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Note: Timothy2, Timothy1) was born February 24, 1882, in Pike County, OH. "Frank," as he preferred to be called, left home when he was fifteen and headed west. He traveled for a while in a wagon on which he and his brother Albert had built a small shack-like house. Ending up in Wyoming, where he worked in a copper mine, during the trip he worked for farmers, at times husking corn. One of his children recalled him telling of the immensity of the western plain, describing husking corn in rows nearly a mile long; starting on one row in the morning, working his way to the end by noon, eating lunch and husking another row on the return trip.
Medium height and build, with blue eyes, he returned to Pike County before 1908. Shortly afterward he moved to Washington Court House, where he worked for Jack Sollars. Before 1910 he moved to Madison County, where his oldest children were born. In 1911 he was living in Champaign County, where his oldest son was born. About 1913 he moved to a farm near Irwin, Union County, and about 1918 to near Peoria, where his sister Estella Coe Thomas owned a farm. After renting a farm five miles east of Raymond for a few years, he returned to the Thomas farm on Shirk Road, south of Peoria.
Living there until March 1928, he moved to West Mansfield in Logan County, then to the Unionville and Chuckery areas of southern Union County. Farming with horses and milking cows by hand, he was a gentle man, always kind to animals, insisting that the livestock be fed before the family eat a meal.
An avid reader, he devoured newspapers, magazines, the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, and the Bible. His voice filled with affection as he read to his children. A Christian Scientist, he firmly believed in the therapeutic qualities of faith and, consequently, the family was seldom visited by a doctor.
He bought a large farm in Union County on February 24, 1943, located in Jerome Township, on present State Route 42, two miles east of New California. Purchased from the Columbus Mutual Life Insurance Company, the 237-acre farm was sold in 1950 to William P. and Margaret S. Smith.
He then moved to Milford Center where he bought a home and lot. At the same time he purchased a 122-acre farm in Liberty Township, Union County, near the Logan County line. Purchased from George S. and Lucile F. Baldridge, he sold the farm, located where Johnson and Rapp & Dean Roads intersect, to his son James P. Coe and his wife Ruth in 1953. Now owned by Honda Motor Company, the farm was two miles north of the current Honda of America Auto and Motorcycle Plants; in the immediate area of Honda's Civic Auto Plant.
Frank lived to the age of 90, dying March 13, 1972, in Marysville, OH. Burial was at Milford Center Cemetery.
He married February 1, 1908, in Concord Township, Ross County, OH, Carrie Leach Bowers, attractive, tall and blonde, born October 9, 1881, in Fayette County, OH, daughter of Alonzo Columbus and Martha Jane (Ewing) Bowers. As a child she traveled in a covered wagon through Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado with her parents, two brothers and a sister.
After settling in Denver, CO, her mother worked there as a nurse until succumbing to tuberculosis. After her mother's death she lived with relatives in Kansas until she was sixteen, when she returned to Ohio with her father. Her father operated a sawmill in Ross County, where she cooked for the help. There she met the man she would eventually marry. Always busy with washing, ironing, cooking, and gardening, she helped her husband in whatever way she could. A life-long Methodist, she and her zealous Christian Science husband managed to get along. She died June 30, 1972, at Marysville and was buried at Milford Center Cemetery.
A member of the Methodist Church in Milford Center in her later years, she is remembered by descendants for her striking appearance, candor, and for addressing her husband of some sixty-six years as "Mr. Coe."
Note: JAMES FRANKLIN8 COE (William7, Rouce6, Benjamin5, Avery4, Daniel3,
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