Rachel Coate

- Aft 1901

• Name	Rachel Coate  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 1901	Of Oregon
  Person ID	I1960	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Moses Marmaduke Coate,   b. 2 Dec 1815, Newton Twp., Miami, OH, USA d. 24 Feb 1901, Franklin Twp., Darke, OH, USA (Age 85 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Penny Brown,   b. 8 Apr 1822, Monroe, Darke, OH d. 3 Nov 1907, Franklin Twp., Darke, OH, USA (Age 85 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	6 Jun 1839	Miami, Ohio, USA   [2]
  Family ID	F4007	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Rachel is not listed as a child of Moses Marmaduke Coate in the census or family records I've found, but I'm including her here as this is where her letter below most fits into a family related to Marmaduke and Mary Jane Coppock Coate. This is a copy of a 1901 letter written by Rachel Coate that was typed and submitted to Amanda Pemberton Krell to help prove a families lineage back to Marmaduke and Mary Copock Coate. It is an example of a version of the family tradition passe d down about Mary Jane Coppock and Marmaduke Coate. It has many inaccuracies. "Yours received in due time but we saw in the Messenger that your father had gone. Was sorry, my father passed away over the 24th of February age 85, 2 mo, 14days. I have lived to see my Aunt (Handwritten: she lives here in Oregon) she is nearly three years older than father, she will be 89 the 9th of August. She is strong for her age, and has a good memory. She tells us things that father and mother use d to tell us when we were little, about the Indians capturing James Coppock family and two sisters. There were two sisters they did not get. James he kept out of there reach and escaped to a white settlement. The sisters names were Mary and Martha. The Martha was the baby and only six weeks old and Mary was about six years old. She was sitting in the bed of a cradle rocking the baby, when the Indians came in and killed the mother and took the girls. They kept them and raised them. Now this was the Mary that married the Coate, his name was Marmaduke Coate. He bought this girl from the Indians when she was 22 years old, he traded them a fine horse and new bridle and saddle for her. Then they had to run for there lives. He was afraid they would kill him and take the girl again. It took five days to reach his home. He built fires at night to deceive them, then they would go 2 or 3 miles away and cover themselves with leaves and bushes to sleep until morning. But little Martha she married an Indian. The Mary and the Che (Cheyenne?) Coates came across her among a tribe of Indians and her sister knew her. They persuaded her to go home with them then, but she wouldn't stay. She went back to her Indian husband. Now this Mary was my great great Grandmother that married the Marmaduke Coate, they had eleven children. My grandfathers name was Moses Coate, Who also married a Coppock. The first Moses Coate had a brother by the name of John and this was my great great grandfather. He was born about 1715. My aunt tells me they all came from England and settled in S. Carolina. Then they all came to Ohio about 1806. The Marmaduke Coate and his wife Mary lived to be old, she lived to be 93 years old and he lived to be 96. Now the Ancestors on, as they came down on my Grandmothers side, First John, 2nd Joseph, Calvin, James, Elizabeth Coppock. Now Elizabeth was My Great Great Grandmother. And now on the Coate side, first Marmaduke who married Mary Coppock sister of James Coppock. The Moses my great grandfather and the Moses my Father. I have papers, leases, of everything back to sixteenth century. Rachel"

  
  

• Sources

  [S918] Coate, Rachel, Letter dated 1901copied and submitted to Krell files in the Historical Society of PA, Philadelphia, PA. [S303] Brien, Lindsay M., Miami Valley Genealogies, Vol. 1 (It appears to have MANY dates that don't agree with other sources.).