Lilly Hazel Brown Bates 1914-2003

Hazel Lilly Brown Bates was born January 28, 1914 and died April 8, 2003.  She is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Palmyra, Marion County, Missouri.

Below is an article about our Cousin Hazel by Sister Patsy.

 Hazel Brown Bates was born January 28, 1914 to Matilda Gibson and Francis Brown.  She married James Bates in 1932 and they are blessed with one child, Mary Lu.  Hazel does research on the Cyrus Powell line.  Cyrus was a son of Charles and Leah Goldman Powell.  When we were novices in research, Hazel was our first lead in placing our Powells in this Charles Powell family.  This is her story as she told it.

 

In our younger days we operated a grade A dairy.  We raised registered quarter horses, producing seven or eight colts a year.  My husband showed our horses in horse shows.  Mary Lu and I rode in the Hannibal, Missouri parade several years ago, taking first place on our matched Arabian mounts.  We had a well known golden palomino named Golden Nip Ranch.  We had a red truck and trailer with this logo on the side.  We milked 22 Jersey cows by hand at the start.  Then we built a grade A dairy and our milk was trucked to St. Louis.  Jim was busy in our fields and Mary Lu and I did much of the milking with the help of the milking machines.  I worked for ten years in a shoe factory in Quincy, Illinois.  Later I worked for George Irwin, an art director.  My employment for Mr. Irwin lasted twenty years.  My duties included caring for his art work, keeping a sixteen-room mansion in order, and helping with parties.  Mr. Irwin entertained a lot.  One time Lady Bird Johnson was his guest.  I started researching my family in 1965 and have written twelve books on my heritage.

 

Hazel Brown Bates’ descent from Cyrus Powell is:

 

1. Cyrus Powell / Matilda Porter Crane
2. John Carpenter Gibson / Susan E. Powell
3. Francis Augustus Brown / Cynthia Matilda Gibson
4. Lilly Hazel Bates