Thank you the obit of Jesse!
In case you don't have it:
History of Woodson and Allen Co, KS (from Lynn Sewell)
Pages 218-219, transcribed by Carolyn Ward from History of Allen and Woodson
Counties, Kansas: embellished with portraits of well known people of these
counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public
buildings and a map of each county / Edited and Compiled by L. Wallace
Duncan and Chas. F. Scott. Iola Registers, Printers and Binders, Iola, Kan.:
1901; 894 p., [36] leaves of plates: ill., ports.; includes index.
JESSE H. COFFMAN - One of the successful and representative farmers of
Allen County is Jesse H. Coffman, of Moran. He came to the county in 1884
and purchased the old "Fair Lawn" farm, the northeast quarter of section 34,
town 24, range 20. He was a pioneer to Neosho County, from which point he
located in Allen County. In 1868 he pre-empted a claim on the Osage Ceded
lands and was a party to the famous law-suit which arose over the title to
that land, much of which lay in Neosho Count
Mr. Coffman came west from Adams County, Indiana, where he was reared
from boyhood. He was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, December 17, 1839. His
father, David Coffman, was born in the same county in 1809 and was there
married to Rebecca Hughes, a daughter of Jesse Hughes, a soldier of the War
of 1812. Mr. Hughes came from Pennsylvania into Ohio as a pioneer and David
Coffman came through that State from Virginia on his way to Ohio. The
Coffmans are one of the old American families and some of them were patriots
of our Revolution. Our subject's great-grandfather was one of them and he
was killed while in the service.
David Coffman died in 1872 at the age of sixty-three years. His wife
died the same year. Their children were: Mary E., who resides in Adams
County, Indiana, is the widow of the late Basil Hendricks, her second
husband; Sarah A., wife of Henry Steele, of Pleasant Mills, Indiana, Harriet
O., widow of Alexander Eichar, who resides with our subject; Jesse H.;
Isabel, wife of David Springer, of Van Wert County, Ohio, and George M.
Coffman, of Erie, Kansas.
In 1861 President Lincoln appointed J. H. Coffman postmaster of
Pleasant Mills, Indiana, which office he resigned in 1862 to enlist in
Cornpiny E, 10th Ohio cavalry, Captain Fehlison and Colonels Smith and
Sanders. The regiment was under Kilpatrick and took part in the cavalry work
around Atlanta and Savannah. It returned north through the enemy's country
to Richmond, Virginia, where it was embarked on a transport for Baltimore
and from that point was shipped to Cleveland, Ohio, where it was mustered
out of service in August, 1865. Mr. Coffinan took part in all the serious
engagements with which his division was concerned and notwithstanding the
frequency with which he was under fire during his three years' service he
received no wounds. He was mustered out as first duty sergeant of Company E.
The three years intervening between his discharge from the army and his
advent to Kansas Mr. Coffman spent at farming in Adams County, Indiana. He
made the trip to Kansas in a wagon coniaining,[sic] besides his family, his
personal effects. He disposed of his Neosho County farm at a fancy price and
invested the proceeds in land near Moran. His farm comprises 330 acres
conveniently situated and well stocked and well tille
Mr. Coffman was first married in 1867 to Anna R. McLeod who died in
1879, with issue as follows: May, wife of Marion Lee, of Los Angeles County,
California; Edith I., wife of Chas. Weast, of Neosho County. In 1884 Mr.
Coffman married Laura E. Coe, a daughter of Orville L. Coe, of Geanga
County, Ohio. Their child is Harold C. Coffman.
Mr. Coffman is a well known Democrat and is one of the party leaders in
Allen County. He frequents county conventions and enthuses his countrymen in
the faith in every political campaign.
Margie Roop Pearce
Adams Co, IN GenWeb Coordinator
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything but happy.
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Author: mahorn1955
Surnames: Coffman, Steele,Springer, Weast
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JESSE HUGHES COFFMAN
The Erie Record, Friday, Sept. 22, 1911
Died: Sept. 18, 1911
JESSE COFFMAN DEAD.
______
Lived a Useful Life and Was Trusted
and Respected.
On Monday, September 18, Jesse Coffman died in this city. He had been in
poor health for several months and it was commonly known that his days on
this earth were numbered. He was one of the most highly respected citizens
who ever resided in Erie and possessed that very rare quality of knowing how
to make many friends and very few enemies. The following is a brief history
of the life-time happenings of the late Jesse Coffman.
Jesse Hughes Coffman, born December 17, 1839, in Fairfield county, Ohio,
died at Erie, Kansas, September 18, 1911. When a child his parents moved to
Adams county, Ind., where he grew to manhood. He was a veteran of the civil
war, serving as sergeant in Co. E, 10th regiment Ohio volunteer cavalry. He
was appointed postmaster at Pleasant Mills, Ind., for a time. In 1869, he
with his wife and little daughter, came to Kansas by wagon route and settled
on a claim in Ladore township. He lived there until 1881, when he moved to a
farm near Moran, Allen county, Kansas. In 1903 he moved to Erie and in 1909
to Emporia where he resided until his death. He was an active member of the
Christian church.
He was twice married, his first wife having died in 1879. He leaves a wife,
one daughter, Mrs. F. M. Lee, of Compton, Calif., a son, Harold Coe Coffman,
of Spearville, Kansas, ten grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Steele,
Pleasant Mills, Ind., and Mrs. Belle Springer, VanWert, Ohio, one brother,
G. M. Coffman, Rocky Ford, Colo., and many other relatives. One daughter,
Mrs. Edith Weast, died in 1907.
Well might it be said of him, as Dickens said of one of his favorite
characters. "You have been useful all your life, steadily and constantly
occupied, trusted, respected, and looked up to."
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