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George Ivestor Coates

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George Ivestor Coates

Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
16 Jul 1870 (aged 60)
Mendocino, Mendocino County, California, USA
Burial
Willits, Mendocino County, California, USA Add to Map
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The son of Benjamin Coates 1780-1820 and Elizabeth Ivestor 1785-1868.
Brother of Anne Coates Butler, Jesse L Coates, Abner C Coates, William Starr Coates and Benjamin M Coates
Husband of Loretta Jane Lytle, married June 02, 1831 in Bond County, Illinois. Father of:
* Mary E Coates, Mrs Charles Traber 1833 -1908
* William Wesley Coates 1835-1867
* Martha Ann Coates, Mrs William Berry 1838-1927
* Adaline Coates, Mrs James Boyd 1841-1910
* Henry Harrison Coates 1842-1867
* Laura Jane Coates, Mrs James Say 1844-1925
* Anna Ellen Coates, Mrs Edwin Sherwood 1847-1932
* Sarah Coates 1849-1850
* James Benjamin Coates 1851-1922
* Fanny E Coates, Mrs Isaac Southard 1856-1919

The Coates family would move to California with cousins the Frosts with whom a feud had started over the killing of a Frost dog. The feud would end October 16, 1867, in the streets of Willits, CA, when two of his sons, and four other family members would die in a famous, fifteen second shootout.

A detail of the infamous Coates-Frost shoot out is presented on the memorial for Thomas Johnson Coates

Bio/transcribed by Anne Stevens
The son of Benjamin Coates 1780-1820 and Elizabeth Ivestor 1785-1868.
Brother of Anne Coates Butler, Jesse L Coates, Abner C Coates, William Starr Coates and Benjamin M Coates
Husband of Loretta Jane Lytle, married June 02, 1831 in Bond County, Illinois. Father of:
* Mary E Coates, Mrs Charles Traber 1833 -1908
* William Wesley Coates 1835-1867
* Martha Ann Coates, Mrs William Berry 1838-1927
* Adaline Coates, Mrs James Boyd 1841-1910
* Henry Harrison Coates 1842-1867
* Laura Jane Coates, Mrs James Say 1844-1925
* Anna Ellen Coates, Mrs Edwin Sherwood 1847-1932
* Sarah Coates 1849-1850
* James Benjamin Coates 1851-1922
* Fanny E Coates, Mrs Isaac Southard 1856-1919

The Coates family would move to California with cousins the Frosts with whom a feud had started over the killing of a Frost dog. The feud would end October 16, 1867, in the streets of Willits, CA, when two of his sons, and four other family members would die in a famous, fifteen second shootout.

A detail of the infamous Coates-Frost shoot out is presented on the memorial for Thomas Johnson Coates

Bio/transcribed by Anne Stevens

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