Robert Bates

http://www.doddridgecountyroots.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I739...

Military CPO/MACH, U.S. Navy, World War II [Sources 4, 5, 6]

Inscription on military marker: MACH US NAVY [machinist?]

Photo by: Katina Peters, added 10/23/2014 to Find A Grave Memorial# 103880109

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103880109

Sources: 1. West Virginia Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line], (Ancestry.com).

2. Social Security Death Index.

3. 1920 Census, Doddridge County, WV (McClellan District).

4. Newspaper article, West Union Herald, 4/2/1942.

5. Military Grave Marker.

6. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 [database on-line], (Ancestry.com).

7. West Virginia Deaths Index, 1853-1973 [database on-line], (Ancestry.com).

8. Doddridge County Cemeteries, Vol. III, Donald Edward Ramage, (4117 Almaville Rd, Smyna TN 37167 (1988, rev. 1999)).

9. Headstone.

10. One World Tree, (www.ancestry.com).