Three years later she moved to the Mount Lebanon Shaker Society where she was to remain for the rest of her life.
She was trained as a schoolteacher and "tailoress", and in both pursuits was associated with Polly Anne Reed, with whom she was a member of the First Order of the Church.
[4] Bates has been posited, by Daniel W. Patterson, as the creator of seventeen gift drawings produced during the Shaker Era of Manifestations.
The case which he makes is circumstantial, based largely on his analysis of membership rolls of the First Order of the Church.
[5] An untitled drawing by Bates, in pen and brush and colored inks over graphite, is owned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.