no wife or children when it was taken. Farr must have married Catherine Getzendanner soon after the 1 Jun 1830 census because their twin sons, Farr Humphrey Bates, and Thomas Benjamin Bates, were born on 5 Feb 1831.
Further proof for the correct birthdate of Farr Humphrey Bates lies in the fact that his mother, Catherine, had been married previously to Benjamin Sanders, who did not die until 9 Dec 1828. Catherine had given birth to Benjamin's daughter, Catherine Sanders, on 21 Jun 1827, so she was a widow with a young child when she married Farr Bates sometime in the last half of 1830. With Catharine Sanders being born in the middle of 1827, it would have been impossible for Farr Humphrey Bates to also have been born in 1827.
In the 1840 census, Farr Humphrey Bates and his brother, Thomas, are both counted in the bracket of "age 5 & under age 10." This confirms Farr Humphrey Bates was not born in 1827 but after 1830. In addition, the 1850, 1870 and 1880 census records for Farr Humphrey Bates give his age as 18, 37, and 47, respectively, all of which establish his birth date after 1830 and show the 1827 date is in error.
We know Farr Humphrey Bates was older than his twin brother, Thomas Benjamin Bates, because Farr is always mentioned before Thomas in the probate records of their father, Farr Bates, who died intestate in 1841.
During the Civil War, Farr Humphrey Bates served for six months in 1861 in the 1st SC Infantry, Company E. From 1862-1865, Farr served as a 2nd Lt. in Harlan's Company of SC Cavalry, and then as a 2nd Lt., promoted to 1st Lt., in the 5th SC Cavalry, Company K. Farr was wounded in the hand at the battle of Trevilian Station that was fought 11-12 June 1864 in Louisa Co., VA. He was also severely wounded in the thigh at McDowell's Farm, VA, on 1 October 1864.
Farr Humphrey Bates never married.
Events
| Birth | 5 Feb 1831 | Union County, South Carolina | |||
| Death | 1883 | Union County, South Carolina | |||
| Burial | Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Union County, South Carolina |
Families
| Father | Farr Humphry Bates (1790 - 1841) |
| Mother | Catherine "Katie" Getzendanner (1796 - 1850) |
| Sibling | Dr. Thomas Benjamin Bates (1831 - 1917) |