Asa E. "Ace" Goates
(1884 - 1962)
Copeland, Van Buren County, Arkansas United States 72031
Modesto, Stanislaus County, California United States
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Asa E. "Ace" Goates & Rhoda Jane Pack Goates
February 22, 1903 - September 12, 1928Cause of Separation: Death
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Asa E. "Ace" Goates was the son of David Coleman Goates, Jr. and Sally Ann Hensley. He was first married to Rhoda Jane Pack on February 3, 1903 in Copeland, Van Buren, Arkansas. ( Van Buren Marriage Index G Book 8 Page 66 ). They had eight children:
Leona Goates Isaac, 1904-1972
Ora Mabel Goates Cox, 1906-1983
William Elmer Goates, 1908-1947
Everet Goates, 1911-1926
Verna Lera "Vernie" Goates Waggoner, 1913-2007
Ruth Viva Goates Jennings, 1916-1958
Alva Martin "Alvie" Goates, 1918-2005 and
Ilene Violet Goates Eddings Branson, 1925-1978
His second wife was Stella Augusta Queen. They were married on March 30, 1934 in Franklin, Arkansas. They had one child, Robert E. Goates, who died at birth.
The Modesto Bee
Friday, October 26, 1962
Page 9A
Ace E. Goates
Services will be held tomorrow at 11AM in the Franklin & Downs Funeral Home for Ace E. Goates, 79, a retired rancher, who died Wednesday in a local hospital after a long illness. The Rev. James Ervin and Rev. E. A. Thresher will officiate.
Goates had lived in the Hughson area for about eight months. He was a native of Copeland, Ark.
He is survived by his widow, Stella, of Hughson; two sons, Willie Goates of Waterford and Alva Goates of Hughson; four daughters, Ora Cox and Ilene Eddings of Hughson, Verna Waggoner of New Mexico, and Leona Isaac of Arkansas; five stepdaughters, Myra Pack of Modesto, Pearlee Bledsow and Eda Pack of Porterville, Tulare County, Virginia Head of Lakewood, Los Angeles County, and Clara Moody of Oregon; 24 grandchildren, 10 step grandchildren, and several great grandchildren. Burial will be in the Ceres Cemetery.
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In 1884, in the year that Asa E. "Ace" Goates was born, on August 5th, the cornerstone for the base of the Statue of Liberty - a gift from the people of France - was laid. 120,000 people - most donations were $1 - donated to the completion of the base. An 1883 poem by Emma Lazarus was also written to raise funds. That poem was included in the base of the statue and is well known today. The most famous phrase: "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
In 1906, he was 22 years old when abolitionist and suffragette leader Susan B. Anthony died, before women's right to vote nationally was realized (in 1920). She, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association which later became the League of Women Voters. She died at the age of 86 of heart failure and pneumonia in her home in New York.
In 1929, he was 45 years old when the St. Valentine's Day Massacre happened on February 14th. In Chicago, seven men from the North Side Irish gang were gunned down by Al Capone's South Side Italian gang at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street. Al Capone was making a successful move to take over Chicago's organized crime. But the St. Valentine's Day massacre also resulted in a public outcry against all gangsters.
In 1932, at the age of 48 years old, Asa was alive when on February 27th, actress Elizabeth Taylor was born in London. Her parents were Americans living in London and when she was 7, the family moved to Los Angeles. Her first small part in a movie was in There's One Born Every Minute in 1942 but her first starring role was in National Velvet in 1944. She became as famous for her 8 marriages (to 7 people) as she was for her beauty and films.
In 1962, in the year of Asa E. "Ace" Goates's passing, lasting from October 16th - 28th, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that the United States and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war. The Soviet Union had been installing a nuclear missile base in Cuba. The United States established a blockade to stop the base from being completed. Through secret negotiations, war was averted: the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle their weapons in Cuba and the United States agreed to never invade Cuba and to dismantle weapons in Turkey and Italy.
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