Does anyone have a Coats/Coates/Cotes family in Jefferson Co., TN, around 1880? My husband's grandfather, Samuel Earl Dooley, was born in Jefferson Co. in January, 1880, to Alice J. Dooley. He took the name of Dooley, but some years before he died in 1960 in Hamilton Co., TN, he told his family that his father's name was Coats (have no idea which spelling). Searching in Ancestry.com I cannot find a Coats by any spelling in Jefferson Co. in either 1870 or 1880. I have no idea how to go about finding his father with such meager information. Barbara Dooley