Here's a letter that anyone is welcome to answer who knows how this Abner Coats fits in. >From: GR82SM@aol.com >Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:58:15 EDT >Subject: Coats/Coates >To: LDudick@ancestrees.com >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 104 >X-RCPT-TO: <LDudick@ancestrees.com> > >Hi Linda > >I'm a Coates, however I am looking for ancestors of ABNER COATS, b, July4, >1811 in (possibly) Rowan County, N.C. (or KY?) > >You have a marvelous website. I was delighted to see it. I've looked >through the Coates', not seeing Abner. I have Abner's line from 1811 and am >stuck. Abner was supposed to have been one of four brothers, according to my >father. They were land owners before the Civil War, but the war broke them. >Abner went into Illinois and eventually to Iowa, where he is buried. His son, >Albert, was my grandfather. Abner married Elizabeth Richardson. Any help? > >Would love to hear from you. Thanks for any help. > >Nancy (Coates) Smith