"Ancestrees"

Marahelen COATE ^{1 2 3}

  General Notes:

Marahelen and my father, Albert Edward Coate, were quite close. He can remember them washing the dishes together. If they'd have a tif, he would swat her rear with the dish towel and she would flick him with the dish water. As a senior in high school, her parents sent her of a trip to visit her Uncle Robert and Aunt Margaret in Asheville, NC to thank her for helping with the latest infant in their household. There she met Charles Fuller, a relative of her uncle Robert Fuller. They wrote to each other throughout the following year. When Uncle Robert and Aunt Margaret came for a visit to Ohio the following summer they brought Charles Fuller along to test the strength of their friendship. Marahelen and Charles became engaged on this visit in Ohio. When she told her mother, her mother dropped a plate of eggs on the floor in surprise.
Marahelen and Charles married about a year later in the Coate home in Trenton, Ohio. They went to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon and then settled in Asheville, North Carolina. They purchased their home on 87 Winston Ave., Asheville, NC 28803, in 1831 for a very good price due to the fact that they depression was on. Both Charles and Marahelen worked at Sayles Biltmore Bleacheries, a cloth manufacturer, where they had earned the money to buy their home. They lived in this sturdy house their entire adult lives. They moved in 1994 to a retirement condo also in Asheville, North Carolina. She was intelligent, efficient, artistic, and spent a lifetime as a good southern wife. She could cook a delicious meal for a crowd quickly. This is apparently a skill she developed while helping to raise all of her younger brothers and sister. Charles was the dominant one in their marriage for the first few years only. Once she became a confident adult, her strong minded ability to keep things organized came to the forefront. She was able to accomplish more at once than any other person my father knew. She would be frying chicken, sewing apholstery, and working on an oil painting all at the same time. I remember her energy and outgoing, friendly nature. (C-2166)

Marahelen married Charles Wesley FULLER on 7/22/1930. (Charles Wesley FULLER was born on 2/18/1905 and died on 12/6/1998 in Asheville, Buncombe, NC, USA.)