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Information taken from the William Coyne Family Bible now in the
possession of Loretta Coyne Sullivan, 320 Third Street, Mitchell, SD:
Anna Clark died October 1, 1960. Her husband Robert died October 10,
1968 in Port Costa, California. They had two children:
Pete Clark born about 1884 and died in Ethan Sep 30, 1937;
Rosemary Clark was born Sep 21 1909 and died Jan 15, 1926 16y 3m 2 4d.

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On the Notice of their 50th wedding aniversary held on October 4 ,1964,
Hazel and Bill listed their children and grandchildren. Their daughter
Bernardine, is listed as Bernardine Bohr. There were two Bohr children,
William Bohr and Jayne Bohr. Bernardine is shown as 2 years old in the
January, 1920 census.
The Coyne Family Bible is in the possession of Loretta Pigott Sullivan,
320 East Third Street, Mitchell, SD. It states that Bernardine die din Iowa
City, (Johnson County) Iowa and that she is buried at "Delmer." There is
a Delmar in Clinton County, about 50 air miles northeast of Iowa City."

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Charles Coyne was a banker in Emory, S.D. His wife's name was
Dorothy. They had a son, James Coyne born 1914 died Feb 2, 1936 in
Rochester, MN.

In the announcement commemorating their 50th wedding anniversary,Hazel and Bill listed their children and grandchildren; under the nameof Mrs. Delores Nickel appeared her children Mrs. Nanette NickelAngle, Joseph Nickel and Suzette Nickel.
Details of the birth and death of Delores were taken from the WilliamCoyne Family Bible in the possession of William's daughter, LorettaCoyne Sullivan, 320 Third Street, Mitchell, SD.

Information taken from the William Coyne Family Bible now in thepossession of Loretta Coyne Sullivan, 320 East Third Street, Mitchell,SD and from information provided by Olivia Coyne: Edmund's wife Evawas born about 1903 and died May 8, 1975. Olivia Coyne also providedthe following notes:

Contents of a newspaper clipping dated November 19, 1959 (sourceunknown, probably from the Ethan SD local paper

"COL. ED COYNE RETIRES AFTER 36-YEAR SERVICE"

" Lt. Col. Edmund P. Coyne, brother of Leo C. and W. J. Coyne ofMitchell, recently completed 36 years of military service, but isspending two more months in service as an enlisted airman.
The colonel retired from active duty during the latter part of Octoberin ceremonies at Greenville, Mississippi Air Force Base, where he waswing adjutant. His 36 years in the armed forces included bothNational Guard and active duty time.
Hitting retirement age a scant two months before he achieved 20 yearsactive duty, the colonel re-enlisted as an airman to enable him toretire as a Lieutenant Colonel with its accompanying benefits.
Col. Coyne is a native of Hanson County and attended St. ThomasMilitary Academy, St. Paul, MN, and was graduated from South DakotaState College as an ROTC honor graduate there. He was commissionedthrough the Army ROTC and received a concurrent commission in theEngineer Corps of the South Dakota National Guard in 1923. From 1923to 1934 he was a superintendant of schools in South Dakota and from1934 to 1941 he held the position of educational director for theCivilian Conservation Corps.
He went on active duty as a captain with the 34th division on February10, 1941 and in December of the same year was transferred to the AirCorps. After an administrative assignment with a training group radioschool, he went to China in 1943 as commander of an airdrome squadron.He remained in China for three years, often in combat areas in bothnorth and south China.
After the war he had assignments in Texas and Florida and then waqsROTC professor of air science at North Texas State Teacher Collegefrom 1952 to 1954. From 1954 to 1956 he was ROTC liaison officer atROTC Headquarters, Maxwell AFB, and in 1956 he assumed his positionat Greenville AFB.
His wife is the former Eva Belson of Pierre. They will remain inGreenville for his two-month tour as an enlisted man until his fullretirement becomes effective.
Other brothers and sister, in addition to his brothers in Mitchell areC. T. Coyne, Emery; R. E. Coyne, Port Costa, California, and Mrs. AnnaClarke, Ethan, SD."

