John Coe was born April 10, 1844, in Henderson County, KY. A private with Company G, 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles, Confederate Army, during the Civil War, he was taken captive by Union forces July 9, 1863, and released the following day. Captured again December 25, 1863, at Ripley, MO - just across the state line from Randolph County, AR - he was taken to Gratiot Prison, St. Louis, January 6, 1864. Interrogated there January 22, he stated that he "lived in Lawrence County, Arkansas, but was born in Henderson County, Ky, . . . was captured in Ripley County, Missouri . . . being a rebel soldier I was with Revis' command. It was surrounded by Federal Troops and I am among others captured. I was in arms against the United States, and was a Private in G Company, 1st Ark., C.S.A. I was sworn into the Rebel service about the 10th day of March 1862 by Col. Mattich in Lawrence County, Ark., for three years." He went on to state that "I have never taken the oath of allegiance to the US." When asked if he wished to have the authority of the United States restored, he stated emphatically "I do not!" Sent on to the Union prison at Rock Island, IL, he enlisted for frontier service with the Union Army, October 17, 1864, stating he was tired of the Rebellion.
After the war he lived at St. Joseph, MO. In 1875 he moved to Placer County, CA, where he lived at Donner Lake and Rocklin. He died October 18, 1881. Burial was at the Coe family plot at Rocklin.
He married Elsie Anne Clark 25 April 1866 in Missouri. They were the parents of 9 children (Walter, Sarah, Georgianna, William Thomas, Lydia, Edward, Genevieve, Maggie, and Michael (died as an infant)). The first five children were born in St. Louis, MO; the last four children were born in Rocklin, California.
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In the 1880 census he is 36 and his oldest child, Sarah E. is 12. That would have made him 24 when she was born. A search of FamilySearch. org shows he married Elsie A. Gromes on 25 Apr 1866 in Buchanan County, Missouri.
(From Contributor Sharen Moon - March 2017)
After the war he lived at St. Joseph, MO. In 1875 he moved to Placer County, CA, where he lived at Donner Lake and Rocklin. He died October 18, 1881. Burial was at the Coe family plot at Rocklin.
He married Elsie Anne Clark 25 April 1866 in Missouri. They were the parents of 9 children (Walter, Sarah, Georgianna, William Thomas, Lydia, Edward, Genevieve, Maggie, and Michael (died as an infant)). The first five children were born in St. Louis, MO; the last four children were born in Rocklin, California.
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In the 1880 census he is 36 and his oldest child, Sarah E. is 12. That would have made him 24 when she was born. A search of FamilySearch. org shows he married Elsie A. Gromes on 25 Apr 1866 in Buchanan County, Missouri.
(From Contributor Sharen Moon - March 2017)
John Coe was born April 10, 1844, in Henderson County, KY. A private with Company G, 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles, Confederate Army, during the Civil War, he was taken captive by Union forces July 9, 1863, and released the following day. Captured again December 25, 1863, at Ripley, MO - just across the state line from Randolph County, AR - he was taken to Gratiot Prison, St. Louis, January 6, 1864. Interrogated there January 22, he stated that he "lived in Lawrence County, Arkansas, but was born in Henderson County, Ky, . . . was captured in Ripley County, Missouri . . . being a rebel soldier I was with Revis' command. It was surrounded by Federal Troops and I am among others captured. I was in arms against the United States, and was a Private in G Company, 1st Ark., C.S.A. I was sworn into the Rebel service about the 10th day of March 1862 by Col. Mattich in Lawrence County, Ark., for three years." He went on to state that "I have never taken the oath of allegiance to the US." When asked if he wished to have the authority of the United States restored, he stated emphatically "I do not!" Sent on to the Union prison at Rock Island, IL, he enlisted for frontier service with the Union Army, October 17, 1864, stating he was tired of the Rebellion.
After the war he lived at St. Joseph, MO. In 1875 he moved to Placer County, CA, where he lived at Donner Lake and Rocklin. He died October 18, 1881. Burial was at the Coe family plot at Rocklin.
He married Elsie Anne Clark 25 April 1866 in Missouri. They were the parents of 9 children (Walter, Sarah, Georgianna, William Thomas, Lydia, Edward, Genevieve, Maggie, and Michael (died as an infant)). The first five children were born in St. Louis, MO; the last four children were born in Rocklin, California.
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In the 1880 census he is 36 and his oldest child, Sarah E. is 12. That would have made him 24 when she was born. A search of FamilySearch. org shows he married Elsie A. Gromes on 25 Apr 1866 in Buchanan County, Missouri.
(From Contributor Sharen Moon - March 2017)
After the war he lived at St. Joseph, MO. In 1875 he moved to Placer County, CA, where he lived at Donner Lake and Rocklin. He died October 18, 1881. Burial was at the Coe family plot at Rocklin.
He married Elsie Anne Clark 25 April 1866 in Missouri. They were the parents of 9 children (Walter, Sarah, Georgianna, William Thomas, Lydia, Edward, Genevieve, Maggie, and Michael (died as an infant)). The first five children were born in St. Louis, MO; the last four children were born in Rocklin, California.
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In the 1880 census he is 36 and his oldest child, Sarah E. is 12. That would have made him 24 when she was born. A search of FamilySearch. org shows he married Elsie A. Gromes on 25 Apr 1866 in Buchanan County, Missouri.
(From Contributor Sharen Moon - March 2017)
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There is a marker for son William Coe and daughter Sarah Crosby, but none for John Coe
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