Coats, Homer Tipton Coats, 85 year old retired farer, died at his home at Smartts January 6, after an illness of a week. funeral rites were held the following day at 1pm at the Smartt memorial Presbyterian Church with Rev Geddes Orman officiating. Burial was in Bethlehem cemetery. The deceased, a native of Kirklin county, Indiana, was born November 22, 1864 and was a son of Elijah Coats and Rachel Pursefull Coats. He was married to Miss Mary Rayburn, who survives, and was a member of the Methodist Church. Besides his wife, Mr. Coats, is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Eda M. Sanders, Topeka, Kans, and one son, Kenneth H. Coats, also one sister. Arrangements were by High's. Taken from the Thomas Jefferson Barnes papers - TN State Archive the only Coats info in here...