Deborah T. Simmons Coates (1801-1888)

Deborah T. Simmons Coates

Birth

7 Mar 1801

Pennsylvania, USA

Death

31 Aug 1888 (aged 87)

New Garden, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA

Burial

New West Grove Friends Cemetery

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She and her husband were Quakers and abolitionists. They ran a safe house on the Underground Railroad. Deborah is credited with the original design of the Birds in the Air quilt pattern.

Daughter of Henry Simmons, Jr. and Rachel Preston.

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Lindley Coates

1794–1856 (m. 1819)

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John Henry Simmons

1803–1864

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