Bates Cemetery is a bit of a misnomer as it comprises just two graves all alone along a barbed wire fence.  These two markers are broken.  They lie near an area, which is being cleared for development.  I could find no information of other burials in this area.
 
From Little Elm, go East on Eldorado Parkway (FR 2934) to Legacy.  Turn North and follow the road all the way to a dead end at an east-west tree row--about 1 mile. (The first half mile is new pavement.  The road then becomes a narrow, dirt road.  Continue North, taking a slight jog to the right around a small, white house.) The two broken markers lie West of the road near the barbed wire fence.  

 

George Wright Bates
Birth: Mar. 22, 1844
Death: Jan. 23, 1858
s/o Rev. William Edmunds Bates & Susan Wright
 
James Marshall Bates
Birth: May 14, 1840
Death: May 9, 1953
s/o Rev. William Edmunds Bates & Susan Wright

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