Owen County (IN) Democrat, Nov 19, 1903.
MARTH C. COFFEY ALLEN'S DEATH
A sainted mother in Israel is dead. A sweet Christian woman has passed to
her Heavenly home.
Mrs. Martha C. (Coffey) Allen, wife of our venerable townsman, Jonathan
Allen, died Wednesday night, November 11, 1903, at her beautiful home on
East Franklin Street, aged 72 years, of cancer of the stomach.
Deceased was born in Georgia and was the daughter of Lewis Coffey and
Elmira (Powell) Coffey, both natives of the state of Georgia. He first
husband was Rev. Chord, a Baptist minister of note in his day by whom were
born four children, Spencer Chord, who lives near Ellettsville with his
wife and who was at the death of their mother; a daughter, Mrs. Lon
Faulkner, of Bloomington; another married daughter of Terre Haute; and a
son, John Chord, who is dead. Deceased leaves a sister, Mrs. Amos Howe, of
Monroe County.
After deceased's marriage to Mr. Allen they lived in Monroe county on a
farm when a few years ago they moved to Spencer. She made friends here by
her kindly, charitable disposition and strong intellectual powers, and was
a great factor in religious and philanthropic work. She was a woman whom
to know was to love for her kindness and sweetness with her associates and
womanly bearing to all.
The funeral was held Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Baptist Church where her
pastor, Rev. Charles M. Phillips, preached an exceedingly able sermon which
was listened to by a congregation that crowded the church and a big number
was unable to get admission.
The pallbearers were Major. T. H. (illegible), Dr. John S. Figg, George
Robinson, Squire Wesley Coffey, A. P. (illegible) and John Stonesman, all
elderly members of the Baptist Church. The funeral was at Larkin Coffey's
cemetery in Monroe County, some eight miles distant.