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        1. How did peg leg'' bates die
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        4. Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates was an African-American entertainer from Fountain Inn, South Carolina, United States.
        5. Bates was born in or in Fountain Inn. His father, Rufus Bates, was a laborer, and his mother, Emma Steward Bates, was a sharecropper.

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          Peg Leg Bates

          American entertainer (1907- 1998)

          For the basketball coach, see Clayton Bates (basketball).

          Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates (October 11, 1907 – December 6, 1998) was an African-American entertainer from Fountain Inn, South Carolina, United States.

          Life and career

          Early life

          Peg Leg Bates was born Clayton Bates on October 10, 1907, in Fountain Inn, South Carolina,[2] the son of Rufus and Emma W Stewart Bates.[3][4] His mother was a sharecropper.[2] By the age of five,[2] Bates was dancing on the streets of Fountain Inn for pennies and nickels; he lost a leg at the age of 12 in a cotton gin accident.[5] His uncle, Wit, made his crude first "peg leg"[5] after returning home from World War I and finding his nephew disabled.

          Bates subsequently taught himself to tap dance with a wooden peg leg.[1][5] By the time he was 15, Bates was again adept enough at dancing to enter am