Seventh Generation

3530. Jefferson "Jeff" Coffey was born on 24 January 1866 in Scott Co., TN. He lived with his parents in Pulaski Co., KY on 22 September 1870. He lived with his parents in Scott Co., TN on 5 July 1880. Jeff died on 7 July 1899 at the age of 33 in Whitley Co., KY and was buried at Burrell King Cemetery in Pine Knot, McCreary Co., KY.

Jefferson "Jeff" Coffey and Margie Marie King were married. Margie Marie King, daughter of Burell King and Margie M. Foster, was born on 25 March 1870 in Kentucky. She appeared in the census on 2 July 1900 in West Pine Knot, Whitley Co., KY.¹¹⁹⁰⁴ Margie died on 16 August 1921 at the age of 51 in McCreary Co., KY and was buried at Burrell King Cemetery in Pine Knot, McCreary Co., KY.¹¹⁹⁰⁵

Jefferson "Jeff" Coffey and Margie Marie King had the following children:

+8583	i.	William Oscar Coffey.
8584	ii.	Charles Coleman "Cole" Coffey was born on 10 December 1891 in Tennessee. He registered for the WWI draft on 5 June 1917 in McCreary Co., KY.¹¹⁹⁰⁶ Cole was a boarder in the Annie Ross household in Yamacraw, McCreary Co., KY on 18 February 1920. Cole died by suicide on 10 May 1920 at the age of 28 in McCreary Co., KY and was buried at Burrell King Cemetery in Pine Knot, McCreary Co., KY in May 1920.^{11907,11908,11909,11910} The Somerset Journal, Somerset, Ky., Friday May 14, 1920. Murder - Suicide. Cole Coffey, Slayer of Oliver Slaven, Takes Own Life When Surrounded at Stearns. Cole Coffey shot and killed Oliver Slaven at Stearns last Sunday afternoon about five o'clock, Slaven dying Sunday night. From information as near as the Journal was able to get, Slaven, who was deputy sheriff, arrested Coffey Sunday morning for peddling whisky and took from him eight quarts of the genuine article. Somewhere near the coal chutes Coffey made his escape. Later in the afternoon while a ball game was in progress at the ball park a man named West informed Slaven where Coffey was hiding in a nearby house and when Slaven attempted to again place him under arrest, Coffey fired five shots three taking effect. Coffey was at large till Monday morning when officers approached a house to arrest him when he fired a bullet into his own head, dying instantly. Coffey was a miner, employed by the Stearns Coal & Lumber Company without family and was being held under $3,000 bond for complicity in the murder of George Staley two months ago. Slaven leaves a wife and several children. ----- The Lexington Herald, Tue., May 11, 1920, Lexington, KY, Issue 132, Page 1 Kills Deputy Sheriff Cole Coffey, of Stearns, Then Turns Pistol on Self [Special to The Herald] Somerset, Ky., May 19.--The town of Stearns, near Somerset, was thrown into turmoil this afternoon when Cole Coffe. [sic] a miner, shot to death Deputy Sheriff Oliver Slavens, who was attempting to arrest him and a companion named West and afterwards killed himself by shooting through the head with the same resolver with which he had killed the deputy sheriff. Coffey had been accused of having some whisky and when Slavens went to the place where he and West were stopping Coffey opened fire on Slavens shooting at him three times, three of the shorts taking effect, from which Slavens died a few hours later. When the sheriff went to the home of Coffey to arrest him for the crime Coffey placed a revolver to his head and blew his brains out.
+8585	iii.	Ida Coffey.
8586	iv.	Gertrude M. Coffey was born in 1895 in McCreary Co., KY. Gertrude died in McCreary Co., KY in 1899. Burrell King Cemetery in Pine Knot, McCreary Co., KY in 1899 .¹¹⁹¹¹
8587	v.	Fanny Coffey was born on 26 October 1897 in McCreary Co., KY. Fanny died on 18 June 1898 at the age of 0 in McCreary Co., KY and was buried at Burrell King Cemetery in Pine Knot, McCreary Co., KY.¹¹⁹¹²