{"id":12801,"date":"2013-12-26T16:13:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T22:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=12801"},"modified":"2023-06-11T19:34:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:34:35","slug":"bate-julia-peete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/bate-julia-peete\/","title":{"rendered":"BATE, Julia (Peete)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bate_Julia\"<\/a>Mrs. BATE<\/strong>\u00a0is the daughter of the late\u00a0Samuel PEETE<\/strong>, who was born and brought up near Petersburg, Va. \u00a0He was a graduate of William and Mary College when to be such was guaranty of scholarship. \u00a0In 1820 he removed to Huntsville, Ala., his future home, where he made an enviable reputation as a refined and cultivated gentleman and successful lawyer. \u00a0Here he married\u00a0Miss Susan Ann POPE,<\/strong>\u00a0daughter of\u00a0Benjamin POPE<\/strong>\u00a0and granddaughter of\u00a0Col. Charles Alexander POPE<\/strong>, of Delaware, who figured conspicuously under Washington in our Revolutionary War, belonging to the command known, in revolutionary parlance, as \u201cThe Blue Hen\u2019s Chickens.\u201d \u00a0He was wounded at the battle of Brandywine. \u00a0At the close of the Revolutionary War,\u00a0Colonel POPE<\/strong>\u00a0was a member of the order of select American officers known as \u201cThe Society of the Cincinnati,\u201d of which General Washington was president. \u00a0This entitles\u00a0Mrs. BATE<\/strong>\u00a0to become a member of the Colonial Dames and Daughter of the American Revolution should she so desire.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. BATE<\/strong>\u00a0is a well-educated woman, having received the basis of her education in Huntsville, Ala., which in that day was remarkable for its educational facilities. \u00a0After going through an academic course, she was sent to Philadelphia to\u00a0Mrs. LAMB\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0private and select school for young ladies, where she remained nearly two years. \u00a0Meanwhile she became quite a musician, which accomplishment is now, in her advanced life, a source of the highest enjoyment to her and her friends. \u00a0She keeps up with the literature and current events of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

After leaving school at Philadelphia, she returned to her home in Huntsville, Ala., an attractive and accomplished young lady. \u00a0Her mother having died when she was but three years old and her father remaining unmarried, Miss Julia became the head of the domestic affairs of the\u00a0PEETE<\/strong>\u00a0household. \u00a0She spent the second winter of her young womanhood with the family of her uncle, Dr.\u00a0Charles POPE<\/strong>, in St. Louis, Mo. \u00a0In the following summer, while at Catoosa Springs, GA., with a party of young ladies from Huntsville, she met\u00a0William B. BATE<\/strong>, of Tennessee, to whom she was married the next winter, 1856. \u00a0They resided on a farm near Gallatin, Tenn.,\u00a0General BATE<\/strong>\u00a0pursuing his legal practice as attorney-general of that judicial district. \u00a0On the approach of the Civil War he became a Confederate soldier, and followed the fortunes of the South from the beginning to the end of that bloody struggle. \u00a0He passed from captain through intermediate grades to major general, and won much distinction as soldier and officer. \u00a0He was two or three times severly wounded in battle, and each time his devoted, Christian wife was by his side and nursed him to recovery. \u00a0Mrs. BATE<\/strong>\u00a0showed her noble womanhood when failure in the great struggle came upon the South. \u00a0She did not complain and pine over misfortune, but, like her noble, manly husband, regarded it as but a sacrifice to country, and, with cheerfulness of spirit, entered upon the work of recuperation.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is said \u201cfortune smiles upon the brave.\u201d \u00a0After a few years of inconvenience and disgust with the then social and political surroundings \u2013 with confiscation and selling of the old home, disrupting all its tender associations, and living in rented houses, which troubled her much \u2013 the\u00a0BATE<\/strong>\u00a0family soon had a home of their own, with all substantial comforts; even their old family servants remained with them. \u00a0It was not long until\u00a0General BATE<\/strong>\u00a0was elected Governor of Tennessee, and just as the close of his governorship of two terms he was chosen United States Senator, and has since been twice chosen his own successor.<\/span><\/p>\n

In all this change of fortune\u00a0Mrs. BATE<\/strong>\u00a0has shown herself equal to every\u00a0situation. \u00a0She is as easy and graceful as the wife of the Senator in Congress as she was in dispensing the hospitalities of the Governor\u2019s home or when in\u00a0ante-bellum<\/em>\u00a0days she was mistress of her domestic circle on their blue-grass farm in Sumner County, Tenn. \u00a0Her Christian philosophy and graceful womanhood guided her with equal success, whether around the couch of wounded Confederate soldiers or on state \u00a0occasions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Four daughters were born to them. \u00a0Jennie<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Bell<\/strong>\u00a0were taken in girlhood by the great Giver; Mazie, the eldest, was married to\u00a0Thomas F. MASTIN<\/strong>, of Huntsville, Ala., and is the mother of four children, and now lives at Grand View, Texas; Susie, the youngest, married\u00a0O.W. CHILDS<\/strong>, and lives in Los Angeles, Cal., and is the mother of a daughter. \u00a0Mrs. MASTIN<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Mrs. CHILDS<\/strong>\u00a0are both cultivated, attractive women. \u00a0\u00a0Mrs. BATE<\/strong>\u00a0reared, as one of her own daughters,Lizzie BATE<\/strong>, daughter of\u00a0Capt. Humphrey BATE<\/strong>\u00a0who fell in the battle of Shiloh. \u00a0She is the attractive and charming wife of\u00a0E.M. WILLIAMS<\/strong>, of Memphis, Tenn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. BATE<\/strong>\u00a0remains with her husband during the sessions of Congress. This necessitates her living in Washington most of her time, where she participates, to a moderate extent, in social affairs incident to official life in the capital. \u00a0She is a member of the Washington Ladies\u2019 Literary Club. \u00a0Full of charity and sympathy, she does not neglect her duties to the societies to which she belongs, especially those for the relief of old soldiers. \u00a0She is a regular attendant of the Methodist Church, of which she has been a member since girlhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0Gilchrist, Annie S.\u00a0Some Representative Women of Tennessee<\/i>. Nashville: McQuiddy Print. Co, 1902.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mrs. BATE\u00a0is the daughter of the late\u00a0Samuel PEETE, who was born and brought up near Petersburg, Va. \u00a0He was a graduate of William and Mary College when to be such was guaranty of scholarship. \u00a0In 1820 he removed to Huntsville, Ala., his future home, where he made an enviable reputation as a refined and cultivated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4064,261,812,4405,4419],"tags":[716,3552,1502,4065,2669,871],"class_list":{"0":"post-12801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-representativewomen","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-sumner","9":"category-surname-b","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-bate","12":"tag-childs","13":"tag-lamb","14":"tag-mastin","15":"tag-peete","16":"tag-pope","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12804,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12801\/revisions\/12804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}