Leo J Coates

Male18 September 1936–11 January 2008

Brief Life History of Leo J

When Leo J Coates was born on 18 September 1936, in Carey, Blaine, Idaho, United States, his father, Evan Afton Coates, was 23 and his mother, Delores Eloise Rudd, was 20. He lived in Carey Election Precinct, Blaine, Idaho, United States in 1940 and World in 1950. He died on 11 January 2008, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Carey, Blaine, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Evan Afton Coates
1913–1995
Delores Eloise Rudd
1916–1993
Leroy Evan Coates
1934–1973
Leo J Coates
1936–2008
Rick Verlin Coates
1950–2008

Sources (16)

  • Leo Coates, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Leo J Coates - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Leo J Coates
  • Leo J Coates, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1937 · The Neutrality Act

Age 1

The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

1942 · Atomic Energy Plant at Oak Ridge

Age 6

The atomic energy plant that was built in Oak RIdge, Tennessee. The land was acquired secretly by the government in order to help with the Manhattan Project. The Uranium for the project was housed in the facility.

1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins

Age 19

The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Coates, for example in Cambridgeshire, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Sussex, and Wiltshire; Cotes in Leicestershire or Staffordshire; or possibly from Coat in Somerset, Cote in Oxford and Yorkshire, with excrescent -s; or possibly from any of numerous other places similarly named from the new Middle English plural form cotes of Old English cot (plural cotu) ‘cottage’, also ‘shelter’, and sometimes ‘woodman's hut’. It is possible that some bearers may be from a place whose current name is from the dative plural form of this word, cotum, for example Coatham (Durham) or Cottam, Cotham (Nottinghamshire), or from the plural of the related weak noun cote, plural coten. Cotham (Nottinghamshire) is early recorded as Cotes, and Coton (Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire) have many similar spellings. See also Coate . There are very small places in Midlothian, East Lothian, and Fife called Coates, but the surname seems rarely if ever to be Scottish in origin.

Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kotz or perhaps German Koths .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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