Coates Cemetery, New Liberty, Owen Co., KY

COATES Cemetery (#181): Located near the end of west Stewart Lane. Was originally on the east end of the county 
road that ran east from New Liberty's main Street, now blocked. The trace of this road still remains and passes this 
cemetery on two stone walled sides. The cemetery itself sits sw of the T fork of Stewart Lane. Turn left at the T, 
drive forty yards and then swing into the field to the south, run straight south on the ridge and over a gentle slope. At 
the bottom you'll reach trees and the walled enclosure...very large enclosure. Many stones, both marked and field. 
This was Ante Bellum slave farmland. The Coates family, from Virginia, held many slaves. TYPE: probably a 
combination of Church (Baptist, rev Thomas C. Cropper m Alcinda Coates) and Family Farm. (The church was 
midway between this cemetery and New Liberty on the old road.) CONDITION: Unused, overgrown. (NOTE: new 
recordings here.)



(NOTE: This is a large farm type cemetery, The main row, that I have calculated at row 7, will follow below, 
listed north to south, the two northernmost graves are the cemetery's last.
 
R. Sim Coates
Apr 27, 1829 - Apr 19, 1919

Sarah, wife of R S Coates
Apr 27, 1840 - May 1, 1904
(NOTE: This stone has been turned upside down and driven vertically by a fallen tree. I was unable to right 
it, mainly because it is still 100% intact.)
 
John H. Coates
born July 7, 1807 - died Jan 9, 1885
aged 77years, 6m, 2d

Mary
wife of Richard Coates
born May 21, 1788 - died Aug 12, 1881

no headstone found
footstone reads R. C.
(NOTE: Eternal Rest records the stone as: Richard Coates, 08/12/1783 - 07/02/1871.)
 
James L. Coates
died May (3-5-8), 1869 - aged 44y, 5m, 3d
(NOTE: stone broken on date line.)

Ann E. Coates
born Nov 29, 1810 - died Dec 9, 1856
footstone floating marked A E C

(NOTE: 6 fieldstone graves are immediately south of Ann Coates in row 7. The third one south has the initials 
M A C carved on it. Bear in mind, the yard likely contains members of the Cropper family, but this is in the 
Coates row.)

(Moving westward to row 6 within a space of M A C above is:)

.................. wife of W H Sanford
b Feb 11, 1826 - d June 11, 1854

Mary B.
dau of W H and M E Sandford
born May 18, 1854 - died Sept 6, 1854

(one standing field stone is also in row 6 many feet north)

(row 5, nearly west of the Sim Coates stone)
Henry Coates
born 1785 - died July 15, 1862

Lucy, wife of Henry Coates
born 1785 - dies April 26, 1875

(one standing field stone is also in row 5, several spaces south)

(Row 4, near the south wall, is a fieldstone grave, next to it is:)
In memory of Susan Blanton
wife of H. Blanton
died Oct 26, 1839, aged 36y, 10m

(Four other fieldstone graves in row 4, two, near the middle, an adult pair.)

(the following information comes from when I drew the map: 3 fieldstone graves in row 3, a pair being 
children's graves side by side; 2 fieldstones in row 2; and 3 fieldstones in row 1, one set an adult pairing.
 
HOWEVER: on a later trip, I found in the sw corner:)
Pascal Green
died Jan 12, 1854 - 54y, 6m, 1?days

(The following are not located on my map but I recorded them.)
Betty Ware
wife of W. H. Peggs
d July 30, 1844 - 19y, 11m, 13days

and their infant daughter
d Aug 28, 1844 - 4 m, 7days

Robert H. Branham
Feb 11, 1828 - Feb 6, 1850
(NOTE: I believe this stone was recorded in the original study but omitted from the Eternal Rest listing.)
One other fieldstone has the initials N C carved on it.

(NOTE: the area above may cover one-third of the walled enclosure.)

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