Any connections here? ----- Original Message ----- From: Lori Ann Williams Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 10:59 AM To: * Charlotte Subject: RE: Kinzy Coats Here's a transcription of the article I told you about. There is a picture of John and Caroline included but it scans horribly. John and Caroline Whitley Coats (Reflections of McNairy County, Tennessee, p. 329) Obed Coats was born in 1826 in Rutherford Co., North Carolina. The family moved to McNairy County Tennessee about 1830 and settled in the second Civil District. The 1840 McNairy County Census lists Obed Coats as the fourteen year old son of Obediah Coats. The 1880 Census lists Obed as fifty-four years old and the father of twenty-six year old John Kinzy and one daughter, Mary Jane. John Kinzy Coats was my grandfather. He married Caroline Whitley on January 6, 1881. They were married by Justice of the Peace P. A. Brown in the 2nd Civil District and remained in this area until death. John Kinzy and Caroline had twelve children with six of them surviving past infancy. The six were: Seth, Obed, Nancy Ann, Ollie, David Kinzy and Rebecca Ellen. Nancy Ann married Ivy Barton and had four children. Seth married Lucinda Kizer and had eight children. Obed was married to Virginia McIntire and to Mamie Cobb and had seven children. Ollie married J. B. Boens and E. H. Smith. No records were found of Ollie's life except birthdate and marriage dates. Rebecca Ellen and David Kinzy never married and died in young adulthood. They are buried in a family cemetery on the boundary line of the Coats family farm and the John T. Moore farm near Moore's Schoolhouse Church. John Kinzy died about 1935 and Caroline died in 1937. They are buried in unmarked graves at Moore's Schoolhouse Cemetery. Grandchildren of Joh and Caroline that remain in McNairy Co. are: David Coats, Linda Coats Dubois, and Verna Coats Sipes. Great-grandchildren of John and Caroline that live in Mcnairy County are: Faye Coats Clayton, Donald Coats, Raymond Coats, Ronnie Coats, Lisa Coats Cotner, Laura Coats Faulkner, Brenda Coats Horton, Annie Rea King, Nelleta Moore, Joe Don Moore, John Milton Moore, Terry Moore, Patricia Coats McElhenney, Sherrill Coats Plunk, Rebecca Coats Redmon, Ina Coats Roberts, Steve Roberson, John Roberson, Timothy Roberson, Josie Roberson, Jeffrey Teague, Jeremy Teague, Sandra Wilson. (Submitted by: Verna Coates Sipes)<br clear=all><hr>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <a href="http://explorer.msn.com">http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p>