Notes:

According to a grandson (E.W. Yount) information on his mother-in-law, Jane Coppock Coate's death certificate, Joseph Coppock was born in South Carolina. His father bought land in Miami Co., OH in 1804, but he apparently did not bring his wife and daughters north until 1807 as that is when they were received in Quaker church records. Joseph Coppock and family are in the 1850 Ohio census for Miami Co., Union Twp., Ohio on page 168. The data is as follows: Joseph Coppock, age 45, farmer, worth $2890.00, b. SC, wife Rachel, age 43, b. OH, children: Sampson, age 22, farmer; Mary A., age 17; Isaac, age 11; David, age 9; Isabell, age 9; Sarah, age 5. All children attended school including Sampson at 22. All were born in Ohio. (C-382) In the 1860 census his property and possessions are valued at $6,300.00. (C-70)

This Joseph might have been the Joseph in the 1827, 1830, 1835 and 1840 Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio census records also. They need checked to verify this. There appears to have been at least two more Joseph's living at the time, one in Concord Twp., Miami Co. and one in Newton Twp., Miami Co., Ohio. (C-1025)

According to "A Genealogical and Biographical Record of Miami County, Ohio" c1900, Joseph died suddenly in 1862 of a broken blood vessel. (E)

Joseph married Rachel HOLLINGSWORTH on 10 Aug 1825 in Union M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Rachel (daughter of Henry HOLLINGSWORTH and Sarah COOK) was born on 30 Nov 1808 in Worth, Perry, OH, USA; died on 17 Sep 1892 in Of Union Twp., Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ephraim married Mary COATE on 25 Sep 1850 in Union M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Mary (daughter of James COATE and Luranah TEAGUE) was born on 24 Sep 1827; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sampson married Mary Ann HUTCHINS on 21 Jul 1854 in Mill Creek M.M., , OH, USA. Mary (daughter of Isaac HUTCHINS and Rebecca JONES) was born on 12 Aug 1835 in Montgomery, Hamilton, Ohio, USA; died in 1915. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married John Haskett COATE, * on 22 May 1850 in Union M.M., Miami, OH, USA. John (son of Henry COATE, * and Rebecca WILLSON) was born on 24 Sep 1825 in Union Twp., Miami, OH, USA; died on 26 Oct 1902 in , Miami, OH, USA; was buried about 27 Oct 1902 in Union Joint Cemetery, Ludlow Falls, Newton Twp., Miami, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Calvin COPPOCK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Issac was listed as a Laborer on his death certificate. He was married but his wife had died before him. He apparently lived in Ludlow Falls, Ohio but died in Piqua. (C-576)

Family/Spouse: Dorcas PEMBERTON. Dorcas died before 4 Apr 1918. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

David was in Co. E, 147th Infantry in the Civil War. He was a twin to Elizabeth. (C-14, 1430)

Family/Spouse: Florence UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gairhart RUMBURG. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Benjamin is not in the 1850 census but is age 11 in the 1860 census. There is possibly an error in his age here, with him being born in the summer of 1850 instead. (C-62,70)

Notes:

He went by the name of Harry B. Coate as an adult. He was known for his astute business sense. He was the senior member of a drygoods business called Coate and Caw in the Allen building in Troy, Ohio. He ran off with his governess and moved to Chicago, IL where he was the vice-president of Cooper, Coate and Casey Co. When he left his wife with the governess, this tainted his memory in the eyes of his family, as they were quite fond of his wife. He married the governess apparently after his wife, Mary, divorced him. He had at least one daughter by his second wife. Her married name was Mrs. Gertrude Huddel. (C-370a) He and his second wife lived in Los Angeles, California where he opened another dry goods store with three surnames in the title of it too. He owned that store for 38 years and died at a ripe old age. (C-370a, 2081, & Al Coate)

