MADISON COUNTY, NC - OBITUARY - Rev. John Nelson Coates, 17 Nov 1930
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Asheville Citizens
Newspaper Date: 11-21-1930
Microfilm page 145

Rev. John Nelson Coates, a well known farmer and minister of the Gospel,
died at his home Monday morning, November 17.  He had been a sufferer for
several months, and very ill for four weeks.  He had reached the age of 57
years.  Born and reared in Madison County, he had been a Christian man from
the age of 23, and had been a minister of the Gospel for 20 years.

Funeral services, which were in charge of the Rev. N. H. Griffin, pastor of
the deceased, and Rev. Cecil Reece, were held at Walnut Creek Baptist church
Tuesday morning.  The large number of people present for the funeral and the
many floral offerings bespoke the love and esteem in which the deceased was
held.

Surviving are the wife, who before her marriage was Miss Bell Riddle, and
five children as follows; Mrs. Jack Banks of Old Fort, N. C., Mrs. Fred Kent
of Marshall, Delphia, Eloise, and Dora L. Coates; also 10 grandchildren, one
sister, Mrs. Henry Arrington, of Asheville, and one brother, Mr. C. C.
Coates of Marshall

He will be greatly missed by his many friends.  It will be a lonely, sad
world to live in without Papa, but our loss is Heaven's gain.

MRS. FRED KENT

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