Please write back to Elaine Haug if you know anything to help her. >From: "Elaine Haug" <EHaug@email.msn.com> >To: <LDudick@ancestrees.com> >Subject: Simon Bolivar Coates >Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:17:38 -0500 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 >X-RCPT-TO: <LDudick@ancestrees.com> > >Linda, > You seem to have a great knowledge of the Coates. I am trying to > connect to some of them. My great great grandfather was Simon Bolivar > Coate b. 1825 Newberry Co., SC; d. 1863 (on tombstone died "Good only > knows"). Married Sarah Nichols 1844, b. 31 Dec 1825, Newberry; d. 4 Dec > 1870, Prosperity, Newberry Co., SC. > >In Annuals of Newberry p. 782 1860 Census Newberry Co. list Bollivar - >40, Sallie - 40, John 15, *Simon - 10, Bradford - 8, Claiborne - 6, Mary - 3. > >My great grandfather *Simon Bolivar Coats b. 15 May 1849 in Charleston, >SC; d. 4 Dec 1936 in Prospertiy, Newberry Co., SC. Married Zenoba Lee >Roberts b. 3 Apr 1865 in SC, d. 29 Jul 1902 in Prosperity. They had >Luther 1882, Eugene Coats 1885, Charles Crosson Coats 1889, Simon Floyd >Coats 1894 and *Ella Lucile Coats 1897. > >Ella Lucile was my grandmother. > >Do you have any of this information in your records. A gentleman on >internet said Simon Bolivar Coate (Sr.) was the son of Henry and Mary >Long, who was the son of Little John Coates. Do you agree with this or >have more details about them. I know Simon Bolivar Coats (Jr.) was a >cotton mill worker from the 1900 Census. > >I would also love to find out more on Zenoba Lee Roberts. I have totally >nothing on her except a photo of her tombstone. I have never come across >the name Zenoba. I have queried the net to see if anyone knows where that >name came from, but no response. > >I hope you might have knowledge of my relative. I will be happy to share >the descendants of them. > >Thank you, > >Elaine Haug