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Little is known of Marmaduke Coate's earliest life. His birth date has been stated to be 1733 or 1738 in various biographical descriptions of him. "Ancestors of American Presidents", by G.B. Roberts gives his birth date and place to be 6/13/1738 in Guilford Co., North Carolina. (C-409) A Roster of South Carolinian Pensions in the American Revolution gives his birth date as June 13, 1738. (C-614p) Rose Amelia Coate (b.1866) submitted the birth date of June 13, 1733 to Mrs. A.E.Krell in the early 1900's. (C-390p) The oldest record found was from Laura Douglas Coate, b. June 15, 1856. She states that her grandfather, Marmaduke was born June 13, 1738. (C-417) Another of unknown authority lists it as Sunday, 5 January 1738 in Newberry District, South Carolina. This last date I believe is a mix-up with the date several of Marmaduke and Ann Pole Coate's children and grandchildren died in a Indian raid. (C-202, 1430). A family tree sent to A.E. Krell by Charles Rufus Coate, b. 1877 lists his birth date as May 9, 1738 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Jun 13, 1738 date is more likely correct from the weight of the sources -- and from the fact as pointed out by Patti Sue McCrary that he would likely have been under age 21 when he is listed on a certificate of removal under his father's name in 1757. Hinshaw also lists him at age as upward of 84y when he died on 9/25/1822 in Union MM records. This probably means that he turned 84 in that year, again giving him a 1738 birth date.

The picture I had up of Marmaduke that is widely circulated from a book about West Milton, Ohio, could not be him for the following reasons. 1) The first experimental photos occurred in Europe about the time of his death in his 80's. 2) He obviously looks younger than the 80's in the picture. I, therefore, took the poor quality of the picture to consider that it was a sketch. However, this theory doesn't hold up for another reason. I just recently received email from a person versed in fashion, and the cloths he is wearing look like someone in the 1850's or 1860's when photography is around. The photo has obviously been mislabled starting with the history book on West Milton, Ohio. To my knowledge, there is no sketch of our Marmaduke in existance and certainly no photograph since they weren't in existence here in the U.S. even the year he died.

The parentage of Marmaduke Coate has also been in controversy for much of the last century. Note that of the half dozen records I found from early 20th century family members listing their lineage, all but two said that Marmaduke Coate was the son of William and Rebecca Sharp Coate. (C-152,390e) This is the same family tradition passed down to my father from my great Aunt Mamie and Aunt Grace, and my great grandmother, Ida Jane Harb. WE NOW KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT THIS IS INCORRECT. OUR MARMADUKE IS NOT THE SON or DESCENDANT OF WILLIAM AND REBECCA SHARP COATE. The fact that William and Rebecca's sons Marmaduke and William died without children is verified in a deed dispute over land that son Barzilla inherited. This indenture (located by Gary W. Coats and Pat Moran) dated May 3, 1783 states that William and Rebecca's son's Marmaduke, William, and Israel successively died without issue," leaving son Barzilla in control of the land. His sisters and their husbands made claim to their fair share of their father's land in this document. Only son, Barzilla survived and he did not have a son named Marmaduke. Once and for all, we finally know that our Marmaduke could not be the son or grandson of William and Rebecca as is listed in so much second hand family history.

The great news is that we now know with certainty via Y-DNA that Marmaduke descends through the following lineage as the son and grandsons of the following ancestors: Henry (b.1700), Samuel (b. 1670), John(b. 1640), and Henry (b. abt 1595. Samuel on back were born in Somerset, England. Though we don't yet have 2 independent YDNA testers that descend through the eldest Henry's other siblings to prove his father through YDNA, we do have the will of Marmaduke Coate b. abt or bef. 1552 of Curry Rivel, Somerset, England who named his son Henry in it. This is a solid and proven line because of YDNA and the will.

In the old days, we had to discern his parents from patterns. Marmaduke came from Newberry, SC before he moved to Ohio. There is only evidence of one Marmaduke of his generation in Newberry, South Carolina. Only Henry is verified as having a son Marmaduke in the records. Marmaduke is specifically listed in the Kingwood Monthly Meeting Quaker records when his father, Henry obtains a certificate of removal to the New Garden M.M. on July 14, 1757 for himself and sons, John, James and Marmaduke. (C-319-340, C-476) Henry and his sons live within a few miles of each other in the New Garden M.M., the Fredericksburg M.M. and the Bush River M.M. in Newberry, South Carolina. Quaker naming patterns also verify that Marmaduke's parents were Henry and Esther. David Hackett Fischer in "Albion's Seed" includes a section on them in which he states that Quakers named their first born after the children's grandparents, ex: The first born son was named after the mother's father, the first born daughter was named after the father's mother, the second son was named after the father's father, the 2nd born daughter was named after the mother's mother. This fits Marmaduke and Mary's parents for the first three children as the son of Henry and Esther Willson Coate. (C-1969)

In conclusion, the evidence that supports that Marmaduke is the son of Henry and Esther is as follows: 1) Marmaduke had a daughter named Esther and a son was named Henry, named in traditional Quaker order after Marmaduke's parents. 2) Henry had a son named Marmaduke as verified in Quaker records. 3) There is only one Marmaduke of this age in any census records 4) There is no overlap in any time-lined event (from deed, church, court, census or bible records) to indicate that there is more than one Marmaduke of that age group in South Carolina, 5) Henry, Marmaduke, James and John all bought land in what was Berkeley Co., SC and lived within miles of each other and 6) great YDNA evidence at FTDNA.

Here's what is known about Marmaduke's life: Family tradition says that when he was a youth, his friend's family was captured by Indians. Several were rescued, but not their daughter, Mary Jane Coppock. When of age, Marmaduke traveled through various Indian tribes until he found her. He bought her back for a horse, bridle and saddle and married her. In 1763 or 4/29/1769, Marmaduke left New Garden Monthly Meeting without a letter of transfer and was dismissed from membership for such. Marmaduke Coate had a plat drawn for 200 acres of land from John Thorpe in Berkley Co. (now Newberry), SC on Dec. 1, 1767 on the fork of the Broad and Saludy Rivers on Bush Creek called Reedy Branch. This was granted to him on Feb. 6, 1771/Apr. 10, 1771 depending upon which index is checked and the meaning of the dates. It appears to have been sold as a plat to an unknown person on July 6, 1826 well after his death. (C-95, 692, 2083*). Reedy Branch flows into Big Beaverdam Creek about a mile north of the Town of Newberry. (Note: This Big Beaverdam Creek is different than the Beaver Dam Creek that Big John Coate lived on.) His adjoining neighbors were Clement Davis, Elijah Teague, and Thad Pearson. This property is near and possibly on the land where the current Newberry airport is. My best guess by comparing his plat map and maps of the region is that it's southwest of the current day airport on property that includes the forks of Bush River, Big Beaverdam Creek and Reedy Creek (Branch). This is land that is filed with current day Greenville Co. but was the 96th district back in his day. Son Samuel also owned land in this same area. (C-2112, 2113, E)

"Quaker Families of South Carolina and Georgia", states that Marmaduke moved to South Carolina in 1769. Marmaduke made condemnation in 1770 to the Fredericksburg MM, South Carolina. He was accepted back into the Quaker church by the Newberry Monthly Meeting at which time they gave his wife, Mary a transfer also. In this same year on Oct. 16, 1770, a Thomas Pearson purchased land on "Roudy" Branch of Bush Creek in the fork of the Broad and Saludy Rivers, Berkley Co. that was bordered by land owned by Marmaduke Coate and Elijah Teague. Both Pearsons and Teagues married into the Coate family verifying that this is our Marmaduke. (C-1412) "During the Revolutionary War, ... (the Marmaduke who lived in South Carolina), many times gave food to the soldiers and fed and kept overnight as many as 80 men and horses. For this he was paid by the government which entitled his descendents to become members of National Societies of Sons or Daughters of the American Revolution and if his specific grave can be located, to be marked with the official marker." A c.1995/6 book on Revolutionary War Veterans of South Carolina, and in that volume it says he was in the militia. It gives his birth date as c. June 13, 1738 and his wife as Mary Jane Coppock. It sources Audited Account #1316, y1039 in Columbia records. I have Audited Account 1316 and it lists many bills of payment to Marmaduke for forage for horses and soldiers in 1781, 1782 and 1787. It does not however, list his birth date or his wife's name, so I suspect I did not receive the entire document. (C-793, 1413, 2003)

He is in the 1779 census for the 96th District of South Carolina. Marmaduke was listed in the Petit Jury Records for June, 1786 and Feb. 1793 in Newberry Co., South Carolina. He is listed as an early businessman in the area in Summer's "Newberry Co., SC" book. There is only one Marmaduke Coate living in the Ninety-Sixth District, Newberry Co, South Carolina in the 1790 census. It lists 5 males over age 16, 4 males under age 16 and 3 females. This fits Marmaduke's children and he and his wife except for 1 extra male over age 16. Possibly they have another male living with them to help with the work load or it's a miscount. (C-219, 559) In the 1800 South Carolina census there is one Marmaduke Cote living in Newberry that fits our Marmaduke perfectly. His household consisted of 1 male between 10-16, 2 between 16 and 26 and 1 male over age 45. One female age 10-16 was listed and one over 45. (This second female is missed in some readings of the census I have seen.) He is in the Bush River Monthly Meeting Minutes multiple times. He and several others were appointed to go check out a new Monthly Meeting that was requesting full status in the 1770's. In a 1780 meeting, he and Robert Evans (his brother-in-law) were appointed to write up a certificate of transfer for John Wilson who needed to return to Pennsylvania to work on his "outward" affairs. (E)

Marmaduke purchased 100 acres of land which was surveyed and platted on Apr. 14, 1788 located in the 96th District on Bush River adjoining Clement Davis's land. Marmaduke purchased 100 acres of land from Simon and Lucynda Reeder of Randolph Co. in Newberry on Aug. 28, 1798. (C-893) He is the Marmaduke that purchased land from Joseph Caldwell on Sept. 6, 1798 as son Moses and daughter-in-law, Elizabeth witnessed it. (C-1062, 1077) He purchased 160 acres from George Abernathy on July 26, 1802 also in Newberry. Witnesses to the deed of sale were Samuel Miles and William Miles. (The only other Marmaduke in Newberry at the time was is nephew, aged 13.) Marmaduke and Mary sold 160 out of 200 acres of their land on the Broad and Saluda Rivers to (son) James Coate on Sept. 1, 1804. He is also probably the Marmaduke who sold land to William Hall on July 31, 1804 in Newberry.(E)

Marmaduke, wife Mary, sons John and Jesse removed from Bush River MM, SC to Miami MM, Warren Co., Ohio on a certificate dated Aug. 25, 1804. (C-100) The route they likely took (that most of the Newberry Quakers took) would have been "up the Broad River across western North Carolina through the Aleghany Mountains across Tennesse and Kentucky to Cincinnati" (where the land office was) to Waynesville in Warren County, Ohio where the Miami Meeting was formed in 1803. (C-1519i) Marmaduke's family actually settled two counties north of there in Miami Co., OH where he bought 160 acres of land on Nov. 5, 1804 in section 32, Range 5, Twp. 7, Southeast Quarter, Newton Twp. (C-24, 55) He paid $1.04 in tax on this property in the 1810 tax records. (C-61b) Marmaduke was listed at age 68 in Beers at the point of this move. He was the second white settler to build a home in Newton Twp.

