Pollard Hickman Coats

1794 - 1845  (50 years)

• Name	Pollard Hickman Coats  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	13 May 1794	, , SC, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Apr 1845	, Holmes, MS
  Person ID	I5553	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Joseph Elijah Coats,   b. Bef 1750   d. Aft 1820, Of Wilkinson, Missisippi? (Age > 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Helena "Elanor" Hickman,   b. Abt 1760   d. Aft 1806, Of Barnwell, Orangeburg, SC, USA (Age > 47 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Bef 1794  [5]
  _MARRIED	N
  Family ID	F1900	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martha Smith   d. 1844
  Marriage	9 Jan 1816	, Lawrence, Mississippi
  Family ID	F415	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Pollard and Emelia are listed as grandchildren in their grandfather, John Hickman's will. Pollard married Patsy Smith and had the following children: William Duval Coates, Wiley Burton Coates, Wyatt Rankin Coates, Seleta Caroline Coateston Smith Coates, Warren Glover Coates, Waverly Pinckney Coates, and Wayne S. Coates. He has matching DNA to a Gabriel Garrett Coats, b. 1801 in SC and Daniel Coats, b. 1804 in North Carolina who also lived in South Carolina. Pollard Coates moved to Holmes Co., Mississippi before he married. He is in Pike County on the 1820 census. Pollard shows up in Mississippi about the same time as Elijah and Austin Coates, whom Robbie Landry theorizes are also related. They all came from the same place in South Carolina. The way I am theorizing the breakdown, is that Elijah is older than Pollard and a step-brother to Pollard. Elijah's son Austin would be Pollard's cousin if my theory is correct.

  
  

• Sources

  [S855] Roots Magic. [S735] Sanders, Justin M., Email 2000+ atjsanders@jaguar1.usouthal.edu. [S736] Hendrickson, Jim, Email dated 2001 at Jimmyh@hendricksencompany.com. [S850] Landry, Robbie, Landry to Coates-L Discussion group Email, 1999+ at Duroblan@aol.com C-2209. [S737] Landry, Robbie, Email dated 2001+ from Duroblan@directvinternet.com.