BATES, OLIVER, was born in 1796, in Cheshire county, N. H. Moved, about 1806, to Potsdam, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., where he was married to Charity Buckman, Sept. 8, 1824. She is a sister of Joel Buckman, and was born in Bethel, Vermont. They had three children in New York, two of whom died young. They moved in a colony of 52 persons to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in 1833, and early in 1834 settled adjoining the prcsent Farmingdale Station, on the south, where three children were born. Of the four children--

ROXANA, born Oct. 23, 1832, in Potsdam, N. Y., was married in Sangamon county, Ill., April 6, 1853, to Jacob Foster. See his name.

ZURA, born Jan. 12, 1836, in Sangamon county, was married to Mrs. Josephine Ellis. They have three children, CHAS. B., ELIZABETH A. and ROXANA L., and reside in Taylorville, Ill.

BUCKMAN, born Nov. 6, 1840, in Sangamon county, was partially educated at Jacksonville, Ill., and graduated at the State University, Bloomington, Indiana. He began the study of law in Pekin, Ill., where he died July 13, 1864.

ELIZABETH, born Feb. 25, 1839, in Sangamon county, died at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Foster. Oliver Bates died in 1865, where he settled in 1834. His widow died in March 1869, at the residence of her daughter; Mrs. Foster.