Sherman Daily Democrat
Thursday, May 4, 1911
pg. 5

Charles  E., the 6-months-old adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Bates, died yesterday afternoon at 2:35 o'clock at No. 328 East Crawford street of  cholera infantum.
Funeral services were conducted this afternoon from the house at 3 o'clock and the interment was at Oakwood Cemetery.