This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Coats TenEyck Green Cable Dent Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xg.2ADI/2530 Message Board Post: Would like to know if anyone has time while doing research in Springfield could look for an obit for my 4th great grandfather. His name was Abel Coats death date on tombstone in Oak Ridge Cem is Aug. 9, 1874. I believe he was living with his son Ralph J. Coats when he died.Coats is the correct spelling but sometimes I have seen it misspelled as Coates.Thank You.Marsha