On Mon, 29 May 2000, Linda J. Dudick wrote: > Thanks for the update. As far as I know from other's correspondence and > their first hand records, Sion L. has not been found to have a son named > Austin. What was your source on that? Maybe there are two Sion L's as the > one I have died in 1854 in Lauderdale Co., MS. I was basing it on a message from Joe Coates to COATES-L: > Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:05:08 PDT > From: "C. Coats-Siercks" <coats@hotmail.com> > To: COATES-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <19980724160513.29435.qmail@hotmail.com> > Subject: Fwd: Re: Additional Coates Info- Sion & Gideon & Families > Content-Type: text/plain > > Nice find, Joe...was Sion L. Coates the son of the Sion Coates in SC, > I'm assuming at this point there is a connection there...Charlotte > >> ----Original Message Follows---- >> From: "Joe Coates" <grampajoec@Lynchburg.net> >> To: "C. Coats-Siercks" <coats@hotmail.com> >> Subject: Re: Additional Coates Info- Sion & Gideon & Families >> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:49:28 -0400 >> >> Additional Info received on Sion L. Coates, Gideon Edwards Coats and >> families are as follows: >> >> Gideon Edwards Coats married Sarah Penn, the daughter of William >> Warren Penn and Mourning Sullens. Children of Gideon and Sarah were >> as folllows: >> 1. William Sion Coates, born 1842 >> 2. John R. Coats, born 1844 >> 3. Francis Elizabeth Coats, born 1846; Married J.E. McCluney. >> 4. Mary Coats(twin), born 1850; married J.E. Polk Miller. >> 5. Martha Coats(twin), born 1850; married Samuel Cowen. >> 6. Andrew Jackson Coats; married Mattie Stewart. >> 7. Daniel Coats; married Willie Stewart. >> 8. Dorothy Coats; married Thomas Cowan Hughes. >> >> As far as is known Sion L. Coats and Elizabeth Darrow had only 1 child >> named Austin P. Coates and he died in 1856. He is buried in >> Coats-Darrow Cemetery. >> >> Gideon Edwards Coats and Sion L. Coats had a sister named Rebecca who >> married Plesant Harbour. Their children were as follows: >> >> 1. Pemilia Harbour, born 1845 >> 2. Arimitta Harbour, born 1847 >> 3. John Harbour, born 1849 >> >> The Court House in what was then Cherokee County, Alabama burned >> around 1880 with all records lost. In the mailing list archives for 1999 there are some other messages from Michael Tucker who also discusses Austin P. Coates as a son of Sion L. Coates. Justin M. Sanders "I shot an arrow into the air. It fell Dept. of Physics to earth I know not where." --Henry Univ. of South Alabama Wadsworth Longfellow confessing jsanders@jaguar1.usouthal.edu to a sad ignorance of ballistics.