Spouse: Nancy BROWN
Birth: 9 Mar 1804 Georgia
Death: 2 Apr 1888 Weakley Co TN Hornbeak Cem
 

Children

1 F: Sarah Louise (Sallie) COATS
Birth: 9 Feb 1834 Gibson Co. TN
Death: 11 Apr 1927 Weakley Co TN Hornbeak Cem
Spouse: James Hamilton (Jim) SHARP
Marriage: 20 Sep 1855

2 F: Adalanta Elizabeth COATS
Birth: 20 Sep 1831  Gibson Co., TN
Death: 1873
Spouse: James M PRICE
Marriage: 3 Feb 1851 Gibson Co. TN
Spouse: James WHITE
Marriage: 6 Aug 1863 Weakley Co TN

3 M: William McNairy (Mac) COATS
Birth: 29 Sep 1826  Murfreesborough, Rutherford Co., TN
Death: 16 May 1906 Weakley Co TN Hornbeak Cem
Spouse: Sophia CRIDER
Marriage: bef 1847
Spouse: Elizabeth (Betsy) SHARP
Marriage: 24 Jul 1848 Gibson Co. TN

4 F: Polly Joannah COATS
Birth: 5 Jun 1829 Gibson Co. TN
Death: 25 Oct 1870 Weakley Co TN
Spouse: John Willis McKELVY
Marriage: 22 Dec 1851 Gibson Co TN - 1st wife of John W. McKelvy

5 M: Richard H. (Dick) COATS
Birth: 28 May 1837 Gibson Co TN
Death: 11 Feb 1913
Spouse: Caroline RIGSBY

6 M: Henry Armistead COATS
Birth: 8 Feb 1840 Gibson Co. TN
Death: 28 Oct 1917 Weakley Co TN Hornbeak Cem
Spouse: Nancy Jane Saphronia (Ducky) PRICE
Marriage: 10 Jan 1866 Weakley Co TN

7 M: James Fountain (Fount) COATS
Birth: 2 Dec 1842 Gibson Co TN
Death: 15 Jul 1864 Weakley Co TN

8 F: Nancy Jane (Puss) COATS
Birth: 13 Jul 1845 Gibson Co TN
Death: 5 Mar 1921 Weakley Co TN
Spouse: John Willis McKELVY
Marriage: 4 Dec 1871 Weakley Co TN - 2nd wife of John W. McKelvy
 

Notes for Armistead COATS
About 1822-3 Armistead and his siblings left Rockingham, VA and settled in Rutherford Co, TN. He met Nancy Brown while camped at a place called Jefferson Springs, which is now Murfreesboro, TN - married in 1825. had their first children there.  His brother, Peyton married Linda Richardson there. Peyton stayed in Murfreesboro.  In about 1827 Armistead, Charles, and Sallie, along with several other families loaded wagons and started west settled in Gibson Co., TN - the Coats family does not fit the time period of the other families who joined wagon train headed toward Oklahoma Territory abt 1837.   Near what is now Milan, Gibson Co., TN the wagon master's wife took sick and died. He refused to go on so the group disbanded and bought land in Gibson County, TN. Sometime in the late 1850's Armistead moved over to Weakley Co., TN.  Not sure if he was on the same wagon train as the Sharp's etc. as he shows up in Gibson Co. much earlier than the others....Jan Coats J. & Hollis Coats
 

About 1833 Armistead Coats rode a mule to Rockingham County, North Carolina to visit his mother.  This was the year that "the star fell".  When he returned to Tennessee she gave him a beautiful home woven counterpane or coverlet.  It is still in possession of the Allen Sharp family.....Nannie Sharp Campbell from Hollis Coats.

1830 Gibson Co Census
Coats, Armstead 10001-10001

1840 Gibson Co. Census
Coats, Armstead 10001-10001

1850 district 13 Gibson Co.Census
Coats, Armistead/50/farmer/VA/$1200
Coats, Nancy/45/wife/GA
Coats, Mary (polly)/20/TN
Coats, Atlanta/19/TN
Coats, Sarah/16/TN
Coats, Richard/14/TN
Coats, Henry/10/TN
Coats, James/7/TN
Coats, Nancy/5/TN
Price, James/22/TN

Bethel Baptist Enrollment Book # 73 & 74....received by letter March 1859 from Bluff Springs Baptist Church, Gibson Co. TN. Ordained deacon by Bluff Springs..elected Deacon of Bethel the day he joined lost by death Aug 30, 1887, she lost by death April 3, 1888....Jan Coats