When the first settler and first minister, Michael Williams and his large family heard the construction work, they discovered their whereabouts via his boat. They became instant friends. The first trail in the township was likely established between their two cabins. (C-10, C-1519g) Marmaduke appears to have finally gained rights to the land in section 32, township 7, range 5 in Miami Co, OH on Feb 1, 1809 from President Thomas Jefferson, with both Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State, James Madison signing the original deed. He was listed as of Darke Co., OH at the time. (C-2230) Fifty Two acres of land from this section apparently was inherited by all of his children and grandchildren of his deceased daughter, Esther, as they sold land from this location to Moses Kelley in 1826. Marmaduke was in the deed records for Newton Twp., Miami Co., OH in 1811 and the tax records for same in 1816. (C-1025)

Marmaduke died in 1822 in Miami Co., Ohio. His will is dated Oct. 2, 1817. It is included herein transcribed by Annie Natalelli Waloszek: "I Marmaduke Coate of the state of Ohio, Miami County, being at this time in good healthe and sound memory and in my perfect senses, have thought fit to make ordain and constitute this my last will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say Firstly I hereby will and order all my just debts and funeral charges to be justly ponctually, and timely paid before any division or other distribution of my estate be made. Secondly I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Mary Coates all my Estate, both Real and personal, during her natural life-- Thirdly I give unto my five sonnes, namely Moses, Henry, Samuel, James & William Coate, and also to my daughter Sarah Hall, each one dollar. Fourthly, I give unto my sons (viz) Moses Henry, Samuel, James, William, John & Jesse, my crofs? Cross? in law, each to have an equal claim to the same. Fifthly I give I give and bequeath unto my son John Coate (from and after the decease of my above named wife Mary Coate) all that part of the plantation or tract of land whereon I now live, lying on the North side of line made to divide off Moses Kelly's part to him his heirs and assigns forever-- the Milking? Heiling? house late? excepted. Sixthly It is my wish and desire that as I and my above named wife are now far advanced in age and we know not the number of our days here, and as we expecte to reside on the above mentioned tract or Quarter section of lands and the Infirmity of old age may Require filial tenderness and care for our Comfortable living and support, that if such care be Requested and carfully extended to us, or either of us as the occasion may Require, by John and Jesse Coate above named, that all my movable estate after the decease of my said Wife be Equally Divided between them -- and lastly, I nominate and appoint my well beloved sons Samuel and James Coate, sole executors of this my last will and Testament, Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last Will, hereby Revoking and Disannuling all former and other wills by me made or suffered to be made, in Witness whereof I hyave hereunto set my hand and seal this twentysecond day of the Tenth Month in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and seventeen -- signed sealed and acknowledged by the said Marmaduk Coate (his signature mark & seal) as his last will and Testament, in the presence of us who were present at the signing and sealing thereof.Samuel TeagueIsaac EmbraeeT. William Elleman" He is buried in Old Union Cemetery northeast of Ludlow Falls, which was a part of his farm that he donated for a cemetery." No marker currently stands for him.

In "Annals of Newberry" it states that all of his sons died (some at an advanced age) in good standing with the Quaker church. "They are an honor to Miami County". (C-18, 27, 95, 217: WEST MILTON'S SESQUICENTENNIAL, 1807-1957, pg. 7.) On 4/17/1826, his children and some of his grandchildren sold his land to Moses Kelly. His named descendants who had inherited his land and were selling it were: Moses and Elizabeth Coate, Henry and Rebeca Coate, Samuel and Margaret Coate, James and Susannah Coate, William and Elizabeth Coate, John Coate, Jesse and Polly Coate, Robert and Eunice Pemberton, Nehemiah and Elizabeth Thomas, Isaiah and Elizabeth Pemberton, Abner and Mary Barrett, Sarah Ann Hall and John and Drucella Pemberton. Every person listed not named Coate was a grandchild (with their spouse) of Marmaduke Coate through his deceased daughter, Esther. It contained 52 acres and was located at the southeast corner of section 32 in Newton Twp., Miami Co., Ohio. (C-Doc) Now lets also look at the second line of thought that Marmaduke is a child of William and Rachel Ann Budd Coate instead. This tradition was collected on paper beginning in 1915 for a court case which will be later described. It was Mrs. A.E. Pemberton Krell, of Whitestone, Long Island, who kept track of all the family lineages sent to her. She was "prevailed upon ... in 1915 to inlist in the research work for proper evidence to establish our rights" to the Coate/Coppock 99 year lease. The bulk of Mrs. Krell's collection is made up of her transcriptions of each family member's submitted three to five generation charts. No description of their sources were required or entered by Mrs. Krell. However, when I was reading other loose items in the file, Mrs. Krell mentioned some other sources she had viewed. Sources I found referred to were: Mary Pearson Greenlee's family tree (descendant of Big John Coate), marriages of Quaker records (C-388), Ohio County death records, Judge O'Neals "Annales of Newberry Co., SC", Congressional Library in D.C., her mother, Wills of William Coate, d. 1728 and William Coate, who died 1749, Bessies Sufferings, and John Whittings Persecutions Exposed. (C-416)

In her files was a handwritten history of the Coate Family. It had multiple lines that were scratched out and replaced with Amanda E. Pemberton Krell's writing. It is transcribed below VERBATIM. "Marmaduke Coate born 1733 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Died 1822, Son of William and Rachel. (Note this last phrase was written on top of the scratched out line: Was the son of William and Rebecca French Sharp Allen Coate.) Just when William Coate, Marmaduke's father went to South Carolina has not been able (to be) learn. Mary Coppock Coate was the wife of Marmaduke Coate and the Daughter of Moses and Martha Scarr Coppock who came from England. Mary Coppock was a captive of the Indians, Corn Planter Tribe of Pennsylvania for some 18 or 20 years. Marmaduke Coate bought her from them in the year of 1764 (or 1754?) for the price of a horse, saddle and bridle. I could not find this white child as a captive in the Indian Department at the Congressional Library, Washington, D.C. (Signed A.E.Krell)

Marmaduke and Mary Coppock Coates children are as follows: Esther b. in S.C. 9/3/1766, d. 1802 in South Carolina. Moses Coate B. 9/5/1768, Henry b. 8/18/1770, Sarah b. 12/11/1774, Samuel b. 8/28/1772, William b. 1/2/1779, James b. 6/23/1777, John b. 7/19/1785, Jerre B. 1/3/1788 Marmaduke Coate was the second white settler in (?) Union Township, was born in Penn. 1733. He came here in his 68th year. He had 7 sons, two daughters. Moses, his second child and Samuel the 4th child came to Miami valley on a Prospecting tour in 1804 being well pleased with the appearance of things they determined to take permanent home here and were latter joined by the remaining members the fall of 1805. M. Coate died in 1822 the advanced age of 84 years. In his will dated Oct. 22, 1817 and probated Apr. 8, 1822 he lists wife Mary, sons Moses, Henry, Samuel, James, John Jesse, William, dau. Sarah Hall. (C-27)

His wife died some years later in Ohio. If her life could be written it would make a large interesting book. She had been capture by the indians at the age of 6 years. Thomas Coppock was the 4th white man to settle in Union Township, Miami Co., Ohio came from SC, 6 boys 3 girls. He also lived in (Warren) county Ohio a short time. The head of these families were all brother in laws, as far as families his went they formed a large settlement. Samuel Teague the older located on Section 28, Benjamin (Pearson) on South Section 33, William Furnas took the north quarter section 33, Jacob (Embrell) was a native of Tennessee. He was the second husband of Ann Coppock (Hawartt) widow of James (Hawartt) and the father of Pheba Coate the wife of Benjamin Coate. And in 1917, 4 other children of Marmaduke & Mary Coppock Coate were located in the South namely: Stephen Marmaduke, Sus(annah), Emily Estela, (Petter) J. Coate." *( *This added 1917 information was basically from Mrs. Mary Pearson Greenlee, an Aunt by marriage to Mrs. Pemberton Krell. In that info she lists three extra children for them, namely: Steven Marmaduke, b. 10 March 1757, m. 1) Polly McNut, 2) m. Martha Ann Mathews; Susannah, b. 1758?; and Emily Estell, b. 1762?. (C-151, C-208, C-210, 482) Stephan married/stayed in the southern states. His children are listed in C-210 and 482. This is the family tradition of descendants of Stephen Marmaduke Coate. I, personally, have found no record of any Steven in any southern state so far. There was a Stephen Coats who was a PA Revolutionary Soldier and a Stephen Coates who was between age 70 and 79 living in New York City, 7th Ward in the 1830 New York Census records, C-1423. Susanah, according to Mary Greenlee, married Richard Thompson in her later years & then moved into Montgomery Co., Ohio. She is possibly the Susan Thompson who lost her husband in 1816 and was living in Sycamore Twp., Hamilton Co., OH in 1820. If so she was over age 45, had a 2 daughters between 16 and 26, 1 son under age 10, and 1 between 10 and 16. She does not appear in the 1830 census. (C-1574)] Stephen, Estell and Susanah were not recorded in Ohio meetings." (C-387) There are multiple Coates now living that trace their line back through them to our Marmaduke and Mary Coppock Coate. I have become convinced , however, that they are not the children of Marmaduke and Mary Coppock for the following reasons. One, Stephen's birth date would have been 3 months before Marmaduke is listed with his father, not with a wife, in his certificate of removal to New Garden MM, North Carolina. When he begins the purchasing process to obtain land in Berkeley Co. in 1767, he purchases 200 acres. This means that there were 3 persons in his household; he, his wife and one child. This would account for himself, his wife Mary, and his first daughter Esther born in 1766. In Marmaduke's bible records, will and in Quaker records only the children I've listed are referenced beginning with Esther Coate. In a April 17, 1826 deed in Miami Co., Ohio, all of the children of Marmaduke, their spouses and the grandchildren of Marmaduke's deceased daughter, Esther, sell land they inherited from Marmaduke - whether they lived in Miami Co., Ohio at the time or not. Not one of the EXTRA children listed above are included. Again, like the bible record and Quaker records only the following children were heirs of Marmaduke Coate: Moses, Henry, Sarah, James, William, John, Jesse and children of his daughter Esther, desc. namely: Robert, John, Isaiah, Mary and Elizabeth Pemberton and their spouses. Lastly, Quakers did not give their children middle names in that time period. He might have been named Stephen or Marmaduke, but not both. From my point of view, there is enough evidence to state that the Stephen Marmaduke, Susanne, Emily and Peter often connected to him are not his children.)...... Mrs. Krell's information is continued herein..... "Many of these records (could) I believe to be incorrect in dates of birth - marriages do not seem to date correct. But copies is found to be in records in homes of relatives (and) Friends Records and as take to be mistakes of different record keepers appointed. As many like my self uneducated which our great mistake if one has the advantage of an Education in Early Life. Can say for my self I was among the western indians until a girl of between 10-11 years and miles from any school. My father moved from the western country again into Iowa, Keokuk Iowa, (Lee) Co. and that was mostly settled at that time with half Breeds and collard People. I was some of an independent nature and wanted to learn something of the world in which we lived so got my schooling by out side. Experience has been my own teacher and (trainer), married young, (with) my husband had 3 children, was compelled to take up work in order to live and educate my children was my one great life then in life and thanks be to God I still have my 3 children. Mrs. A.E. Pemberton Townsend Krell." (C- 391)

Evidence supporting Mrs. Krell's lineage that Marmaduke was the son of William and Rachel instead is as follows: 1) Mrs. Krell and the "Old Coates Genealogy" that is highly inaccurate, lists a Marmaduke as the son of William and Rachel Ann Budd. 2) William Coate purchased land one week prior to Marmaduke's first purchase in 1767 in adjoining counties. They both had John Thorpe as a witness to their purchase. This evidence obviously is a weak case. I am personally convinced, that because there is only one Marmaduke that can be verified as living in SC in the 1770s -1790's, he has to be the Marmaduke who is the son of Henry as verified in Quaker records of that time period. The last interesting chapter of Marmaduke Coate's life occurred years after his death. "In 1914 between three and four hundred descendants of Marmaduke Coate (and Moses Coppock) met at the Friends Church in Ludlow Falls, to lay plans for a legal battle for a supposed vast estate in Pennsylvania to which they had been informed they were entitled. The land was valued between forty and two hundred million at the time. Family members, in sincerity, believed the claim to be true. (C-676) The claim was not proven in court, and one of the promoters was brought to trial by the U.S. Government. According to one researcher's grandparents, the land partly in Philadelphia was under a 99 year lease placed in a Quaker Church. The Quaker Church had burned with no trace of the original. (C-656) The land was supposedly originally negotiated for purchase in 1816 by Marmaduke Coate and Moses Coppock with their sons, Moses Coate and Benjamin Coppock with the Cherokees. When the deal was negotiated, they were joined by Daniel Boone and Henderson on the Watauga (River) to conclude the bargain. Over peace pipe, they paid in merchandise and purchase money for land in what is now Chester Co., PA (where Coatsville now stands), Philadelphia Co. (around Copperstown, Oil City and Cranberry, PA) and Venango Co, Pennsylvania (C-1519f) They supposedly received a deed for the property on buckskin from the Indians. Marmaduke and Moses had intended to start a Quaker settlement on this land. When this didn't work out, they then leased it out to several families, two of them being nephews of Daniel Boone. (Park, 1960, pp. 217-218, C-1519) This particular pattern was a part of early PA history. According to a Quaker web site, "Although William Penn was granted all the land in Pennsylvania by the King, he and his heirs chose not to grant or settle any part of it without first buying the claims of Indians who lived there. In this manner, all of Pennsylvania except the northwestern third was purchased by 1768." Knowing this, the Coate land claim, would only have been true if the Coates and Coppocks purchased it from the Indians previous to 1768. They then could have leased it out in 1816. Still possible, but this is obviously a new stretch to the story. (C-1042) There is also another version of this story that says the Coates and Coppocks received this land for their service in the Revolutionary War. The only service we definitely know of, is Marmaduke Coate's supplying provisions in the war.

