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----Original Message Follows----
From: "Judy Russell" <jrussell2(a)charter.net>
To: <jrussell2(a)charter.net>
Subject: Fw: Bush River inquiry -- Newberry SC and Newberry OH
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:13:36 -0500
To the Friends of the Bush River Quaker Cemetery: Jane Gilbert
jgilbert62(a)yahoo.com has been tracking down some of the Newberry SC families
that moved to Ohio and Indiana, particularly those with Gilbert connections.
She's been looking at the online Census material, especially. She
wrote this morning about some Gilberts, Gaunts, Pearsons, etc that she found
in Miami Co OH. The Rebecca Gilbert listed in the 1870 Census with
children Lydia and Carry is particularly interesting since those names are
repeats of our Gilbert ancestors in the Bush River Cemetery. Rebecca Gauntt
married Thomas Gilbert and Thomas Gilbert's sister Lydia married Israel
Chandler.
Jane homes to hear from anyone researching these families. Below are two
messages from Jane
Thank you...
JudyR
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And check this out. I just discovered this apparent widow and her two
children in Miami County in 1870. This family was not there previous to
1870. Those children's names are too coincidental to not have Newberry
County ties don't you think?
1870 Miami County, OH Federal Census
Rebecca Gilbert Covington, Miami, OH abt 1823 Ohio White Female
Lydia Gilbert Covington, Miami, OH abt 1856 Ohio White Female
Carry Gilbert Covington, Miami, OH abt 1861 Ohio White Male
----- Original Message -----
From: Judy Russell
To: Jane Gilbert
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: Little Newberry
thank you for this. There are several folks on my Bush River Quaker
Cemetery list that are from Ohio and Indiana. If you want to write a note
to our group, just send me what you want and I'll forward it to the group.
jr
----- Original Message -----
From: Jane Gilbert
To: Judy Russell
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 10:34 AM
Subject: Little Newberry
Hi Judy,
Just thought I'd pass this on in case you ever have use for it.
As I'm chasing down these Miami County, OH Gilberts, I've come across
numerous census and tax list records that make Miami County look like a
little Newberry County. This must have been one of the more popular
destinations when people fled SC. You'll notice a lot of familiar names
looking at the 1820 tax list below...
Jane
http://www.tdn-net.com/genealogy/census/1820-mi.htm
G530 |Gauntt, Precious | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | |Monroe Township |76 |
C320 |Coates, Henry |2 |1 | |1 | |1 | |1 |2 | |
|3 | | |Union Township |88 |
I550 |Inman, Ahab |2 |1 |1 |1 |1 | |3 | |1 |1 |
|3 | | |Union Township |88 |
C320 |Coates, Moses |4 |1 |1 |2 | |1 | |1 |1 |1 |1
|4 | | |Union Township |88 |
C320 |Coates, Samuel |4 |1 |1 |2 | |1 |1 |1 |1 |1 |1
|4 | | |Union Township |88 |
W200 |Weeks, Benjamin | | | | | |1 |1 |1 | |1 |
|1 | | |Union Township |88 |
P625 |Pearson, Enoch |1 | | |1 | |1 | |1 | | |1
|2 | | |Monroe Township |77a|
P625 |Pearson, Enoch | | | |2 | |2 | | |1 | |1
|1 | | |Monroe Township |77a|
P625 |Pearson, Jonas | |2 | | | |1 |1 | |1 | |1
|3 | | |Monroe Township |77a|
P625 |Pearson, Benjamin | | | |1 | | |1 | |1 | |
|1 | | |Monroe Township |77a|
P625 |Pearson, Enoch | | | | |1 | | |1 | | |
|1 | | |Monroe Township |77a|
P625 |Pearson, Samuel |2 |3 |1 |1 | |1 | |1 | | |1
|4 | | |Monroe Township |77a|
P625 |Pearson, Thomas |3 |1 |1 |2 | |1 | |1 | |1 |
|4 | | |Monroe Township |77a|
P625 |Pearson, Enoch, Sr. |1 | | |1 | | | |1 |1 | |
|1 | | |Monroe Township |76a|
P625 |Pearson, Noah |1 | |1 |1 |1 | | | |2 | |
|2 | | |Monroe Township |76 |
P625 |Pearson, Powell |1 | | | |1 | |1 | | |1 |
|1 | | |Monroe Township |76 |
P625 |Pearson, Robert | |1 | | |1 | |3 |1 | |1 |
|1 | | |Monroe Township |76 |
P625 |Pearson, Able |1 |4 | |1 | |1 |2 |1 |1 |1 |
|4 | | |Monroe Township |76 |
P625 |Pearson, Jacob |1 | | | |1 | |1 | | |1 |
|1 | | |Monroe Township |75a|
M420 |Miles, Sr., David | | | | | |1 | | | | |1
|1 | | |Newton Township |95a|
M420 |Miles, Jr., David |3 | | |1 | | | | |1 | |
|1 | | |Newton Township |96 |
I550 |Inman, Asa |1 |1 | | |1 | |2 |1 | |1 |
|2 | | |Newton Township |96 |
I550 |Inman, Eli | | | |1 | | |1 | |1 | |
|1 | | |Newton Township |96 |
M420 |Miles, William |2 | | | |1 | |2 | | |1 |
|1 | | |Newton Township |96 |
I550 |Inman, George | | |1 |1 | | | | |1 | |
|1 | | |Newton Township |96 |
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I've been looking at William Coates of Davidson Co., TN. His Revolutionary
War Pension application is up on Heritagequest.com and the dates of his
death or his wife's do not match up with the Austin Coates family
bible. I suspect that the Pension application would be more first hand
and more accurate. Ex. Susannah goes before a judge to request that her
husband's pension be extended to her now that she's a widow. This document
is dated Nov. 8, 1845, nine months after the bible record lists her death
date. She lists her husbands death date as Oct. 6, 1844. Any thoughts
on this for whomever has this line? Also, do we have DNA evidence from
this branch of the family?
LINDA COATE,
Columbus, Ohio
lcoate(a)ancestrees.com
www.ancestrees.com
hmmm, most interesting....are you for sure it is Wm and Susannah .... as I
recall they were in Sumner County TN and there is another William living
with them later in life?
But I would be more inclined to take the Pension file info, since that is
usually first hand info....most interesting...
Char
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Linda J. Coate" <lcoate(a)ancestrees.com>
To: COATES-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [COATES-L] William and Susannah Dismukes Coates
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:57:39 -0500
I've been looking at William Coates of Davidson Co., TN. His Revolutionary
War Pension application is up on Heritagequest.com and the dates of his
death or his wife's do not match up with the Austin Coates family bible. I
suspect that the Pension application would be more first hand and more
accurate. Ex. Susannah goes before a judge to request that her husband's
pension be extended to her now that she's a widow. This document is dated
Nov. 8, 1845, nine months after the bible record lists her death date. She
lists her husbands death date as Oct. 6, 1844. Any thoughts on this for
whomever has this line? Also, do we have DNA evidence from this branch of
the family?
LINDA COATE,
Columbus, Ohio
lcoate(a)ancestrees.com
www.ancestrees.com
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This was all I got back on John Hickman from the DAR
HICKMAN, John
Birth: SC Circa 1750
Service: SC
Rank: Matr
Death: SC 1802
Patriot Pensioned: No Widow Pensioned: No
Children Pensioned: No Heirs Pensioned: No
Spouse: (1) Elizabeth Bright
----Original Message Follows----
From: Leah Prescott <leah.prescott(a)MYSTICSEAPORT.ORG>
Reply-To: Leah Prescott <leah.prescott(a)MYSTICSEAPORT.ORG>
To: ARCHIVES(a)LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: [ARCHIVES] Online Digitized Archives
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:48:23 -0500
Mystic Seaport has approximately 300,000 pages of digital images online -
many of our manuscript collections date before 1877. An example of one of
those collections is our Andrew T. Judson Collection
(http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/manuscripts/coll/coll247/coll247.cfm)
- Judson was one of the first judges in the Amistad trials. To see a list
of everything available online, go to:
http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/initiative/MsList.cfm
Leah Prescott
Manuscripts and Archives Librarian
Collections Information Technology Coordinator
MYSTIC SEAPORT
The Museum of America and the Sea
G.W. Blunt White Library
75 Greenmanville Avenue
PO Box 6000
Mystic CT 06355-0990
tel: 860.572.0711 x5263
fax: 860.572.5394
leah.prescott(a)mysticseaport.org
http://www.mysticseaport.org <http://www.mysticseaport.org/>
We have had another $25.00 donation to our general fund, so now the total is
$51.09...below is a link to the Coats DNA project public page at FTDNA...on
the left hand side at the bottom you will see a link for contributing to the
Coats DNA projects general fund....I have closed the PayPal account so in
the future you will need to make a donation to our Surname project via this
link...
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/coats/
You will also notice on this page is our DNA results, this is only the kit
number and last name of the participant....the real info page for your DNA
project is still on the DNA page in the Coats archive...
Any questions email me....
Char
Nashville Tennessee (To W C Mallicoat)
Dec 13th 1862
Most Effectinate Brother
I one time more in life embrase the oppertunity of addressing you by letter.
