Census YR. 1850 State or Territory Alabama, County; Jackson, Division; District # 19 Reel No.  M432-7 Page No. 7A

36  81  81 Cou** James        53    M  Laborer  Tenn.  x
37  81  81  Cou** Joana      48   F      Tenn.     x
38  81  81 Cou**   Thomas     11 M     Ala.
39  81  81   Manda     7  M    Ala.

Note: Manda is a female by the name of Amanda.  the M is a mistake.

Census YR. 1860, June 1st, Stevenson, Jackson County, Al. 
877  878 
 
Thomas  B. Coats   21  TN.  Laborer
Sarah J.  23 F.
Mary M.    1 F.
Jesse  G.    Maxwell  18  M.  Al. Laborer
Cynthia L.    18 F  Ms.
Margaret   E.   3/4  F  Al.

*Note Jesse is brother of Sarah J.

1870 IL., Pope, Township  13 SR 5 East, Rock P.O. STP 436B,12 July, DW 83, FM 83

Coats, Thos B.   W-M-31 Al.   $330/330  Farmer
Sarah I.  W-F- 34  Al.   Keeps House
Mary M.  W-F-11 Al.  At Home
Lucy I. W-F-10 Al.  At Home
Sarah A. W-F-4   IL.  At Home
Paulina V. W-F2 ILL. At Home

*Notes;  Thos's wife Sarah J. must have died.

Thomas remarried in 1878 to Mary  S. Taylor in Pope County, Illinois and they were listed in  the 1880 census  in Hamilton County, Tennessee with all the children. Thomas's marriage license to Mary states his parents as James Coats and Joannah Gay and it also states Thomas's birth place as Hamilton County, Tennessee. Sarah A. and Paulina  V. married  Ford brothers Thomas and Mary were listed in Dade County, Georgia in 1900.

I was looking at the names of the children of William  Coates and Sarah Worrell Coates from Borough of Frankford, Phila. Paulina was my GGrandmother's name, and her sister's name was Sarah. Their father was named Thomas Coates/Coats. Thomas's father's name was James.

The Thomas B. Coates I'm related to is my Ggrandfather b 1839 in Hamilton Co. TN. His parents were James Coates and Joannah Gay. Looks like he may have had two middle names, James Thomas Benjamin Coates. He went by Thomas. He died around 1902. He was in the Cival War, in company E 2nd IL calvary, date of muster March 26, 1864, rank was recruit. He was married twice. His first wife was Sarah and second was Mary Susan Taylor my Ggrandmother. They had a son Charles Franklin Coates my Grandfather. Charles married Ola Mae Kitchens(Kitchings) who had my father Kenneth Franklin Coates

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