Nicodemus Bateman Sr. (1822 - 1916)

Born 3 Oct 1822 in Tyrrell County, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Lovie Elizabeth (Hatfield) Bateman — married 18 Feb 1852 in Washington County, North Carolina

Descendants

Died 12 Apr 1916 at age 93 in Tyrrell County, North Carolina

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Biography

Bateman family reunion MINUTES of 1988 (p279) mention a letter dated July 30, 1930 from Seaton Swain to Herbert Swain noting that "Grandpa" Nicodemus Bateman's favorite hymn was "I'm Going Home to Die No More."

Fred Braxton Swain was a grandson of Nicodemus Bateman. Fred told these stories to his granddaughter, Carol Lawrence Vidales: My grandfather, Nixie Bateman, was a stern, southern gentleman. He was a hard-working man, worked as a farmer, woodworker, a carpenter. Grandpa Nixie used to stay at my house when I was a young child. When I grew up we didn't have knives as boys; they wouldn't let us have them. And Grandpa Nixie, when he visited our house, he used to loan me his knife. I used to borrow it and thought that was the greatest thing in the world to borrow his knife and go out to the wood pile and do some whittling. I really enjoyed seeing him and having him in our home so I could use his knife. During the latter years of my grandfather, he used to stay at our house quite a bit. He had a full beard, a moustache, and a chin beard that was quite long. He used to stroke this beard to the right with his hand and the beard grew that way-to the right of his face. Facing him you could see that this beard was to the right, and you would wonder how it was there, but if you lived with him you could tell very well how it was trained that way from him stroking it time and time again. He was a medium-built man. When I knew him he was quite old. And when he come to see us, he always had a cane. He used a cane in walking. He did the chores around the house with chopping wood for the cookstove and shucking corn to feed the stock. And he always enjoyed doing those chores to help out. He was not one to just sit down and not help around the house. He always wanted something to do. He was a great man.

CENSUS:

1860 Mackey's Ferry Dist., Washington,NC p308 #55/55 June 1860 Nix Bateman 35 farmer 170 296 Indiana 6 Alethia 1 Elizabeth 32 Grisell 5

1870 Skinnersville twp.,Washington,NC p773 15 July #131/131 Nicy Bateman 51 M farmer 150 200 Gri(r)ill 15 F home Allice 7 F Lovli(s) 35 F keep house Elizibeth 12 F home Nicy 4 M India 16 F home Caroline 8 F Henry 2 M

1880 Skinnersville twp. ,Washington,NC pg 7 #67/67 24-140-7-41 (Grizelle Bateman Roughton, Alec Basnight & Lucy Hatfield Furlough are close by) N. Bateman Sr. 57 farmer can't write Lovey E. 47 wife Dyspespy (illness/disability) Virginia C. 18 dau. Alice M. 17 dau. school Nicodemus Jr. 12 son school Henry W. 10 son school

1900 soundex Elizabeth City twp.,Pasquotank,NC 80-76-16-4 Nicodemus Bateman 10-1822 77 enumerated as grandfather of Wm. J. Roughton

Sources

• Phelps, Shirley, Washington County NC Marriages, p8. Nichodemus Bateman to Lovey Hatfield - license was 15 Feb (1853 in book) - the book didn't have the date of marriage, that came from family records which had 18 Feb 1852.

"North Carolina, Deaths, 1906-1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F3ZJ-842 : accessed 25 February 2015), Nicodemus Bateman, 12 Apr 1916; citing Columbia, Tyrrell, North Carolina, reference fn 166 cn 190, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,878,027.

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