It
has bin some time sins I have hered from you till today I luckeyly came a
crop
one of your old acquantense to drill Capt Herell of the Tennessee Cavelry I
was
very glad to here from you, that is I was glad to learn of your being well
Tho I
was very much supprised to learn of you being a Trater to your country And
to
all that is sencure Brother I realy thought that you mite have looked back
only
so fairas your grandfather and saw the liberty that he fought for The
liberty
that I and you have appreciated That was handed down to us by our fore
fathers
and which people has bin the most presperous of any nation or people on
Earth
Brother I do not wish to hert your feelings in the least but William rather
than
I rebell a ganst the government that was or everwill be and the only
goverment
whar by man was free I would have my right arm severed from my body ya no
that I
will loase the last drop hearts blued for to mantain the liberty and freedom
that we have so much appreciated William I will simply let you no what kind
of a
politician and soldier man I am In the 1st place I am a Washington democrat
from the fact it was by him or rather through his generalship that we have
been
a republic goverment and in the 2nd place I am a Jefferson and Materson for
they
was for caring out the constitution that was formed by Washington and others
which you may see planly in the constitution of the United States of America
but
not in any constitution that the so called confederey might adopt for we are
convinced that they could not better the old constitution and in the 3rd
place I
am a Jackson man from the fact that he was for the maintence of law and
liberty
and when South Carolina made an attempt to seperate from the government in
the
time of his admanerstation he replied in these words if they dont come back
by
the eternal I will bring them back and when they saw that the old general
was in
ernest they soon drew on and if we have of Had a Jackson instead of the
rebel
Buchanon there would not have bin a rebellion As you and every man can
planely
see and according to scripture a house divided among it self could not stand
and
a Kingdom or Nation that is divided against it self should not stand their
fore
I and every one that can see an inch from his nose could see better than to
go
with the South in her rebellion or even sympathise with a set of traiters to
the
interest of all that was sencere Well William I understand that you are
against
your government which I term as a traiter I am truly sorry to think as here
of
your being a rebel but I understand that you have come home and taken the
oath
of allegience to the government which every man owes to the government Let
me
tell you I was one of the first man in Greene county to defend the old
constitution by public speeches and in the 2nd place I was one of the first
to
valenteer in the defense of the government I valenteer in 1861 and was
discharged on account of disibility and I became stout and I reinlisted into
the
service again I now belong to the 2nd ?(Mipward) Light Artilery Battery I J
have
been in the last service about twelve monts I have (?more) years to serve
yet
that is if I live to serve the time Tho I dont no (?that) I thik that the
rebels want last another year Well William now you have taken the oath let
me
give you one word of advice live up to it This is the advice I gave brother
Mory and he said he would stand to his oath Well he kept it about 6 months
and
the rebels got the power and he acted the fool and went off with the rebels
and
was caught driving union men cattle and was taken prisoner and was sent to
St
Louis and died their 3 of his boys went in to the rebel service and they
have
met the same or similar fate Daniel and all of brother in laws is strong
union
men tho not in the services I got a letter from my family yesterday they
are
all well and in fine health I weigh 185 lbs and all right William I want
you to
write me a letter if you please Direct it thus S A J Mallicoat 72 attery 5
2ndMo
Light Art I remain as ever your brother thill death
Farwell S A J Mallicoat
Patricia Ann Coats Hanrahan
Daughter of Gene & Pearl Coats
Growing up on a farm was a interesting, sometimes boring, hard
working time.
I remember doing laundry in a old shed, cranking clothes, putting
them in tubs of hot and cold water, standing at the clothes line on a
chair to hang them up. Another use for our clothes lines was my
brother Kirk hanging up a possum by his tail, dad brought it home from
the field. Dad, was a unique character, he had a great love for
animals. One time he saw a stray dog (just a pup) and he drove into
the field 40 miles an hour via the deep country ditch (it didn't matter
there were icey roads, mud, rain, etc., when he seen something he went
for it). When we ran the dog down, the dog ran under the truck & my
dad was on his hands & knees yelling, here doggie, and we had a new
pet. However, animals must behave & when our mixed breed Collie
started eating chickens, dad got even, he took a dead chicken and
soaked him in oil and hung it around "Pooties" neck. That was the end
of chicken stealing. We were the proud family of many new members,
skunks, rabbits, possums, cats, dogs, etc.
One time Dad said "Buggy Ann" (my pet name, dad had us all named
something), get in the truck and he told 2 dogs to get in the back of
the pickup. We drove to the field and he sent the dogs out to the
field. He got a gun and shot both and killed them. He said they
killed some chickens. "Pootie" just got lucky.
Dad also picked up kids. We usually had some extra boys around.
We got Billy from Montana when he went custom combing and he became a
member. Cousin Therrol came every summer from Los Angeles, Calif., boy
were we impressed with him. He was the neatest member. He told us
country kids the way it was in the city. We heard his tales of movie
stars, flying fish in the ocean and we loved it. His friends were
Korean, Italian, etc., and we just couldn't imagine it in dear old
Plains, we just had white folks. My dad encouraged Therrol and the
stories got bigger every year. Therrol was a chip off the Coats block.
My uncle Kyle and dad use to entertain us with stories. Kyle was
nicknamed "Doc", I never really knew why, but I think he was a Medic in
the Army and I grew up thinking he knew alot about medicine. He & dad
would keep us laughing.
My friends loved dad. He died at 46, but he lived a full life.
He never really grew up. We had a airplane and a motorcycle. He took
my girlfriends for rides and flew upside down (he loved to scare them).
He was always searching for excitement.
You learned at a early age to mind him, he would knock you silly
for anything, thump you on the head, five you a "Dutch rub", pinch your
leg, pull your ears. He lost 2 fingers & thumb on his right hand,
grandma Coats told me it was because he & a friend was playing with
Dynamite caps in a cave.
One time my cousin John, Kirk and I went looking for entertainment
in the barn, we jumped from one bin to another and mixed dad's seed
wheat. He was ferrous and we all got spanked. My cousin John was
always getting Kirk and I in trouble. One time he forced us into going
to Mrs. Timberlakes house and picking flowers, it started out OK, but
John got crazy and started pulling them up and throwing them around.
(He was a mean little sucker). I'm sure his side of this story is
different. (Since I (John Staples) am typing these stories for my
mothers book, I will set the record straight on this event. Pat, was 2
years older than me and 4 years older than Kirk and you the reader can
easily figure out who would have been the ring leader of our gang.)
My brother Kirk was a quiet little kid, but his idea of a good
time and my dad's idea of him having a good time just didn't match.
One time Kirk turned on a faucet on a tank and was playing in gas.
This was during the time of rations. This created a great deal of
yelling and crying. I am sure Kirk remembers it.
I, Neva Maxene Coats, was born May 5, 1913 at our farm home, 3
miles south and 1/2 mile east of Raymond, Ks. My folds were Samuel
Porter and Josie Belle Jones Coats.
I went to all my school years, grade and high school 2 years at
the Raymond Schools. We had ducks and geese and as water stood in
yard, they had good swimming and I waded with them. Mom would have us
bring her the geese to the Chicken house and she would pick the goose
down as she made pillows and feather beds. She gave all her children
and grandchildren feather pillows.
I had 3 brothers, Lawrence, Kyle and Eugene and 2 sisters, Faye
and Irene.
Mom started me to school when I was 5 as 2 other girls started
at 5. One day at school, I was told to go to brother Gene as he and
another boy, Carl Nielson, had built a cave close to school and at
recess would go play there. They had found some dynamite caps on
leather pieces and as they wanted a light in the cave. They had a
light for a few seconds as Gene held the cap in his finger and thumb
and it blew them off and pieces found their arms and faces. I held his
arm to take him to the doctor and helped the doctor clean up his hand.
We 3 youngest ones always wanted to see what the oldest ones
were doing, so Gene, Kyle and I would watch around the corners while
eating our peanutbutter and jelly bread so we had dirty faces and the
gals tried to scare us away. When Faye and Irene came home from dates,
they would always use me to warm their feet on. When they brought home
other gals, I wound up at the foot of the bed. Our room was off the
kitchen and porch and rest of house, we always said "Down Yunder" for
our room.
One time, high water from the Arkansas River came down the road
and we had to hurry and leave home. We were ready to eat supper and
when we got back, we kidded Irene and told her, her gravy sure got
stiff. Mom was helping us clean our clothes closet and there was a
railing around it and a snake was on the railing. She just said get me
the hoe and that was last of the snake. Dads wheat crop was ruined as
water stayed on it so long.
One time, Dad had Irene and Faye in car and as had 2 gates on
farm drive, when he stopped for one to open the gate and as Irene
couldn't get it shut, Faye got out to help her and when heard door
shut, he drove on and when stopped at the next gate, no one got out to
open it, so he looked in back and no one there - He went back to get
them. One time Faye went to take her teaspoon of medicine, she picked
up the bottle of iodine instead of her medicine, Mom ran to get the car
out of barn and told Faye to go back and swallow a raw egg or a cup of
lard, Faye took both, said later she didn't know how she had taken
them. Mom got her to doctor and he said what she had taken had saved
her throat.
We would go to town on Saturday nights and my friends and I
would walk around our 2 blocks of Main street. Of course looking for
boys. No shows or anything else for excitement.