Family/Spouse: Mary C. WILLIAMS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Warren Coate taught school at Wilmington, Ohio where I believe he had gone to college. He then married and inherited the large dairy farm in Ludlow Falls, Ohio from his father. He somehow lost possession of it financially about 1899, at which point he and his wife Ida Jane and family moved to Piqua, Ohio. They rented a house owned by (Mary) Jane Mast Pickering at 309 Wood St. Warren went to work for a dairy farm across the street from there. When he no longer could do that hard labor, he helped his wife run the boarding house that was one side of the home they were renting. (Mary) Jane Mast Pickering was very aged and didn't know that her relatives renting her home were also running a boarding house for a good 20 year period. This is also the home she later rented to Albert Pickering Coate and Maude Stevens Coate, my dad's parents, several times. (Interview of my father, Albert Edward Coate, C-54 & 606)

Warren's grandson, Richard Coate, remembers him handing him a "Milky Way" candy bar when he was just a preschooler. It made a lasting impression. He also remembers him sweeping the rows between the corn in the backyard garden with a broom! On Warren's death certificate, he was listed as a gardener by occupation. He lived on Urbana Pike R.R. 5 St. in Piqua, Ohio at his death. He died of Volvulus of a transverse colon in Memorial Hospital on Sep. 27, 1929. (C-1847, DOC)

Warren married Ida Jane HARB on 30 Jan 1879 in , Miami, OH, USA. Ida (daughter of Marquis Lafayette HARB, * and Arabelle C. MAST) was born on 15 Feb 1860 in Van Wert, Van Wert, Ohio, USA; died on 4 Sep 1926 in Hamilton, Butler, OH, USA; was buried on 6 Sep 1926 in West Milton, Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Loretta married Edgar W. YOUNT on 28 Oct 1880. Edgar was born on 25 Sep 1861; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was known as Mamie Smyers as an adult. She was not living with her parents in the 1880 census when she supposedly was about 4 years of age when the census was taken. She is possibly the Mary J. Smyers living with her daughter, Isabell Ronan's family in the 1930 census for Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois. Her age was 54 and her birthplace is given as Indiana. Her birthplace is what is not likely to match our Mary Jane Coate Smyers.

Mary married No Name SMYERS after 1890. No was born in 1875; died in 1915. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown SMYERS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This aunt of my fathers is remembered with great fondness by him. She was a very sweet, kind genteel woman who outlived her husband and child. She was nicknamed Mamie J. as a baby by the 1880 census where she was staying with her grandparents. She was one of 3 Baccalaureate speakers as her High School Graduation on May 6, 1898 for West Milton High School. She was listed as the honored final speaker with her oration entitled "Thermopylae". She was a teacher in Miami County. I have one of her teacher qualification exam certificates in my files date Aug. 5, 1899, Troy, Ohio. She is the aunt who gave my father the two rocks that had been in the family a long, long time: the indian matat (et) and the stone shaped like a Mexican sombrero (or axe) that was probably the stone found by the first Coates to come to Ohio, Henry's children, on their first day at Ludlow Falls. It is described in a biography of their first day as being shaped like an "adze". It could have been a stone tied to a very large piece of wood made into a very heavy axe. She died at age 81 according to her cemetery records as indexed in the Miami Valley Index on the internet. (C-362, )

Family/Spouse: Joseph (Joe) B. MCKINLEY. Joseph died after 2 Jun 1941. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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 McKinley would 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.

Family/Spouse: Corey L. WILSON. Corey (son of Benjamin WILSON and Sarah SMITH) was born on 30 Dec 1881 in , , OH, USA; died on 24 Aug 1956 in Akron, Summit, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lenna, like her father, also went to college. Her obituary in the Journal Hearld, Dayton, Ohio is as follows: "Services for Mrs. Lenna C. Cress of 120 Five Oaks Avenue will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Roy H. Miller funeral home, West Milton. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, West Milton. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5 to 9 p.m. today. Mrs. Cress died Saturday at her residence. A native of Miami county, she was employed as a secretary at the Wagner-Smith company 26 years. Surviving are her husband, Walter, and three sisters, Mrs. Grace Wilson of Akron, Mrs. Margaret Fuller of Nashville, N.C. and Mrs. Mamie Mckinley of Piqua." (C-2586) In the 1930 census for Dayton, Ohio it lists that she was employed as a book keeper for an Electrical Engineering firm. This were most unusual patterns for the time.

