found: nuc92-3377: His A historical sketch of Capt. Martin Van Buren Bates ... [MI] 1968?(hdg. on GmC rept.: Bates, Martin Van Buren, 1845-; usage: Capt. Martin Van Buren Bates)
found: Crowe, Richard. A giant love story, ©2016 :page [3] (Martin Van Buren Bates; born: 1837, Letcher County, [Kentucky]; parents: John Willis and Sarah Waltrip Bates); page 18 (died: 1919); page 14 (married: June 17, 1871, London); page 12 ([spouse]: Anna Haining Swan, born 1846)
found: Find a Grave via Ancestry.com, viewed October 21, 2016:(Martin Van Buren Bates; born: Nov. 9, 1837, Whitesburg, Kentucky; served in the War Between the States in the 5th Kentucky Infantry, CSA, and rose to the rank of Capt. in the Virginia State Line; died: Jan. 7, 1919, Seville, Ohio; spouse: Anna Haining Swan Bates,1848-1888 (m. 1871), and Annette LaVonne Weatherby Bates, 1858-1940 (m. 1889))
found: Martin Van Buren Bates, the Famed Kentucky Giant. In: Kentucky explorer, July/August 2011, viewed May 2, 2018:p.46 (Martin Van Buren Bates was born at Kona, near Whitesburg, in Letcher County, Kentucky. His official birthdate is November 9, 1837, although some census records put it at 1849 and 1845. It was widely published that he joined the Civil War at 16 due to his enormous size, which would put him born in 1845 according to those claims. Martin himself claimed to be born on November 9, 1845, in all his newspaper and public interviews)
found: Kentucky encyclopedia, ©1992:pages 59-60 (Martin Van Buren Bates; attended Emory and Henry College in Virginia when the Civil War broke out. Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, then to Seville, Ohio after marrying the "Giantess of Nova Scotia", Anna Hanen Swan. Toured with exhibitions and circuses due to his height)