The following obituary appeared in October, 1974, probably in theEthan local newspaper:

" Lt. Col. E. Coyne
Funeral services for Lt. Col. Edmund P. Coyne (Ret.), 75, of SanAntonio, Texas, will be at 9:30 a.m. Friday at Fort Sam Houston, SanAntonio. Burial will be in the military cemetary.
Col. Coyne ws born November 16, 1899 at Ethan to Mr. And Mrs. MichaelCoyne and died October 23 at a military hospital in San Antonio.After graduation from South Dakota State University, he was a memberof the Air Force until retiring. Survivors include his widow, Eva,San Antonio, and two brothers, Leo C. Mitchell, and C. T. Emery. Hewas preceeded in death by two brothers and a sister (1974)."

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Residence in 1993 is 320 East Third, Mitchell, SD. 57301. Telepho ne
(605) 996-4353. Personal visit in September, 1993 revealed that Loretta
(Coyne) Sullivan has the family bible of her parents Will and Hazel (Pigott)
Coyne. This was made available and all information in the bible ha sbeen
placed in the family records files.

In August, 2004, I received an email from Olivia Coyne (address undernotes for William Coyne) and, later, mailed documents and photographsincluding 25 pages of descendency informaton. I have included thatinformation here as it was provided by Olivia.:

"Michael C. Coyne was born in 1835 in Corrick Fergus, Dublin, Ireland,and died November 21, 1908, in Ethan, Davison County, South Dakota.He married Bridget Collins in 1854 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire,England. She was born December 25, 1837 in Tuam, Galway, Ireland, anddied September 8, 1907, in Ethan, Davison County, South Dakota.

His obituary was printed in the Ethan Enterprise, published by J.L.Donahue, on November 16, 1908:
"Sudden Death! Michael Coyne succumbs to heart failure last Saturdaymorning. (here describes his last hours) The funeral was held fromthe John Clement home Monday at 10 o'clock when all that was mortal ofMichael was carried to Holy Trinity Church, followed by his sorrowingsons and their families, where Father Brones performed the sad ritesof the Catholic Church over him......Michael Coyne was born in 1835 inCarrick Fergus, County Dublin, Ireland. While still a boy he moved toEngland where he lived in Wolverhampton for 20 years. There he wasmarried at the age of 19 to Bridget Collins. To the union was bornnine children, three of them living at this writing: Michael J. Coyne,and Thomas H. Coyne of the place and John Coyne of Milwaukee,Wisconsin. In the year of 1870 the family moved to Ft. Dodge, Iowawhere a residence of one year was made. Again a move was made toYankton where the deceased filed on a claim near Lesterville. Tenyears were passed there, when another move was made to a farm inHutchinson County, where he resided until six years ago, when, findingage coming on and having acquired enough to pass their old days inquiet, he and his faithful wife moved their cottage to this town andtook up their residence here.
"Perhaps no man in this community has done as much hard work duringhis life as Michael Coyne. Being deprived by poverty and severeconditions imposed by an unscrupulous Government of an opportunity toget an education, his life was beset with greater handicaps than thatof an ordinary mortal. Yet he overcame all of his difficulties.
"During all of his life he was a devout Catholic and a regularattendant at Mass when conditions would permit. It is not our officeto eulogize his life and character. A humble, lowly, God-fearingcitizen, always a provident husband and thoughtful father. HIs lifehas been long and useful. His death occuring November 21, 1908 makeshim 73 years old. He finished more than the alloted "Three score andten", yet his abrupt taking off has caused a pall of sorrow anddarkness to settle over his family."

"Notes for Michael C. Coyne:

