Joel Ferguson Bates had two children with Josephine McCarthy - Elizabeth and Joel Augustus Bates - before he married Bertha Burns, the mother of his Love child Arthur.
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Featured National Park champion connections: Joel is 18 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 26 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 19 degrees from George Catlin, 20 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 28 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 17 degrees from George Grinnell, 29 degrees from Anton Kröller, 20 degrees from Stephen Mather, 26 degrees from Kara McKean, 21 degrees from John Muir, 21 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 27 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.