Notes
Note for: Jons Olsson Alm, 11 SEP 1846 -
Jons Olsson changed his name to Jons Alm when he entered the military and
before he married Kjersti Martensdotter, the sister of Anders
(Martensson) Almstrom.
(Undated article from about 1926, translated from Swedish; from Ida
Eckberg's scrapbook; Jons Alm was Ida's uncle)
AN 80-YEAR-OLD
The Former Soldier Jons Alm, Almarod
The former soldier Jons Alm, Almarod, Skivarp, celebrates his 80th
birthday today. At the age of only nineteen years, Alm took a post in
the Southern Scanian Infantry Regiment, which then had its training camp
at Tvedora Moor. Thus, that was during the days of Karl XV and shortly
after the Danish-German war in 1864, when Sweden's king and people
followed with great interest the struggle of our neighboring country to
the south against a more powerful enemy, and only political prudence
prevented our country from taking part. Alm belongs to an old family of
soldiers, in which a soldier's reputation descended from father to son
through many generations, and of whose members more than one has
sacrificed his life for the fatherland. For many years, Alm served as a
tenement soldier in his regiment, first at Tvedora and later at Revinge,
until he retired in the year 1896 following a long and irreproachable
career. Possessing a good memory and a keen gift for storytelling, he
likes to tell the younger generation about his old regiment and the life
of a soldier in former days. Alm, who is still in good physical
condition with unimpaired mental powers, follows what is happening in
the world with great interest. On his 80th birthday, many will most
certainly pay homage to the old man of honor.
Notes
Note for: John Coe, 1744 - 28 OCT 1807
From Carl Robert Coe, Marysville, Ohio 43040-9012, via Internet on
9/30/98 on the Coe Rootsweb page (COE-L@@rootsweb.com) in response to my
query:
"Thank you for inquirying about John Coe. He was indeed an interesting
and worthy member of the Southern Coe family.
John Coe, born 1744 in Worcester County, MD, was a son of Daniel and
Rebecca (Avery) Coe. The confusion over his mother likely stems from his
father's second marriage to Lydia Hudson.
Captain of the Sinepuxent Battalion, Worcester County Militia, under
Colonel Zadock Purnell, during the American Revolution, John's brother
Asa Coe served as an ensign in the battalion. Obed and John Aydelott,
who also served in the battalion. As you pointed out, John's daughter
Mary Coe married Obed Aydelott, Jan. 15, 1785, in Guilford County, NC.
Mentioned in numerous records in Worcester County, John Coe inherited 110
acres of "Coe's Addition" at Bishopville at his father's death in 1779.
On Nov. 16, 1784, he sold his share of the plantation to James Laws for
275 pounds to be paid in gold and silver.
John Coe left St. Martin's Church after converting to Methodism. At the
inception of Old Sound Methodist Episcopal Church at Johnson's Corner,
Sussex County, DE, he was elected one of the founding trustees of the
church. Founded in 1784 by horseback-riding Methodist evangelist
Freeborn Garrettson, the church was honored by a visit from the founder
of American Methodism, Bishop Francis Asbury, Oct. 23, 1787.
John Coe moved from Worcester County to Guilford County, NC, near where
his Uncle Timothy Coe had settled in the 1750's. In 1787 he purchased
two tracts of land from Robert Neely for 150 pounds. Located near the
southern boundary of Guilford County, on the headwaters of Polecat Creek,
east of Deep River, his plantation was near where fellow Marylander Isaac
Causey settled the following year. John Coe continually added to his
plantation, and it eventually contained 671 acres.
He became a pillar in the early Guilford County community. As he had
been before leaving Maryland, he was one of the founding trustees of
Pleasant Garden Methodist Episcopal Church, located ten miles south of
Greensboro on Route 22.
Also as had occurred before leaving Maryland, on Nov. 10, 1798, Bishop
Asbury paid a visit to Pleasant Garden. That night in his journal he
wrote: "We rode from the upper reaches of Rocky River, twenty miles, to
Pleasant Garden. When I came to the meeting house, I had little strength
of mind of body. We lodged at Daniel Sherwood's. My aged brethern and
sisters from Maryland and Delaware rejoiced to see me...."
Additional notes, February 22, 1999, from Carl R. Coe:
John Coe, after serving as captain of the Sinupuxent Battalion during the
American Revolution, moved to Guilford County, NC, where he settled a
671-acre plantation. His son, Major Joseph Coe, after serving in the War
of 1812, was a member of the Tennessee General Assembly. John's son
Major Jesse Coe was a prominent Methodist minister, mason and cotton
planter in Alabama and Florida. He gave the invocation at the Statehouse
in Tallahassee, June 23, 1845, when Florida became a state. He owned a
4,485-acre cotton plantation in Jackson County, FL. John Coe's grandson
General Levin H. Coe was nominated for Vice President of the United
States in 1848. He was assassinated in Memphis in 1850.
Notes
Note for: Sarah Holton, 1738 - 25 FEB 1822
Sarah's name is also given as Hotten. In some places she is said to have
been born in North Carolina, but other sources give her birth apparently
in Maryland. Her death is also not certain; Carl Robert Coe lists her
death in Guilford County, NC, yet other sources place it in Tennessee.
Her property in 1817 was listed as 206 acres and was valued at $721.