After Grandma, Calista Stewart Jones divorce, she took her name
Stewart again. We always liked to go to her house. She had an organ
and I now wonder how she ever put up with all the noise we made playing
on the organ, of course we got sent outside to play.
We liked to have Mom drive as she drove the old Hupmobile
faster than Dad. One time Mom got up quick after nap to come the 3 1/2
miles to get us from school and she didn't look down the railroad
tracks and she hit the handcar and knocked it off the tracks.
One time we went to Baptist Church to revival meeting and when
came out to go home, Dad had to crank the car to get it started and
crank flew off and hit Dad above eye and cut gash, but Dad wouldn't let
Mom drive, even as blood was running down his face and as went over the
railroad tracks, train was coming and us kids looked and as we got over
the tracks, train went by. Some scared kids.
We did our share of going to other towns playing basketball, as
had boys and girls teams. Sometime we had to ride in the rumble seats
as we called 'em.
One time our landlord, Mr. Flagg, came by and admired our new
gate at house and of course Kyle told him, "yes, had to make new one
larger so Neva could get through".
Once, when a young girl, I was staying with Uncle Neil and Aunt
Clara and cousin Evalena Haynes, at Turon, Ks., Evalena took me riding
on the horse and the horse caught his leg in wire and started to buck
and off I went into a sand pile. Evalena got horse stopped and was
scared to come see if I was hurt. I was setting up laughing as was
funny to me but not to her.
Kyle was the skiney one and was called Skiney Coats, Gene was
called Bikus Coats to everyone at Raymond, but sure told us not to call
him that out here at Plains.
Uncle Walter and Uncle Ira Coats lived at Plains, so Dad moved
us out here in 1930. We lived 5 miles East of Plains across the corner
from the Berghouse farm. Now, one would never know a farm home had
ever been there. I attended my Junior year of High School at Plains.
I married Charles Jay Staples Sept. 2, 1931 and we lived in
Plains rest of the time.
Son Charles Jimmy was born on Nov. 1, 1932 at farm home of
Samuel Porter Coats east of Plains. In 1935, the dirt storms were bad
and son Jim and his cousin Therrol Elliott came running from the north,
we knew something was wrong and when looked there was black clouds
following them, my, it was bad dirt storm. There were times when dirt
so bad, had to put damp wash cloth over Jims face as he slept. At the
meal time, you hurried and cleaned table and get ready for a meal and
when through eating, table was covered with dust. As for cleaning the
house, we would wait until storm was over and then get out the sweeper
and get at it. Out North, where folks lived, the fence rows were about
covered and could walk over the fence. When one turned on light, it
still didn't do much good as the dust so thick. Talk about bad times,
to us those were bad times.
Son John Porter was born Dec. 3, 1939 in the same home we now
live in. Dad had died in March of same year.
Charles had a major heart attact in 1963. Off work for a year,
in hospital 3 weeks. Dr. Orrison said if he made it, he would have a
better heart than before.
We have lived here all but a while we lived in Calif. until war
broke out. Pearl Harbor, I was at show with Jim and John and Therrol
Elliott when came out and to the market where Faye worked, they told us
the news. Charles was working at a plant, Douglas Aircraft in Santa
Monica, Calif. He told them he had obligations at home, so they let
him out of his job.
Charles farmed with Dad, Gene and Kyle. Kyle went to war, Gene
didn't on account of his last finger and thumb. Charles stayed and
farmed.
We hope all who read these pages will enjoy learning all we
have worked for and know it has taken work, money and time to get it
this far and maybe someone in years to come can take it on back to our
first ancestors.
In our search for our Coats Ancestors, we went to Missouri,
where we stayed at Charles brothers, Dorsey and Ruby Staples in
Greenfield, Mo. They knew the country, so a lot of our thanks to them
for the cemeteries we had to go to, to find so much. The one older
ancestor, Elizabeth Coats, we finally found after alot of hunting and
looking, was buried on Coats land and known as Coats Cemetery. The
stones were mostly gone and just very few still standing. I had all
our families, Dorsey and Ruby, Rick Coats and a cousin, Dorothia
Robinson, with sticks with points trying to find a stone and after we
left, Dorothia found the large slab we sat on and all - they turned it
over and her name was on it. In Mo., they would say if I had red hair,
heart trouble and a Baptist, then I was related to the Missouri Coats.
Charles & I, with Kirk & Kathy Coats in their new Winnebago Motor
Home, left Plains on May 20, 1984 -- went through Missouri, part of
Kentucky into Nashville & stayed at Lebanon, Tennessee. On 21st, we
went to Shelbyville, Tenn. to visit relatives on Wilson Coats side.
She was Virginia Cathy and she called her brother Marvin Simmons to
come and he could tell us a lot about Wilson W. Coats. Marvin also
took us next day to the Cemetery & found graves. Also showed us where
they lived & their land. Went to court house & library.
We stayed in Cleveland, Tenn. and found the Cemetery where brother
Lawrence H. Coats was buried but no one could help us find his grave.
On 24th, we drove to Greenville, Tenn., where we found the
Ebenezor Church & Cemetery where our first Henry Earnest & wife are
buried. A grandson had put up new stones as others quite old. Got to
see Henry Earnest's first Fort House built in 1777 & land which was
granted to him by State of North Carolina for his service in Revolution
War. We also saw house of his son Felix Earnest where a descendent of
his still lives.
Then 6 miles S.E. of Greenville the old Bethesoa Methodist Church
built in 1884, the older one was established in 1792. In the Harrison
Cemetery we found stone of Isaiah Harrison, born 1762, died 1848 (wife
Elizabeth died 1838). We drove by old home place where the middle of
house where they left the one side of the log cabin and built the rest
of house around the cabin. They were not at home, so didn't get to see
inside.
On the 27th, we were at Nashville, where Kirk & Kathy took us to
dinner as was Charles' birthday. He had waitress fix up small cake
with olives for eyes, lemon sticks for eyebrows, candle at nose &
orange half slice for mouth. 3 gals sang "Happy Birthday" to Charles.
Sure nice trip from Kirk & Kathy Coats.
We celebrated our 50th wedding ann. Now have 7 grandkids and 7
Great Grandkids. Its been a good life most of the time and have
enjoyed the years of working on the family histories and now thanks to
son John, we can see our work into a book for all to read and enjoy it.
Thanks so very much to John and Shirley Staples.
Neva Maxene Coats Staples
How We Came to be Here - By Mansel Coats
About the year of 1807, in the State of North Carolina; which
now is probably a part of Tennessee, a baby boy was born. This boy was
James Coats. We do not know for sure who his parents were. We do know
that he had a sister named Sally who visited here. The first official
record we have of James Coats is the 1830 census record of Bedford
County, Tenn. He was listed as head of household with wife and one
son. The minutes of the Mt. Herman Baptist Church in Bedford County,
Tennessee, January 9, 1830, show James and Elizabeth (Hart) Coats on
the first membership list.
On December 16, 1820 in Bedford County, Tennessee, another baby
boy was born. His name was William Jasper Morris. His parents were
Samuel and Mary (Saint) Morris. William Jasper Morris and James Coats
married sisters. James Coats married Elizabeth Hart (Tennessee, 1812)
and Jasper Morris married Agnes R. Hart. Sometime in the year of 1846,
James Coats and Jasper Morris decided to leave Tennessee. Now, we have
to use our imagination as to the reason for their decision. There are
several things we can think of. Perhaps, as along the eastern coast,
the soil soon became depleted and would not produce good crops. They
could sell their land in Tennessee and homestead land west of the
Mississippi. Or maybe, they were like the old bear and just wanted to
see what was on the other side of the mountain. Anyway, they loaded
their possessions, probably in covered wagons drawn by ox team, and
began their part of the westward movement of this nation. The fact
that at this time James and Elizabeth had 10 children, ranging in age
from 3 to 18 years, with another on the way, evokes our strongest
admiration for their courage. Jasper Morris and Agnes had two children
and she was also pregnant. No doubt at times there were more wagons
traveling with them. It is impossible for us to imagine the hardship
and pain experienced by these brave people. Interstate 40 was merely a
path through the fields sometimes perhaps completely obscured. Ramada
Inn was probably a grove of trees with a clear flowing spring
alongside. There were not many trees in Missouri in those days so
shade or fire wood was not everywhere available as it might be today.
The "Stop and Shop" or the "Git and Go" was more like "There goes a
rabbit or a deer--git it!" No doubt, hunger was a common experience
in those days! Weight watchers probably would not have been very
popular 130 years ago. Corn meal to make bread, maybe some cured meat,
dried fruits and beans probably made up most of their diet. Perhaps,
the family cow traveled with them.
September 15, 1846, on the Kentucky side of the Mississippi,
Agnes (Hart) Morris gave birth to a baby girl whom she named Mary.
They crossed the Mighty Miss (we don't know how) and traveled westward
to the Texas-Dent County area where tragedy struck the little wagon
train. Agnes Morris died. She was buried in the Pigeon Creek Cemetery
in the eastern part of Texas Co. James and Elizabeth Coats cared for
the Morris children until Jasper remarried and had a home for them.
Elizabeth gave birth to Thomas Coats Dec. 24 of that year and it has
been told that she nursed both babies. We do not know the exact date of
Agnes' death or how Mary was cared for until Tom was born! REMEMBER!
