Sophia Caroline (Funcke) Coates 1855 - 1941

Sophia Caroline (Funcke) Coates of Horsham, Horsham Rural City County, VIC Australia was born on April 12, 1855 in Adelaide, SA to Johannes Valentine Funcke and Bertha Weidemann Funcke. She had siblings Maria Jane (Funcke) Loats, Alice Louise Funcke Perks, Ernest August Funcke, Bertha Funcke Trotter, George Valentine Funcke, Isabella Charlotte Funcke, John Valentine Funcke, Emma Funcke, Frederick Funcke, and William Valentine Funcke. She married George Stillman Coates in 1872, and had children Anne Louisa Coates, Alice Mary (Coates) Cook, William Newstead Coates, and James Albert Coates. Sophia Coates died at age 85 years old on January 14, 1941 at Anderson St, in Horsham, VIC.