Huff D. Coats ¹

   Ancestral File Number: 4.

  General Notes:

On the 1880 Census it showed Huff (his nickname, we don't know - also some researchers have given him the middle name of Demitrius, but I don't know what their source was) being born in 1848.Buried in Bluejacket, OK. Listed on Indian Roll # 1W86 as adopted. This wouldmean he was not an Indian by blood. He is buried in Bluejacket Cemetery inBluejacket, OK and Huff D. Coats is on his tombstone.

In Old Cherokee Families, Notes of Dr. Emmet Starr Volume Two Leter BooksG-L Index to Letter Books, by Jack Baker and David Hampton it states:Louisa Jennie Criag, born April 27, 1852. Married March 4, 1869, Huff D.Coats, born April 3, 1840 in Callaway County, Missouri. He was a member of Captain M.S. (Marshall Smith - he was a first cousin of Huff's) Coats' Company, Missouri State Guards, CSA, Col Martin E.Green...probate records for Marshall show that he was a Col.

Civil war sources - not necessarily having info on Huff in them:
1st Lt. Huff CSA Wounded at Battle Hartsville, Missouri 11 January 1863. Mentions Colonel John M. Wimer CSA, Colonel Emmet McDonald CSA Page 324 "With Porter in Missouri".

1 June 1861 Colonel Martin Green CSA Commanding: 1st Missouri Confederate Cavalry Brigade Confederate Headquarters Camp Sugar Loaf Near Monticello Lewis County, Missouri

23 September 1861 Colonel Martin Green CSA Promoted Brigadier General Transfered to Mississippi.

Colonel Joseph C. Porter CSA Commanding: 1st Missouri Cavalry Brigade Confederate Headquarters Camp Sugar Loaf Montecillo Lewis County, Missoui

Both Green & Porter were from Norteastern Missouri. 1st Missouri Cavalry Brigade consisted of 2,300 Confederate Cavalry Troops. Brigadier General Thomas Harris CSA was the District Confederate Commanding General.

Brigadier General Thomas Green CSA Commanding General: Confederate Headquarters Florida Monroe County, Missouri

Books to read for research: "With Porter in Missouri" By: Captain Joseph Mudd CSA National Publishing Company Washington D.C. 1909{Has been reprinted} 466 Pages ........................... "Tennessee Cavilier in the Missouri Cavalry" By: Major Henry Ewing CSA Kelly Press reprinted 1978{Limited Edition}{My copy number 530} By: W.J. Crowley 230 Pages ................... "4th Missouri UnionCavalry" By: Captain William Burns USA Moringside Press Reprinted 1988 162 Page ................... State Archive on Civil War: Iowa.........First Union Troops North East Missouri: Illinois.....Missouri Confederate Troops POW in Illinois: Wisconsin....Troops all over Missouri: Indiana......Troops all over Missouri: Ohio.........Troops all over Missouri: Kansas.......MOST HATED UNION TROOPS in Missouri: Arkansas.....CSA Troops Operated all over Missouri: Oklahoma Indian Territory...CSA Territory; CSA Missouri Troops: ................................. War of the Rebellion of the Union & Confederate Armies: Offical War Records; Known as the OR several hundred Volumes. ................................... University of Missouri at Columbia has an Outstanding Civil War Data Base for Confederate Troops in Missouri. ................................... Story "Immortal 600" By: Captain Bedford CSA 3rd Missouri Confederate Cavalry ................................... Any Article or Story "Quantrill's Raiders" Colonel William Clarke Quantrill CSA Commanding: 1st Missouri Confederate Parsitan Cavalry

  Research Notes:

Tombstone reads: "Gone but not forgotten"

Huff married Louisa Jane Craig, daughter of Samuel Craig and Eliza Nancy Harlan, on 4 Mar 1869 in Parsons, Labette, KS. (Louisa Jane Craig was born on 27 Apr 1852 in Knob Knoster, Johnson, MO,¹ died on 12 Feb 1933 in Bluejacket, Craig, OK ¹ and was buried about 16 Feb 1933 in Bluejacket, Craig, OK ¹.)