There were no corner drug stores with an ever ready supply of similac
or playtex nursers! No pampers, either!
Now, a decision that has shaped all our destinies! Why did
James Coats decide to stay in Texas County? He traveled to about the
center of the county to a spot where three rivers embraced a fertile
valley. No doubt Little Piney, Hamilton Creek and Possum Creek had a
lot to do with his decision! Although surface water was far more
plentiful then than it is today, we must remember that springs and
rivers were their only source. No wells or Public water Supplies to
connect to! Probably the turn of the season was the main factor,
however, Winter was near and they needed shelter. We have been told
that James Coats was an expert with a broad-ax so with the help of John
Henry and William who were 18 and 17 years old in 1846, a log cabin was
quickly constructed. Could they cut the logs, hue them, notch and join
the logs and get the cracks all chinked, say during the month of
October? We don't know whether James Coats wanted to travel farther
and circumstances made it impossible or whether he saw this valley and
said, "This is just what I've been looking for -- I need travel no
farther," we don't know. Perhaps an easy decision for James Coats, but
what a determining factor for the lives of some 3 or 4 thousand
descendants! And 400 miles was a good trip for one summer!
What did they eat that first winter? The closest grocery store
was at Rolla and a horse was their only means of transportation! And,
how does this grab you--grocery list for a family of 12--gun powder and
salt! Wild animals, turkeys and fish were plentiful. There was wild
blue-stem for their animals. Their farming implements included a
wooden plow and scythe. They probably had some homemade hoes and a
pitch fork made from a tree limb with three forks for tines. Again,
this was just a bit over 100 years ago--right here!
One of the first things James Coats did, after building his own
home, was to build a log cabin for a school. He couldn't read or write
and he realized what a handicap it was, so he wanted to make sure his
children had a chance to learn. This building was constructed about
the center of the present cemetery.
James Coats and wife were charter members of the First Baptist
Church organized in Texas County. This church was organized in 1847 in
the Hog Creek area by Michael Killion, D. Lynch and others. Having no
building, they met in homes until James Coats suggested they use the
log cabin he had built for a school. This cabin was used for church
until about 1882, when the church that stands now was built. A frame
school building was built joining the cemetery on the North. It was
used for school purposes until 1908, when the present school south of
the church was built. Jasper Morris was one of the first preachers at
Union Church.
In 1846 or '47, James Crawford and Cammaliza Forrester were
married in Harlan County, Kentucky. Our next record of the Crawford
family is about 1858, while living near St. Joe, Mo., when James
Crawford died leaving Cammaliza with 6 children. Cammaliza had a
brother Wesley Henderson Forrester who lived near Bado, Mo. (Dillard
Reaves farm). Soon after James Crawford died, Cammaliza and children
came to live with her brother, Wesley. About this time Elizabeth Coats
also died leaving several small children.
We do not know when James and Cammaliza first met, but the
story has been told that being very proper people, James rode up to the
fence and proposed to Cammaliza as she stood on the porch. Was it love
at first sight or a marriage of convenience? Imagine, holidays with
all the kids home! Ten of the older set of Coatses, six Crawfords and
six of the younger Coatses - and all in a two room log cabin! We
wonder if they were ever all under the same roof at the same time and
to complicate things even more, there were nephews and nieces older
than aunts and uncles!
James Coats died May 1, 1893 from pneumonia. He had fathered
20 children, 16 lived to raise families, raised 6 step children and had
cared for 3 of Jasper Morris' children, who were his first wife's
sisters children. Cammeliza lived until September 28, 1921. Although
she visited from time to time with other children, she made her home
with son, Asa on the farm homesteaded by James. Mansel tells about his
memories of Grandmother Cammaliza with whom he lived for twenty years.
She spent her time knitting, spinning, cutting and tacking carpet rags,
shelling beans, processing food. Cammaliza smoked a pipe so one of her
main chores each summer was to raise enough tobacco. She would
cultivate and keep the worms off the plants, then cut and hang it in
the smoke house to dry. On a damp day in the fall when the tobacco had
"come in case" (become tough enough to work) she would strip it (remove
the stems) and twist it. She smoked little clay pipes which were
purchased without a stem. Stems for their pipes were made from the
ends of cane fishing poles. She sat by the fireplace, in which she kept
a fire all year long to keep her pipe lit.
Mansel remembers the day in 1918 when WWI ended and everyone
was celebrating, shooting, blowing horns, etc. Cammeliza ask for Asa's
gun and blew the barrel as good as any man. Once she was out in the
garden cutting weeds with a butcher knife when she came upon a
copperhead. She didn't yell for help. She cut that snake into with
her butcher knife! She attended church at Union regularly. Once
preacher Hicks, trying to be a gentleman, asked if he could help her up
the steps. She told him "No", and said later that if he had tried to
help her she would have "caned him". (She was walking with a cane). A
very independent soul, evidently!
Mansel said she would not eat flour bread. She had cornbread
three times a day often with molasses and coffee. When she ran out of
coffee, she would parch wheat and grind it to make a substitute for
coffee. Dried foods were a main part of their diet. Cammaliza dried
pumpkin by cutting it into rings and hanging it near the fireplace.
Later they cooked it to make pumpkin pudding. She made her own
molasses which was their main sweetner. They often cooked apples in
the boiling molasses.
She made all the soap they had by saving ashes from oak wood.
In the spring, she would start pouring water over the ashes in the ash
hopper. When the water soaked through the ashes, it would become lye
which was caught in a stone jar. When she had 3 or 4 gallon of lye,
she would pour it into an iron kettle and start boiling it. To this
she would add skin, bones and old lard as long as the lye would eat it.
This would make the soap soft. It also would take the dirt off your
hands, and some of the hide if you didn't rinse well.
The years 1860 to 1864; the years of the civil war; were trying
for our family. This section of the country was overrun by Southern,
Northern troops, and Bushwackers. Grandfather would hide in the woods
and caves to escape their wrath. One morning as she was cooking
breakfast, the house was invaded by Union soldiers. As fast as she got
anything cooked, they ate it. Her children didn't get anything to eat
until late afternoon.
Our ancestors were self sufficient. Grandmother made all the
clothes and even the shoes for the family. She raised cotton, carded
and spun the cotton into thread for the warp of the cloth. She sheared
sheep, carded and spun the wool. She tanned leather and made their
shoes, using pegs made from hard maple for the tacks. One year it
snowed before she had finished the shoes for my Father. He tied chips
on his feet so he could carry in the wood.
At night, their only light came from the fireplace or from
candles made from tallow and the wick from cotton.
This was the way of life for our ancestors. These are the
things, along with countless others, that I remember my Grandmother,
Cammaliza Forrester Crawford Coats telling me. These memories are
homebred and homespun. We need to remember the hardships our family
endured, the roughness of the frontier, how they journeyed to this very
place we are today. Here they lived, died, and are buried, leaving a
heritage for us to remember. The knowledge of their way of life has
been passed on to us, generation to generation. Many of James Coats'
descendants live in great cities today. What does it matter that
progress of today was unknown to him? What better is our life than
his? He had his pleasure. His world was as beautiful to him as ours is
to us. There was joy to him in beholding the wild creatures that lived
here in this lonely place.
I hope these remarks will help us all to fully appreciate our
ancestors - their strength of mind and character. Someone has aptly
said, "Those who do not treasure up the memory of their ancestors, do
not deserve to be remembered in their posterity." May the Coats-
Crawford clan always remember that our "root are good".
Read at the Coats-Crawford Reunion by Alice Crawford 1982.
WHEN IT ALL HAPPENED
1807 - James Coats born in North Carolina. Although a possible list of
his family has been printed on a previous paper we have given you, we
still do not have all the facts necessary to say beyond doubt that the
James Coats on that census record is our James Coats.
1812 - Elizabeth (Hart) Coats born in Tennessee.
1827 - Cammaliza Forrester Crawford Coats was born in Harlan County,
Kentucky. Probably, James Crawford was born about this time.
1828 - John Henry Coats born (Oct. 25, -April 9, 1901) Elizabeth 16
yrs.
1829 - William Coats born (1829 - June 7, 1913)
1830 - Census records in Bedford County, Tennessee, list James Coats as
the head of a household with wife and one son.
1830 - The minutes of the Mt. Herman Baptist Church in Bedford County,
Tennessee, show that on January 9, of that year James Coats and wife
Elizabeth were listed with the first membership.
1831 - Polly Ann Coats (Hughes) born.
1831 - Nancy Coats (Noblin) born.
1836 - James C. (Denny) Coats born. (Jan. 25, 1836-Jan 14, 1900
1837 - Sarah Coats (Fielden) born. (April 25, 1837-Sept. 27,1917
- Catherine Coats (Died young)
1841 - Wilson Coats born - died about 1875
- Aga or Ada Coats born. Died young.
1843 - Betsy Jane Coats (Smyer) (Nov. 25, 1843 - 1936)
1846 - Began journey to Missouri. James and Cammaliza Crawford
married.
1846 - Thomas B. Coats born. (Dec. 24, 1846 - Sept. 17, 1926) First in
Missouri.
1847 - School built - log building in center of cemetery.
