ONE DESCENDANTS LINE FROM BIG JOHN COATS

“Big” John Coats – b. circa 1745-50.   We don’t know where.

                                d. 1809 in Newberry C., SC.  m. Rachel Wright.

Wright Coats – b. 1770 in Newberry Co., SC

                          d, 1808 in Newberry Co., SC   m. Mary Gaunt.

Daniel Polignac Coats –  b. 22 Sep 1808 in Newberry Co., SC.  m. Nancy Neal

                                         d. after 1870 in Nacogdoches Co.,  TX

Charles Madison Coats – b. 1830 in Tuscaloosa Co., AL   m.2^nd   Lucy Christopher

d.      1865 in Nacogdoches Co., TX

Claudius Chester Coats – b. 1860 in  Nacogdoches Co., TX.  m. Mary Skillern

d.      1929 in Nacogdoches Co., TX

William Lee Coates –   b. 1886 in Nacogdoches Co., TX.  m. Nettie Collins

d.      1945 in  Beaumont, Jefferson Co., TX

Oliver Lynn Coates –   b.  1907 in TX.  m. Laura Parrish

d.      1982 in Hardin Co., TX.

Sources:

1.  Bill for Injunction, 1818, Newberry Co., SC that named Wright and James Coats as well as their father's freed slave, Jesse Coats

2.  1802 Deed between brothers Wright and William Coate, Newberry, SC

3.  1807 Sale of William's land witnessed by Wright Coats, Newberry, SC

4.  "Nacodoches--Gateway to Texas"

5.  Descendants of Edward La Velle database

6.  1850 census of Nacogdoches County, TX

7.  Research by Daphne Crose, LaWanda Reider Cook, and Daniel Polignac