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	Martin Van Buren Bates and Anna Hannon Swann
		Martin Van Buren Bates and Anna Hannon Swann
		Essie Quillen of Neon, KY is a great niece of Martin Van Buren Bates and although she was born in 1900, 19 years before Bates died, she never saw "Big Uncle" as they called him.
		Bates is quoted as having written that the first was a girl who weighed 18 pounds at her birth in 1872 and seven years later a boy was lost soon after birth who weighed 22 pounds.
	yeahpot.com /mvbbates.htm (2544 words)

	The Giant of the Hills: Martin Van Buren Bates
		Bates is a relative of Bruce Bates of Scott County and George Rawlings of Mason, Ohio.)
		MARTIN VAN BUREN BATES was of normal size at birth, was the son of normal parents and his brothers and sisters were of average height and weight.
		BATES acquired many nicknames, including "Baby" and Giant of the South, but his first nickname was given to him when he was eleven years of age and weighed 170 pounds.
	www.tngenweb.org /scott/fnb_v7n2_martin_van_buren_bates.htm (1631 words)

	Martin Van Buren Bates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martin Van Buren Bates (November 9, 1837 – January 7, 1919), known as the "Kentucky Giant" among other nicknames, was an American Civil War era American famed for his incredibly large size.
		She and Martin soon got to know each other, and were married during an 1871 tour of the circus in Europe.
		Martin and his wife returned to Ohio in 1872 and settled down in Seville, but in May 1874, their eighteen-pound (8.2 kg) child was born stillborn, and to relieve their grief they took a trip to Europe again, but this time not as part of the circus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martin_Van_Buren_Bates (858 words)

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		Bates went into a fury over the mistake and they had to delay the funeral three days until the special casket could be constructed and shipped to Seville.
		Following his wife's funeral, Bates, taking no chances on a repeat of the casket fiasco, ordered a second extra-long casket for himself and stored it in his barn for years until it was finally needed.
		Bates was lonely after the death of Anna and a few years later married Annette Weatherby, the five-foot-tall daughter of his pastor.
	www.rootsweb.com /~kyknott2/biographies/bates_martin_vanb_odyssey.htm (709 words)

	Scott Co, TN FNB v9n3 Civil War Giant
		For those of you who may not have read the article about MARTIN VAN BUREN BATES, he was born of normal size parents, he was normal size at birth and his brothers and sisters were all normal size.
		However, MARTIN VAN BUREN grew to a height of seven feet eleven inches tall and weighed 525 pounds.
		MARTIN VAN BUREN made quite a name for himself during the war.
	www.tngenweb.org /scott/fnb_v9n3_giant.htm (906 words)

	MVB
		Martin Van Buren Bates was born November 9, 1837 in Letcher County, Kentucky at the mouth of Boone Fork of the North Fork of the Kentucky River where Kona is now located. He was the youngest child of John Wallis Bates and Sarah Waltrip and had eleven brothers and sisters.
		Martin, according to all reports, was a normal sized child until about the age of seven. He grew so rapidly his parents would not permit him to do much work for fear he would die. By 13, he weighed 300 pounds and he continued to grow until his height was proportionate to his weight.
		Relatives of Martin Van Buren Bates in Letcher County, KY remember their parents and grandparents talking about The Kentucky Giant and referred to him as - "Bud Bates", "Brother Bates", "Uncle Brother", "Baby Bates", and of course the "Kentucky Giant" or "Giant Bates".
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/2940/mvb.html (396 words)

	Bates Resources & Information - kathy bates
		Bates is a popular surname, originating in Scotland and the North of England.
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	The Bible UFO Connection - The Connections - Human Anomalies - History of North American Giants
		Ohio, Seneca Township: When the "Bates" mound was opened the remains of three skeletons, whose size would indicate they measured in life, at least, eight feet in height, were found.
		Ohio, Seville: An Ohio Bicentennial Commission historical marker serves as a reminder that the Giants of Seville, Captain Martin Van Buren Bates and his wife, Anna Swan Bates, lived in the village of Seville in Medina County.
		Martin was 7 feet 9 inches tall and weighed 480 pounds.
	www.bibleufo.com /humanphenom7.htm (1097 words)

	Seville
		Growing until he was 28 years-old, he reached a height of seven feet, eight inches and a weight of 470 pounds.
		Bates was born in Nova Scotia in 1848.
		Bates was seven feet, eleven inches and weighed 413 pounds.
	members.tripod.com /ELHS_65/seville.html (591 words)