1847 - First Baptist Church organized in County. Met in Hog Creek area
- later held services in Union School building.
- Tabitha Coats. Died young.
1854 - Payton Coats born. (June 4, 1854 - Oct. 17, 1932)
(Crawford Children)
1849 - Sarah born (April 28, 1849 - )
1851 - Marshall born. (Oct. 2, 1851 - Feb. 15, 1937)
1853 - Elbert Crawford born. (May 23, 1853 - June 4, 1944)
1854 - Euelle (Eude) Crawford born. (July 15, 1854 - )
1856 - Thomas G. born. (June 15, 1856 - 1936)
1857 - George W. Crawford born. (August 16, 1857 - )
1858 - James Crawford died - also Elizabeth Coats died about this time.
1860 - James Coats married Cammaliza Forrester Crawford who came to
Texas County to be near her brother, Wesley.
1861 - Marcus Durell (Dell) Coats was born. (May 22, 1861 - April 21,
1952)
1863 - Asa Clayton Coats born. (Dec. 18, 1863 - May 3, 1958)
1865 - Cordelia Coats Herrington born. (July 7, 1865 - )
1867 - Camma Coats Wallace born. (March 13, 1867 - 1898)
1870 - Francis Hill Coats Cleaver born. (Sept. 6, 1870 - Jan 31, 1970)
1873 - Wesley B. Coats born. (Oct. 25, 1873 - Oct. 22, 1964)
1893 - James Coats died from pneumonia. (May 1, 1893)
1882 - Present Church building constructed.
1908 - Present School built.
1921 - Cammaliza Forrester Crawford Coats died.
COATS REUNION (Aug. 17, 1978)
William Henry and Martha Coats came to No Man's Land in 1887,
homesteaded two miles east of what is now Tyrone, Okla., and raised
their family there. Their descendants gathered together August 5th and
6th for a family reunion at the Mary Frame Park building in Liberal.
The oldest person present was the youngest daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Coats, Mrs. Elsie Coats Hoover, who was 88 years old in July. The
youngest person present was Mrs. Hoover's great-granddaughter, Leslie
Rose Burns, who was eight weeks old.
Saturday was spent visiting with family members they had not seen
in some time and getting acquainted with new family members, and also
in viewing old photographs and news clippings.
Saturday night there was a varied program with music and talks.
Especially enjoyed by old and young alike was a duet with the Rev.
Dorton Coats playing the guitar and his wife, Helen, playing cow Bells.
The group had their own worship service Sunday morning with Rev.
Dorton Coats, grandson, of the W.H. Coats, as pastor and the Royalheirs
furnishing the music. Two of the Royalheirs, Steve and Dave Davis, are
great-grandsons of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Coats.
Special guests on Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. Clyatt Manuel,
Venice, Calif.; Mrs. Irene Coats Lang, Wichita; Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Staples, and Mr. and Mrs. Terry Coats, Troy, Wesley, Tracy and Tammy of
Plains, who are all descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Benton Coats.
Tom Coats was a brother of W.H. Coats.
A special guest on Sunday was Glenn Cain of Tyrone, who is a
grandson of Sam Dotson, brother of Mrs. W.H. Coats.
Others present were: Mrs. Elsie Coats Hoover, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
Hoover, Gloria and Clayton, and Mrs. Yvonne Albright of Tyrone. Mr.
and Mrs. Leslie Coats, Shawnee, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Coats,
Winslow, Ark.; Mr. and Mrs. Jearl Roach, Pasadena, Texas; Mrs. Beverlee
Leich, Henry Lee, and Christie Gale, Cresson, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. John
Anderson and Matthew, Collinsville, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Donald Coats,
Mrs. Rena Warner, Mrs. Barbara Fricke, Kennedy and Kortney, Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Coats and Dena, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hudsonpillar, Mr. and
Mrs. Gary Coats, Toni, Marty and Jason, all of Ponca City, Okla. Bill
Coats, Story, Ark.; Mrs. Pauline Coats and Cindi, Shidlar, Okla.; Mr.
and Mrs. A.W. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. William Bulls, Boise City, Okla.; Mr.
and Mrs. Keith Mock and Cindy, Clayton, N.M. Mr. and Mrs. Don Coats
and family, Walnut, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Coats and family,
Tulsa, Okla.; Mrs. Sherry Burns, Sara, Cathy and Leslie, Kansas City,
Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. Royce Grant and Kenda, Len Herndon, Steve Davis and
Dave Davis, all of Amarillo, Texas. Mrs. Nita Woodward and Bill,
Baker, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs Bill Brown, Lee and Billy, Miss Jacqueline
Faye Weeke of Satanta; the Rev. and Mrs. Dorton Coats, Gem, Kan.; Mr.
and Mrs. C.L. Davis, Stephanie and Jeremy, Holcomb, Kan.; Mr. and Mrs.
Horace Malin, Mrs. Flora Hampton and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Davis, Liberal.
Washington D. Coats, a prominent tiller of the soil of Jackson
Township, who resides half a mile from Sharon Station, was born in
Henry County, Tenn., September 30, 1825, emigrating to Missouri with
his parents in the fall of 1833, and settling in what is now Polk
County. He is the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Coats) Coats
(cousins), both natives of Tennessee, and born in 1795 and 1800
respectively. They were married about 1819, and afterward moved to
West Tennessee, where they remained until 1833, when they settled in
what is now Polk County, Mo. He followed farming in that county, and
in 1859 took a herd of cattle of about fifty head to California. He
died in that State in 1862. The mother died on the old home place June
30, 1870. They were the parents of eight children, four now living.
Washington D. Coats attained his growth in Polk County, and was married
in that county in 1849, to Miss Matilda Rook, a native of Tennessee,
born in 1832, and who came to Missouri with her parents at an early
age. After marriage Mr. Coats followed agricultural pursuits until the
breaking out of the was, when he enlisted in Company H, Phelps'
Regiment Missouri Infantry Volunteers, and served six months, and was
mustered out in May, 1862. During his time of service he was in the
battle of Pea Ridge. He enlisted in the Enrolled Militia, Company I,
in 1862, serving six months, at which time the company was disbanded.
He afterward served four months under Lieut. Roberts at Bolivar. After
the war he returned home and engaged in farming. He is post commander
of Phil. Sheridan Post No. 398, G. A. R. and is also a member of the
Baptist Church. To his marriage were born twelve children: Newton
Marion, William Henry, Thomas B., James A., Rebecca E., now Mrs. Neil;
Mary, now Mrs. Patterson; Frantz S., Abraham L., John W., Edward S.,
Sarah E., now Mrs. Slatter; and Charley C. Mrs. Coats is also a member
of the Baptist Church. Mr. Coats is a well-read man, and takes great
interest in educational matters. The paternal grandfather of our
subject, Benjamin W. Coats, was born in Virginia, and died in Tennessee
about 1840. His wife died about 1847. The maternal grandfather was
probably born in Virginia, and died in Tennessee about 1835, and his
wife in 1840.
HISTORY OF HICKORY, POLK, CEDAR, DADE AND BARTON COS., MO.
pub. by Goodspeed 1889
abstract
page 634-635 Washington D. Coats
1. Benjamin W. Coats b. Va. d. ca 1840 Tenn., his wife d. ca 1847
2. Thier son, Benjamin b. 1795 Tenn. d. 1862 Calif. He md. ca 1819
Elizabeth Coats, a cousin. Her father prob. b. Va. d. Tenn. ca
1835 and her mother died in 1840. Elizabeth was b. 1800 in Tenn.
and died 30 June 1870 Polk Co. Mo. After Benjamin and Elizabeth
married they moved to West Tenn. and came to what is now Polk Co.
in 1833. Benjamin took 50 head of cattle to Calif. in 1859. They
had 8 children, 4 living in 1889.
3. Their son, Washington D. Coats b. 30 Sept. 1825 Henry Co. Tenn.
Served in Union Army; Co. H, Philps Regt.; Co. I, Enrolled
Militia. Baptist. Lived Jackson Twp., near Sharon Station (near
Eudora, Polk Co.). 1849 md. Miss Matilda Rook, B. Tenn. 1832,
came to Mo. with parents at an early age. They had 12 children.
1. Newton Marion Coats 7. Frantz S.
2. William Henry 8. Abraham L.
3. Thomas B. 9. John W.
4. James A. 10. Edward S.
5. Rebecca E. md. ? Neil 11. Sarah E. md. ? Slatter
6. Mary md. ? Patterson 12. Charley C.
HISTORY OF POLK CO. MO. (MISSIONARY) BAPTIST ASSOC.
by J. W. Haines 1897
page 115 Sharon Baptist church organized 1888. Charter members
included A. J. Malicoat and W. D. Coats.
(Note: Only ones by these names and wives not mentioned tho' some
women were listed.)
(This book is not indexed, but I just happened to find this.)
Coats Creek Cemetary as of 1971
Southeast of Eudora, Missouri
use to be Sharon Station
(Cemetary on Marsh Winecoop land)
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Home sites of Whittenburg, Coats, Mallicoat, Rook & Earnest in
Greene County, Missouri.
