Martha Elizabeth Traylor Gates

 Teacher and Civic leader

Born:August 12, 1902, Troup Co., Georgia
Died:February 9, 1998, Huntsville, Alabama
Buried:Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Alabama
Residence:416 Locust Avenue SE
Wife of:Thomas Pickens Gates

Notes:

•  Daughter of Jere Reese Traylor (1857-1932) and Elizabeth Weir Houston (1867-1902). Her mother died on the day she was born and if we have her census connections correct, she was raised by an aunt. - Ancestry.com

•  Married Thomas Pickens Gates in 1925, Huntsville, Alabama. - Ancestry.com

•  Mother of two daughters: Martha B. Gates (1927-2007) and Frances Gates - Ancestry.com

•  "Pick Gates turned 91 during Huntsville Rotary's 75th year. His wife, Martha, celebrated her 90th birthday the same month. And in this celebration year for the club, the two of them observed their 67th wedding anniversary.
She was Martha Traylor from Columbus, Ga., when she came to teach English at Huntsville High School, and they married in 1925. Throughout his years of Rotary service, which totaled 57 in 1992, Martha Gates quietly stood behind her husband in his endeavors. They proved to be many, but she participated when she could, and was a charter member of Rotaryann when that club formed in 1955." - Easterling

•  Founding member of The Judge David Campbell Chapter Daughters of the American Colonists. This was the first Chapter in the state of Alabama founded November 15, 1944. Mrs. T. Pickens was chosen as the first chaplain. Then elected the first corresponding secretary. - Sesquicentenial

•  Charter member of the Huntsville Branch of the American Association of University Women organized on April 19, 1949. - Sesquicentenial

•  Served on the founding counsel of The Huntsville- Madison County Girl Scouts Council. - Sesquicentenial

•  Attended the first meeting of Madison County Historical Association, November 18, 1851. - Russell

•  Mrs. Ford, the author the history book for First Methodist Church thanked Mrs. T. P. Gates for proofreading. - Ford and Van Valkenburgh


Related Links:

•  Ancestry.com - Page owned by walkerchet and can be viewed only with an Ancestry.com paid subscription. (Originally found at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/25085913/person/1602572580.)

•  Easterling - 75 Years of Service: A History of The Huntsville Rotary Club, by Bill Easterling, 1992, page 27.

•  Find A Grave - Page created by Bobbie Christian and maintained by Gene Hill. Photo of tombstone by Susan Bennett.

•  Ford and Van Valkenburgh - A History of The First United Methodist Church of Huntsville, Alabama 1808-1983, by Ruth Sykes Ford and updated by Nancy Wilkinson Van Valkenburgh, 1984, page 7.

•  Russell - Article titled "The First Twenty Years of the Huntsville Historical Society" by Bessie Russell in the Huntsville Historical Review, Volume 1, #4, Oct-71, Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society page 20.

•  Sesquicentenial - Commemorative Album, Celebrating our City's Sesquicentennial of Progress, Huntsville, Alabama, by James E. Taylor, General Chairman, 1955, pages 67, 91, 97, 344, 346.


The Following Pages Link to this Page:
•  416 Locust Avenue SE
•  Russell
•  Sesquicentenial
•  Thomas Pickens Gates