This land lease was eventually thought to be a hoax. One reason was because Moses and Martha Coppock, signers of the lease, were known to be deceased by 1816. However, there is a Moses William Coppock married to a Martha Lester, that were a generation younger than Moses and Martha Coppock - parent's of Marmaduke Coate's wife, that were still living as far as is known. So this "proof" that the lease was fictitious from this point of view is not solid. In the early 1900's, some persons gave as much as $500.00 for which they received nothing" to prove the validity of this lease in court. (C-210) It seems that many Coate and Coppock families had partial copies of this lease in their possession even back in the 1800's. According to Corinne H. Diller via Mary Helen Pemberton, some heirs visited their land holdings in 1849 and were amazed at the developments on their property. From 1850-1870 many of these Quaker relatives destroyed their copies because they were afraid of the corruption that greed would bring into their lives. Others apparently hid their copies in safe places. In 1908, Mrs. Amanda Krell revisited her birth place, Ludlow Falls, Ohio for the first time in 50 years. She visited and talked with her mother's sisters and apparently learned about the lease from them. By 1914 she had organized the heirs to claim their land. Each family was required that they prove their descent from the signers of the lease, Marmaduke Coate and or Moses Coppock, and CONTRIBUTE MONEY to get a share of the profits for the land which they supposedly owned. They formed the Coate-Coppock Organization of Legal Heirs (Coate Coppock Estate Corportation) and hired a Lawyer by January of 1920. The first attorney's I have evidence of them hiring were Abbott & Monell in Washington D.C. In a letter to interested parties on Mar 15, 1922, Abbott & Monell recommended that the heirs for a trust company that would finance the Coate-Coppock National Bank in Miami Co., Ohio. I'm personally not certain if this Bank was ever actually formed. In a 1924 letter from the attorney's, Glenn B. Coate of Philadelphia was apparently working closely with them to collect funds from the heirs. By Mar. of 1922, an off-branch called the Indianapolis Organization was also formed, William A. Coppock, President. The organization published a newsletter entitled "Independent Coate-Coppock News". (C-2397, 2398) Before the court case was decided, the Coate-Coppock organization switched to two different lawyers. Newly hired Attorney Colonel Abbot produced a map in 1920 that placed the land in Philadelphia at it's heart, near Broad and Market Streets. The description of the original land was so nebulous, that it was very difficult to pinpoint most of it on current maps of the day. (C-701)


In 1927, an unnamed newspaper clipping states that the Coate-Coppock Corporation (headed by Amanda Pemberton Krell? or E.C. Abbot and H.S. Allonell, lawyers for the Original Coate-Coppock Corporation until 1922) and the Coate-Coppock Estate Corporation (headed by Glen D. Coate) were brought up on fraud charges by the U.S. Post Office. (The way the transcription states it, I can't tell who headed the main corporation charged with fraud). Since they were collecting money through the mail to help with their legal expenses, the Post Office charged them with obtaining money via the mail by false pretenses. This charge seems to have been the main defeat of their claims. That and the fact that the original deed and lease had never been found, took the dreams of many.

The following document is from Steven Taylor. It was a transcription of an old handwritten copy in possession of his grandmother. "State of Pennsylvania, Chester County, Philadelphia County and Venango County. To all whom it may concern: We, Marmaduke Coate and Mary Coppock, his wife, Moses Coate and wife Elizabeth, also Moses Coppock and Martha Coppock his wife, and son James Coppock do hereby agree to enter into a 99 year lease contract for and between Marmaduke and Moses Coate and Moses W. Coppock and James Coate and Martha Coppock, wife of Moses Coppock to Wm. Penn Fannazy and Rachel his wife, Caleb Mendanhall and wife Alice and Wm. Tomlinson and Rebecca Teague, Elizah Furnace, Joseph Mendanhall, the last two men are nephews of Daniel Boone, they are the original owners of the 99 year lease.

We leased this land for the price of one ($1.00) dollars per acre, 1889 acres in Chester Co., PA, 2056 acres in Venango Co., PA and 796 acres in Philadelphia. This contract was entered into by us and them in the year of our Lord, 1816, July 22nd, and all improvements from time to time to remain therein by said holders and at our death to descend to our heirs wherever found, the heirs of Marmaduke and Mary Coppock Coate, and of Moses and Elizabeth Coppock Coate, Moses Coppock and Martha his wife and James his son and Benj. Coppock. Be it also understood that the holders of the 99 year lease have the privilege of a release for another 99 years at the expiration of the lease if so desired by them and in agreement to our heirs at law. We do hereby bind ourselves and relatives. Administrators to warrant, prove and defend us in all these rights at the end of lease and deliver same into the hands of all or any of our heirs living at that time. We, this 23 day of July, 1816, appear before one James Wade Haworth, one of the Justice to keep the peace in and for the County of said Chester, personally came Marmaduke Coate and his wife Mary, Moses Coate and wife Elizabeth, Wm. Moses Coppock and his wife Martha, James son of Moses, Benj. son of Moses. The within grantors of the lease after examined agreeable to the act in such case made and received acknowledged act, the above intentions to be their voluntary act and purpose which therein consist the presence of those present we the 23rd day of July, 1816, we set our hand and n__ thus to. (C-211, 2305) Marmaduke Coate Mary Coppock Coate Moses Coate Elizabeth Coppock Coate Moses Wm. Coppock Martha Coppock James, son of Moses Coppock Witnesses: Abiathar Davis, William Miles, John Furnace (C-543e and another record in my files)

There will possibly always be a mystery surrounding this document. In a 1914 letter which had no signature, a cousin Mary supposedly had sent the lease a few years earlier to the Newberry Library in Chicago where it apparently was not preserved and could not be located in 1914. There is also a tradition that the original was in a Quaker Meeting House in SC or Georgia. In any case, it was never found. These Coates and Coppocks had not lived in Pennsylvania for many, many years when they signed the lease in 1816. Then, a couple people who supposedly signed it were dead at the time. Even though all these facts make it seem fictitious, the fact that many heirs had copies of the lease in the 1800's and that some of them went to check on their land in 1849, does lead to the supposition that it could be based in truth. (C-701) The 2056 acres of land in Venago Co. PA are supposedly held in Franklin County Courthouse records. Many other land records for Coates are in the Chester Co., PA courthouse.

The land supposedly began at the cave of William Coate's property in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sources which show some of the Coates land are: "Homes Map" of the Province of PA, by Sharf & Wescott, 1884, in Marple, Old Philadelphia titles available through the Ridgeway Library, Philadelphia, PA, and the Philadelphia Directory of 1835 by Robert De Silver, 110 Walnut St. One very interesting note comes from a couple dozen family letters between Coate members from 1917 to 1921 transcribed by John Ammel. Several patterns are evident in this one group of Coate descendants. These people ranging from age 21 to 65 did not know exactly how they were related to Marmaduke Coate. They first tried to get that information from their elders records, but the elders were suspicious of the court case and had hidden or destroyed their records. They then seemed to have gotten that information from Mrs. Krell so that their lineage was consistent with other Coate relatives. These people were hardworking, conservative families that honestly felt they had a rightful claim to the Coate/Coppock estate settlement. Mrs. Krell worked very hard and traveled the country to various Coate/Coppock meetings to make this case successful. She and other officers were probably the source of some of the information that family members contributed. Also note that when one of these family members received information of import, they copied it in a letter and sent it on to a cousin or Aunt. Lastly note that none of John Ammel's ancestors had a copy of the deed. (C-207, 795, 2305) Pat Moran also sent me copies of a 1924 newspaper that literally published our Coate lineage incorrectly as from William and Rebecca Sharp Coate's son Marmaduke as the leaseor and the immigrant who moved to South Carolina. (We know this is absolutely false from a lease between his brother Barzilla and all his sisters that their son Marmaduke died without having children.)

Glenn B. Coate had then taken over the Coate Coppock Estate venture as Amanda Krell had had a breakdown. Glenn was the write of much of the lenghthy newspaper article that included the incorrect family tree and often requested any descedant of the persons signing the lease to join the cause. An even larger scam was started in the late 1800's for the family of Baker making the claim that a Jacob Baker owned the land on which Philadelphia sat and had leased it out for 99 years. Any persons who could prove their lineage were due to a piece of the pie. Clearing houses were set up throughout the U.S., Canada and England, all as a part of this scam which wasn't proved as fraudulent until the 1930's. By then, the Bakers had contributed millions of dollars to get a piece of the pie. It looks like the Coates and Coppocks were taken in by an almost identical scam to me. (C-2114, 2602)

Marmaduke married Mary Jane COPPOCK about 1763 in , , NC. Mary (daughter of Moses COPPOCK and Martha LESTER) was born about 1743 in Bush River, Newberry County, South Carolina, United States of America; died on 10 Jul 1833 in Newton Twp., Miami, OH, USA; was buried about 11 Jul 1833 in , Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her birth date is 9m 3d 1766 in Hinshaw's Encyclopedia.

Esther married Isaiah PEMBERTON, II on 27 Sep 1785. Isaiah (son of Isaiah PEMBERTON and Elizabeth HALL) was born on 27 Dec 1756 in Near Bull Skin Run, Jefferson, WV; died on 2 Feb 1801 in , Newberry, SC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Moses birth date is 9m 5d 1768 in Hinshaw's Encyclopedia. Moses purchased land in Newberry Co., SC on July 19, 1796 from John Perry. (C-908) He was in the 1800 Newberry Co. Census records listed as Mose Coates between the ages of 26 and 45. His wife was between the ages of 16 and 26. He had one son and two daughters under age ten. Moses and brother, Samuel went on a prospecting tour of Newton Twp., Union County, Ohio before they moved and were joined by their father Marmaduke. (C-27e) Moses sold his land in Newberry on Jan. 20, 1804 to Moses Kelly.

Moses Coate and family officially removed to the Miami MM, Waynesville in Ohio with letter dated 2/25/1804. They purchased 161.24 acres in Range 5, Township 6, Section 5 in the Southwest Quarter of Union Township on Sept. 25, 1804. (C-55, 100, 253k, 556) They paid $1.61 in taxes on this property according to the 1810 Tax Duplicates (C-61b). He is also in the 1827 and 1835 tax lists for Union Twp., Miami Co., OH living next to his probable son, Joseph. (E)

In the 1820 census, Moses and family are living in Union Twp., Miami County, Ohio with the following numbers of persons in their home: 4 Males under 10, 1 between 10-16, 1 between 16-18, 2 between 26-45, 1 over 45 and 1 female between 10-16, 1 between 16-26, 1 between 26-45 and 1 over 45. Moses is living next to his brother Samuel in this census. It appears that Moses left the Quaker Church, as there is a Moses and Betsy Coats and possible daughter-in-law, Margaret Coats (wife of son William Coate) who were charter members of the Greenville Creek Church of Christ on Aug. 9, 1843. If this record belongs to this Moses, he was disowned for immoral conduct by the Church of Christ at an unknown later date.

Moses left a will dated the 16th day, 5th mo, 1842 in Miami County as transcribed herein. "In the name of the Benevolent Father of all..I Moses Coate of Union Township in the Count of Miami and State of Ohio do make and publish this my last will and Testament. First it is my will that my just debts and all charges be paid out of my Estate. I give and devise all the (residue) of my estate to Elizabeth Coate my wife both real and personal during her natural life except what is hereinafter devised. I give and devise to Sarah Jean Coate my grand Daughter one good bed & beding such as is common and also one Cow & calf when she shall arrive at the years of Eighteen. 4th I give and devise at the decease of my said wife all my real estate to my son Benjamin Coate..his heirs and assigns forever and that the said Benjamin Coate shall pay to my son Jesse Coate the sum of fifty dollars in a measurable time after the decease of my wife. 5th I give and devise all the reamining goods chattles & personal property whatsover there may be at the decease of my said wife to all of my children except Benjamin Coate, to be equally divided share & share alike... And lastly I do hereby nominate and appoint Samuel Coate executor of this my last will and testament hereby authorizing and empowering him to adjust release and .................?????..........do hereby revoke all former wills by me made in testimony whereof I have herunto set my hand and seal this 16th Day of the fifth month in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and forty two. Signed and acknowleged by said Moses Coate as his last will and testatment in our presence and signed by us in his presence. Wm Dulin, Davis W. Hayes, Henry Michael. (C-107, E) One of the Jay Family discussion groups suggested that he was killed by Indians. I think this story is mixed up with Moses Coppock who was killed by Indians but I have no verification at this point in time.

