Memories of the Coes 23 - Deborah Coe - Golden Wedding
their fiftieth anniversary. By that time many of the old friends were gone, but there were many new relatives. I find a short account of this in the Family Record, as follows: "We celebrated Grandpa and Grandma Coe's Golden Wedding Anniversary New Year's Eve, 1900. There were about fifty guests present tho many more were invited, whom distance or their infirmities". (in the middle of the winter) "prevented from attending. Carrie, Sarah and I helped about the refreshments and Clara sent delicious fruit cake. The "very large parlor was prettily decorated with evergreens, holly, some yellow roses Clara E. Coe made, and hot house flowers. Father and Mother wore yellow roses and looked very nice indeed. Some interesting letters were read, -" one article in Will Stowell's newspaper noted "We children gave mother a pretty watch chain and our children gave them for both Christmas and golden wedding an aquarium with five gold fish. The guests were invited from four to nine, and they began to go about nine, as there were watch night services that many attended. It seemed to me a very interesting, event, worthy of being celebrated on the threshold of a new and wonderful century."
Mother was a member of the W.C.T.U., and always of the missionary societies. I do not remember of her holding office in either.
She was noted as a good cook. Her rolls, and other bread, was literally unsurpassable. One time the Joslin cousins Flora and Lizzie, or Charlotte as we called her later, were visiting at our house. Lizzie, the impetuous said, "Oh I haven't tasted such rolls since I was here two years ago!" Flora was shocked, but we did not doubt Lizzie.
She always had nice house plants, and some garden flowers, more than the average woman of her day.
I am sure you know that "the half has not been said" of mother's virtues and accomplishments. But I am sure you can see that you used good judgement in choosing Albert and Deborah Prentice Coe for your ancestors!
I am thinking more things to write about mother. Mrs Tregea, whom father Call married for his second wife, used to say it made her think of heaven when she looked in mother's face. At the funeral of her first husband, who died suddenly of heart attack, she asked that mother come and sit by her during the funeral service.
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Patty's notes on this entry
This entry starts mid-sentence. From a note in the typed manuscript I have, apparently pages 126 and 127 of the original hand-written manuscript are missing. So we don't know what came between the previous section Rugs, Needle Work and Deborah Coe - Golden Wedding.
Photographs of Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice from the Cover of Ancestors and Descendants of Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice by Charles Arthur Call. Online at Internet Archive and the Boston Public Library
Albert Coe - Albert Coe (1827-1907), son of Ezra Coe (1796-1869) and Elizabeth Ann Sornberger (1795-1888)
Deborah Prentice - Deborah Prentice (1833-1910) daughter of Southwick Prentice (1800-1876) and Elizabeth Ann Smith (1802-1846)
Golden Wedding - Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice were married on December 31 1850 in Pavilion, Genesee County, New York. They held a golden anniversary party at their home on December 31, 1900.
Article from the Le Roy Gazette on December 26 1900
Article from page 1 of the Le Roy Gazette on January 2, 1901
Article from page 3 of the Batavia Daily News on January 3, 1901
The Auburn Post newspaper for 1900 is available on microfilm through at the Library of Congress - so hopefully at some point I'll be able to get down there and find a copy of the article!
Family Record - I've seen references to other manuscripts including a "Family Record" in the Elizabeth Coe Call papers. I'm still looking for them. I don't know if Elizabeth wrote them. Another possibility is that they would be among the papers of Rosalind Daniels.
Carrie - Carrie Evelyn Coe (1864-1948) daughter of Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice married Frank Lincoln Walkley (1867-1961) son of Rosman L Walkley (1838-1930) and Maryetta Peck (1843-1922) in 1894.
Sarah - Sarah Frances Ward (1856-1941) daughter of Charles Kendall Ward (1819-1898) and Laura Caroline Davenport (1822-1876). Sarah married Ezra Frank Coe (1853-1942) son of Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice in 1883.
I - Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956) daughter of Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice. She married Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) son of Robert Call (1831-1913) and Charlotte Joslin (1834-1908) in 1884.
Clara - Clara Addie Coe (1864-1950) daughter of Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice. She married James Daniel McEwen (1861-1901) son of Donald McEwen (1820-????) and Hannah (1830-????) in 1890. The McEwen family lived in Wichita, Sedgewick, Kansas. So while they often visited family in Le Roy, they did not attend the Golden Wedding Anniversary party.
Clara E. Coe - Clara Evelyn Coe (1886-1972) daughter of Ezra Coe and Sarah Frances Ward. She married Ward Coe Bryant (1881-1975) son of Frank E. Bryant (1858-1944) and Eva S. Coe (1860-1949) in 1906.
Will Stowell - William Huych Stowell (1855-1949), son of Luther Kinney Stowell (1825-1908) and Jennette McGregor (1836-1862). He married Caroline Dewey Robertson (1860-1926) daughter of John A. Robertson and Adeline Park in 1883. Stowell worked at and published newspapers in Nebraska, before working in the insurance industry in Kansas.
W.C.T.U. - The Women's Christian Temperance Union, founded in 1873, was an early women's social organization based around the Christian religion and societal reform. Their main goal was temperance - prohibition, sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Deborah Prentice Coe attended W.C.T.U. meetings as early as 1880, according to her daughter Elizabeth.
Missionary societies - Deborah Prentice Coe was in the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, including being a founding member of the Le Roy group in 1900. She served as 3rd Vice-President in 1900, and 1st Vice-President in 1901 and 1904. Founded in 1880, The Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church worked on behalf of the poor around the world through support of educational and missionary efforts.
Flora Joslin - Flora Francesca Joslin (1864-1953) daughter of William Joslin (1832-1916) and Charlotte Blackmore (1830-1885) She married Charles Newton Peaboy (1862-1939) son of Alpheus Peabody (1815-1892) and Elizabeth Lawton English (1827-1907) in 1888. Flora and her sister Lizzie were Charles Joslin Call's first cousins.
Lizzie/Charlotte Joslin - Charlotte Elizabeth Joslin (1867-1908) daughter of William Joslin and Charlotte Blackmore.
Mrs. Tregea - Lydia Martha Sawday (1840-1927) daughter of Abel Sawday (1789-1865) and (1793-after 1871) She married Thomas E. Tregea (1840-1903) in 1866. In 1909, she married Robert Call after the death of his first wife Charlotte Joslin in 1908.
father Call - Robert Call (1831-1913) son of John Call (1788-1872) and Grace Paine (1790-1862)
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