Lenna married Walter E. CRESS about 1904. Walter was born about 1879 in , , OH, USA; died after 2 Jun 1941 in Of Dayton, Montgomery Co, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Information about Albert P. is mostly from his children's memories, with some of it coming from insurance papers, deeds, and birth records.

When he was a child, he hated school and by the fifth grade his mother took a switch to him to get him to school. He was a very gentle and quiet man, the opposite of his wife in many ways. He was a very plain looking man and always very kind. His only fault mentioned was a quick temper. He went out of his way to help any person in need. He was the first of his family in Ohio to not be a practicing Quaker as an adult. He was a floor sander by trade and worked in all the counties surrounding his home. He also worked for what is now ARMCO, a steel rolling mill company. His job was to help turn the steel over and flip it onto a new line. When my dad was about nine, his father designed a device to automatically place the steel onto the new line. He showed the company his design and they said they had just gotten a patent on a similar device. They paid him $500.00 for his design. It was his design they actually built and this invention is still being used there today.

Some of what we know about Albert P. Coate comes from documents in his insurance files and my father, Albert Edward Coate. They rented one half of their Aunt's house in Piqua, Ohio when their first daughter was born. In the record of their 2nd stillborn daughter's birth in 1912, they lived at 696 Woodlawn, Middletown, Ohio. (C-DOC). They had moved to Baltimore St. in Middletown when their first son, Albert Edward was born. When Albert was 2 years old they tried to make a living by moving to the onion fields of northern Indiana. The summer brought a drought there and my father remembers living on potatoes and onions. It was a disaster and the Coate and Stevens families both moved back to Ohio after the first summer. Albert Pickering and his family then lived in Piqua, Ohio renting the house from their aunt again where Ben was born in 1916. Within a year, they moved to Trenton, Ohio on the opposite side of town that became their final home. Here Bob was born in 1917. They returned to Middletown on Franklin St. in 1919. About 1923, they returned to 113 John St. in Trenton where Albert P. Coate purchased the home I remember them living in for one thousand dollars. This is where he lived until the end of his life.

He was the third person to own a car in Trenton, Ohio. It was a Green Rio. His second car was a Model T. His young son Ben and a neighbor boy cut out the icing glass in it's windows when it was brand new. (C-687) On Sept. 13, 1934, he bought a Ford 28 Roadster from Lebanon Motor Sales for $95.00.(C-284) The final home belonging to Albert P. and Maud Stevens Coate at 113 John St., in Trenton, Ohio was sold in 1976 when Maud Coate moved to Columbus. It was listed at a cost of $23,500.00 with Jack Hembree Real Estate. (C:DOC-20)

Albert P. was known as a very friendly man. My father says "he never knew an enemy". People came from miles around to honor him at his funeral. It was one of the largest the town ever held and was packed with the people he'd befriended and an overflowing abundance of flowers. Twenty five years after his death, my father ran into a member of his community who commented on his dad's funeral and then said in a soft, sweet voice, "There was a fine.... man." He obviously touched people's hearts. One of his newspaper obituaries says that he had been ill since the November previous to his death and had been bedridden for the last three months. My father remembers his death occurring at the young age of 54 due to liver cancer. Apparently Albert P.'s smoking and years of exposure to floor sanding products got to his liver. My father, Albert Edward, stayed with him the night before he died. He died the next morning with the whole family gathered around him including his sister Mamie and her husband, Joe. His funeral service was held at the United Presbyterian Church with James P. Sturgeon and J.E. Amstutz (a Mennonite and close friend of the family) officiating. (C-284, 285, 2108) His death certificate says he died at age 53 years, 7 months and 21 days. It also says he was born on Nov 12, 1887, but his funeral book says he was born on Oct. 12, 1887 and his birth certificate says he was born on Dec. 12, 1887. The later is more likely to be correct. His son Benjamin was the person who gave the information for his death certificate and his memory on this subject might not have been accurate. His birth record would have been added closest to the event. (C: DOC)

The following is a biographical piece done by Richard Coate, son of Albert Pickering Coate about his father.ALBERT PICKERING COATE - INTELLIGENT, RESOURCEFUL AND INVENTIVE."As we all know, Dad was not a man of great means at the time he married Mom; however, an overall view of his history as a provider for his family reveals him to have been an intelligent, resourceful, and inventive man whose attempt to improve his circumstance and exercise a degree of control his own destiny was often foiled by the climate of the times in which he lived as well those who would exploit him for their own gain. That he was a man of deep humility was evident to all that knew him, due in large part to his Quaker upbringing. That he was capable of overcoming the many obstacles he confronted through the years is a testament to his tenacity, resilience and strength of character.

