[page 636-7]					William H. Coil (deceased)

	The name that heads this sketch was borne by a man well and 
favorably known to the people of Audrain and Callaway counties, particularly 
in the north-eastern part of the latter, and the central and south-eastern 
part of the former. A successful farmer of Audrain county for a number of 
years prior to his death, from an early day up to the time of settling on 
his farm, he had been engaged in mercantile pursuits, principally at Mexico, 
Shamrock and Martinsburgh.  He was born in Bourbon, Kentucky, February 25, 
1826.  He was a son of John and Diana (Bradford) Coil, who settled here from 
Kentucky as early as 1836.  His father died in March, 1865.  William H., 
after he grew up, was married on the 5th of December, 1865, to Miss Carolina 
Vaughan, a daughter of Henry and Evaline (Ford) Vaughan, who came to 
Missouri from Kentucky in 1857.  Mrs. Coil was born in Oldham county, 
Kentucky, November 26, 1835.  However, Mrs. Coil's father died before the 
family removed to Missouri.  Her mother died here July 1, 1878.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Coil reared a family of two children:  Samuel O. and Annie E., both 
unmarried, reside at the old homestead.  Mr. C., the father of these, died 
on his farm in this county, on the 20th of August, 1877.  Mrs. Coil still 
survives him, and resides on the old homestead.  She has a place of 213 
acres.  Mrs. Coil is a lady of great strength of character and superior 
intelligence, as well as a woman of many amiable and neighborly qualities.  
She is carrying on the farm herself, superintending her entire affairs, and 
she manages her place with a degree of energy and success that would reflect 
credit on some of our best farmers.  Personally she is much beloved by her 
neighbors, and is in every sense a Christian hearted, good woman, one of 
the worthy mothers of the county.  She has long been a member of the 
Christian Church.  Her husband was a man worthy to have been the partner of 
life of such a wife.  A man of high character and of the most generous 
impluses, he is remembered by all who knew him with kindness and with sorrow 
for his death.

[page 637-8]					George A. Coil (deceased)

and an elder brother of the late William H. Coil, whose sketch precedes 
this, was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, on the 17th of October, 1824. He 
was therefore thirteen years of age when his parents removed to Audrain 
county in 1836.  He early learned the blacksmith's trade and worked at that, 
with success, for about twenty years.  He was not married until rather late 
in life -- until he was nearly forty years of age.  But on the 26th of June, 
1864, he was married to Miss Lizzie P. Romans, born in Tazewell county, 
Virginia, on the 25th of August, 1838.  She was a daughter of John and Mary 
P. Romans, who were early settlers in this section of Missouri, from the Old 
Dominion.  In August following his marriage, Mr. Coil settled on the farm 
where his widow still resides.  Here he followed farming until his death, 
which occurred on the 4th of July, 1879.  He and his good wife reared a 
family of eight children:  Mary L., Angie B., Lucy G., John G., Eunice P., 
Linnie D., William H. and Allen A.  Mrs C. and her daughters were members of 
the Christian Church, as was also Mr. C. for twenty years.  He was one of 
the honest, worthy men of Audrain county.  His life was one of great 
industry, spent striving, as a good man, to bring up his family in a 
creditable way, and to leave a record of his career which would cause no 
blush of shame to mantle the face of those near and dear to him at the 
mention of his name.  If to have spent one's life in honest toil, to bring 
up a worthy family, to live according to the principles of honor and 
morality, and to keep steadily in view the great precepts of the Ten 
Commandments, dying finally in the faith of the true Christian -- if to do 
this is to have filled a high and nobile mission, then George A. Coil may be 
said to have come up to the full measure of man's truest aim in life.  Such 
a father no descendant will ever wish to forget.  Mrs. Coil, his wife, is a 
woman worthy to have held the place she occupied by the side of her husband 
during their happy married life.  A lady in the better sense of the word, 
true-hearted, generous and kind, affectionate in her family and hospitable 
in her home, she is loved by her neighbors less only than by her own 
children.  She is a sincere and faithful follower of the Cross, a true and 
pious mother in Israel.  She resides on Section, 29, Township, 50, Range, 7.