Date: 9/22/98 7:51 PM RE: COE, Vincent b.c. 1813 Roane Co TN USA Mary, Thank you so much for your exhaustive e-mails. You have gone to a lot of trouble to answer my questions. It is much appreciated! You have just about everything I have on Stephen Coe and his family. Not much is known. Like the Caseys, he seemed to move through life without leaving many ripples. He was obviously poor, and first appears on record in April 1814 in Roane County, TN, when the county court set aside $20 for his support. On April 22, 1817, the court appropriated $40 for his care for two years. Martha Coe was married to Jesse Casey in Roane County, April 4, 1817. Stephen Coe last appears on record June 5, 1826, in McMinn County, TN, when the county court appropriated $40 for his maintenance. Elizabeth Coe was married to Moses Casey in McMinn County, May 27, 1829. I actually knew little of Elizabeth and Moses Casey's family until I heard from you. I had not corresponded with a descendant previously. All I knew was what I found at the courthouse in Athens, TN, and Martha's descendants' information on Moses as Jesse's cousin. Vincent Coe is like others of this family. He left little record of his existence. He appears on only one census record, the 1840 census of Polk County, TN, as a 20~30-year-old male. I did manage to find record of him at courthouses in McMinn, Bradley, Meigs, and Polk Counties. He also owned land in the Hiwassee District of Rhea County, TN. He was dead by 1850. His wife Sarah is equally mysterious. In fact, her two youngest children, Henry Brooks Clay Coe, b. July 11, 1852, and James Riley Coe, b. Jan. 1857, were born years after their fathers' death, reportedly contributed by patrons of the boarding house she ran in Benton, TN. Their other children were William Newton Coe, b. Feb. 26, 1836; Jason Coe, b. 1839; Sarah Coe, b. 1841; Francis Marion Coe, b. 1844; and Caroline C. Coe, b. July 17, 1848. Jason, who served as a private with Company I, 43rd Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Infantry with Allen M. Coe and Stephen Columbus Coe, sons of Wesley Allen Coe, was captured during the surrender of Vicksburg, MS, July 4, 1863. He signed an oath of allegiance to the federal government and was released. Returning home to Tennessee, he and his brother William Newton Coe, who was serving with Company E, Fifth Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate Army, were captured August 17, 1864, by Yankee raiders near Cleveland, TN. After two weeks they switched sides and enlisted with Company A, Fifth Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Rifles, Union Army, September 1, 1864. They served out the war in blue uniforms. Newt was shot in the back in Brown Town Valley, Walker County, GA, in April 1865, but managed to survive. He suffered the remainder of his life from the wound, which penetrated his spinal column and shattered a vertebrae. He died March 26, 1910, at his farm at Wetmore, TN. Burial was at Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery, Linsdale, TN. He was the father of fourteen Coe children. Jason moved to Randolph County, AR, where he died July 8, 1887. Caroline C., who married John M. Clayton, also moved to Randolph County. Henry Brooks Clay Coe, who married June 29, 1874, Mary E. Davis, sister of William Newton Coe's wife, also moved to Randolph County, AR. Francis, who served with Company C, 1st Battalion, Georgia Sharpshooters, disappeared during the Civil War. You mentioned an Indian connection. I doubt that it came from the Coes. Early members of the East Tennessee Coe family were discribed as being tall and blond. I have a photograph of Stephen Columbus Coe, born Feb. 19, 1839, in Bradley County. He was a large, robust man with fair hair and features, and bald in his later years. I hope this is helpful. Carl Robert Coe.