"Born in County Galway, (???) Western Ireland about 1835. Alwaysclaimed he was 3 years old the "Night of the Big Blow", a disasterthat wiped out entire families in that area. He was the only survivorin his family and was then taken and raised by a Grandmother whoapparently and eventually took him to England. Possibly to London ashe was married there to Bridget Collins in due course. Evidently helater moved to Wolverhampton, about 90 miles north of London where heworked in coal mines knocking out coal in narrow horizontal seams farbelow the surface, some of which were too narrow for him to crawlinto. Son Michael, then about 12 years old was small enough to crawlinto the narrow seams and dig out the coal that his father could notreach. Apparently they were paid by the quantity of coal that theydig out. About 1860 the father worked passage on a sailing ship toAmerica and located in Ft. Dodge, Iowa, working in strip coal mininguntil he was able to bring his family to the USA. Later they moved toSt. Louis where Michael Sr. was employed on the river boats, NewOrleans to St. Paul and vice versa. Bridgit was not happy in St.Louis so with children, Michael Jr., Patrick, John and Thomas, allborn in England, and Mary, born in the USA, the famiy followed theland rush into South Dakota where homestead filing was made about 20miles north of Yankton, completely surrounded by other homesteaders ofTeutonic and Bohemian extraction who resented any Irish in theirmidst. However their children maturing and Michael Jr., the eldesthaving married one of the "opposition" and filing on a 2quarter-section homestead about 40 miles further north adjoining thatof son Michael Jr. where they lived and farmed profitably until about1905 when, with all of their children gone and time taking its toll,he and Bridgit moved, house and all, into Ethan, S.D. where theyremained until their deaths. Michael Sr. on 11-20-1908 and Bridgit on9-7-1907, aged 71 and 69 years respectively. Michael Coyne Sr. had noschooling and could neither read nor write. But he could count $$.Bridgit did all the reading for both. Mostly the IRISH WORLD, aweekly. Of their children, Patrick was last heard from and of inLawrence, Kansas, where he had gone to find work. John died inChicago in 1920. Thomas died in an auto crash at Murdo, SD. Marymarried Douglas Culp in 1889 and died of scarlet fever in 1890.Michael Jr. died 10-12-1926. (This was included in a letter writtenfrom C. T. Coyne, Emery, SD dated March 18th 1963 to Dr. M. J.Clarke)"

Information was received from a client of James J. Sparks, RosalieCoyne who was a cousin of William Coyne. She adivsed that thepaternal grandparents of William Coyne were Michael Coyne and BridgetCollins from
Galway, Ireland. The 1920 census for Ethan, SD states that WilliamJr.'s mother was born in Austria and spoke German and that his father,Michael Sr. was born in England.

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Received from Olivia Coyne, 139 Banbury Way, Benecia CA 94510:

"Life History of Mrs. Rosa Freidel Coyne"

Death on June 9, 1943, of Rosa Coyne, widow of the late Michael J.Coyne of Worthen Township, brought blessed relief from many years ofsuffering and marked the close of a long and useful life for one ofHanson County's earliest pioneers.
Rosa, daughter of Joseph and Anna Freidel, was born January 28, 1861,in Seibersdorf, Bohemia; and died June 9, 1943 at Sacred HeartHospital in Yankton, SD, aged 82 years, 4 months and 11 days,interment being made June 11, 1943, in the Catholic cemetery at Ethan,SD., from the home of her son, Leo C. Coyne,of that place.
In 1866, the family, consisting of parents, two sons and twodaughters, emigrated to America and settled on a farm near Waterloo,Wisconsin, from whence, after six years of residence and lured bypromise of free homes on prarie lands further west, the family arrivedat Yankton, SD, on November 17, 1872, and residence soon thereafterwas made on a homestead near Lesterville, SD. It was here that Rosamatured to young womanhood amid stern and character-building pioneertimes and events and here in 1882 she was united in marriage withMichael J. Coyne and to this union seven children were born, all ofwhom survive her with the exception of a daughter who died in infancy.
In the spring of 1883, the young couple established themselves ontheir own homestead in Worthern Township in Hanson County where, byhard labor, persistence and thrift, they acquired adjoining lands,knitting themselves and their children into the substantial andprogressive community structure of their day until 1919 they retiredfrom active farm life and took up residence in Ethan, SD.
Here relief from the arduous existence of earlier years and enjoymentof fruits of their labors was short-lived for in October 1926, herhusband passed away and the widow thereafter lived alone in the Ethanhome until 1935 when, her health failing, she spent intermittentperiods during the next two years with families of her children and inthe hospital at Parkston.
In 1937 she became a patient at Sacred Heart Hospital at Yankton,where after six years of resignation to the inevitable, she departedthis life fortified with the last rites of the Roman Catholic Churchto which she had always so faithfully subscribed. All of her childrenwere present at her bedside and funeral with the exception of RobertE. Coyne who was unable to arrive from California in the short timepermitted.
She leaves to mourn her passing five sons and one daughter, namelyRobert E. Coyne, Albany, California; Charles T. Coyne, Emery, SD; Mrs.Anna Clarke, Chicago, Ill; William J. Coyne, Mitchell, SD, MajorEdmund P. Coyne, Sioux Falls, SD; and Leo C. Coyne, of Ethan, SD. Shealso leaves seventeen grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren, onesister, Mrs. Joseph Simon, and a brother, Albert S. Freidel, ofLesterville, SD and a brother, Charles Freidel of Ethan...."

