Coates Family
The following newspaper article
on the Coates family is shown with the
courtesy of Clarence E.
Crocker of Glendale. The article originally
appeared in the Spartanburg Journal in 1949 .
Personal Note from Web Master Mary
McKinney Teaster -
I'm so glad to see this picture of
people I've heard about all my life. Thanks Clarence for
the gift. Francis Coates mother, Elizabeth Flinn, was the
sister of my great grandmother, Charlotte Flinn Corn, who
I never saw. Mr. Coates tells of riding in a wagon
four days to the Spartanburg area. I wonder if it
was the same wagon he went to the Spartanburg depot to
pick up my Great Grandfather Corn and his family and
brought them to Glendale. (See
the Corn Family Story.) The family story goes that
someone gave my Grandmother, Addie Lee, then age 15, some
spirits and she sang all the way to Glendale. Oh, how I
wish I had asked more questions and had a better personal
picture of these people .
This web site has been started as a
public service to share the story of Glendale.
See more information about Mary and her Glendale
connection at Mary McKinney Teaster.
