Fifth Generation

505. Isom Coffey was born in 1814. Isom may be buried at the Smock-Clay-Coffey Family Cemetery in Ellettsville, Monroe Co., IN . His actual burial site is not known.

Isom Coffey and Martha "Patsy" Smock were married on 10 August 1832 in Monroe Co., IN.²⁰⁴¹ They²⁰⁴¹ appeared in the census on 20 September 1850 in Monroe Co., IN.²⁰⁴²

From Gone But Not Forgotten by Mildred Uland (except as noted in text):

Married 10 Aug 1832; Children were: Lavisa, b. 1833; James, b. 1835; Mary Jane (1841-1893) m. James David Coffey (1837-1899).

A descendant list, provided by Cindi Pote, 1199 Hospital Road, Lot 57, Franklin, In. shows the following: There were also children Martha Jane, b. 2 Jan 1841, who m. James David Coffey (b. 2 Nov 1837, d. 3 Mar 1899); John Gibson, b. 1843, d. 1920, m. Sarah Gilmore; Sarah, b. 1848; Reuben, b. 1850 and Lucinda, b. 1850. Martha Jane and James had children John Mack Coffey, b. 1864, d. 1936; m. Laura Anna Light, b. 1862, d. 1895, and Rosa Etta, b. 8 Mar 1868, d. 22 Mar 1920, m. 16 Apr 1894 to James Abraham Pauley, b. 15 Jun 1861, d. 30 Sep 1943; Nina Arlis, b. 1882.
Martha "Patsy" Smock, daughter of James Smock and Rebecca , was born circa 1811 in Kentucky. Martha died in Ellettsville, Monroe Co., IN on 26 March 1899 and was buried at Ellettsville Methodist Church Cemetery in Ellettsville, Monroe Co., IN in March 1899 .^2043,2044

Obituary, The Farm, Ellettsville, Monroe Co., IN, Apr. 1, 1899

Mrs. Martha Coffey Dead.

Mrs. Martha Coffey, familiarly known as "Aunt Patsy," died Sunday evening, March 26, 1899, at about three o'clock, at the residence of John G. Coffey, her son, one mile south of Ellettsville. She was in her 88th year and had become very feeble from old age, and a few days' illness with grip caused her death. A funeral service was held at the residence conducted by Rev. Orville Allen Tuesday morning, and the body interred at the M. E. cemetery, the attendance not being very large on account of the bad weather.

Mrs. Coffey was the oldest child of James Smock and wife, and with her parents removed from Kentucky when a young girl to the place where she died. At that time the country was a wilderness and Aunt Patsy helped her father and brothers clear up the farm, and industriously performed all kinds of work common to the lot of the women of this country in those days. At an early age she became the wife of the late Isom Coffey, brother to the late Hiram and Wilburn Coffey, better known to our people, and to them were born several children, only two of whom survive her, John G. and Sarah L. 

The deceased was a member of the Baptist church, and lived a Christian woman, honest, truthful, kind and obliging to her neighbors, and a model wife and mother in her own family.

Although not many of our people often came in contact with Aunt Patsy in her latter days as she seldom left home, yet all mourn to know that she has left us, and the bereaved family have the warmest sympathy of all. 

Isom Coffey and Martha "Patsy" Smock had the following children: