Dallas Co., TX - Obits:  Wallace D. Coats

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Wallace D. Coats (25 Jun 1872- 13 Apr 1938)

Dallas Morning News 16 Apr 1938

Son of Dallas’ First Justice of the Peace Will Be Buried Today

      Funeral services for Wall Coats, 66, of Mesquite and son of Dallas
County’sfirst Justice of the Peace, will be held at 3 P.M. Saturday at the
Mesquite Baptist Church, the Rev. Grover Lewis, Tripp Baptist Church,and the
Rev. Rex Thompson, Mesquite Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in
Long Creek Cemetery.

      Mr. Coats’ parents were Thomas D. Coats, who served Dallas County as its
first Justice of the Peace, in 1850 and Mary Ann Coats, who settled in the
county in 1846.

      Mr. Coats died Thursday [14 Apr 1938] in Dallas as he was on his way to
visit relatives after coming from his home in Malvern, Ark.

      Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Maggie Mick. Mrs. Ethel Post, both
of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Lucille Cougale,Terminal Island,Calif.; two
sons, Mack Coats, Hot Springs Ark.,and Clint Coats, Los Angeles, and twelve
grandchildren.