The pride and devotion to his family predominated all else. Considered by some to be a "dreamer" he was actually a man of considerable vision. Despite the error in judgment in quitting school at an early age, he was nonetheless determined to overcome the handicap by making his mark in the world.(In) 1915, when Marahelen and Albert were five and two respectively, Dad and Mom, along with members of the [Kaufman family] in Piqua, Ohio spent a hot, dry and unproductive summer in the Onion fields in Indiana. Though I don't know how many children they had at the time Dad and his younger brother John, owned a company for the manufacture of decorated cement blocks, they were still residing in Piqua. It must have been disheartening when Dad learned that Uncle John took off for Mexico with the $7000.00 in company funds.

When the Company was forced to close down for lack of sufficient operating funds, Dad, was again confronted with a crisis. Not one to bear a grudge, with passing time Dad apparently forgave his brother, for I recall the times Dad visited Uncle John at his home in Hamilton, Oh. However, as long as Mom lived she never had a good word to say about her brother-in-law. Though it is not known when he became an employee of the steel manufacturing company which became known as Armco in Middletown, Oh., Dad's inventive mind became a boon to his employer. In 1922, he was paid $ 1,000.00 for an invention of a means whereby a sheet of steel was automatically placed onto a new line in the manufacturing process. After he paid the man whom supplied material and the money to develop the invention, his profit only amounted to $5,00.00. Revolutionary as the process proved to be, the $500.00 was still pittance in comparison to the boon it proved to be for his employer. The amount of money and time in labor it saved them is inestimable.

Apparently Dad used some of the money to purchase the house on 113 John Street in Trenton, which became our home until Mom sold it in 1976. It was still in the boom years of the '20s when Dad left Armco. He apparently used some of the money to invest in a new business of his own. Dad would continue in the floor sanding business until his death. However, during the early depression years, floor sanders or refinishers as they were sometimes referred to, were not in great demand. Confronted with yet another personal financial crisis, Dad again confronted the challenge with the courage and resourcefulness that was akin to his nature. Though I have vague recall of Dad loading blocks of ice containing frozen fish onto the fender of his car, I was not old enough to appreciate what he did with them after he pulled out of our driveway. The older boys in the family no doubt recall that Dad hawked the fish as one source of income. He purchased the fish encased in ice blocks at the fish market in Middletown, Oh. Securing the blocks on either fender of the front bumper of his truck, he proceeded through the streets of Trenton and Middletown, calling out for all to hear. "Fresh fish for sale, Fresh fish for sale. Get them before their gone!" Warren tells me that he did this for several winters in those early depression years. By the time the Depression began to ease up, Dad was back at floor sanding full time.

As all the boys in the family learned the business, we had good reason to be proud of our father. By the mid-thirties, word had spread about the pride he took in his work as well as his work ethic. Always an advocate of a fair business deal, his client's invariably recommended his work to others. By the time ill health forced him to retire, his territory expanded to include Middletown, Hamilton, Lebanon, Franklin, Oxford, the outskirts of Cincinnati and Dayton, Oh. His clients included business people, owners of luxurious farm homes as well as those of city dwellers. As a boy, I found the diversity of his clients exciting and it always proved to be an adventure to work in these great houses I would never have seen had it not been for Dad's choice of occupation. As the invention for Armco Steel had lasting impact, Dad was sure that his invention for a more efficient floor sanding machine would lift him from the economic woes which plagued him for most of his married life. The invention was intended to render the machine more efficient in operation and less time consuming in the achievement of the desired result - a smooth, magnificent finish intended to endure for years. I recall the many arduous hours Dad spent working on the invention with his partner, Gink in "Gink's garage." Gink [short for Gingerich] was a long time, and highly respected Trenton resident. Dad, in the late '30s, employed Gink's hearing impaired son. Unfortunately, Dad's illness halted work on the invention, so a patent was never issued.