Moses and his wife were the ancestors of Amanda Ellen Pemberton Townsend Krell, the head of the Coate Coppock Association trying to prove the validity of the land lease in the first quarter of the 20th century. (C-390q)

Moses married Elizabeth COPPOCK on 28 Jun 1794 in Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph COPPOCK and Jane WILSON) was born on 9 Nov 1776 in Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA; died on 26 Aug 1849 in , Miami, OH, USA; was buried about 29 Aug 1849 in , Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The birth places I've found published for Henry Coate and Rebecca Willson in second hand sources give Henry's birth place as Newberry Co., SC (C-556-Compilation of Quaker Records) and Rebecca Willson's as New Jersey. However, in two of their son's, John H. and Henry's census records in 1880, both listed that each of their parents were born in North Carolina, and a third, Caleb (a blacksmith) thought they were born in Maryland. It is possible that Marmaduke and Mary Coppock were living in North Carolina when they had Henry Coate in 1770, but I suspect they didn't really have that knowledge from their father. All the Quaker records suggest they lived in S. Carolina by 1770. Henry was born on the 8m 18 1770 according to Hinshaw's Encyclopedia. (C-384-385)

Henry was a Blacksmith and sickle-maker by trade. According to an interview I had with a Blacksmith at the Ohio Historical Society, Henry would have been the best paid member of the community and honored. On top of that, Henry manufactured "edge" tools which required a keen eye and a "feel" for the metal. It supposedly defined an accomplished, not just skilled, blacksmith. (C-648) He and his family moved to Ludlow Falls, Ohio on a letter dated 7/28/1804 where he set up shop as a smithy. (C-100) They had sold their land in Newberry Co., SC to John Chapman on April 4, 1804. Not long after moving to Ludlow Falls, due to fear of the Indians, they moved to Waynesville, Warren Co., OH for a period of 10-12 years after which they returned to their property on Ludlow Falls. He is listed in the 1827 and 1835 tax lists for Union Twp., Miami Co., OH living next to his brother Samuel. In the 1830 census for Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio, Henry Coats was listed between the age of 60-70 with 3 males 5-10 yrs, 2 males 10-15 yrs 1 females 5-10 yrs. and 2 females 20-30 yrs living with him. We don't know who the young female was. My best guess is that she was a visiting grand daughter at the time. He was a Whig and a Quaker. He prospered by his own hard labor and at one-point owned 2000 acres. (E) Henry and Eunice are listed in the Deed records of Washington Twp., Miami Co., Ohio in 1836 and 1840. (C-1025) He or his son Henry might have been the Henry Coates who was an operator on the Underground Railroad in Montgomery Co., Ohio.

He wrote a will in 1848 in Miami Co., Ohio. It is in Will Book B, pg. 122, case # 1711. It follows with spelling and punctuation retained. "Be it Remembered that I Henry Coate of the County of Miami and State of Ohio, Considering the certainty of Death and being Desirous of Setling my worldly affairs Do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following vez First it is my will that all my Just Debts and Funeral Expenses by Justly paid out of my personal Estate. Secondly It is my will that my wife Eunice have and hold possession of and for her Sole use and benefit the quarter Section of land we now reside upon Except a Lot or lots given to my Son Caleb Coate So long as she remmains my widow. I also will that so much of my personal property after my Debts be paid and my wife Eunice has set off to her as much property beds beding & house hold & kitchen furniture and all other things She may (have) in kneed of also my Carriage and harness and the Interest of two hundred Dollars annually ___ That so much as remains after this Setoff and what is hereafter bequethed Be Sold by my Excrs and Equally Divided between my Sons that may then be living and also at the Death of my wife Eunice; or before if She prefers to give it up that what personal property she has had in her care and for her use be Sold and the procedes with the two hundred Dollars which She is to have the Interest of be Equally Divided amongst my Sons that may then be living = the two hundred Dollars above refered to to be kept at Interest by my Exrs for the purpose and use above Stated Thirdly I give and bequeath to my three Sons Namely, Robert Henry W. and David M Coate Each of them two hundred and thirty Dollars = Fourthly I give to my son Caleb Coate two hundred and thirty Dollars to be held by my Executors for the Express purpose of paying out for a Certain tract of land in Carrol Co., IA on which Caleb has mad a payment until Such payment may be made that my Executors made full payment on Said land and the ballance to be applied to the payment of his Debts if any and the ballanc if any to be payed over to him; if any Fifthly I give and bequeath to my Son John H. Coate and his heirs the quater Section of land which I now Reside upon it Being the South west quater of Section Six Township Six Range five East the same being subject to the use of my wife Eunice as above Stated I also give and bequeath to my Son John H. Coate and his heirs the west half of the North West quarter of Section Six Township Six Range five East I also give to my Son John Coate all my horses Except the use of one at any time my wife Eunice may wish to Ride or use it in the carriage also I give him the Carriage after my wife Eunice is Done using it also the wagon and horse gearing and four Cows except one milk Cow So long as my wife Euncie may wish to use one for milk and butter as much as she may wish to use also my (maps) and all farming utensils also all corn wheat and oats hay & also all utensils used about the barn Stables and Cribs = my other Sons Namely Isaac Samuel Robert Henry W. Caleb & David W. Coate have had their portions of real Estate by deeds made heretofore Sixthly I give and bequeath to my grand Children Henry Samuel Isaac & Jonathon Davis each of them two Dollars and their Sister Mary Hoover five dollars Isaac Pearson Henry Miles and Rhoda Jones each of them two Dollars I have already give Isaac coate his portion also to my Daughterinlaw Samuel Coates widow I give fifty Dollars Seventhly I give and bequeath one hudnred Dollars to be placed in the hands of the African Commitee and their successors of Union monthly meeting of friends to be applied to the Education of they children of the Couloured people of the Randolph family in our Neighbour hood - And lastly I hereby Constitute and appoint my Soninlaw David Miles and my Son Henry W. Coate Executors of this my last will and Testament hereby revoking and annuling all former wills by me made or Suffered to be made and ratifying and confirming this to be my last will and testament Given under my hand and Seal this twenty third Day of Ninth one thousand Eight hundred and forty. Henry Coate (seal) Signed Sealed and Declared by Henry Coate to be his last will and testament in presence of us who in his presence and at this Request have Set our hands as witnesses the Day and year above written John Baggs Joseph C. Coppock Aaron Coppock"

The following is a most interesting account of our family as it relates to President Hoover's "cousinhood." It is transcribed with retained spelling from a handwritten account in my Great Aunt Grace Coate Wilson's penmanship. My father remembers this story clearly being written by her sister, his Aunt Mamie. He went with her when she interviewed a very aged man in a small town near Trenton to assist her with that story. He does not remember who the man was. The story could possibly be the article that Mamie was writing for a magazine or Dayton newspaper. In a letter written to my Gr. Aunt Mamie, April 25, 1931, from a Mrs. V. (T.) Dunn, it states "I ... hope that you will have something ready for a magazine or at least for a Dayton paper by June." (C-361) Gr. Aunt Mamie, seems to have been the researcher in our family starting in 1929 and her sister, Grace, avidly communicated Mamie's findings to family members. This is the pattern that my father and Uncle Richard have both described. The original copy of the account is in possession of my cousin, Richard Simms, of Georgia. Here it is transcribed verbatim. Henry's emigration from South Carolina to Miami MM, Ohio supposedly took place in 1804.

OHIO HISTORY OF HERBERT HOOVER'S ANCESTRY "Ohio claims fifty-three years of the triumphant march of President Hoover's ancestry, that March beginning with the arrival in America of contemporaries of George Fox and William Penn, seeking religious freedom in a new world; their descendants through the years pressing over various states, ever seeking opportunity for broader development, and culminating with California's giving our President to an eager people. In him are focused generations of sterling pioneer character. Attracted by fertile land in the Stillwater Valley, there came between 1801 and 1809, from the Carolina's and Georgia (or) the covered wagon and horseback routes, (bands) & determined faced immigrants, settling in what is now Miami County, Ohio. They were nearly all members of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers. Plain in dress and quiet in manner these Quaker colonies set about with eagerness, bravery and faith to reclaim the land from its wild state. Henry crossed the Ohio River at Cincinnati, wagon trains, traversing trails northward through the Stillwater Valley in 1801, entered an almost unbroken forest. Lurking in forest shadows was danger of attacks from wild beasts and Indians.

Among the very earliest emigrants from Randolph County, North Carolina, were John and Sarah Byrkett Hoover with their children, one of whom was Jesse; and David and John Mast. John Hoover settled about one and one-half miles southeast of the present site of the old West Branch Friends Church near West Milton. John Mast whose wife was John Hoover's sister, built the first grain mill on the Stillwater River. Several South Carolinians staked their claims in the vicinity of the picturesque waterfall on Ludow Creek, that flows into the Stillwater River. Henry Coate with his wife Mary Haskett Coate and their children, the oldest of whom was Lydia were among the first to come from Newberry District, South Carolina. Henry Coate's choice of location was determined by the proximity of a fine spring of water to Ludlow Creek where water power could be obtained. This point is up the creek less than two miles from the waterfall. There he pitched a tent and unloaded the things brought on the long tedious journey; tools for conquest on the forest and new soil, carpenter's tools, guns and ammunition for game and protection from the Indians, a spinning wheel and loom, a crane and andirons, flint stones and punk, blacksmith's tools, bedding, cooking utensils, pewter plates, a Dutch oven, and a few chairs. The chairs were used for seats in the wagons on the journey. Those chairs are highly cherished relics to this day. A long desired goal (u...ied) the first night must have been a restful one to Mary and Henry and the first morning one of keen interest to each member of the family.

Henry, out early for game, discovered a number of maple trees that would afford an abundance of sugar the following spring. As he strode stealthily through the forest in quest of wild turkeys, he was forming plans for the clearance of land during the ( ) months and for building a dam in the creek to supply power for the shop he meant to have for manufacturing edged tools. Returning to the camp with a couple of fine young turkeys he found Mary removing corn bread from a Dutch-oven by the campfire and the children eager to related the happenings of the morning. Lydia accompanying her mother to the Spring had glimpsed a deer; Isaac had seen a pheasant with its highly colored plumage, and was delighted with grey squirrels scampering through the trees; he had found a beech tree (heanly) laden with deserted pigeon nests; Samuel and Little Mary were playing with an odd shaped stone which Henry explained was an (axe?) (NOTE: A hat shaped stone is believed to be the one just described. It is in the possession of Linda Coate Dudick. It was given to her father by the same Aunt Mamie who authored this account. When Mamie made sure he got it, she told him it was found on the banks of Ludlow Creek and had been in the family a long time); the baby Rhoda was peacefully sleeping. Henry produced from the pocket of his hunting coat a handful of (darts), triangular sharp-pointed stones which he had picked up during his tramp through the woods. As they ate their simple breakfast, their hearts were filled with gladness, they had arrived safely; land in natural resources was theirs to develop and within the next four years, many of their relatives and friends would come from the South making possible the establishment of schools and churches. All was well, except for the menace of Indian depredations.

After breakfast Henry, taking Lydia with him, cast a line in the creek which they found teaming with fish; Henry was want to talk much to Lydia, about God and about the wonders of nature. This morning he talked of the beautiful new country to which they had come. Henry a dreamer, had visions of good things to be (vested) from nature's store house, not only material things but the blessings of mind and heart that come from peaceful living in a land of plenty where ignorance and superstition were banished and where God could be devoutly worshipped. Henry was more than a dreamer. He had courage, physical strength, initiative and executive ability, forming a combination pretty sure to make dreams come true. It was Henry's enthusiasm about the blacksmith shop more than the fish that drew him to the banks of Ludlow Creek this morning. He wanted to decide on the proper location for the dam and select the site for the shop for manufacturing plant, ocicles, axes, chains, knives, (hors), (hame)-hooks and mattocks all of which the early settlers stood so much in need. Because of his skill in this kind of work as well as in farming, Henry visioned great possibilities. Looking down the years as he angled in the creek, he saw the land yielding bounteous harvests, he saw schools and churches, emblems and the development of mind and heart.

