The Coots Connection

Thursday, September 10, 2009

WHERE'S MY SHARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN! AS SSON AS THERE'S MONEY INVOLVED, ALL THE COOTS CLAN QUIT ANSWERING THEIR PHONES AND WON'T RETURN MY CALLS! WELL, I AM NOT GOING TO ALLOW THIS. I KNOW YOU ARE ALL HIDING OUT TOGETHER SOMEWHERE SPENDING MY SHARE OF THE "FORTUNE" AND LAUGHING ABOUT IT. WELL , I KNOW WHERE EVERYBODY LIVES AND I KNOW SOME PEOPLE THAT KNOW SOME PEOPLE THAT WILL FIND SOME PEOPLE, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!! SO, FUN TIME IS OVER, I EXPECT TO START RECEIVING CHECKS FROM EACH OF YOU, OR ELSE

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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

UPDATE ON NOAH

Those of you on facebook know Kim's son, Noah, had a bicycle accident yesterday and fractured his skull.

Noah came home from the hospital today and Kim says he is feeling better. He wasn't feeling too well this morning and had some trouble eating because it hurt to open and close his jaw. They also ran some more tests, including a hearing test.

Noah does have some hearing loss. He will have to wear a neck brace for 4 weeks and he has some other restrictions. He'll go back to school next week. They said it could take up to a year for the skull to heal so he will have to be extra careful not to re-injure himself.

I'm sure one of those precautions will be for him to ALWAYS wear his helmet when riding his bike.

He's a very lucky little boy (but he sure did look pitiful laying there in the hospital bed with that neck brace on)!

Monday, September 07, 2009

Lastnight in Knoxville we have what is called Boomsday. It is the largest fireworks show in the U.S.. Here are some pics I took. You can look up the videos on Youtube, just type in boomsday 09 or type my user name chanceb72, and watch the videos.

Saturday, September 05, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL!!!!!!!

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

MORE PICS OF YOUR DADDY'S FAMILY

Jim sent me some pics via Facebook.

Here is our grandmother, Anna Holcomb (Halcomb?) Coots.

Here are H, Annie and all the kids except for our dad. I think he was probably away at school at Kingdom Come. This house is in the "New York" section of Cumberland, on the street behind Susan's old house. Pete and I went through it once years ago when Susan's friend, Faye Goody, lived there. It is much smaller than you'd think by looking at this picture.

Here's Mom and Dad with the Coots clan in Raleigh, NC around 1972-74. In this photo is James "H" Coots, Betty and Cooley Coots, Cleo Coots Napier, Jessie and Bonnie Coots Baker, Ruby Coots Whipkey, Leo Coots and Mabel Coots Jones.

Jim also sent me some pics of his mom and dad. I always liked Cooley and Betty Jane. Here is Cooley when he was in the service.

Betty Jane Coots as a young woman, probably before she got married.

Betty Jane and Cooley. Jim doesn't know where or when this was. I think, for some reason, this was at their house in Miamisburg. Any thoughts?

I think we have some of these pictures, somewhere. I've seen a couple of them before. Well, that's all I've got for now...

Sunday, August 30, 2009

WELL IT'S NOT THE LOTTERY....

To my brothers and sister:

Yesterday Cooley's son, Jim, emailed me via Facebook (we're "friends on there and have been talking). He said a woman named Betty Coots Scott had contacted him. Apparently, our great grandfather, Henry (H's dad) sold some property in KY a long time ago but never sold the mineral rights. An oil company is now wanting to contact each living descendant of Henry's about this. Betty does a lot of genealogy and has just about everyone's information but ours.

So I called her today and spoke with her about it. I've talked with her before regarding the genealogy stuff, she's on the up & up (her dad and our dad were cousins). She wants me to send her all of our names, addresses and phone #'s. I agreed to do this as long as you are okay with it.

I mentioned to Jim that we (meaning he) should maybe check into this a little more and he agreed. Betty told me the name of the oil company is Equity and they are a real company, I checked on line. Betty has the name & phone number of the guy from Equity and I'm hoping Jim will call and see if he can get any additional information.

So, to recap: Our great-grandfather, Henry, sold some property back in the day but did not sell the mineral rights. An oil company now has some interest in these mineral rights and wants to contact all of us. I do not know how much, if anything, these rights are worth. I suspect not much, but really have no clue. I know Betty is legit but I do not know about this guy or Equity's interest in it. Hopefully, Jim will be able to find this out.

I am going to email Betty all of our addresses and phone numbers. Pete, Doug and I are okay with this. I will email Betty this information Wednesday night so if for some reason, you don't want me to include your address and phone number, you need to let me know by Wednesday (Pete said by the close of business - 5pm - ).

Also, Betty has a lot of genealogy information she's going to send me - pictures, names and dates and stuff! So, that's cool! And Jim was kind enough to send me a picture of our three remaining Coots aunts, taken last month. Here is Ruby, Jim, Mabel and Bonnie. They are in their eighties now.