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Updated June 27, 2002

Margarette Elizabeth Brown Coates
2434 Fairfax
Grand Prairie, TX 75050
A-United States
972-264-7036
maggie49@swbell.net

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I am doing research on the family trees of my father-in-laws parents and their families. The main names would be Coates, Coats, Mainer, and Banks. They are mostly in the Buncombe County, North Carolina area. Some are in South Carolina. For anyone who is interested, there is a Banks/Mainer/Coates reunion held the 1st weekend of August every year at the Beech Community Center on Reems Creek Rd. just outside of Weaverville, N.C. which is on the outside edges of Ashville, N.C. The date for the reunion coming up will be 4 August 2002.We have a great time with singing, eating, visiting, etc. There will be more Banks and Mainer's there than Coates, but we are all cousins, etc. and everyone is welcome.

There is a Coates family reunion every year. If you would like to add your name to the mailing list call at (864) 585-5498. Ask to speak to Donnie. Coates Reunion at 10:00 a.m. at St. Marks United Methodist Church, 3055 East Main St., Spartanburg, S.C. 29307,Aug 3, 2002. Phone: 864-579-7533 Hope to begin lunch by 12 noon and fellowship till ???? Covered Dish/Pot Luck affair. Bring your bunch, your best recipe in a large quantity for everyone to enjoy. Don't forget dessert! Beverages, tableware, condiments, & papergoods on site.

I'll share information with anyone and will speak with anyone who wants to contact me. Have a very few older pictures (maybe older than 30 yrs.), and quite a few more recent pictures (up to 25 yrs. back). As always, I will have my laptop, (new) scanner, (new) printer with me. After last years reunion trip the scanner and printer bit the dust and I had to replace them!

My mother-in-laws family search includes the names of Brannon & Kemp. I have much more information than what is on the internet but for reasons of room and privacy of living have limited it. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me. I will gladly share all information.

My parents search includes the names of Williams, Harrison, Vandever, Wilson, Getter, Greenway, and lots of others. I am especially interested in the Vandever line as I am at a dead end. Please contact me with possibles or if you are interested in something I might have but have not put on the internet.