Porter Coats was a tough old bird. If Josie hadn't been tought like,
she
couldn't have made it with him. Porter got the idea that his son Lawrence
was
the only guy who could run that big old tractor used with the thrasher
machine
and he always wanted him there every summer to put in the wheat. Well,
Lawrence
had different jobs, he would work until payday and there was never anything
in
the house to eat. It's a wonder my two boys had any brains at all the way
it
was when I carried them. It sure told on my health too.
When Larry was about 1 year old, we were there with them and Porter had
been
out celebrating with his cronies and Josie couldn't get him out of bed. She
kept after him, told him, he could stay out all night drinking, he could get
up
and milk the cows, etc., and she set the mattress on fire!! It was smoking
and
he had to get out of bed and help her get the mattress out of the house.
That's
one I never forgot. Even Lawrence got a kick out of that one. Lawrence and
Porter got along better then. Lawrence always had his hand out.
I was scared to death of Porter, probably because I was pregnant. When
I
got there and got off the train about 5 p.m., was a table with kids all
around
it, he was sitting at one end and they set me down at the end, everybody was
trying to wait on me and pass the food and he told me to reach for anything
I
wanted as long as I kept one foot on the floor. I never forgot that. That
kind
of broke the ice, but I was scared of him. He was a wooly looking bugger.
Lawrence never said he was scared of him, but he told me about the time he
put
him in the spring wagon to deliver booze all over the community. And this
one
fellow ask him why if he could make the stuff, he couldn't deliver it
himself.
Porter was making the stuff in a still down on the Arkansas river, that's
when
Lawrence first started telling me about it. Porter and old Dean Miller were
two
of the biggest boot leggers in Kansas at one time. Lawrence never said bad
things about his dad. I look back now, maybe it was fear that made him talk
softly about him. I ask him if he wasn't scared out there, scared the law
would
come along and shoot you, thinking it was your dad?
I heard that Porter said to somebody in Raymond "at least my kids eat",
when
talking about bootlegging.
Marriage Licenses - Samuel P. Coats, Raymond, Kans., 29 & Josie Bell Coats,
Raymond, Kans., 27.
DIVORCED IN JANUARY - COUPLE IS REMARRIED - DISCOVER THAT THEY MADE BIG
MISTAKE
Samuel P. Coates and His Wife After Six Months Decide That They Were Wrong
in
Securing Separation.
Two well known residents of Raymond, both divorcees, came to Hutchinson
yesterday were married by Probate Judge J. M. Jordan. The groom is 29 years
old
and bride two years younger.
Both the man and the woman admitted that they both had been divorced
last
January.
"Well, that was more than six months ago," remarked Charles S. Fulton to
whom the couple applied, "I guess I can grant you the license all right".
"What is your name," he asked the man. "Samuel P. Coats," was the
reply.
"And yours?" was the question put to the woman. "Josie Bell Coats."
The man and woman had been divorced from each other, having been married
in
another county some years before. Finding that they could not live without
each
other, however, following their separation the decided to wed a second time.
OLD SALE BILL OF SAMUEL P. COATS BEFORE LEAVING RAYMOND, KANSAS
PUBLIC SALE
As I am moving to Meade county after harvest, I will dispose of my
livestock
and farming equipment at my place, 2 miles south and 1/2 mile east of
Raymond,
at public auction on
THURSDAY, APRIL 17
The sale commencing promptly at 10 o'clock, a. m. The following
property
will be sold:
FARMING EQUIPMENT HORSES AND MULES
1 20-Disc Wheat Drill 1 Black Mare, 8 yrs old, weight 1500
1 16-Disc Wheat Drill 1 Black Mare, smooth mouth, wt. 1500
1 9-foot Wheat Binder 1 Sorrel Mare, smooth mouth, wt.
1400
1 Deering Corn Binder 1 Pair Mules, 7 & 8 yrs old, weight
1 6-foot Deering Mower about 1250 each
1 Hay Rake 1 Saddle Pony, also saddle and
bridle
1 Single Row Cultivator
1 Corn Stalk Drill CATTLE
2 14-inch Gang Plows
1 2-row Lister 14 Milk Cows 6 Stock Cows
1 4 or 5 Bottom Plow 11 Steers 12 Heifers
1 12-disc Plow 7 Calves 1 Bull
1 John Deere 2-row Lister,new
1 Eight Foot Double Disc
1 Smid Tractor Guide
1 Small Disc MISCELLANEOUS
1 John Deere Corn Worker
1 Ellinwood Ridge Buster 1 Brooder House, 10x11 foot
1 4-ft Extension for Case Combine 4 bushels Alfalfa Seed
2 Farm Wagons 1 Car Shed 1 Slip
1 Hay Rack and Wagon 1 Home Comfort Stove
1 New Wagon Box 1 Heating Stove
1 Header 1 Header Barge
1 Header Elevator, 10 foot HARNESS
1 Avery Separator, 28 inch,
all complete 2 sets of Heavy Breeching Harness
TERMS ARE CASH -- See your banker before the sale
LUNCH WILL BE SERVED ON THE GROUNDS
S. P. COATS
COL. P.L. KEENAN, Auctioneer F.J. Miller,
Clerk
In 1933 or 1934, Charles Staples and Samuel Porter Coats left farm
East of Plains in a 29 Chevy truck to humt for some Kaffir Corn to
plant. They stopped at elevator at Archer at the Ks. & Okla. railroad
south of Woods, Ks. When the elevator man saw Porter's check and asked
about name as his name was Ralph Heath and said he had married a Cora
Coats & as talked, she being Williams daughter & dad. Thomas's son
they got to meet after yrs not knowing about each other.
Thursday October 20, 1934
A family reunion picnic was enjoyed at the State Lake Sat. by the
follow-
ing: Mr. & Mrs. Frank Hough & daughter, Freda of Liberal, Mr. & Mrs. Horce
Maline & 2 children of Burdette, Ks., Mr. & Mrs. W. D. Carr of Rolla, Ks.,
Mr. &
Mrs. Clayton Hoover & 2 children of Tyrone, Ok., Mr. Ellis Jackson of
Kismet,
Ks., Mrs. Martha Coats of Tyrone, Ok., Miss Katherine Cain of Liberal, Ks.,
Mrs.
Ed Elliott & 2 children of Dodge City, Ks., Mrs. Chas. Staples & son, Mr. &
Mrs.
Porter Coats and Mr. & Mrs. Walter Coats of Plains, Ks. In the late
afternoon,
they all motored to Walter Coats home to finish the day before returning to
their homes.
An interesting story about Porter Coats was told by Evelyn Coats
(Porter's
oldest sons wife). She said that one time at Raymond, Kansas years ago,
Porter
had a still and was known for making and selling some whiskey in and around
Raymond. It happened that a horse was supposed to have stumbled and fell
into
the still and completely wrecked the whole operation and looked like it
would
put Porter out of business. They figured he would be very mad and upset,
but
found out that this still was only a front, in case they got caught, the
real
still was on top of the elevator in Raymond. So, I guess they weren't out
of
business after all.
THE GOOD OLD "DAZE" by Vivian Coats Edmonston
A talk given before the Contra Costa Historical Society in Danville
Calif.
14 May, 1970 in the Danville Hotel.
Good evening to you all. I was asked to tell something of the early
days in
the area where I was born which is on Camino Tassajara, on the place I have
named Tassamore Acres, as the land lies in both the old Sycamore and
Tassajara
school districts.
We mostly think of our immediate and direct line of ancestors as being
responsible for our being, which is of course true but others can enter into
the
events that bring us to where we were born. It was my mother's step-father
who
ended up getting my grandmother and my mother to California.
To go back a bit, this step-father was Levi Augustus Maxcy, born in
North
Attleborough, Massachusettes, where the Maxcy family had settled, after
coming
from Scotland in 1669.
In 1849, the California gold fever had spread clear back to good old
Boston
and Levi with some seventy other men formed the Narragannsett Trading and
Mining
Company. They bought a sloop or barque, the "Velasco" and stocked it with
two
years provisions, trade goods and their personal possessions. They cleared
from
Boston 6th February, 1849 for San Francisco where they arrived 7th October,
of
the same year. On the way the company was dissolved and the ship was sold
to a
group of Chilean merchants, to be turned over to them in San Francisco. A
load
of lumber was taken aboard to be sold in San Francisco. When they reached
the
golden land of opportunity the ship was abandoned and all hands took off for
the
mines. We never did find out how the Chilean owners fared in the deal.
So much for one way to get to California, by coming around Cape Horn.
Others came across the plains or by boat to the Isthmus of Panama, crossed
it
and caught another ship to their destination.
Now to bring in other characters to this story. We have my great grand-
father, Wilson Coats and his son, Felix, my grandfather, who left Missouri
in
the Spring of 1849 and came by covered wagons drawn by oxen across the
plains
and mountains. One California County History stated, "After a pleasant
three
months fourney, Mr. Coats landed in California." It was pleasant, in that
they
were not massacred by Indians and they had to cross the Truckee River twenty
seven times in twenty-two miles. Then they went over the Donner Pass by
taking
their wagons apart and let the pieces down over cliffs along with a few
other
minor difficulties of a sililar kind.
Neither the Coatses nor Levi Maxcy made any fabulous fortunes in the
gold
mines so they went looking for land. They were not acquainted with each
other
in the gold country but ended up settling on adjoining places which they
were
able to buy. Each family married and reared families. Levi had two sons
and
Felix Coats had three sons and three daughters.