As he looked into the potential future, he did not forget the past, in which his ancestors in England had so steadfastly stood for what they believed to be right. Marmaduke Coate, Born about 1620 in England became a convert to the teachings of George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends. Because they refused to conform to the rules and ceremonies of the Church of England, Marmaduke and his wife, Edith were imprisoned most of the time over a period of fifteen years. His son Marmaduke who married Ann Pohl was also persecuted because of his religion. Seeking religious freedom he with his family emigrated to America in 1715, settling near Burlington, New Jersey. His son, William married Rebecca Sharpe and with her he moved to South Carolina about 1727. Their son Marmaduke early became a character worthy of the elder Marmaduke, who had so courageously and successfully upheld the principles of their new faith. (This lineage has proven to be incorrect. L.D.)

In Newberry District, South Carolina, neighbors to Rebecca and William Coate and their son Marmaduke, there lived Moses and Martha Scarr Coppock. In the absence of the father, Indians raided and burned the home, capturing the children all were soon rescued except Mary, who remained a prisoner for several years. During this time, she learned the Indian language and became familiar with all their customs. Her long captivity fired the imagination and heroism of stalwart young Marmaduke Coate, who sought and found the tribe of Indians who held pretty Mary. Marmaduke paid a horse, bridle and saddle for her ransom. They were married with the Indian ceremony before leaving camp. Marmaduke and Mary's son, Henry, had harkened to the call of progression and conscience, and brought his family in covered wagons over hundreds of miles to their promising Ohio country and there inside the creek with nature gay in her autumn dress, and his daughter Lydia, aged eight, playing among the stones; looking both backward and forward, he was a link in the chain of progress. Henry must have sensed this. He there made a mighty resolve to teach his children a realization of their place in the change of the universe. And so it was that Lydia Coate, great-grandmother of President Hoover, received in her early childhood strict discipline in spiritual things and faithfulness of the discharge of duty. Henry Coate visioned both the material development of the rich new country and the spiritual growth of his posterity; the promise "I will give thee the land that thou seest" was literally fulfilled through the years with good measure. While felling trees for the cabin, Henry carefully cautioned Lydia to assist her mother in watching the younger children lest they stray into the wood, becoming an easy prey to Indians. This injunction was strictly obeyed, for Lydia had heard from her grandmother's own lips the story of her captivity among the Indians.

Pioneers all helped each other in the construction of cabins, the work progressing rapidly. Henry and Mary were soon established in their log house with its stone chimney and fire place and greased paper for windows. All through the winter there was tedious labor in clearing the land for crops. In the spring, men assembled to roll their logs into heaps to be burned, taking turns at each clearing in the neighborhood, until all the timber was rolled, corn and a vegetable garden was planted. It was soon found necessary to build a stake-and-rider fence around the garden plot to keep out the deer. The growing corn was badly damaged by squirrels, rabbits, Raccoon and deer. Early settlers would get up at dawn to frighten the pests from the fields. Indians were committing such atrocious deeds that the second winter Henry Coate placed his family in a covered wagon going to Waynesville, (Ohio) several miles to the south, where the settlements were stronger and better prepared to oppose the foe.

In 1804 there arrived in Waynesville, Henry's parents, Marmaduke and Mary Coate, and Abiather Davis with his three sons, one of whom was John. The latter came from Georgia. Lydia Coate was now about nine. There in childhood in Waynesville, ( ) began Lydia's acquaintance with John Davis, which in later years was to (ripen) into love. In the autumn of 1804, Henry's family in company with the new arrivals from the south, journeyed back to their improvement on Ludlow Creek. Marmaduke Coate chose his land about one half mile north of the present site of Ludlow Falls ..

Abiather Davis settled on land which is on the outskirts of West Milton. Here there were three springs of excellent water. Abiather built his house at the center spring, the double stone fire place and chimney of which remained standing until 1927. The spring to the north fell to John where a few years later he erected a cabin for his bride to be. Meanwhile John and Sarah Hoover in their little cabin, were also dreaming of the future for their children. The plenteous land portended that their future might hold many good things but they had no way to judge to what marvelous extent the material increase of their labors would reach, or how far the noble character building of their children would extend through the years. Schools and places of worship always held paramount consideration in Quaker settlements. John and Sarah Hoover were foremost in arranging for meetings to be held in the homes prior to the erection of the West Branch Meeting House.

Abiather Davis and his sons had arrived in time to assist in the erection of the first meeting house which was built in 1804-05, cabin fashion 20 by 30 feet, near a spring of clear cold water. Covered wagons bearing Friends were arriving in such numbers that the little meeting house was soon replaced by a larger, hewed-log structure. Every one within a radius of many miles attended the First Day and Fifth Day meetings held there. About this time, Henry Coate secured apple trees from Caleb Mendenhall who had brought apple seeds from North Carolina. The orchard resulting from this planting proved in subsequent years to be one of the finest in the country. Emigrants from Pennsylvania and points farther east began bringing him stock to Ohio. The settlers in the Stillwater Valley came soon stocked with calves, sheep and hogs. Especially necessary were the sheep, for warmer clothing was needed in this climate than they had in their southern home. Moreover, the beautifully checked and striped cotton garments brought from the south would not last indefinitely. The need of warmer winter clothing was supplied at first by skins. Flax growing and sheep raising became a part of every settler's work, and the women of each household spun and wove as industriously as the men worked felling trees, cultivating the land, hunting game, rolling log's or building houses. Lydia Coate early learned to spin and weave. Proud was she when on meeting day she wore a dress made by herself out of cloth which she had spun and woven.

In May, 1809 a great grief came to Henry. His wife Mary, who had shared with him all the hardships of pioneer life, died. She was taken through the woods to a burying ground in a clearing donated to the community by Marmaduke Coate from his quarter-section of land. Lydia then assumed charge of the household. From Isaac down to Esther aged two, she gave loving and watchful care.

Though wagon trains from year to year arrived from the south bringing girls, John Davis found no one who might so well grace his cabin by the North Spring as Lydia Coate. In the Spring of 1810, he went courting to the house on Ludlow Creek. In September of that year, John and Lydia made public declaration in meeting their intention of marriage and on Nov. 10, 1810 they were married in the log meeting house at West Branch, in the presence of witnesses appointed by the church to attend the wedding. In the Minutes of the West Branch Monthly Meeting which convened Nov. 17, 1810 is the following settlement; "Friends appointed to attend the marriage of John Davis and Lydia Coate, report they attended and it was orderly accomplished." Lydia wore a neat home-spun dress with a gray quilted bonnet framing her pretty, alert face. John wore a short breasted coat with straight collar and no unnecessary buttons, a long vest and pantaloons without suspenders. This was the customary costume of Quaker men at that time. It was the same as worn by George Fox in England and similar to that worn by English noblemen. Many guest assembled for the wedding dinner in Henry's house. Venison, wild turkey and dried corn in addition to the fall vegetables, formed the feast.

Before nightfall, John with Lydia on his horse, forded the creek and took the trail for the cabin by the North Spring. All about the bright orange and red hues of bitter-sweet (vied) with the colors of the sunset. Great (teams) of birds on their way southward, settled in the trees for the night. Lydia and John entered the cabin and started a fire on the hearth of a new home. Here they lived and prospered; the log house was replaced by a larger frame one. That Lydia was active in the church is evidenced by the entry in the church minutes under the date of Apr. 21, 1821: "The committee appointed to make choice of a friend to serve as overseer, proposed Lydia Davis, with which the meeting () and appointed her to that service." Lydia's covered wagon journey from South Carolina to Ohio in her childhood, the exceptional training by her parents, and the care of her brothers and sisters following her mothers death, served to give Lydia more than an ordinary preparation for life. Lydia and John Davis were careful about the discipline of their children. Their son Henry became a doctor; Samuel, a judge; Jonathan and Isaac were farmers; and Mary was the grandmother of Herbert Hoover. The north spring still gives forth it's refreshing water. The house is (just) a few () of the bitter-sweet remain.

Meanwhile, John and Sarah Hoover prospered, acquiring a large acreage, all of their children developed worthy characters. One son was a surveyor, following an occupation much in demand in those times; another son was a school teacher; their son Jesse married Rebecca Yount from the Mill Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends in Montgomery Co, O. Their son Eli early gave indication of possessing the keen intelligence and steadfastness of purpose of his Father and of his Grandfather Hoover and the kind friendly disposition of his grandmother Sarah Hoover. All through the years, Sarah Hoover was held in high esteem by the entire community- she was active in her church, ever ready to befriend an orphan, to help some one in need, or care for the sick, though she reared a large family of her own, one example of her thrift was the saving of wild duck and loon feathers for making a feather bed for each one of her sons and daughters.

Henry Coate each year reaped a greater harvest than the preceding one, as he was gradually acquiring more land. In 1816 he built a larger hewed log house, and to this in 1820 he built a frame addition which today is standing in good condition. In his merchant blacksmith shop on Ludlow Creek, he at times employed several men. For many years he supplied tools over a large area. His sickles were in great demand. On the Stillwater River at Possum Hollow, Henry built a store room for the exchange of his tools for products of the farms, which in turn he had hauled in wagons to Dayton or Cincinnati; and shipped in boats at Cincinnati and points farther south, sometimes as far as New Orleans.

Joel Hollingsworth, a man of great physical strength and bravery, made trips down the rim by boat with Henry Coates cargo, returning on horseback. Henry and his father Marmaduke Coate both were active in the establishment of the Union Meeting of Friends, by the burying-ground near Ludow Falls, the first Monthly Meeting being opened Feb. 1, 1813. The first building was of logs. Incessant labor through the years in (commiting) natural resources of the wilderness into civilized utilities resulted in prosperity, leaving in its wake schools and improved places of worship. The log church in 1818 gave way to a brick structure which for many years was a social center for the whole country side. Though long unused, this building stands today, a lonely sentinel guarding the church yard where lie many of the pioneers, including members of the Hoover families. The Union Meeting House also was replaced by one of brick which stood until about 1884, when it was torn down, the brick being partially used in the construction of the new church at Ludlow Falls. The grave-yard on the original site has been maintained in good order to the present time and there lie Marmaduke and Henry Coate and members of their families. The outstanding characteristic of early Quakers was their strict adherence to what they believed to be right. A Quaker's word was as good as his note. Often at a meeting there would be no preaching. If the "Spirit moved", some one would speak. Otherwise a meeting hour would pass in silent mediation and prayer. Modern psychologists no doubt would point out the Quaker "Silences" as the source of the sterling character all early Quakers possessed.

Henry Coate had many (problems) in his life. His second wife Rebecca Wilson Coate died young, leaving him with another family of small children. Lydia died in 1826 leaving her youngest child Mary Davis an orphan at the age of six. With his orphaned children and grandchildren, it is not strange that Henry sought another wife. At Ludlow Falls there stands today the log house in which Henry Coate courted Eunice Coppock, a very estimable woman whom he married. Eunice mothered Henry's children and orphaned grandchildren winning the love and respect of each. Mary Davis Hoover must have been especially fond of her since she named her eldest daughter Eunice.

So it happened that Mary Davis was much under the care of Henry that man of wonderful personality who had the faculty of teaching children the things worth while in life.

Mary Davis grew to womanhood, possessing the grace and beauty of her mother Lydia, the patience and fortitude of her grandmother Mary Haskett Coate, and the courage of her great-grandmother Mary Coppock Coate. It was quite natural that she won the heart of (promising) young Eli Hoover, one of the most prospering farmers of the community. Another wedding was solemnized at West Branch Church. Eli and Mary Davis Hoover lived in a fine new house on a flourishing farm on the Butler Road which leads out of West Milton to the south-west. At this period extensive house building was going on over the country. Eli's father Jesse, built near-by a commodious brick house.

Eli and Mary were very happy with their growing family which numbered five; Eunice, Allen, Jesse Clark, Rebeca and Henry. But a great shadow fell upon them, submerging all the joy in their pretty house and production fields. Mary's health was failing. With the hope of finding a better climate, the farm was sold. Before a removal could be made, the death angel came, claiming both Mary and her daughter Eunice. Side by side they lie in the West Branch Church Yard. On the pages of the old West Branch Church Records, are the following minutes; "18th day, 5th month, 1854, those appointed to prepare a certificate of removal for Eli Hoover and family produced one to Red Cedar Monthly Meeting of Friends, Iowa" which ( ) Ohio gave to Iowa, the boy Jesse Clark Hoover who became the father of (President) Herbert Hoover."

