William Joseph Coats

1867 - 1940  (72 years)

• Name	William Joseph Coats
  Birth	25 Dec 1867	Caldwell Parish, , , Louisiana
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Mar 1940	Caldwell Parish, , , Louisiana
  Burial	Old Union Cemetery, , Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
  Notes	From Sylvia Ivie: William Joseph Coates' father died when he was rather young (I think he was lost in the Civil war) His mother remarried a man with the last name Grant. Anyway when Joe was about 11 or 12 he ran away from home after a fight with Grant. He kicked about for a year doing odd jobs for room and board. Then he got a job herding cattle on the Chisolm trail. It was his first paying job... Anyway, one night he was on duty watching over the cattle when he bumped into something. He struck a match to see what it was and found himself face to face with a dead gambler that someone had hung. Well, he was a kid and it scared the crap out of him and he screamed. That stampeded the cattle. Several of the cattle were injured and lost and the trail boss was pretty ticked off. He took Joe's horse and saddle as compensation and left Joe in the middle of Indian Territory (Oklahoma) supposedly up near the Kansas border, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a little food. He walked for several days and had gotten rained on, etc. He got sick. The "Indians" found him and took him back to their camps and nursed him back to health. He stayed for a while then they gave him a horse and he headed out. The story ends with him being "gone from home" for about 6-8 years. No one knows what happened during the missing time other than this story.
  Person ID	I24496	DeLoach Ancestry
  Last Modified	24 Sep 2013

  
  

  Father	William Elijah "W.E." Coats,   b. Abt 1840, Wilkinson County, , , Mississippi d. Abt 1869, Caldwell Parish, , , Louisiana (Age ~ 29 years)
  Mother	Emily June Lilley,   b. Nov 1844, Caldwell Parish, , , Louisiana
  Marriage	10 Jul 1864	Caldwell Parish, , , Louisiana
  Family ID	F7624	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mattie Wilson,   b. Abt 1873, Lincoln Parish, , , Louisiana
  Marriage	15 Nov 1888	Lincoln Parish, , , Louisiana
  Family ID	F9017	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Emma Gregory,   b. Abt 1876, Louisiana, , ,
  Marriage	23 Jul 1891	Caldwell Parish, , , Louisiana
  Children	1. Mattie E. Coats,   b. Abt 1893, Caldwell Parish, , , Louisiana   2. Maggie Coats,   b. Abt 1895, Caldwell Parish, , , Louisiana   3. Bobbie Coats,   b. Abt 1897, Caldwell Parish, , , Louisiana   4. James Coats,   b. Abt 1900, Caldwell Parish, , , Louisiana   5. Jessie Coats,   b. Abt 1903, Caldwell Parish, , , Louisiana
  Family ID	F9018	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart