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Submitted: 1/20/14 • Approved: 3/5/14 • Last Updated: 3/25/18 • R2646-G0-S3
Captain
Born in Georgia January 10, 1800
Member of Consultation 1835
Captain of Calvary in the Texas Army 1836
Died December 11, 1852
Coe fled Georgia where he was wanted for murder and had a rather large reward on his head. He arrived in Texas in 1829. Homesteaded 4,466 acres under Mexican and Spanish titles, May 4, 1831. Captain in the Tawakoni Indian campaign in 1835. Delegate from Washington Municipality to the Texas Consulation in 1835. Captain in the First Regiment of Texas Volunteers in 1836 during the Texas Revolution. Served under Sidney Sherman and was sent to assist at the Alamo. Commander of the baggage train at San Jacinto. Captain of Company A in the Somervell Expedition in 1842.
Once again he would be involved in a murder. This time his own. While playing in a poker game in a Gonzales County saloon December 6, 1852, he was shot by John Oliver. Mortally wounded, he rode his horse home to Coe Valley where he died December 14 after writing a will, later recorded at the Gonzales County Courthouse. Beginning, "... being severely wounded and my life uncertain," he divided his estate, numerous slaves, race horses and stock among his wife Elizabeth, ten daughters and two living sons.
Coe's son Philip Houston Coe died in the same manner, gunned down in the streets of Abilene, KS, by legendary Abilene marshal James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok.
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