William Coyne, husband of Hazel Pigott, was the son of Michael Coyneand Rosa Freidel Coyne. His paternal grandparents were Michael Coyneand Bridget Collins from Galway, Ireland. The 1920 census for Ethan ,SD states that his mother was born in Austria and spoke German andthat his father was born in England.
The following information was obtained from a client of James J .Sparks named Rosalie G. Coyne whose spouse was a cousin of William:William Coyne had 5 siblings, Robert married Martha Crampton who diedearly. Robert later married Martha's sister Agnes; Charles, a bankerin Emory, SD; Ann Clark; Leo Coyne and Edmond Coyne.

MARRIAGE:
William J. Coyne and Hazel Pigott were married on October 7, 1914 inthe Holy Family Catholic Church in Ethan, Davison County, SouthDakota. Witnesses were Cornelius Pigott and Elizabeth Smith. Weddingperformed
by Fr. J. T. Saunders. (Announcement of Fiftieth AnniversaryCelebration in possession of James J.
Sparks, San Carlos, CA)

CENSUS:
1920 U. S. Census, Ethan, Davison County, SD., SD 1, ED 66 Sh. 6 Bdated January 6, 1920. Soundex for C500 at National Archives, SanBruno, Reel 8 SD, Census Reel 1716, Davison County, Ethan; Copy ofCensus Sheet i n possession of James J. Sparks, San Carlos, CA.

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In August, 2004, I received an email from Olivia Coyne, 139 BanburyWay, Benicia, CA 94510 (Tel 707-745-3248) which contained photographsof several members of the Coyne family including one with my auntHazel.
One photograph was of Rosa Freidel Coyne and her five sons.

SQ 3901:

"Nathan Sparks (2383), son of Matthew and Alsey (Osburn ) Sparks, wasborn on January 22, 1840. He was married to Elizabeth Craft on June1, 1861, in Johnson County [Kentucky]. She had been born in November1842 and was a daughter of Tillman and Sarah (Sparks) Craft, nativesof North Carolina.
She and Nathan lived near Flat Gap, Kentucky.

"(Sarah Sparks, mother of Elizabeth Craft, was a daughter of Levi andSarah (Lyon) Sparks. See the December 1955 issue of THE SPARKSQUARTERLY , Whole No. 12, for further details of this branch of theSparks family.)"

SQ p. 4661:

"Henderson Craft, son of Tillman and Sarah (Sparks) Craft, was bornabout 1840. He served in Company D, 45th Regiment Kentucky Infantryduring the Civil War. He was married to Hannah Kimbler on March 15,1868. She had been born about 1852 in Virginia. Henderson was amerchant according to census records. He and Hannah died sometimeafter 1910. They had five children."

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SQ pg 3901: See reference to this man and his marriage to Sarah Sparks in an article on the descendants of Thomas Sparks, son of William Sparks IV.

Information about the Craft family was received from Donald Craft(dwcraft@yahoo.com) in July, 2000. He is descended through Tilman andSarah (Sparks) Craft, and Wiley W. and Dinah (Sparks) Craft. Hestated, "He and Augatha were married in Surry County, North Carolinaon 28 Jan 1812.....Wiley Craft and his family migrated to present dayJohnson County (then Floyd County) KY prior to 1833. He received twoland patents on the Hoods Fork, one in 1833 and another in 1836. Icannot find him in any census record, either North Carolina as head ofhousehold, Tennessee, Virginia or Kentucky. I do not know if he diedbefore 1840 or whether he made it to Kentucky other than the landpatents which are in his name."

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SQ pg 3417: They have two children: Steve and Jade Adams.