Family Photos

  • Jan Jr. & Margarette 1967 (208 KB)
    This is a photo of us soon after our marriage.
  • Brown-Harrison (110 KB)
    This is my mother's half-sister, Cleo Thelma Brister.
  • Making Music (110 KB)
    Maurice Banks, Robert Banks, J.E. Mainer, Forest Baker, and another Baker boy
  • Brown/Harrison (31 KB)
    Robert Lee & Laura Etta Harrison Brown at the time they got married, August 7, 1945.
  • Allen & Eva Coates (63 KB)
    Allen Sylvanious Coates & wife, Eva Leona Mainer Coates
  • Robert Lee Brown (9 KB)
    mid to late 1947-baby Laurance "Punky" Lee Brown, Robert Lee Brown, Robert's mother-Mildred Elizabeth Getter Brown, his grandfather-Melvin Huey Getter; and one of Melvin Huey Getter's uncle's.
  • Brown/Harrison (97 KB)
    Laura Etta Harrison at her time of high school graduation - 1943
  • Allen & Eva (32 KB)
    Allen & Eva Mainer Coates when younger
  • Robert Lee & Laura Etta Harrison Brown (23 KB)
  • Getter (250 KB)
    Melvin Huey & Alma Etheleen Wilson Getter
  • Eva Mainer Coates (131 KB)
    Eva Leona Mainer Coates holding a picture
  • Robert & Laura Brown (46 KB)
  • Getter (9 KB)
    Roy Brown & wife, Mildred Elizabeth Getter Brown
  • Anderson B. Coates (16 KB)
    picture states on back: A.B.Coates, Marshall, N.C.
  • Robert & Laura Brown (5 KB)
  • Getter (27 KB)
    Mildred Elizabeth Getter in July 1926 dressed in a Spanish Dancer costume in a high school play.
  • The Coates Boys (361 KB)
    Wayne, Vincent Delmas, Janeth Zebedee, J.P. (John Joseph Pearson), & Finley Coates---Children of Allen S. & Eva L. Mainer Coates
  • Brown/Harrison (26 KB)
    Laura Etta Harrison Brown, her father Jessie William Harrison, & Robert Lee Brown--mid to late 1960's
  • Getter (79 KB)
    Mildred Elizabeth Getter in July 1910.
  • Bluegrass Unlimited (110 KB)
    Blue Grass Unlimited-1975 November with pictures of J.E. & Wade Mainer on the cover.
  • Brown Family (31 KB)
    Margarette Elizabeth Brown Coates, Laurance Lee Brown, Robert Lee Brown, Laura Etta Harrison Brown
  • Vandiver (77 KB)
    Nannie Belle Vandiver, mother of William Jessie Harrison.
  • The Mainers (121 KB)
    This is William Joseph Mainer, wife Mary Polly, and 8 of their 10 children. The tall girl on the back row is Eva Leona Mainer, and the girl with the dolls is Gertrude Bessie Mainer.
  • Cleo Thelma Brister (16 KB)
    between Sept 1916 and early 1917
  • Harrison (164 KB)
    William Jessie & Margarette Eliza Harrison at the State Fair of Texas in the 1940's.
  • Cleo Thelma Brister (26 KB)
    Cleo Thelma Brister Fields & half sister, Laura Etta Harrison
  • Brown (224 KB)
    Robert Lee Brown aka Melvin Eugene Getter at 6th birthday.
  • Margarette Eliza Williams & Ed Brister (34 KB)
    This is Margarette's 1st husband. He is the father of her daughter Cleo.
  • Cynthia Lauran Brown (9 KB)
    May 1973
  • The Coates (53 KB)
    Janeth Zebedee & Cecil Marie Brannon Coates probably mid 1940's
  • The Coates (57 KB)
    Janeth & Marie a few years later
  • The Coates (204 KB)
    Janeth & Marie in 1986.
  • Betty Mason (34 KB)
    Undoubtedly my father-in-law kept in touch with the Mason's when Betty was young.
  • Toddler Coates (56 KB)
    Janeth Z. Coates at one year of age in 1916.
  • Betty Mason (42 KB)
    This picture was among my father-in-laws pictures. I think the cabin that Betty is at is a cabin my father-in-law helped his parents build. It is off Union Chapel Rd in Reems Creek, N.C. As of August 2001 this log cabin is still standing and it was probably built around the late 1920's.
  • Cynthia Lauran Brown (18 KB)
  • Janeth Coates (97 KB)
    Janeth Z. Coates as an older boy.
  • Betty Mason & Janeth Coates (54 KB)
    Betty Mason and my father-in-law, Janeth Zebedee Coates
  • The Coates Family (446 KB)
    Family portrait of Janeth Z. Coates family on 12 Dec. 1967, nine days before Janeth Jr. & Margarette Brown were married.
  • Elmo Mason (27 KB)
    Before Janeth passed away, he told me this was Elmo Mason, location of picture unknown to me.
  • Banks (37 KB)
    Roscoe & Essie Mainer Banks and children. Not sure which child is which, but names are Walter, Felmur, Jay Hugh, Guy, baby Maurice, and the blonde on the steps is Robert (so I was told)
  • Robert Lee Brown (12 KB)
    Taken when he was 10 yrs. of age.
  • The Cabin (149 KB)
    This picture is of Allen S. & Eva L. Mainer Coates, their 5 boys, and the log cabin they built just a few miles from Beeche Community Center.
  • Robert Lee Brown (26 KB)
    Dad always loved to make model airplanes, kites, and stuff. He even lucked into a job where he got to do that for 30+ yrs. before he retired, and had a home business doing that.
  • Polly M. Arrowood (14 KB)
    Polly M. Arrowood & one of her grandchildren
  • Merchant Marines (42 KB)
    Robert Lee is the fourth from the left in front.
  • The Brown-Harrison family (121 KB)
    This is a picture of my mom's mother, Margarette Eliza Williams Brister Harrison and her first husband, Ed Brister
  • Robert Lee Brown (aka Melvin Eugene Getter) (28 KB)
    while in the service
  • Robert Lee Brown (6 KB)
    mid 1940's
  • Robert Lee Brown (7 KB)
    Robert (grew up as Melvin Eugene Getter) & his grandfather who raised him, Melvin Huey Getter, about mid to late 1947
 

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