	Anna Swan: Part Two
		Anna met Martin Van Buren Bates in 1869.
		Anna and Martin had furniture made to their specifications while they were in England.
		Martin supervised the construction of the house in Seville.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/7335/100548 (510 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		In 1871, when Anna Swan was crossing the Atlantic for a tour of Europe, she met Martin Van Buren Bates, the Kentucky giant who was advertised as 7 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 470 pounds, although he was actually 7 feet 22 inches.
		Martin and Anna were advertised as “the largest married couple in the world” and travelled together in Europe for 14 months.
		Some of her clothing and jewels were distributed among her family, and descendants have allowed some articles to be displayed in the Sunrise Trail Museum at Tatamagouche, N.S., near her birthplace at Mill Brook.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=39981 (856 words)

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		The southern part was named Van Buren and was composed of today's Cass and Bates Counties.
		The new county was originally named Van Buren, in honor of Martin Van Buren the eighth president of the United States.
		Van Buren and his adherents, adopting the name of the free democracy, held a convention at Utica New York and nominated Van Buren for President.
	www.tfs.net /~rudroff/raymore/Feb2000/page8.html (291 words)

	History, City of Clinton, Arkansas, Van Buren County, Ozark Mountains, Greers Ferry Lake, Arkansas
		Clinton is the county seat of Van Buren County, which was formed from portions of Conway, Independence and Izard counties, by an act of the territorial legislature, November 11, 1833.
		The Van Buren County Bank was organized in Clinton in 1903.
		About 1890 S. Myover established the Van Buren Journal and continued his publication until 1908 when he moved his plant to Shirley, a small town about 12 miles away where he continued publication of the Journal until his death a few years later.
	www.cityofclinton.info /history/carrollevans.html (2001 words)

	History
		In 1873, a couple moved to Seville, Ohio, who would be responsible for more reams of newspaper footage than anyone who set foot there before or since.
		Bates toured Europe and the United States giving lectures and having "teas".
		The Village of Seville along with The Ohio Bicentennial Commission, The Longaberger Company, Seville Kiwanis and Lions Clubs, The Guilford Grange, The Seville Historical Society, and The Ohio Historical Society, erected a sign at the Stanhope Park.
	www.villageofseville.com /history.html (216 words)

	A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets of Missouri
		By section 47, Revised Statutes of 1835, page 140, Van Buren County was organized out of Jackson County and included the present county of Cass.
		About this time Martin Van Buren, after whom our county was named, displeased his former political adherents.
		Martin Burriss...was born in St. Charles County, Missouri, in 1812, and came to Cass County in the spring of 1834.
	thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org /lochist/moser/cassco.html (1059 words)

	Spears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Payne was married to Margaret Bates, sister of Robert Bates and Martin Van Buren Bates, "The Kentucky Giant" whose was 7'11" tall.
		Morgan Beckner Johnson was the son of Joel Martin Johnson and Kentucky Reynolds, the daughter of Morgan Reynolds: Children: Morgan Beckner, Octavia.
		Joel Martin Johnson was the son of Tandy Johnson (brother of Pleasant Johnson) and Minerva Johnson.
	www.spearsworld.com (1015 words)

	bates pictures and videos on Webshots
		Bates was in town-ME, Bates, Stace, and Dana looking dr...
		aj and bates how many pictures do i have of her haha......
		Martin Van Buren Bates and Wife Anna Swann Bates
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	Medina Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Giants are not a football team, but a real-life husband and wife named Martin Van Buren Bates and Anna Swan Bates, who settled here in the late 19th century.
		However, her neighbor in Chippewa Lake, Bernice Bostwich, sat with Bates in church, where he would entertain restless children with the ticking of his giant-sized watch.
		I thought I knew all the best legends about the Giants — like the story of how Martin was dancing so vigorously at a party, he caused the house's floor to collapse — but I learned new things, from Helen, including the size of Martin's shirts.
	www.medina-gazette.com /Articles.asp?num=59327703 (848 words)

	Biographies of the Attorneys General
		Edward Bates was born in Belmont, Virginia, on September 4, 1793.
		Bates emigrated to the Territory of Missouri in 1814 and soon entered the practice of law.
		Bates was in the legislature again in 1830 and 1834.
	www.usdoj.gov /jmd/ls/agbiographies.htm (12842 words)

