The Nashville Tennessean, Sunday, 4/16/00 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- COE LAWYERS HOLD OUT HOPE Robert Glen Coe is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 1 a.m. Wednesday at Riverbend prison for murdering 8-year-old Cary Ann Medlin in 1979. That would make him the first prisoner executed in Tennessee since 1960. Coe's lawyers are still hoping the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals or the U.S. Supreme Court will stay Coe's execution and order further hearings on whether he is mentally competent to be executed. Coe, who marked his 44th birthday yesterday, has received three stays of execution from federal courts in the past month, but legal experts say the chance of further delays is slim. __________________________________________ Robert Glen Coe was born April 15, 1956, in Henry County, TN, fifth child of Willie Monroe and Annie Belle (Knight) Coe. His great grandfather William Glen Coe, who was born in 1873 in Wayne County, KY, moved to Henry County about 1897 and was killed there about 1900 while breaking horses. He married September 7, 1892, at the Toler home in Wayne County, Mary Elizabeth Toler, born September 24, 1876, died November 20, 1962, at Paris, TN, daughter of King and S. Toler. Burial was at Bevil Cemetery, Paris. The family descends from Samuel and Elvira (Davis) Coe, who were married May 11, 1826, in Wayne County, KY. Samuel Coe, who was born in 1793 in North Carolina or Georgia, first appears on record in Wayne County, October 11, 1818, when he was named as an heir of Rachel Kiggins. Elisha Franklin, Elizabeth Coe and Nancy Kiggins were also named as heirs. Nancy Kiggins, who was born Janaury 10, 1802, in North Carolina, married December 31, 1818, in Wayne County, KY, Joseph Henry Hamilton, who was born in Garrard County, KY, son of Charles and Hannah (Henry) Hamilton. They named a son Samuel Coe Hamilton. Samuel Coe appears in Wayne County tax records November 21, 1832, when it was noted that he had "Removed to Pulaski County, Ky." By 1840 he had returned to Wayne County and appears there on the census that year. He died after 1860. He and Elvira Davis were the parents of eleven children. William Glen Coe was the oldest son of their youngest son Joshua Coe, who was born in 1847 in Wayne County. Carl Robert Coe Marysville, OH 43040-9012