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Fleming Bates

Assessment

Fleming Bates qualifies as a supplemental early settler. His name is legible on the original 1830 Lowndes County census, stamped page 88. The demographic columns have not been fully transcribed, but the household-head reading is secure.

A rerecorded Lowndes deed supplies a future-Brooks land locator. Acting through a sheriff's sale, Fleming Bates conveyed District 12, Lot 435 to William Smith for $21 on July 14, 1830. The instrument was recorded in 1837. The record establishes Bates's legal association with the lot; the underlying execution and title history need further study before describing him as an ordinary voluntary seller.

Huxford's Bethel pastor table places Bates at the church from 1827 through 1830. This makes the traditional 1826 migration plausible, but the original minutes have not been inspected and no contemporary record states the arrival year. His wife, children, later residence, and death remain unresolved.

Identity controls

  • The 1830 census head and sheriff-deed party are consistent in name, county, and date.
  • The church role remains based on a later transcription.
  • No spouse or child should be assigned without a relationship-naming record.

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Roster and Barney relevance

  • Roster: supplemental; original 1830 census and deed anchored.
  • Barney relevance: broader future-Brooks context through Bethel and District 12. No direct Barney influence is proved.

Sources

  1. 1830 U.S. census, Lowndes County, Georgia, stamped p. 88, Fleming Bates; Ancestry collection 8058, record 1851028, image 4409522_00174.
  2. Fleming Bates sheriff sale to William Smith, July 14, 1830, District 12, Lot 435, Lowndes Deed Book B, pages 22–23; Hightower deed extraction.
  3. Folks Huxford, History of Brooks County, Georgia (1948), early-settler list and Bethel pastor table.