	The Appalachian States
		Martin County is located in the Eastern Coal Field region of eastern Kentucky.
		Martin County's eastern border with the state of West Virginia is formed by the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River.
		The mining started and soon camp houses were constructed, the railroads from Martin Kentucky were built, in came the workers out went the coal and started the growth of the area from the small family farms to coal company towns.
	members.tripod.com /cornelius_carroll/id33.htm (7416 words)

	Van Buren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martin Van Buren, President of the United States
		Whipple Van Buren Phillips, maternal grandfather of H.
		the Dutch Crown Prince Willem Alexander used the alias "Alex van Buren" in his University application to avoid extensive press coverage, probably related to the first wife of William I of Orange, the founder of the Dutch Royal dynasty
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Van_Buren (280 words)

	The Human Marvels
		Bates had been a Confederate Captain during the Civil War.
		Her husband, Martin, erected a great funeral monument to his wife.
		Although Martin later remarried he insisted that, upon his death, he be laid to rest next to his beloved Anna and their children.
	www.thehumanmarvels.com /2006/08/anna-swan-giantess-of-nova-scotia.html (592 words)

	2005 August \| Futility Closet
		Size was no impediment to Martin Van Buren Bates, a quiet schoolteacher who found that his enormous size (7′11″) served him better on the battlefields of the Civil War.
		After the war, Bates was touring Canada with a circus when he met Anna Haining Swan, another enormously tall person (7′5″), and they married in London, where Queen Victoria gave them two extra-large diamond-studded gold watches as wedding presents.
		When Anna died in 1886, Martin sold the house and married a woman of normal stature, with whom he lived peacefully until he died of nephritis in Seville in 1919.
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	Welcome to GiantFest
		To connect the public with the lives of Captain Martin Van Buren Bates and Anna Swan Bates and thus inspire new generations to carry on their legacy.
		Intimates of royalty, friends of celebrities and renowned in international medical circles, Captain Martin Van Buren Bates and Anna Swan Bates received more column inches of newspaper articles, books and brochures than any other couple in the history of Medina County.
		GiantFest is being planned by a steering committee made up of local residents, the Seville Mayor's Office, the Seville Chamber of Commerce, Seville and Medina County Historical societies and other county and nearby residents interested in preserving the memory of Seville's most famous family.
	www.giantfest.com (487 words)

	Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine: Anomalies of Stature, Size, and Development (Part 1)
		On June 17, 1871, there were married at Saint-Martins-in-the-Field in London Captain Martin Van Buren Bates of Kentucky and Miss Anna Swann of Nova Scotia, two celebrated exhibitionists, both of whom were over 7 feet.
		Anna Swann Bates was 6 feet and her mother was 5 feet and 2 inches high, weighing but 100 pounds.
		In the seventeenth century van Helmont supposed that there were pygmies in the Canary Islands, and Abyssinia, Brazil, and Japan in the older times were repeatedly said to contain pygmy races.
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	Susan Swan - FAQ
		And she died at 44 worn down by gravity, in a farmhouse built by Martin Van Buren Bates who stood 7.2 in his stocking feet, four inches shorter than Anna.
		At the time, I saw her as a real life giant and as a symbol of Canada - a female giantess looking for a way of putting her size to best use.
		Martin on the other hand in my story represents the American ethos.
	www.susanswanonline.com /faq.html (1490 words)

	SOS, Missouri - State Archives Missouri History FAQ - County Origins
		Originally organized as Van Buren County in honor of Martin Van Buren, the Democratic legislature changed the name to Cass on February 19, 1849, to honor Van Buren's Democratic opponent Lewis Cass.
		Van Buren ran as the Free-Soil candidate for president in 1848.
		The original law establishing Vernon County was approved on February 17, 1851, but was later declared to be unconstitutional in that the boundaries described were identical to those of Bates County.
	www.sos.mo.gov /archives/history/counties.asp (2925 words)

	Historic Bowens Mills (616) 795-7530 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1836 Montermer B. Martin, a land speculator, came to Barry County and Purchased land from the government, President Martin Van Buren signing the contracts.
		Bates owned the saw mill for about 1 1/2 years before selling to the Bowens.
		People now come from miles around, to see and feel the way things were done by their ancestors in the days gone by.
	www.bowensmills.com /mill/history.htm (1796 words)

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