Located approximately 2.2 miles west of the west end of the West Tennessee State Dept. Penitentiary.  Google-Map
Turn right off Highway 87 onto Sam Taylor Road.
Immediately turn left into a driveway. Go up small hill.
(In 2002 this property belongs to Carolyn Kelly and Bill Moore.)
The cemetery is approximately 100 yards west of the house.
The cemetery is approximately 90 by 69 feet.
It is enclosed in a chain-link fence.

There is a tombstone on the west side of the cemetery but we could not get to it (so much poison oak) when we visited August 2002. From previous visits, I do not remember writing or it was legible.

William Bates was my great grandfather (father of my grandmother Jennye Celestia Bates Sullivan). I strongly suspect his parents are buried in the plot but do not have markers. They were James Hicks Bates and Mary Jane Marshall Bates who came to Lauderdale County sometime between 1840 and 1850. They died sometime around 1871.

J. H. Bates was a bachelor uncle who lived with William Bates and his family. He was a civil war veteran, having seen action at Vicksburg.