Mr. Maxcy kept going back to the mines trying to make a strike. His
wife,
Sarah McInturff got tired of it all and took the two boys to San Jose and
divorced him in 1876. In 1880, he rented the farm in Tassajara to tenants
and
went to Aurora, Illinois to visit his sister, Rebecca Maxcy Messenger. it
was
there that he met my grandmother, Rhoda Hyde Williams, a widow with a farm
and a
daughter, Fanny Williams.
Levi and Rhoda were married there in Illinois in 1881 and in 1889 he
brought
his new family to the Maxcy farm which adjoins the Coats lands on Tassajara
Road. And so it was that after a while, James Longstreet Coats, son of
Felix,
was married to Fanny Williams, 11 August, 1895 in San Francisco.
I arrived on the scene, January 9, 1901 at the Maxcy house which had
been
built in 1890. As a folk singer has it in his song, "Four rooms and a
Path", we
had eight rooms and a path which led past the woodpile. On the way back to
the
house it was the custom to bring an arm-load of wood for the wood-box.
The very first houses built in the area were rough lumber. The pioneers
went to Redwood Canyon near Moraga and camped while they cut redwood trees
and
split them into lumber for fences and houses. These first homes were on the
property when Mr. Maxcy and the Coats men bought their land.
My great-grandfather, Wilson Coats, built a two-story house in 1854 at
what
is now the entrance to the old Maxcy property. That house burned about
1916,
long after he had sold his land to his son, Felix, and moved to Fresno where
his
death occurred 3 January, 1886.
Those very first settlers in the area were veterans of Indian Campaigns
and
had received land script for services rendered. So far as I know all of
these
sold out to the disillusioned gold seekers such as Coats and Maxcy. Each in
turn built houses with big high ceilinged rooms.
The reason for the high ceilings, I found in an old medical book. It
said,
in part, "...it is obvious that night air is dangerous to breathe because of
miasmas. In order to have a supply of air to last the night through the
rooms
must be large, with high ceilings".
Now that you know how I became an old-timer on Tassajara Road, I will
share
with you the fun of the good old days complete with flies, fleas and mud.
It was not until we had Mecadam roads that we had any that were not
nearly
axle deep in mud in winter. Two horses hitched in tandem to a cart made it
to
Danville or so my grandfather said. In summer we wore tightly woven linen
dusters and viels tied down to our hats. Then the mud had dried and the
road
was filled with ruts and dust.
I rode the two and a half miles to Sycamore, a one-room grammar school.
Miss Charlotte Wood taught all eight grades to sixteen or eighteen of us
pupils.
In those days we took county examination for promotions from one grade to
the
next. One examination date remains in my memory, the twelfth day of the
twelfth
month in the twelfth year. It would be another hundred years before that
could
be said again.
In 1914, I started High School in the Odd-Fellows Building that was on
the
corner of old Front Street and what is now Diablo Road. Again I rode
horseback
and raced Howard and George Wood in their Chalmers automobile; and at least
one
time I won the race. My cousin, Undine Horton, also rode and again we raced
the
horses expecially in wet weather when the roadside ditches were full of
water
and we would splash each other with mud. We wore divided riding skirts and
changed to dresses left at the school.
We had our horses trained so that when it rained we put up umbrellas and
held them in front of us looking through the cloth to see where we were
going
though the horses really knew the way. These apparitions scared more than
one
team on the road.
When the muddy days were over the locust trees made the air sweet and
the
bees and birds created a spring song, then there were picnics to the sulphur
springs in a Tassajara canyon at the end of Finley Road. There were old
coal
mine entrances to explore, trees to climb and games to play and plenty of
good
food. There were also church socials, grange and Odd Fellows dinners,
family
gatherings and just visiting around among the neighbors. There were the
McPhersons, Elliotts, Zabels, Russells, Goulds, Eddys, Johnsons, Harris and
Wood
families as well as sone in Alamo, Danville and San Ramon. Who said that
country life was isolated and lonely.
Once a year or so a dressmaker would come and stay a few days or a week
and
then is when the rustle of taffeta was a child's delight, fittings a bore
and
many ouches from sticking pins.
From Danville the Lawrence butcher wagon supplied us with meat once a
week.
After a session of dressmaking when I learned about cutting cloth on the
bias I
asked Joe Lawrence if he cut the bologna that way to keep it from raveling.
Another memory is of my mother's picture taking. She had a box camera
that
took 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 sized pictures. Some times I got to stay up and watch
the
film developing. Printing was done in the sun in printing frames and you
could
see the reddish color of the picture come out and soon learned when it was
exposed long enough. It was then quickly slipped between the pages of a
book or
magazine. The prints were put through a fixing solution and well washed
then
rolled on a ferrotype plate and allowed to dry. This gave the gloss to the
paper. Some solio prints made by my mother from 1904 to 1910 are on display
in
the back of the room.
A startling experience has remained vivid in my mind. My grandmother
awakened me and I was led to the kitchen. The house was shaking and as I
looked
out the window I saw that the two story tank house was swaying from side to
side
and the water was sloshing out of the tank. Chickens were squawking, cattle
bawling and the neighbors' dogs were howling. That was on April the 18th,
1906.
In the pantry the pans of milk, set to let the cream rise were on the floor
along with broken glasses and some broken dishes. That was the extent of
the
damage except that the square brick chimney on the roof cracked around
evenly
and made a half-turn so there were eight corners and only one brick was lost
out
of it. As the day wore on the western sky was red and then black with smoke
from burning San Francisco.
Before the electric train came to Danville and Diablo Country Club, we
would
make a three hour drive to Hayward, put the horse in the livery stable and
took
the street car to Oakland then the ferry boat to San Francisco.
Another high light was when I was allowed to drive a double team of
horses
to Pleasanton alone. My father, James Coats, had asthma quite severely and
found he could not live with hay dust and the weed pollens of ranch life.
He
became a gauger for the Western Distilleries of Agnew, near Santa Clara. He
came home to the ranch at about two week intervals. He had to be met at
Pleasanton on Saturday and taken back for the train on Sunday. This was
about a
two hour drive each way. We would stop at Santa Rita vegetable gardens for
a
sack of vegetables. By a sack I mean a grain sack of cabbage, beets,
carrots,
turnips, onions and lettuce.
We had a home made cooler, a large square frame covered with screen and
over
that was sacking. This was hung on the porch in the shade. A large milk
pan
filled with water sat on top with wicks leading over the sides of the
cooler.
The evaporation kept things surprisingly cold and we never had soupy butter.
We baked our own bread which was kept in large stone crocks. We had a
wood
burning range in the kitchen but in 1917, a three burner coal oil stove that
was
not quite so hot for our summer cooking. We had an old stove outside on the
porch, used for canning peaches, pears, cherries, plums, apricots and apple
sauce.
The first world war rationing taught us new cooking skills. I'll never
forget how indignant our hired man was at being served rice with gravy on
it.
Rice had always been for pudding, with raisins in it. We used three kinds
of
flour to make a cake; rice, oat and some wheat flour, Caro syrup and honey
were
used instead of sugar.
Chicken raising was a hazardous venture. We had an incubator that took
six
dozen eggs. This was warmed by a coal oil lamp. The eggs had to be turned
once
or twice a day, all six dozen. The lamp had to be tended, filled, the wick
trimmed. Once it got turned up too high and cooked all the eggs. Another
batch
was incubated and the baby chicks were transferred to a brooder which was a
low
box with fuzzy cotton flannel hanging down to substitute for the mama hen.
Again, the brooder was warmed with a coal oil lamp. Sometimes it went out,
the
chicks huddled together for warmth and smothered.
As they grew bigger, they were transferred to small roosting coops. A
chicken raised without a mama hen has to be taught to roost. The first coop
had
slats close together so they did not fall through. A slanting board led up
to
the roosts and by scattering grain along this board the chickens were
enticed
into the coop. They soon got the idea and then went in by themselves. The
coops were moved day by day closer to a big chicken house and one day they
were
let out into this and kept there a day or so. By that time they had thier
flying wings and could make it up to the high roosts. We never allowed them
to
sleep in the trees. The weasels, skunks, coyotes and hawks left us enough
to
enjoy many a good fried chicken dinner.
When your only transportation is by the use of horses, there is the
care,
feeding, watering, currying, brushing and cleaning the barns. My mother
made
horse blankets out of gunny sacks and by putting this horse night gown on
the
horses, they were kept cleaner so with a good brushing, they were sleek and
shining. We had them shod at Groom's livery stable in Danville.
In winter, cows and horses would get stuck in the mud of the adobe
slides.
Cows were pulled out by their horns and horses, by their tails.
When I started to High School, it fell to me to do most of the errands
and
shopping. One of these errands was to get an occasional bottle of toddy mix
for
Grandpa Maxcy's morning hot lemonade. By riding up on the sidewalk, I could
knock on the front door of a certain establishment and for only a dollar a
full
quart was slipped into my saddlebag. I cashed the monthly budget check of
twenty-five dollars and jingled real gold coins in my pocket until the
charge
accounts were paid.
The Good Old Days were not all hard nor bad. We were spared the joys of
TV
commercials and we were never conscious of all the things we were missing
in personal charm. A good scrubbing in the wash-tub in front of the kitchen
stove on Saturday night with yellow laundry soap made us smell clean, if not
like a rose.