Henry married Mary Ann HASKETT on 7 Feb 1793 in Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA. Mary (daughter of Isaac HASKET and Lyddia ELLIOT) was born on 9 Sep 1770 in Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA; died on 28 May 1809 in , Miami, OH, USA; was buried about 31 May 1809 in , Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Rebecca WILLSON on 4 Oct 1815 in Waynesville, Warren, OH, USA. Rebecca (daughter of Robert WILLSON, Sr. and Mercy HEATON) was born about 1792 in , Warren, NJ, USA; died on 4 Apr 1828 in , Miami, OH, USA; was buried after 4 Apr 1828 in Ludlow Falls, Miami County, Ohio, United States of America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Eunice COTHRAN on 8 Dec 1830 in Union M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Eunice (daughter of Alexander COTHRAN and Hester UNKNOWN) was born on 13 Mar 1793 in , Newberry, SC, USA; died on 15 Jun 1866 in , Miami, OH, USA; was buried in Union Joint Cemetery, Ludlow Falls, Newton Twp., Miami, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Samuel was born on the 8m 28d 1722 according to Hinshaw. Samuel purchased 192 acres of land in the 96th District, SC adjoining NE William Miles and Samuel Crompton, SE on John Coats, SW on Jacob Chandler and Samuel Miles and NW on Jonathan Taylors land. The record is located in Greenville Co., SC records just like his father's as that territory is now part of Greenville Co. At the time it was described as being on the Saluda River in Newberry County. The date of the deed is Mar. 24, 1799.

Samuel is highly likely to be the Samuel Coats in the 1800 Newberry Census records that list he and his wife between the ages of 16 and 26 with no children. If so, he gave his age as slightly younger than he was. (C-931) There is a deed for a Samuel and Mary who sold land on Jan. 17, 1804 to Samuel Miles, Sam. Brown, and Isaac Kirk for use by the Quaker MM. I believe this applies to my Samuel Coate, son of Marmaduke for the following reasons. (C-2115) 1) The land was sold on Jan. 17, 1804 and my Samuel moved his family to Ohio on certificate dated Feb. 25, 1804. 2) Samuel Miles who purchased the land was the father-in-law of one of my Samuel's daughters, indicating that my Samuel and Samuel Miles, not only knew each other well, they probably lived fairly closely together for their children to marry. 3) My Samuel Coate was the only known Quaker of the 3 Samuel's in the area. 4) A nickname for Margaret is Mary. Samuel was appointed as one of the overseer's for Union Monthly Meeting when it was set off from the West Branch Monthly Meeting on the 1 month, 2 day, 1813.

Samuel and his brother Moses then moved to Miami Co., Ohio at the same time. Samuel bought 161.24 acres in Range 5, Township 6, Section 5, Northwest Quarter (Union Township) on Sept. 25, 1804. (C-24, 253k) He paid $1.66 in taxes in 1810 on this property (C-61b). He is living in the 1827 and 1835 tax lists for Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio. In the 1830 Census for Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio, he appears to have a daughter whose name I do not know between the age of 5 and 10. He like is living with his son, William's family, in the 1850 census at age 78 along with an insane 47 year old Joseph C. Coate. (C-64)

Samuel died at age 96 years, 4 months and 28 days according to his death record filed in Miami County by William Jay.

Samuel married Margaret COPPOCK on 8 May 1800 in Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA. Margaret (daughter of Joseph COPPOCK and Jane WILSON) was born on 10 Mar 1781 in Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA; died on 19 Feb 1847 in , Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was born on the 12m 11d 1774 according to Hinshaw. She was disowned by the Quaker Church at Bush River MM, SC on Oct. 31, 1795 for marrying out of unity. She moved to (O)Hio to be near her sister, Esther Coate Pemberton. (C-100, 253k)

Sarah married Amos HALL on 31 Oct 1795 in Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA. Amos (son of James HALL and Sarah DUNCAN) was born on 26 May 1766 in , Newberry, SC, USA; died on 6 Jun 1850 in , Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was born 6/23/1777 according to Hinshaw. Marmaduke and Mary Jane Coate appear to sell this James or the James who was the son of Big John, land in 1804 in Newberry County, Misc Rec Bk G p. 108. This James bought 160 acres in Range 5, Township 6, Section 32, Northwest Quarter (now Newton Twp.) on July 19, 1806. He was living in that same township in the 1827 tax lists fairly close to his brothers John and William. (C-55)

In the 1830 Newton Twp., Miami Co., Ohio census, James is living within 2 houses of his brother John. He is between the age of 50-60. His wife is between 30-40. They have 2 sons between 5-10, 1 between 10-15, 1 between 15 & 20, 2 daughters under 5 years, and 1 between 10-15. (C-2560) I have not found the name of the daughter or young woman living with them that was born between 1815 and 1820.

James married Mary MILES on 29 Aug 1800 in Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA. Mary (daughter of William MILES, Sr. and Catherine UNKNOWN) died before 1807 in , , SC, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Luranah TEAGUE on 28 Oct 1807. Luranah (daughter of Samuel TEAGUE and Rebecca FURNAS) was born on 1 Sep 1786 in , , SC, USA; died on 6 Feb 1863 in Union M.M., Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In Hinshaw, William's birth date is 1mo 2 day 1779. There is a William Cote listed in the 1800 Newberry Co., SC census that was between the ages of 16 and 26 with two females of the same age, and 2 sons and 3 daughters all under age ten that might be this William. (C-931)

William and family moved to Miami Co., OH on a certificate dated 7/27/1805 from Bush River MM. (C-100) He is in the 1820 Newton Twp., Miami Co., Ohio census records living next to his brother James and 2 households from his brother John. He has 1 son and 2 daughters under age 10 and one daughter from 10-16 and he and his wife are between the ages of 26-45.

In 1826 they moved from Union MM, Miami Co., OH to Honey Creek-New London MM, in Howard Co., Indiana, but appear in the 1827 tax lists for Newton Twp., Miami Co, Ohio near his brothers suggesting that he still owned land in Newton Twp., Miami Co., Ohio at the time. (C-253d, EL)

William married Elizabeth MILES on 29 Jun 1803 in Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of William MILES, Sr. and Catherine UNKNOWN) was born on 9 Dec 1786; died on 29 Mar 1872 in Bloomfield M.M., Parke, IN, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His birth date and the dates of all of his children's births are noted in the Center Monthly Meeting records in Hinshaw which was located in Clinton Co., Ohio.

This could be the John Coat who was disowned by the Quaker Church on 4/26/1800 in the Bush River Monthly Meeting for an unknown reason. (C-100) However, by Aug. 25, 1804, they are listed in Quaker records as removing to Miami MM, OH from Newberry MM. In the 1820 census he lives within 2 farms of his brother William and then James. He has 3 sons and 2 daughters under age 10. He and his wife are between the age of 26 and 45. He is listed as living near his brother James and William in the 1827 Newton Twp., Miami Co., OH tax lists. He is the John Coats living in Newton Twp., Miami Co., Ohio in the 1830 census within 2 doors of his older brother James on page 75. He and his wife Mary sold land to Samuel Teague in Miami Co., on Aug. 27, 1833 and to William Jay on June 28, 1834 in county deed records. He is listed in the Clinton Co. Center Monthly Meeting records on 12/17/1834 when he, his 2nd wife and all their children were received on certificate from Union Monthly Meeting in Miami Co., Ohio dated 11/12/1834. He also is stated as of Greene Co., Ohio when some of his children marry in the 1830s.

Info on his death date comes from Krell's Collection in Philadelphia where the place was listed as Miami Co., Ohio. This place seems unlikely unless we find evidence that he moved back to Miami Co., Ohio. It is entirely possible that he was simply buried there but died in Clinton or Green Co., Ohio instead. He signed his name to his daughters Rebecca's marriage in 1837, but didn't to his son, Hiram's marriage in 1838. He is likely the John Coates who was proposed to be the clerk, or keeper of the Minutes at the New Hope MM in Greene Co., Ohio. He apparently didn't accept this because his signature is never where the clerk's signature is in the minutes. His son, Hiram, however, did take that position. (C-1017, E)

John married Esther TEAGUE on 30 Aug 1809 in West Branch M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Esther (daughter of Samuel TEAGUE and Rebecca FURNAS) was born on 26 Feb 1790 in , , SC, USA; died on 1 Feb 1826 in Union M.M., Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary BANGHAM on 15 Aug 1828 in Dover M.M., Clinton, OH, USA. Mary (daughter of Benjamin BANGHAM and Lucy UNKNOWN) was born on 30 Aug 1802; died after 1854. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Margaret Bowen, Jesse Coate was born June 1, 1788 instead of the date I've listed, but Hinshaw gives his birth date as 1m 3d 1788. Jesse's wife, Mary, was a relative of President Andrew Johnson. They had 8 children. He had not moved to Ohio in 1804 with his father as his residence is listed in Nov. 13, 1806 as South Carolina when he bought 160 acres in Newton Twp., Miami Co., Ohio. He forfeited this land before living on it. He had moved to Miami Co., Ohio by the time he married in 1808. He was listed as living in Newton Twp., Miami Co., OH in the 1827 tax lists near his brothers, James, John, and William. (C-55) He is listed with a wife named Sally in an 1826 deed in Miami County where he and his brothers are selling land they owned jointly to Moses Kelly. All his siblings have known spouses. However, she signs her name as Polly Coate on this deed which is the normal nickname for Mary. The deed was transcribed by a courthouse officiate into the deed book and maybe they made an error on her name of Sarah. Jesse wrote his will July 5, 1837. (C-27, 422, 644, E)

Jesse married Mary JOHNSON on 23 Jul 1808 in , Miami, OH, USA. Mary was born on 24 Jul 1790; died on 4 Dec 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her parents are unverified. She is a DNA match to me, but her parents have been listed as any of the following: 1) David Coats and Eunice Coppock. There are two Davids that I've found so far in SC at the time, and I'm not certain which David is married to Eunice. People that trace her through David say that she's the grand-daughter of Stephen Marmaduke and great grand-daughter of Marmaduke and Mary Jane Coppock. 2) Benjamin Coate or 3) Marmaduke and Mary Jane Coate.

Lavina married Samuel COPPOCK after 1805. Samuel (son of Joseph COPPOCK and Jane WILSON) was born on 29 Apr 1786 in Bush River, Newberry, SC; died on 10 Jul 1812 in , , OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lavina married William GREEN on 19 May 1814 in Miami, Ohio, USA. William was born in 1792 in South Carolina; died in 1864 in Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His death date in Hinshaw is in March, but in transcribed cemetery records his death date is the same day but in August of 1828 instead. Which is correct is not known. Robert Pemberton and wife, Unice were included in a deed of sale with all of Marmaduke's children and some of Marmaduke's grandchildren. Robert was a grandchild of Marmaduke through his mother, Esther, who was deceased.

Robert married Eunice COPPOCK on 2 Aug 1809. Eunice (daughter of John COPPOCK, Jr. and Anna JAY) was born on 1 Aug 1793 in Bush River M.M., Newberry, SC, USA; died on 10 Jun 1874 in , Parke, IN, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His wife's name is Elizabeth Elleman in the Miami Valley Index. The orginal marriage record would need to be located to see if her name was Esther or Elizabeth. Perhaps Esther is a nickname for Elizabeth. She is listed as Elizabeth in the 1826 deed where he as Marmaduke's grandson along with other children of Esther Coate and all of the rest of Marmaduke's children sold land they had inherited from Marmaduke Coate to Moses Kelly.

Isaiah married Elizabeth (Esther) ELLEMAN on 15 Jan 1810 in , Miami, OH, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of John ELLEMAN and Susannah COPPOCK) was born on 23 Oct 1795; died on 30 May 1861; was buried in Union Joint Cemetery, Ludlow Falls, Newton Twp., Miami, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She and her husband, Abner Barrett are listed as sellers in the 1826 deed where the children of Marmaduke Coate and grandchildren through Marmaduke's daughter, Esther sell land they inherited to Moses Kelly.

