This is from Frances Edmonston...she is a descendant of Wilson Coats, son of Rev Will and Nancy...this could connect some other lines or help folks looking so I'm forwarding it on... The Claude Coats is not my dad, my dad is in the line of Willima Coats, jr, brother to Wilson Coats above... The Holland line I think is the Rev Holland that still lives in Callaway County MO... She also tell us, she has a picture of Wilson Coats and his wife... Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: coats Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:16:37 EST HI , as some of my friends say, I'm cookin' with gas! i've been on a run to catalog my mother's pictures so they will be easier to file and to scan and make sense of. along with pictures of lemuel allen coats, and john russell coats and a bunch of others , i including milam bethel coats, and such, i found a "new" line in my mother's notes, maybe not new to coats researchers, but new to me. rev. william coats, had 3 sons that my mother tracked down their relatives, john coats, hiram coats and lemuel robert coats. john coats had mary ann coats who married larrimore (first) and Basye (second) and had a child, james davis basye who married grace truman allen. they had a child francis basye, francis had a child, shirley basye who married robert T edmondson (no relation to edmonston), she was apparently in touch with shirley and robert edmondson who lived in denver, colo. and must have visited them. john coats also had thomas henley coats who ?? married annie coates, i'm not sure, her notes aren't clear. there were three children, (1.)lee coats who had a son lee coats and he had a daughter helen harrel coats. (2.) claude coats who married evelyn and had alan coats and lee coats (both boys) daisy bannerman was apparently the mother of claude coats, cecile and lee coats, i don't know who her husband was ?? thomas henley coats ?? cecile coats married moody then there was hiram coats, son of rev william coats who married permilia walker and had james lemuel coats who married polly e. Mc mahn. born to them was alta coats who married walker kerr holland. they had charlie coats holland who married jewell garrett (the plot thickens because cousins married cousins!!) then, the brother of hiram, son of rev william, lemuel robert coats married elizabeth maddox, who had a child, virginia coats who married ?omer edgar garrett and they had a daugther, you guessed it, jewell garrett who married the above charlie coats! so there you have it. do you know these folks??? let me know and i'll fill in my blanks. or lead me to a web connection. sincerely, cousin frances ps, i have found most of wilsons siblings, interesting stuff. i have a picture of willliam lafayette coats, i think he never married, some of the coats guys were really cute!!