John BATES released from Indiana State Prison in Michigan City (1861)

source: Second annual report of the Board of Control of the Northern Indiana State Prison for the year 1861 (Indianapolis: Berry R. Sulgrove, 1862).

John Bates was 18 years old on September 27, 1858 when he was sentenced in Hendricks County to a 3 year-term in Indiana State Prison for grand larceny. He was initially sent to the Indiana State Prison in Jeffersonville; in 1861, when a second state prison was opened in Michigan City, he was transferred there. He served all but 21 days of his sentence, being discharged from Michigan City on September 6, 1861.

Wilma BATES granted divorce for husband's military desertion (1943)

As mentioned in Hendricks County Circuit Court Civil Order Book Volume 93 (June 1943 - June 1944), in October 1943 Wilma Bates was granted a divorce from Rush L. Bates (case #16858). The divorce decree noted that her husband was serving a sentence in federal prison for being a deserter from the military.