Ira Wait Potess
Sex: M
AKA: Potes 1022
Individual Information
Birth: 27 May 1875 - , Adair , MO 44,1023
Christening:
Death: 13 Apr 1953 - San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA 1023
Burial: 6
Cause of Death:
Events
• He appeared on the census in 1880 in Drake, Macon, MO. 1022 Ira W. Potes is listed as son, age 5, with John N. Potes.
• He had a residence in 1945 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California. 44
• Military: 1990. 6 he made it to 3rd Seargent and then had lung problems and was discharged.
Parents
Father: John N. Potes (1839-1922) 6
Mother: Louisa Jane Thompson (1844-1889) 6,308
Notes
Burial Notes:
It was asked that Clyde Compton place his ashes on his mother's grave in Mt. Carmel Cemetery. It was done.General:
What I have on Ira W. Potes(s):
born 1873 probably Adair Co. MO as parents living there.
Never married.
Died after 1900 prob. San Louis Obispo, San Luis Obispo Co. CA ( I haven't checked SSDI but should)
Buried: Clyde Compton was asked to bring his ashes to the Mt Carmel cem and placed on his mothers grave, which was done. It was said he died in CA after 1900. Letters writen from MO Sep 1900 was visiting in Mo and planning on going to Colorado to make his home and by Oct 1900 he was living in Kansas City, MO 236 & 328 W. 6th St. That letter he said he was in the army and worked up to 3rd Sargent and then had lung problems and was discharged. Dec 1900 wrote to WA and said he was working in a wholesale house in Kansas City. Said he was going to get married but she changed her mind and he was going to CO to get some land but didn't need to so thought would join the 32nd Mo in Kansas City and go to Manilla and act as Co. cook. Copies of these letters were sent from Joyce Hamilton of St John WA in 1986, written by Ira Potes to Nellie White of St John, WA (related to John W. Thompson Jr's family)
The Sep letter said he had been in Oklahoma teaching school for 2 terms in fall and winter of 1897, in a Government school at O.T. for $45 a month, teaching Indians. Came home at Xmas and took sick until May 1899 with lung, heart and catarrah trouble.
How and when he went to CA no one seems to know or when he died.
Gladys Treadway
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