Person

Robert Cates (Webster County, Ky, farmer )

b. 1829-04-30 d. 1889-03-07

Hopkins County and Webster County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of John Cates and Frances Cates. Married to Rebecca F. Cates. Father of Rebecca F. Cates, Sarah A. Cates, Robert Cates, and Lucinda Cates. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Webster County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 157A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 606.

"Robert Louis Cates (1829-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial #46200610, accessed November 30, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46200610.

Citation

Cates, Robert. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206078 (November 12, 2026).

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