Lottie Ann (Hinton) Gates (abt. 1892 - 1942)

Born about 1892 in Louisiana

Descendants

Died 1 Feb 1942 at about age 50 in Rocky Branch, Louisiana

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Biography

Union Parish Library Newspaper Archives Farmerville Gazette - 5 February 1942

Mrs. W. M. Gates and Grandchild Killed in Wreck

Mrs. William M. Gates (Lottie Hinton Gates) 50, of the Rocky Branch community, this parish, met instant death about 11:30 a.m. last Friday, when she was struck by a truck near Bastrop. According to reports, the lady had alighted from a car in which she and her husband and their grandchild, Shirley Ann Hinton, were riding and had started across the road to a residence to get shelter from a rainstorm, when a truck from the opposite direction struck her. She was killed instantly.

The woman had a grandchild, Shirley Ann Hinton, aged 4, in her arms at the time. The child was severely injured and was taken to a Bastrop hospital, where it died Sunday. It was a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Chester Hinton, of the Point community.

Children: Sons: Thomas Gates Ollie W. Gates Martel Gates of Mer Rouge, Louisiana Cornelius Gates, Army Olden Gates Bill Gates Oval Gray Gates James Wayne Gates of Rocky Branch

Daughters Mrs. Lalu Gates Hinton of Point, Louisiana Mrs. William Dawson of Mer Rouge, Louisiana Miss Euna Gates of Rocky Branch, Louisiana

Sources

• Union Parish Library Newspaper Archives Farmerville Gazette - 5 February 1942