Letter   April 1918                                      <click here>

Baraboo's 21                                                <click here>

Otto Franklin Bates - Baraboo, Wisconsin

Army Rank: Corporal (1918).

Assigned Unit: 107^th Supply Train, 32^nd Division, Company E

Army Serial Number:

Inducted:

Promoted:

Army Discharge: 1919

Remarks:  Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – 1919

  Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918

  Member of the Tuscania Survivors Association (1938)

  Address: La Farge, Vernon County, WI (1900)

  Address: Reedsburg, Sauk County, WI (1910)

  Address: 604 Ninth Ave., Baraboo, WI (1920)

  Address: 130 8th Ave., Baraboo, WI (1938)

Wife’s Name: Gracia May Dutcher

  (b. May 28, 1900 Baraboo, WI) (d. Oct. 4, 1981 McPherson, Kansas)

   Married: Nov. 5, 1919 Sauk County, WI

Fathers Name: Jesse Thomas Bates

  (b. Sept. 5, 1860 Lawrence County, Ohio)

 (d. April 22, 1946 Madison, Dane County, WI)

Mothers Name: Amelia Brewer

  (b. Dec. 24, 1866 Lake County, Illinois)

  (d. March 3, 1925 Reedsburg, Sauk County, WI)

   Marriage: Dec. 24, 1885 Richland County, Wisconsin

Brothers: Arthur & Charles Bates

Sisters: Nellie, Gracie, Bessie, and Alice Bates

Civilian Occupation:

Born: Dec. 25, 1894 Stark, Vernon Co., WI

Died: Aug. 20, 1965 Baraboo, WI (age 70)

Cemetery: Walnut Hill Cemetery, Sauk County, WI

   Note: Husband and wife are buried together

Plot: Section C3