Mary married Abner BARRETT on 23 Dec 1810 in , Miami, OH, USA. Abner died on 11 Apr 1859 in , Fulton, IN, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was not in the list of children who emigrated with their mother to the Waynesville Monthly Meeting in Ohio in 1806 nor in a deed that his siblings and Aunts and Uncles were in in 1826, so I'm assuming he died before the family moved to Ohio.

Notes:

Elizabeth and her husband Nehemiah Thomas were listed as living in Montgomery Co., Ohio when they sold their portion of Marmaduke Coate's land along with her siblings and Aunts and Uncles in 1826.

Elizabeth married Nehemiah THOMAS on 18 Sep 1819 in , , OH, USA. Nehemiah died after 1826 in Of Montgomery, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married David MILES on 16 Mar 1816 in , Miami, OH, USA. David was born on 23 Apr 1795 in , Newberry, SC, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Melissa THOMAS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This Mary could be married to either Samuel Hoover in 1828 in Miami Co., OH or to Joseph F. Jay in 1839. (C-1025)

Mary married Thomas PEARSON on 6 Nov 1820 in West Branch M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Thomas (son of Enoch PEARSON and Ann EVANS) was born on 8 May 1795; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas Coate received a land grant personally signed by President Martin Van Buren in Mercer Co., Ohio on Oct. 10, 1840. A photo copy is in my files. Thomas's Coate's son, James Coate changed the spelling of his branch of the family to Coats. That was to comply with a mistake in the military in the Civil War, which he repeated to obtain his pension from them. He was in an Indiana infantry. (C-2004, 2005)

Thomas married Sarah PATTY on 20 Sep 1821 in W. Branch M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Sarah (daughter of James PATTY and Anna BROWN) was born about 1801; died in 1853. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married Simeon THOMAS about 1837 in , Henry, IN, USA. Simeon was born on 29 Jul 1803; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Joseph and Lydia had a daughter named Mary in 1825 in Miami Co, Ohio. They are living next to his father in the 1827 and 1835 tax lists for Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio. There is a Joseph Coats in the 1840 census for Warren Co., TN that needs to be checked to see if it might apply to this Joseph. He and his wife are living with William and Delilah Jones in the 1850 census and that census says he and his wife were born in North Carolina which does not match other records. (C-2242)

Joseph married Lydia DAVIS on 21 Nov 1822 in West Branch M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Lydia (daughter of Abiathar DAVIS and Lydia EMBREE) was born on 23 Feb 1798 in Wrightsborough Twp., Columbia, GA, USA; died in 1852; was buried in West Branch Quaker Burial Grounds, Union Twp., Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William is likely the William living near his father, Moses Coate, in the 1835 Union Twp., Miami Co., Oh tax lists.

Family/Spouse: Margaret DUNN. Margaret died after 1843 in of Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Joseph HOLLINGSWORTH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth ELLEMAN. Elizabeth was born about 1815 in , , VA, USA; died after 1850 in Of Union Twp., Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Phoebe HAYWORTH on 20 Dec 1830 in , Miami, OH, USA. Phoebe (daughter of James HAYWORTH and Ann COPPOCK) was born on 20 Dec 1813 in Newberry, Newberry, SC; died on 25 May 1865 in , Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joseph HAWORTH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I believe that Moses Marmaduke Coate had a daughter named Rachel who wrote to Amanda Pemberton Krell in 1901 from Oregon. I have not found evidence of Rachel being his daughter other than the fact that she lists her father who passed away on Feb. 24, 1901 at age 85, 2 mo, and 14 days and lists relationships to herself that often but not always fit if she is the child of Moses Marmaduke Coate.

The following census might apply to this Moses: COATES, MOSES, State OH Year 1850, County Darke County Record Type Federal Population Schedule, Township Franklin Township Page 331, Database OH 1850 Federal Census Index.

Moses married Elizabeth Penny BROWN on 6 Jun 1839 in , Miami, OH, USA. Elizabeth was born on 8 Apr 1822 in Monroe, Darke, OH; died on 3 Nov 1907 in Franklin Twp., Darke, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah THOMAS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lydia is buried at West Branch, Ohio. She is the gr.grandmother of President Hoover. She was buried in the same grave as an unmarried sister-in-law, Sarah Davis. Only their initials marked the grave in Mote's 1880 account, S.D. and L.D.(C-1017)

Lydia married John DAVIS on 7 Nov 1810 in , Miami, OH, USA. John (son of Abiathar DAVIS and Lydia EMBREE) was born on 2 May 1787 in Wrightsborough Twp., Columbia, GA, USA; died on 4 Mar 1853 in West Milton, Miami, OH, USA; was buried about 7 Mar 1853 in , Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

It is likely that the following info from Alabama applies to a daughter of this Isaac and Mary. "The Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama Heritage Book: Martha Eliza Jane Hannah Sophia Coats m. 22 July 1852 to John Harrison Jennings. She was d/o Isaac and Mary Coats of South Carolina." (provided by D.J. Rowe)

Family/Spouse: Mary WEEKS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I am guessing that Mary died before 1830 since the age of William's wife in the 1830 censu is between 40-50 and this does not fit Mary's age group. This would fit the age of William's third wife, Rebecca.

Mary married William JAY on 27 Apr 1824. William (son of John JAY and Elizabeth (Betty) PUGH) was born on 19 Jun 1788 in , Newberry, SC, USA; died on 9 Aug 1845 in Pleasant Hill, Miami, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Samuel Coates sold an unknown quantity of land to Jane Gardner on February 8, 1775 in Newberry Co., South Carolina. He is listed often in the Deed records of Miami County, Ohio. (C-909, 1025) The probate date of 1847 might belong to a son of his or Moses' instead as it is listed for a Samuel Coate Jr. (C-1025)

Family/Spouse: Mary MILES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Bethany REAGAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Henry is listed as Henry Couts in the 1860 census for Miami, Ohio. Henry W. Coate is in the Union Twp., Miami Co., 1880, Ohio census records, p. 365a. He was 61, a dry goods merchant, born in Ohio. He listed both his parent's birth place as North Carolina. His wife in 1880 was Hannah, age 55, born Ohio and one son lived with them, Clarkson, age 16. If he is correct on his parents birth place, then Marmaduke and Mary Coppock, his grandparents would probably have been living in North Carolina before South Carolina and Ohio, too. (C-33, 384) H.W. Coate is listed in Beers History of Miami Co., OH as a dealer in groceries, dry goods, clothing, hats, caps, gents, furnishing goods, boots & shoes, tailoring, and Remington sewing machines. (C-10) He began that trade in the year 1867. Previous to that, he had been a farmer for 38 years. Previous to that he or his father are possibly the Henry Coates who was an Underground Railroad conductor along with a David Coates in Montgomery Co., Ohio. Henry W. appears to have written his will in 1848, but it was not probated until 1887 in Miami Co., Ohio (C-1025)

Henry married Rebecca D. MILES on 20 Sep 1838 in , Miami, OH, USA. Rebecca died in 1841 in , Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Phoebe COTHRAN in 1843 in , Miami, OH, USA. Phoebe died in 1846 in , Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Hannah PIERCE in 1851. Hannah died in 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The following information is provided by Dan Buckley. "On 4 Apr 1846 Caleb and his family were granted certificate from Union MM, Ohio to Mississinewa MM in Indiana. They appear in the records of Honey Creek MM, Indiana which was first held on 14 Nov 1846 after being set off from Mississinewa MM. Children born before 4 Apr 1846 will be shown as born/died in Union MM. On 12 Sep 1860 Lydia and children Rebecca, Mary & Lydia Jane were received back at Union MM on a certificate from Honey Creek, MM dated 11 Aug 1860. We are assuming Lydia Jane was born at Honey Creek MM but somehow was not recorded there. Her death is recorded at West Branch MM as 14 Jul 1866 which brings up a mystery concerning Caleb Coate. He is shown returning to Union from Honey Creek on a separate certificate on 12 Dec 1860. In the family record for him in Hinshaw, Vol. 5, Pg 800 he is listed with a secord marriage to a Catherine ------ with children by this marriage Lydia Jane b. 13 Jan 1860; Florence b. Ditto; and Eveline b. 21 Mar 1862. Since his wife Lydia did not die until 1866 and is shown returning with daughter Lydia above we believe these children were by the first marriage."

Caleb married Lydia PEMBERTON on 25 Nov 1840 in Union Twp., Miami, OH, USA. Lydia was born on 20 Sep 1823 in Union Twp., Miami, OH, USA; died on 14 Jul 1866 in , Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

David and his wife were Quakers as were his parents. His property was worth $4000.00 in 1850. He was a farmer and merchant by trade. (C-63, 1001) There is a David M. Coate who was in the deed records in 1856 in Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio. His death date is listed as Jan. 26, 1852 in Union, Miami Co., OH in Hinshaw, but it doesn't fit with the above info and also contradicts the following data from "The Genealogical and Biographical Record of Miami Co., Ohio, Part II, 1900." It states that he cultivated land he purchased in 1843 in Miami Co. until 1865. At that point in time he moved to Kokomo, IN but returned to Miami Co. after an unstated interval where he was a store owner until 1872. It did not list his death date. It is entirely possible that he is one of the David Coates who was in the 1850 and 1880 census records for Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio. That remains to be checked. From my point of view, there are likely 2 David M.'s who are being confused here. If he was a Co-Commissioner of Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio, then he and his wife's photo are in the Illustrated Historical Atlas of Miami Co. Ohio, 1875. (C-95, 1025, 1927, 2113E)

David married Mary TEAGUE on 20 Sep 1843 in , Miami, OH, USA. Mary (daughter of Moses TEAGUE and Jane COPPOCK) was born on 20 Jun 1825 in , Miami, OH, USA; died on 2 Oct 1894 in W. Branch M.M., Miami, OH, USA; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, West Milton, Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John H. is in the deed records for Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio in 1850 and 1856. He originally purchased 226 acres and later added 40 more. His property is listed in the 1871 Atlas of Miami Co., Ohio published by C.O. Titus in Union Twp. wedged between the Heirs of Aaron Coppock and Benj. Coppock. He was the first dairy farmer in the state and well respected stock dealer of his dairy cattle. By 1897 he was supplying local hotels, restaurants and the Soldiers home with the finest butter anywhere. (C-26, 1025)

In the 1850 census, John Coate is 24 years old, a farmer worth $5000 in real estate. He was living with his wife Jane, age 20 and was married within the year of the census. This census was taken in late 49 or 50 before the month of Oct. His stepmother, Eunice Cothran Coate, who is 57 years old is living with them. John and Jane were born in Ohio Eunice was born in South Carolina. In the 1860 census records, John's worth is estimated at about $14,000. He was a farmer. In the 1880 Ohio census records for Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio, he was 55, a farmer and sick that day of disease of the bowels. He said he was born in Ohio and both his parents were born in North Carolina. The data for his family was: wife Jane C., age 51, born Ohio as well as her parents, Warren, age 24, b. OH; Ida J., daughter-in-law, age 20 b. OH as well as her parents; Loretta, age 18, b. OH; Maurie J., age 8/12, b. Sept. 1879 in OH; Rachul Coppock, age 71, Mother-in-law, b. Oh, her parents born, North Carolina; (Eluoia) Coppock, age 18, niece, Servant, born Indiana, parents born in Ohio. (C-385) His father's third wife, Eunice, also lived with them in both the 1850 and 1860 census records. John H. was living with his daughter Loretta and son-in-law, Edgar W. Yount in the 1900 census records. (C-224)

He might be the John Coate who was a dealer in groceries, wood, coal, lime, hair plaster and cement in Beers History of Miami Co. OH, though this is more likely to refer to another John, as the census records consistently list him as a farmer. (C-10) Specifically, we know for certain that he was a dairy farmer in Miami Co., Ohio.

His death date is the 24th on his death certificate and the 26th on his cemetery stone. I do not know which is correct.

John married Jane COPPOCK on 22 May 1850 in Union M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Jane (daughter of Joseph COPPOCK and Rachel HOLLINGSWORTH) was born on 1 Oct 1829 in Ludlow Falls, Miami, OH, USA; died on 4 Dec 1914 in West Milton, Miami, OH, USA; was buried on 7 Dec 1914 in Union Joint Cemetery, Ludlow Falls, Newton Twp., Miami, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is likely the Joseph C. Coats who was in the 1827 tax lists for Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio He was living with his brother William in the 1850 census for Union Twp., Miami Co., OH and he is listed as insane and in the 1860 census where he is listed as idiotic.

