This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Coats/Marshall Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hAC.2ACE/1241.1.1 Message Board Post: Ruth Coats was not related to our line via the Hale family. Ruth was from my husband's line of Marshalls. The Hales are my maternal line. I did see somewhere, I think a census, that Ruth was not living with her parents. Could they have died and all the children been adopted or put out to relatives?