BATES Family History
Samuel and Mary (McKee) Bates lived in Newtownstewart, County Tyrone in what is now Northern Ireland, during the early to mid 1800s. They bore at least 5 sons and 2 daughters, 4 of the sons (Samuel, Mathew, Joseph and William) migrated to the United States. Two ultimately settled in Story County, Iowa and 2 in Brooklyn, New York.