Contra Costa-Placer County CA Archives Biographies.....Coats, Wilson 1802 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

WILSON COATS.—This old and respected pioneer of Tassajara valley, now reached
the venerable age of four score years, is a native of Smith county, Tennessee,
and was born August 10,1802. When fifteen years of age he moved with his parents
to Callaway county, Missouri, and resided in that State until his coming to
California. May 1, 1849, our subject started with ox-teams to cross the plains
to the Golden State, arriving in Placer county September 7th of the same year,
and there engaged in mining until 1851, when he paid a visit to his old home in
Missouri, proceeding via the Isthmus of Panama. Remaining but a short time he
again returned with his family to this coast, this time, as before, crossing the
plains with ox-teams, and, coming direct to Contra Costa county, located on his
present farm of one hundred and sixty acres, at that time being the only family
resident in the now well-populated and highly cultivated Tassajara valley-Was
married in Callaway county, Missouri, December 25, 1823, to Miss Mary Philipp, a
native of Tennessee. She died November 27, 1875. By this union they had ten
children, of which he has four sons living: Felix G., William L., John R. and
Lemuel A.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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