Grace Arabelle Coate

1882 - 1965  (83 years)

• Name	Grace Arabelle Coate  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Birth	23 Apr 1882	Ludlow Falls, Miami County, Ohio, United States of America   [7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
  Gender	Female
  Death	22 Jun 1965	Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne County, Michigan, United States of America   [8, 10]
  Burial	24 Jun 1965	Maple Hill Cemetery, Tipp City, Miami, Ohio, USA   [8, 10, 11]
  Person ID	I10725	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Warren C. Coate, *,   b. 20 Aug 1855, Ludlow Falls, Miami County, Ohio, United States of America d. 27 Sep 1929, Piqua, Miami County, Ohio, United States of America (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Ida Jane Harb,   b. 15 Feb 1860, Van Wert, Van Wert, Ohio, USA d. 4 Sep 1926, Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, United States of America (Age 66 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	30 Jan 1879	Miami, Ohio, USA   [7, 12]
  Family ID	F2936	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Corey L. Wilson,   b. 30 Dec 1881, , , OH, USA d. 24 Aug 1956, Akron, Summit, OH, USA (Age 74 years)
  _MARRIED	N
  Children	1. Hannah Jane Wilson,   b. 15 May 1909, Tipp City, Miami, OH, USA d. 25 Jan 1988, Roswell, Fulton, Georgia, USA (Age 78 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2971	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  I have in my files a copy of the ancestry of Herbert Hoover that includes biographical descriptions of Henry Coate's (Marmaduke's son) emigration from SC to Ohio in Aunt Grace's handwriting. According to my father, her sister Mamie McKinlld do the composing and Aunt Grace would handwrite it out. It's likely that this manuscript entitled "Ohio History of Herbert Hoover's Ancestry" was what Mamie was preparing for a Dayton paper as referred to in an Apr 25, 1931 letter between Mrs. Dunn to Mrs. McKinley. The letter from Aunt Grace written on May 10, 1963 is partially transcribed below by Richard Coate, it's recipient. The part in which she included Aunt Mamie's work still needs to be transcribed, but it was sent in this letter. "I received a nice letter from your mother a couple weeks ago. She is looking forward with great anticipation to all of you children coming home this summer. How I would like to see all of you. I think she is doing marvelously well to be so active as she is. She is not far from 70. But I guess I was still pretty active at that age, too. I am now 81. Peggy and Don stopped to see her in Trenton on their way home from Houston." [Don was returning to Houston to be employed as Sports Editor for a Houston newspaper.] "Hannah's son, Richard, is a junior in High School. He was sent with 83 other Boy Scouts to England on a Scout Exchange deal." I feel I have missed so much in not living closer to my nieces and nephews. You all are such nice folks. Albert and family topped here a few minutes on Mar. 10 en route from Mt. Clemens where they had taken Marcena's Aunt home. Albert's children are adorable. Was so glad to hear that Warren, Bob, and Albert's families all went down to Ashville for Martha Ann's wedding and your mother, too."I'm glad I was well enough to go to Mamie's as long as she lived. I spent much time there in the last two years - from 2 to 7 weeks at a time. She was so patient and kind. There are so many things that come to my mind of long ago, that I want to know and only she could answer."I am expecting Margaret and Robert Fuller the latter part of this month. Their travels East and West North and South, (Australia to Alaska) have been extensive. Of course your darling daughter, Jennifer is walking and is she talking some by now?" She also enclosed a document Aunt Mamie had drawn up concerning our genealogy, tracing our lineage all the way back to the Marmaduke who, along with his wife, Edith spent fifteen years in an English prison because of their adherence to the teachings of George Fox. It was pretty much what she had already taught us. (C-362) (Note: Our direct ancestor turned out to be John Coate married to Elizabeth Humphries. John spent 15 years in prison for not paying tithes to the Church of England because he was a Quaker. This has been proven through autosomal and YDNA). According to cousin, Martha Hale, Grace and two of her sisters followed in their fathers footsteps and went to college. This would have been before women won the right to vote.

  
  

• Sources

  [S264] Coate, Albert Edward Interviewed by his daughter, Linda Coate Dudick in the 1970s. [S2451] 1900 Federal Census Miami Co., OH. [S94] Margaret Fuller to Albert E. and Marcena I. Coate Letter dated Oct. 30, 1973 In L. Dudick files. [S80] Ida Jane Harb's Obituary Unknown Ohio Newspaper Hamilton, OH? Sept. 1926. [S2592] Grace Arabelle Coate, penmenship - but material likely dictated by sister, Mamie Coate McKinley Ohio History of Herbert Hoover's Ancestry Original in possession of Richard Simms. [S2568] Hale, Martha, Interviewed by Linda Coate, 6/5/2004. [S700] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc Date:2004 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), Year: 1900; Census Place: Piqua Ward 3, Miami, Ohio; Page: 11; Enumeration District: 0093; FHL microfilm: 1241305, 1,7602::0. [S426] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2012 Place:Lehi, UT, USA;), 1,60525::0. [S2091] Ancestry.com, 1950 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2022 Place:Lehi, UT, USA;), United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Akron, Summit, Ohio, 1,62308::0. [S170] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S2461] Mrs. Karl M. Sims, Death Certificate, Grace Coate Wilson (File #74, City of Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne Co., Michigan). [S1067] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc Date:2004 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), Source number: 43.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: LCD, 1,7836::0.