Joseph Russell Coates was born in New Jersey, to John Coates of Belfast, Ireland and Elizabeth Agnes Freelan. The family lived I Illinois before moving to Kansas.

His wife's biography, found on the Sharlot Hall Museum website, says:
Joseph Russell Coates, a neighbor of the Macks in Kansas, had fallen in love with Rose when he first saw her sitting on a wagon and drying her platinum hair. They were married in Pawnee County, Kansas, in 1900, the day after her divorce was final. Because of Rose's asthma, the Coates moved to Williams, Arizona, where Joseph worked for the railroad. One night he was injured while working on the railroad and was never able to hold a job again. Rose took in washing and ran a boarding house in Flagstaff, until they moved to Prescott, where a friend had said there was more work. Joseph became supervisor of Stoney Point Development in exchange for rent and Rose went to work at the Prescott Laundry.
By 1920 there were eight Coates children: Hiram Taylor (November 29, 1900 - July 5, 1970), Amelia Agnes Aston (February 7, 1902 - 21 September 1963); Bill Williams (December 21, 1905 - January 2, 1974); John David (August 16, 1907 - March 11, 1977); Charles Albert (February 15, 1909 - May 27, 1976); Sarah Rosannah Parrish (October 25, 1918 - ); Thomas Lane (April 10, 1920 - August 20, 1976). Joseph was home when the children came home from school, and he did much of the cooking and other chores about the home.
When the family came to Prescott in 1909, they lived at Stoney Point on South McCormick Street and later moved to 227 North Marina Street, converting the old church building into a home.
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Death Certificate:
http://genealogy.az.gov/azdeath/054/10542346.pdf