We didn't worry about bussing to school, we rode or walked. We didn't
know
about smog and no one had gotten after us for dumping things in the creeks.
Hard work let up for parties and dances which lasted till early morning.
There
was no sleeping in afterward either, as the chores of caring for the cows,
horses, chickens and pigs had to be done wheither we had been up all night
or
not.
For dances we drove to Tassajara, Danville, San Ramon and sometimes to
the
Railroad Ranch or Cook Ranch as the Diablo Country Club area was then
called.
Harness racing and barn dances were held there also. Now and then there was
a
horseback ride to the top of Mount Diablo.
Before I ramble on too long, I had better stop regaling you with the
good
old days but they were just that, the time between the ox-team travel and
the
jet planes, when big hats, bustles and bloomers covered all that the minis
now
show. When horses and the early Fords took us where we wanted to go at a
more
leisurely pace and we didn't know that the moon just wasn't made of green
cheese.
Southwest Daily Times - Oct. 6, 1969 - Liberal, Kansas
Mrs. Cora A. Heath, 89, widow of Ralph M. Heath, died shortly before
midnight Monday at Southwest Medical Center where she had been receiving
treatment the past two weeks.
She was born May 11, 1880, at Walnut Grove, Mo. In 1884, she came with
her
parents, the late Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Coats, to Barber County, Kan., and two
years
later the family moved to a claim in the Oklahoma panhandle to a farm east
of
the present site of Tyrone where she grew to womanhood.
She and Mr. Heath were married at the family home in 1901. Their first
home
was in Liberal where Mr. Heath was a teacher in the Liberal schools.
Shortly
thereafter they moved to their farm in the Pleasant Valley community 11
miles
northwest of Liberal, farming there until Mr. Heath's death in 1948. A year
later Mrs. Heath moved to Liberal where she resided until her death.
Mrs. Heath was the first member received into the Tyrone Baptist church
after it was organized. She was a charter member of the Bethel Baptist
church
in the Pleasant Valley community and transferred her membership to the
Liberal
First Baptist church when the Bethel church disbanded.
For over 25 years she was the teacher of the IXL class of the Liberal
First
Baptist church. She was an honorary member of the State Board of American
Baptist Women's Society, and a past president of the Southwest Kansas
Women's
Mission Society. She was a charter member of the Seward County W.C.T.U., a
member of the Liberal Women's club, the Live and Learn H.D.U. and the Seward
County Republican Women's club.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. W.D. (Estelle) Carr, Wichita,
Mrs.
Horace (Elnora) Malin, Liberal, and Mrs. Ellis (Freda) Jackson, Wichita; one
sister, Mrs. Clayton Hoover, Tyrone; six grandchildren and 11 great-grand-
children.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. from the First
Baptist
church by the Rev. Darrell Robinson pastor, and Charles Brisendine. Burial
will
be in the Liberal cemetery.
Wed., June 23, 1965
James Fredrick Coats was born in the log cabin home of his parents, Mr.
and
Mrs. W.H. Coats, near Walnut Grove, Missouri, November 26, 1876.
In 1884, he, with his parents and other members of the family moved to
Barber County, Kansas, where they lived on a farm for three years. Then the
pioneer spirit of the father, W. H. Coats, led the family to make the
covered
wagon journey west into No-Man's land where they settled on a "claim" two
miles
east of what is now Tyrone, Oklahoma. It was there that James grew into
manhood.
In 1905, he and Olive Newman were united in marriage. They settled on a
homestead in Seward County, Kansas. It was there that their first son Ray
was
born. a short time later Mr. Coats purchased a farm adjoining the family
home
east of Tyrone where he lived and farmed until 1936. During this time ten
children were born into the family.
In 1914, the eldest son, Ray, passed to his heavenly home. Mrs. Coats
was
called home in 1935. The second son, Theodore, passed away in 1958.
In 1936, the family moved to a farm near Ponca City, Oklahoma. They
returned to western Oklahoma in 1940 and settled near Wheeless where he
lived
until failing health made it necessary to enter the Dunaway Manor in Guymon,
Oklahoma where he remained until his death June 19, 1965, at the age of 88.
While living in the Tyrone community, Mr. Coats was a member of the
I.O.O.F.
lodge. In early manhood he became a member of the Tyrone Baptist church and
he
lived to see the day when each of his children became Christians and active
members of the church.
Mr. Coats is survived by four sons: LeRoy Coats, Walnut, California;
Lloyd
Coats, Wheeless; Dorton Coats, Liberal; Donald Coats, Ponca City; five
daughters: Mrs. A. W. Allen, Wheeless; Mrs. Jack Hudsonpillar, Ponca City;
Mrs.
Rena Smith, Kaw City, Oklahoma; Mrs. Everett Fenton, Wilcox, Arizona; Mrs.
William Bulls, Wheeless; one brother, Calvin Coats, Commanche, Oklahoma; two
sisters; Mrs. Ralph Heath, Liberal; and Mrs. Clayton Hoover, Tyrone;
twenty-six
grandchildren, sixteen great-grandchildren and a host of friends
COMANCHE, OKLA. - George C. Coats, 93, died Sunday at a Duncan hospital. He
was
born March 13, 1874 at Walnut Grove, Mo. He moved to Comanche from Ponca
City
about three years ago.
Coats married Plaudia Benton Wimpey in October 1895 at Liberal, Kan.
She
died in 1942. Coats was a member of the First Baptist Church, Ponca City.
Survivors include three sons, William, Storey, Ark.; Rudolph, Comanche,
and
Leslie, Shawnee; two sisters, Mrs. Cora Heath, Liberal, Kan., and Mrs. Elsie
Hoover, Tyrone, Okla.; seven grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.
Graveside service will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Longwood Cemetery,
Ponca
City with the Rev. Jerold R. McBride, pastor of the First Baptist Church
there,
officiating.
COATS REUNION (Aug. 17, 1978)
William Henry and Martha Coats came to No Man's Land in 1887,
homesteaded
two miles east of what is now Tyrone, Okla., and raised their family there.
Their descendants gathered together August 5th and 6th for a family reunion
at
the Mary Frame Park building in Liberal.
The oldest person present was the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Coats,
Mrs. Elsie Coats Hoover, who was 88 years old in July. The youngest person
pre-
sent was Mrs. Hoover's great-granddaughter, Leslie Rose Burns, who was eight
weeks old.
Saturday was spent visiting with family members they had not seen in
some
time and getting acquainted with new family members, and also in viewing old
photographs and news clippings.
Saturday night there was a varied program with music and talks.
Especially
enjoyed by old and young alike was a duet with the Rev. Dorton Coats playing
the
guitar and his wife, Helen, playing cow Bells.
The group had their own worship service Sunday morning with Rev.
Dorton
Coats, grandson, of the W.H. Coats, as pastor and the Royalheirs furnishing
the
music. Two of the Royalheirs, Steve and Dave Davis, are great-grandsons of
Mr.
and Mrs. W.H. Coats.
Special guests on Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. Clyatt Manuel, Venice,
Calif.; Mrs. Irene Coats Lang, Wichita; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Staples, and
Mr.
and Mrs. Terry Coats, Troy, Wesley, Tracy and Tammy of Plains, who are all
de-
scendants of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Benton Coats. Tom Coats was a brother of
W.H.
Coats.
A special guest on Sunday was Glenn Cain of Tyrone, who is a grandson
of
Sam Dotson, brother of Mrs. W.H. Coats.
Others present were: Mrs. Elsie Coats Hoover, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
Hoover,
Gloria and Clayton, and Mrs. Yvonne Albright of Tyrone. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie
Coats, Shawnee, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Coats, Winslow, Ark.; Mr. and
Mrs.
Jearl Roach, Pasadena, Texas; Mrs. Beverlee Leich, Henry Lee, and Christie
Gale,
Cresson, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson and Matthew, Collinsville,
Okla.;
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Coats, Mrs. Rena Warner, Mrs. Barbara Fricke, Kennedy
and
Kortney, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Coats and Dena, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hudsonpillar,
Mr.
and Mrs. Gary Coats, Toni, Marty and Jason, all of Ponca City, Okla. Bill
Coats, Story, Ark.; Mrs. Pauline Coats and Cindi, Shidlar, Okla.; Mr. and
Mrs.
A.W. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. William Bulls, Boise City, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs.
Keith
Mock and Cindy, Clayton, N.M. Mr. and Mrs. Don Coats and family, Walnut,
Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Coats and family, Tulsa, Okla.; Mrs. Sherry
Burns,
Sara, Cathy and Leslie, Kansas City, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. Royce Grant and
Kenda,
Len Herndon, Steve Davis and Dave Davis, all of Amarillo, Texas. Mrs. Nita
Woodward and Bill, Baker, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs Bill Brown, Lee and Billy, Miss
Jacqueline Faye Weeke of Satanta; the Rev. and Mrs. Dorton Coats, Gem, Kan.;
Mr.
and Mrs. C.L. Davis, Stephanie and Jeremy, Holcomb, Kan.; Mr. and Mrs.
Horace
Malin, Mrs. Flora Hampton and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Davis, Liberal.