Sixth Generation


2239. Lorenzo Dow Coffey was born on 12 September 1852 in Indiana. He lived with his parents in Alanthus Grove, Gentry Co., MO on 20 July 1860. He lived with his mother in Cooper Twp., Gentry Co., MO on 6 August 1870. Lorenzo died of chronic heart disease on 20 March 1920 at the age of 67 in Stanberry, Cooper Twp., Gentry Co., MO and was buried at High Ridge Cemetery in Stanberry, Cooper Twp., Gentry Co., MO.8347,8348

There is a birth record for a child born to Dow and an unnamed spouse found in the Missouri Birth & Death Records Database:

County Roll Number Page Number
Gentry C 8987 1461

Date of Return (Month/Day/Year) 13 Aug 1889 Name of Child Coffey [no first name given] Sex: Female No. of Child of this Mother: 4th Race or Color [not given] Date of Birth: Feb. 26, 1889 Place of Birth: Cooper Twp. Nationality of Father: American Place of Birth: Cooper Twp Age: 35 Nationality of Mother: [not given] Place of Birth [not given] Age [not given] Full Name of Mother: [not given] Maiden Name of Mother: [not given] Residence of Mother: [not given] Full Name of Father: Dow Coffey Occupation: Farmer Name and Address of Medical Attendant: S. B. Hinkley, MD

Lorenzo Dow Coffey and Martha Jane Wilson were married circa 1874 in Missouri. They appeared in the census on 4 June 1880 in Cooper Twp., Gentry Co., MO.8349 They8349 appeared in the census on 1 June 1900 in Cooper Twp., Gentry Co., MO.8350 Martha Jane Wilson, daughter of Sidney Wilson and Mary Cooper, was born on 28 October 1854 in Gentry Co., MO. Martha died of lobar pneumonia on 13 May 1938 at the age of 83 in Stanberry, Cooper Twp., Gentry Co., MO and was buried at High Ridge Cemetery in Stanberry, Cooper Twp., Gentry Co., MO.8351,8352

Lorenzo Dow Coffey and Martha Jane Wilson had the following children:

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E. N. Coffey was born circa 1876 in Missouri.

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L. A. Coffey was born circa 1878 in Missouri. She was arrested in July of 1940 for driving while intoxicated and given choice of fine or jail. His choice was not reported.8353

Crowd in Night Court, The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, MO, Sun., Jul. 7, 1940, Page 11

L. A. Coffey, 248 North Sixteenth street, North Kansas City, was given his choice of a $50 fine or fifteen days in jail for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.

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Not Given Coffey was born on 26 February 1889 in Cooper Twp., Gentry Co., MO.8354

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Hattie Coffey was born in May 1891 in Missouri.

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v.

Woodson Coffey was born on 26 April 1893 in Missouri. Woodson died in Cooper Twp., Gentry Co., MO on 20 August 1911 of tuberculosis and was buried at High Ridge Cemetery in Stanberry, Cooper Twp., Gentry Co., MO on 22 August 1911 .8355,8356
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