NameBenjamin Franklin Moates241
Birth5 Mar 1865, Waterloo, Perry Township, Gallia co., OH241
Death1949, Wyandotte co., Kansas241
BurialForest Hill Cem., Kansas City, MO241
FatherJohn W. Moates (1820-1900)
MotherMalinda Prose (1827-1913)
Notes for Benjamin Franklin Moates
He went to Mexico and bought oil well land. He became very wealthy - until Mexico nationalized his holdings. He was able to return to the U.S. with some money. He invested in land and then he developed it in 1990, near Lee’s Summitt, MO. He lived in NY with his wife & daughter (Alice Leone Moats) who was a Winter. He was an LDS and registered a lot of the family in Salt Lake City, LDS. See film #1035909 Item #9. (SV-474)
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