Hmmmm, nope I just assumed that Beverly was his wife...and yes, it did say they were living together...most interesting that Beverly was a male name as well.....hmmmm, anyway, it did say William was a pensioner....I've got all the Revolutionary pensions for Coate, Coates, Coats so that might be a War of 1812 pension...Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: Bearyann@aol.com To: coats@hotmail.com Subject: William Coats, Davidson Co.TN pension Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:11:42 EDT Dear Charlotte, I am sure that there was some reason that you concluded that Beverly E. was William's spouse. Was there more info than was given on that site? All I saw was that he was living with Beverly E. Though all of the Beverlys I have known have been female and I think of it in ther feminine gender, back then Beverly was a given name for males also. Just wondering. Mary Ann Craig Franklin ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com