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Time to wake up is list and make you Coatney researchers out there think again. I just found a letter written from one John Harrison Coatney on January 11, 1882 to his cousin (my grandfather) Benjamin Harrison Coatney. I believe John Harrison Coatney to be the son of Jesse and Sarah H Coatney. I know that Jesse Coatney was born about 1838 but I have nothing on his death. Sarah H Coatney died August 27, 1864 and I have this documented in a letter that Jesse wrote to his brother George Washington Coatney. (This GWC was born December 1, 1830 and died August 5, 1871) In this letter JHC is located in Elwood, Texas. Jesse and his family originally lived in Indiana but moved to Missouri sometime about the time of the civil war. The rebels ran him out of Missouri and he returned to Indiana for a short time then went back to Missouri. How his son ended up in Texas is a mystery.
Next mystery. I have a letter written from George Combe Coatney son of the above GWC to his mother (Arminda Bernard Spurgeon Coatney Johnson Cook) dated March 26, 1885. In this letter GCC is telling his mother what life in jail is like as he is currently locked up for reasons unknown to me at this time. GCC was known for being in several gunfights in his lifetime and was shot himself at least twice that I am aware of. He also shot and killed a man in Hackler, Arkansas (date unknown) but this action was Justified by the Jury of Inquisition. Now, of interest, this letter to his mother was written from Elwood, Texas. GCC was also born in Indiana however he died in Yuba County, California December 27, 1898 at the age of 38.
Can anyone expand on why two Coatney cousins from different states ended up in Elwood, Texas and did they leave families or children there? If anyone would like to see scans of these letters and other Coatney family history let me know your e mail address and I will add it to my mailing list. I have a lot of old Coatney family communication including several civil war letters. Give me your thoughts; Don Coatney
Hi all,
Renee' here. I just wanted to say hi again and let you know that if you receive this message, you really ARE on the new list. Welcome!!
There are a couple of important things I want to bring to your attention.
First, I have decided that it will be in the best interest of the new list to have all replies go to the original sender of the message, instead of to the whole list. If you want your reply to go to everyone on the list, simply place the list address in the "To:" field of your reply, or use the "reply to sender and all recipients" selection. No, this is not the way I prefer it to be set up, but due to some unexpected sabotage attempts which happened on a few other lists, I truly believe this is the best choice for our list. I hope you'll all trust me on this one. It will take a little time for all of us to adjust to this change.
Second - If you wish to retrieve any of the old list archives for your personal records, you should all be able to access them at http://COATNEY.listbot.com You will have to open each message to save it. You can copy and paste the messages you want to save into Wordpad or another, preferred program.
I will allow the archives to remain available for only a few more days, then I will completely shut down the old list - permanently.
Again, welcome to the new list!!
Renee'
COATNEY list "administrator" (I like that term better!)
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I'm just testing to make sure this list works properly.
Renee'
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