Hello, I thought I'd update you on where my search has brought me so far on Austin Coates. Note: There were many Austin Coates: 1. Austin Marion Coates b. 1788 married Margaret (Kuhn) Coon - SC - Wilkinson Co., Ms. 2.Austin M. Coates married Christine Heslip More About ? HESLIP: Fact 1: Allen K. Johnston, interview with Christine Heslip (Mrs. Austin M. Coates Grandma 3. Austin Murphy Coates married Lucinda Dismuke - Sumner Tn.Lucienda Towns Dismukes b: May 15, 1806 d: 1881 in McKinley , Al. ............. +Austin Coates m: Nov 14, 1824 in Sumner Co., Tenn 4. William Coates of Virginia married Susannah Dismukes had a "single" son with no family that moved to Virginia. The Dismukes family says this was their Austin married to Lucinda. According to William Coates Pension Papers he states July 26, 1820, Davidson Co.,Tn. that our son Austin Coates who has no family of his own , owner of 2 slaves and a fine house , but who is about to leave the state (TN) and fix his residents in Virginia this coming fall. That would be fall of 1820. I question this being the same Austin as Austin Coates married Lucinda Dismuke.He married Lucinda in 1824 in Sumner,Tn. and I believe thay moved to Ms. then, AL. 5. Austin Coates son of Sion that died in 1857. 6. David Jackson Coates brother of Austin Marion Coates had a son Austin Marion Coates b. 1843 d. 1854 in La. There are other younger Coates that are living so I won't give out their information on Rootsweb. These are names that as a child my aunt, me and sisters remember my grandmother stating she was related to on the Coates side. My mother had a couple written in the papers she had given me before she died in 1996. Dickerson, Pearson, Bebee , West, Hollingsworth, Hodges, Thomas, Adkins, Lilley , Acord, Burch, O'Neal, Pace, Boyd, Gilbert, Douglas. Thanks, Robbie