Memories of the Coes 17: Father's Cousins and Some of Father's Sayings
On pages --- and ---- I wrote of some of father's cousins who used to visit us. Besides those mentioned, with E.F.'s help, I have recalled others. There were Mollie and Emily Cline, Emily married Mr Dimmock, a white haired, white bearded vigorous man with rosy cheeks. Another cousin married Mr Ranney, rather saturnine, black chin whiskers tall and dark. Will and John Coe, brothers, used to visit us from Canandaigua. They were interested in geneology, and one of them did quite a good deal to bringing our branch of the Coe's up to date in the last volume of our geneology., Robert Coe, Puritan. One of the Cline sisters was very jolly. Once they were visiting in Le Roy at aunt Melissa's on Church St., right on the Oatka. They were expecting some of the party to join them and often went to the door. Once the cousin mentioned went to listed and when she returned and was asked what the noise was, she replied, "Nothing but the dam roaring."
I don't remember much about husking bees. Mother had a quilting party the day a man came to look at the homestead place, - the same one who bought it. One of the ladies asked mother if father wanted to sell. She said "I didn't know that he wanted to."
Father used expressions that were different. One, when a felt a person was honored or flattered, "I think you are highly camoodged!" "He held his head up like a steer in the corn." "You might was well kill a body as scare him to death." "It had a good stink." "Dark as a stack of black cats." "Scarce as hen's teeth." "If it clears off in the night it might as well not clear off at all." E.F. says he was very particular in the care of crops and would say in regard to preparation of the soil "Cultivate the corn once before you plant it."
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Patty's notes on this entry
Like a few other posts, this is a combination of two shorter consecutive sections of the original manuscript.
Posts with info about father's cousins - Previous posts with information about Albert Coe's cousins are Gatherings at Uncle Emory's, Snowbound, and Father Albert Coe.
E.F.- Ezra Frank Coe (1853-1942, son of Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice. He married Sarah Frances Ward in 1883.
Mollie Cline - Maria Antoinette Cline (1832-1904, daughter of Maria Coe (1800-1878) and Conrad Cline (1796-1874) Maria Coe was the daughter of Jesse Coe (1769-1843) and Olive Roberts (1770-1854)). She married Alonzo Franklin Ranney (1912-1901, son of George Ranney (1789-1842) and Achsah Sears (1789-1869) in 1871 as his third wife.
Emily Cline married Mr Dimmock - Emily Cline (1828-1910, daughter of Maria Coe and Conrad Cline) never married. Her sister Minerva married William Phelps Dimock.
Mr Dimmock - William Phelps Dimock (1811-1891, son of Solomon Dimock (1780-1873) ancd Clarissa (1788-1877) married Minerva Cline (1827-1913, daughter of Maria Coe and Conrad Cline) as his second wife between 1870 and 1874.
Will Coe - William Warner Coe (1841-1915, son of William Warner Coe (1810-1840) and Catherine Vosburgh (1809-1899). William Warner Coe was the son of Jesse Coe and Olive Roberts) married Caroline Sheldon (1848-1932, daughter of Albert Sheldon and Phebe Vosburgh in 1869.
John Coe - John Sanford Coe (1834-1907. son of William Warner Coe and Catherine Vosburgh) married Addie A Titus (1849- 1922 , daughter of Horace Titus (1816-1895) and Mary Jane Berber (1821-1901)) in 1868.
John Sanford Coe (1834-1907) Calling Card
Robert Coe, Puritan - Robert Coe, Puritan His Ancestors and Descendants 1340-1910 With Notices of Other Coe Families by J. Gardner Bartlett was published in Boston in 1911. While sources for the information in the book aren't listed, the information about the Coe family in the 17th-19th century has proved to be quite accurate. Since it is in the public domain, you can download a copy from the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/robertcoepuritan00bart. Like many other family histories published at this time, information about the current and recent generations was obtained by the author writing to people and asking for the information. My assumption is that either Will or John Coe took on the job of updating the information for our part of the family for the author.
Cline sisters - The five daughters of Maria Coe and Conrad Cline. In addition to Maria Antoinette, Emily and Minerva (mentioned above), they had two additional daughters Juliette and Esther. Juliette (about 1824-1898) who married William Henry Helmer (1822-1893, son of Frederick Helmer (1796-1860) and Nancy Bellinger (1793-1872)) before 1848. Esther, born about 1835. I haven't been able to trace Esther beyond the 1860 census. She likely married or died between 1860 and 1865.
Conrad Cline and Marie Coe also had four sons. Marvin (1820-1881) who first married Margaret and then married Olive. William Ezra (about 1838 - after 1865), Lyman E (about 1841-after 1880), and Hiram. For some reason, the Cline family, especially the sons, have been difficult to trace. They may have headed west after the Civil War, and since Cline is not an uncommon name, I haven't been able to separate them from all the other Cline families.
Aunt Melissa - Huldah Melissa Coe (1821-1902, daughter of Ezra Coe (1796-1869) and Elizabeth Ann Sornberger (1795-1888) married Henry Crocker (1819-1899, son of Simeon Crocker (1785-1857) and Aseneth Carver (1787-1866)) before 1843. They lived in Illinois in the 1840s, and Pavilion and Le Roy, Genesee County by 1850.
Mother - Deborah Prentice (1833-1910, daughter of Southwick Prentice (1800-1876) and Elizabeth Ann Smith (1802-1846))
Father - Albert Coe (1827-1907, son of Ezra Coe and Elizabeth Ann Sornberger)
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