Though some of my older brothers often referred to Dad as a dreamer, he was, in my mind, a true visionary. As one with proven ability to conceive ways to improve productivity in a manufacturing process ranked him well above those who readily accept status quo as norm. Had he not been felled so early in life, I am sure that a patent on the invention for improving the sanding machine would have resulted in the financial boon he deserved. And I might add, as a kid whose formative years were during the hard times of the Great Depression, I was not a little envious of those who could afford to live so well. And it was a proud moment for me to walk hand in hand with Dad through the streets of Trenton, passing towns people who invariably addressed him, "Hello, Mr. Coate. How's the family." Dad would always respond with a warm smile, nodding in the affirmative, replying "Just fine, thank you." The occupational hazards of working with material giving off toxic fumes would take its toll. In 1939 when his health began to fail, Ben, a student at Ohio State University, having established his own floor sanding business in Columbus, Oh. was able to supplement Dad's diminishing income.

By summer of 1940 Dad was no longer able to work and the burden of supporting the family fell upon the older boys. Given the circumstance at home, Bill, Shirley and myself would spend a year away from home, Bill living with Aunt Grace and Uncle Corey in Akron, Oh., Shirley with Marahelen and Charles in Ashville, NC, and I with Ben's business partner's family, the Renwick's of Uhrichsville, Oh.[Though I could never relate this experience to Charles at the time I wrote the letter, by late May of 1941 we returned home to discover that Dad's weight was so reduced that he was a mere shadow of his former self. The day before he died, Dad summoned me to his bedside to read from the 23rd psalm from his bible. It was an experience I treasure. That he had singled me out for so private a moment so near his death was a defining one.

During my first days as a combat rifleman, I would have reason to recall that an ennobling experience with Dad. I, too, would seek comfort by repeating the 23rd psalm. On a post card to Betty I would inform her of my assignment, my address and state, "If I've repeated the 23rd psalm once, I've repeated it a hundred times this past day." Dawn of June 2, 1941 is one I shall never forget. Marahelen's gentle hand shaking me, her insistent voice commanded me to wake up. Her speech had taken on a soft southern inflection. "Wake up Dick, wake up, your Daddy's dyin.'" I recall racing downstairs to join the entire family, including Helen Schenck, Aunt Mamie and Uncle Joe, who were gathered around his bed at the moment of his passing. It was a sad day for all of us. Dad was dearly loved and respected and the impact of his life upon his immediate family, relatives and a vast array of friends, business associates and clients, accounts for the huge turn of those who came to pay their respects at his funeral."

Albert married Maud STEVENS on 2 May 1910 in Covington, Kenton, KY, USA. Maud (daughter of John STEVENS, * and Keturah (Kitty) DIMMACK) was born on 14 May 1892 in Dayton, Montgomery, OH, USA; died on 27 Mar 1982 in Columbus, Franklin, OH; was buried on 30 Mar 1982 in Woodside Cemetery, Middletown, Butler, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He lived on Wood Street in Piqua up to 1925 when he moved to Hamilton, Ohio. He is listed as a contractor in the 1930 census for Hamilton. Years after his brother Albert established himself as a highly respected Contractor/Floor finisher and inventor, John followed his brother Albert's example as a contractor. He is likely the John H. Coate who was a pall bearer for my grandfather's funeral in 1941. (C-370)

John married Vela TUDOR after 1915. Vela was born about 1904 in , , OH, USA; died after 1947 in Of Hamilton, Butler, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elsie BINGHAM. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Margaret graduated from college about 1910. She taught at a Quaker School which is now the Grace Baptist Church in Ludlow Falls, Ohio.

Margaret married Robert Benjamin FULLER on 18 Jun 1919 in , Miami, OH, USA. Robert was born on 21 Mar 1894 in Meriwether, Greenville, GA, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]