Family/Spouse: William MILES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Phebe MILLS on 22 Dec 1830 in , Miami, OH, USA. Phebe died before 1842. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Nancy FINNEY on 24 Mar 1842 in West Branch M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Nancy (daughter of Robert FINNEY and Hannah UNKNOWN) was born on 23 Sep 1808; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Sally FELLOW on 18 Mar 1840 in , Miami, OH, USA. Sally was born on 19 Mar 1804; died on 27 Sep 1901. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This Thomas is possibly the Thomas Coate in the 1850 census for Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio He might be the Thomas who was a Private in the Civil War in the USCT INF., Co., K, Regiment 62. If so, he died on Feb 7, 1865. I suspect it belongs to a younger Thomas than this one though. (C-1528)

Thomas married Eliza RAGAN about 1836. Eliza was born on 24 Jul 1819; died after 1860 in Union, Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William, wife and family lived in Union Twp., Miami Co., Ohio in the 1850 census records. They had 8 children in this census and William's father, Samuel and William's older brother, Joseph C.Coate were living with them. Joseph is still living with his brother in the 1850 census where he is listed as idiodic. William and his wife moved to Council Grove, Kansas about 1888 where William is buried. He was a devout Quaker. His wife then moved back to Ohio as she didn't like the storms in Kansas. Coates related to this branch of the family also went to Oklahoma on the 1893 land run. They settled in Newkirk and Ponca City, Oklahoma.

William married Mary TUCKER on 20 Dec 1838 in West Branch M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Mary (daughter of Jacob TUCKER) was born in 1820; died on 11 Oct 1911 in Mt. Vernon, Jefferson, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Joseph Furnas JAY on 20 Aug 1834 in Union M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Joseph was born on 25 Feb 1816 in , Miami, OH, USA; died on 22 Mar 1873. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bob Shubinsky descends through this line.

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

Notes:

Eli Jay in the Centenial History of West Branch states that Jonathan married Martha Compton on Jun 20, 1860 instead of the wife listed here. This Jonathan is likely the Jonathan Coates who was an operator on the underground railroad in Miami Co., OH along with his brother Joshua. His death certificate in Miami Co., Ohio gives his death date as May 1, 1872. His bible gives his death date as May 5, 1872 and his tombstone gives it as May 6, 1872. He died of typhoid fever and his doctor appears to have submitted his death information along with many others. Therefore, I suspect that the familiy placed stone or bible are more accurate. (C-1546)

Jonathan married Martha COMPTON on 21 Jun 1860 in West Branch M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Martha was born about 1825 in , , OH, USA; died after 1860 in , Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth JAY. Elizabeth was born on 20 Jul 1815; died on 1 May 1856 in Ludlow Falls, Miami, OH, USA; was buried in Union Joint Cemetery, Ludlow Falls, Newton Twp., Miami, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Samuel T. is listed in the Newton Twp., Miami Co., OH 1840 and 1850 census records.

Samuel married Harriet ANTHONY on 21 Mar 1838 in South Fork, Miami, OH. Harriet was born on 14 Mar 1821; died on 9 Oct 1881. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This Joshua is likely to be the Joshua Coates who was an operator on the Underground Railroad to free slaves.

Joshua married Adila JENKINS on 5 Aug 1842. Adila (daughter of Robert JENKINS) was born about 1821; died after 1880 in Of Newton Twp., Miami, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is likely the Ellwood listed in the 1850 census for Newton Twp., Miami Co., Ohio

Thomas married Malinda WILLIAMS on 30 Aug 1846. Malinda died after 1860 in Newton Twp., Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Ephraim COPPOCK on 25 Sep 1850 in Union M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Ephraim (son of Joseph COPPOCK and Rachel HOLLINGSWORTH) was born on 10 Jul 1826; died after 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Philemon JONES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Samuel KELLY in 1824 in , , OH, USA. Samuel (son of Moses KELLEY and Mary TEAGUE) was born in 1801 in , , SC, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John and Sarah had a dozen children. A likely descendant of this John and Sarah has 36 out of 37 DNA matches to my Marmaduke line meaning their is a 90 plus percent likelyhood that we have the same ancestor within 8 generations. (C-1621)

Family/Spouse: Sarah WRIGHT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He died leaving six children, age 15 and under. The oldest sons, William (age 15) and Hiram (age 13) made a living for their family by making and mending shoes until their mother remarried fours years later. A descendant in this line, as expected, has a DNA match to this line of Coates going back through Marmaduke.

Family/Spouse: Mary Ann MARSHALL. Mary died after 1852. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The other daughters are accounted for in the 1820 Newton Twp., Miami Co., Ohio census, so I'm assuming that she was born after 1820.

Notes:

Eli Jay's [BO:Centenial History of West Branch:BO] lists Joseph's name as Joseph Coate, son of John and Esther Teague Coate, b. Nov 1, 1810. He also signs his name as Joseph T. Coate in a marriage record for a Hunnicut as a witness. His wife Agnes signs as a witness in 1842 as Agnes Coate. It is said by some sources that he was the son of Esther Coate before she married John Coate. Obviously, John Coate adopted him if he was not already John's son. (C-1546) In the 1880 census, Joseph lists both of his parents birthplace as South Carolina.

Joseph married Agnes BANGHAM on 20 Apr 1832 in Dover M.M., Clinton, OH, USA. Agnes (daughter of Benjamin BANGHAM and Lucy UNKNOWN) was born about 1818 in , , OH, USA; died after 1880 in Of Adam Twp., Clinton, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elijah and family moved from Union Monthly Metting in Nov. of 1834 to Center Monthly Meeting in Clinton Co., Ohio. They proceeded to move to Ceasar's Monthly Meeting on 5/18/1838. Elijah and Rebecca were Quakers who converted to Methodism after the Civil War when "swept up in the Evangelical Revival". Elijah help set up many Methodist churches throughout the midwest. Letters to his wife during this time period are still in existence. He is likely the Elijah Coate who was an operator on the Underground Railroad in Miami Co., Ohio. (C-2117)

Elijah married Rebecca COPPOCK on 27 Jun 1832 in Union M.M., Miami, OH, USA. Rebecca (daughter of Benjamin J. COPPOCK, Sr. * and Susannah JAY) was born on 17 Aug 1813 in , Miami, OH, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hiram and his wife were Quaker ministers. Hiram was also appointed Clerk to take minutes at the Quaker meetings.

Hiram married Rachel W. PAINTER on 22 Nov 1838 in Center Monthly Meeting, Clinton, OH, USA. Rachel (daughter of Jesse PAINTER) died after 1852. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: David CURL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William LONGSTRETH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was disowned by the Quaker Church in 1844 in the Center M.M. in Clinton Co., OH for joining the "Separtists". His wife, Martha Painter was disowned by the Quaker church in 1845 when she married him, now a non-Quaker. He signed his name as L.M. Coate in an 1851 Mote marriage in New Hope MM, Greene Co., Ohio (Coate Archives)

Lindley married Martha PAINTER in Sep 1845 in , Clinton, OH, USA. Martha died after 1839. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was one of the children listed when the family moved from Union MM to Center MM in 1834. She might have been the Esther Coate who married David Ellemen in Miami Co. on Jan. 13, 1855 according to a marriage record at www.ancestry.com.

Notes:

She was one of the children listed when the family moved from Union MM to Center MM in 1834.

Notes:

The following record applies to this Cyrus and his mother: Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: Ohio Volume 5, [p.547] RECORDS, "1854, 8, 19. Mary B. [Coate] & son , Cyrus, received on certificate from Center monthly meeting, O., dtd 1854, 6, 14."

Notes:

The only Benjamin Coate that somewhat fits this Benjamin in the 1880 census, is one who was age 35, a teamster who was living as a border in Wheeling, West Virginia. The person who gave his information said that he was born in West Virginia and they didn't know where his parents were born. It gave a marriage status for him of N/A.

Notes:

She could be the Mary Coate living near brother Josiah Coate in the 1840 and 1850 Newton Twp., Miami Co., OH census.

Notes:

They had a daughter named Sarah Tucker who married John J. Coppock in Miami Co., Ohio around 1860. There is a Johnson Coates living near Steve Pearson's relatives in the Darke Co., OH 1850 census.

Benjamin married Mary JONES before 1843. Mary died after 1860 in Newton Twp., Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There is a Josias Coate living in W. Branch MM, Miami Co., OH that was married to a Sarah and had a daughter named Mary M. who died in that county on 1/20/1871 and was buried in Union. The info from Hinshaw could easily apply to this family. (C-95) He is likely the Josiah Coate on page 454 of the 1840 Newton Twp., Miami Co., OH census near other members of his family. There is also a Josiah Coate who was in the Co. K, 86th O.V.I. whose name is in large letters on a rather large memorial in the center of a town crossroads in Newton Twp. Ohio for having died a hero in defense of the Union. It did not give the birth dates of any of the dozen soldiers listed.

Family/Spouse: Sarah C. TUCKER. Sarah was born on 6 Oct 1820; died on 11 Sep 1888 in , Miami, OH, USA; was buried in West Branch Quaker Burial Grounds, Union Twp., Miami, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Isaac COPPOCK on 1 Apr 1836 in Lickbranch M.M., , OH, USA. Isaac (son of Benjamin J. COPPOCK, Sr. * and Susannah JAY) was born on 27 Jun 1815 in , Miami, OH, USA; died in 1857. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I suspect that David J.'s middle name was Johnston as there is a Johnston Coate in the 1835 census for Newton Twp., Miami Co., OH living near Jesse and several of his sons. In otherwords, I suspect David went by the name of Johnston as an adult.

Family/Spouse: Moses K. MILES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Cornelius Wesly DYE in 1830 in , Miami, OH, USA. Cornelius was born on 9 Feb 1812; died in in Jefferson, , OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Tace ELLEMAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One researcher on the net says that he died in 1880. He is the A.D. Coate that is in the 1880 census for Mercer County, Ohio. He went by David Coate/Coats in the 2 previous census records to that. His birthname though was supposedly Davis as a middle name taken from his mother's maiden name. He enlisted in the Civil War in Company D, Ohio 193rd Infantry Regiment on 11 Mar 1865. He mustered out on 04 Aug 1865 at Winchester, VA. He achieved the rank of Private and was born about 1829 according to his enlistement papers and his name is listed as Abiathar D. Coate. Source: Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio.

Family/Spouse: Susanna COON. Susanna was born on 13 Apr 1835 in Butler Twp., Mercer, OH, USA; died on 12 Apr 1901 in Butler Twp., Mercer, OH, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Thomas COPPOCK on 3 May 1861. Thomas (son of Joseph R. COPPOCK and Barbara WAGGONER) was born on 15 Mar 1837; died on 14 Feb 1870. [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 passed 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 used 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"

Notes:

Henry was an M.D. (Medical Doctor)

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

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

Family/Spouse: Eleanor C. JONES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of Jonathan's sons was named Elwood in the attached picture. Elwood's wife had in her possession a striped rose, supposedly passed down from the War of the Roses in England, possibly through the Coate side. She gave starts to her children. This tradition has occurred clear up to the present with the striped rose being in the hands of the current day descendants, Gene and Nancy Stormer. They have passed on some of these rose starts to me.

Family/Spouse: Eleanor C. JONES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary is the grandmother to President Hoover. Mendenhall says that this Mary was named Mary Coate and was the daughter of Joseph Coate and Lydia (Embrea) Davis). Joseph was the son of Moses and grandson of Marmaduke according to this same source. (C-1430)

Mary married Eli HOOVER on 20 Feb 1840 in , Miami, OH, USA. Eli (son of Jesse HOOVER and Rebecca YOUNT) was born on 6 Oct 1820 in West Milton, Miami, OH, USA; died on 24 Jul 1892 in Hubbard, Harden, IO, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

Pete Coate who was the son of this couple, is the one who wrote the affidavit giving basically accurate info on his ancestors back to Marmaduke.

Family/Spouse: Mary Clawson COATE. Mary was born on 27 Feb 1851; died on 5 Sep 1930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Mary Jane PEARSON on 8 Dec 1859 in Pleasant Hill, Miami, Ohio, USA. Mary (daughter of Wesley PEARSON and Elizabeth UNKNOWN) was born on 2 Mar 1837 in , Miami, OH, USA; died on 20 Dec 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This is the great grandfather of Marcy Coate, a fellow researcher.

Notes:

John Marmaduke became a man of means. All of his children were sent back East for to attend Boarding School. Three of them moved to California. His son, Roland, was a famous architect and built many a home for the elite. (C-2117)

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