| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Fifth Generation197. William Saunders Coffey672 was born on 21 February 1795 in Kentucky.96 William died on 13 October 1875 at the age of 80 in Lavaca Co., TX and was buried at Coffey Cemetery in Hackberry, Lavaca Co., TX.673,674 "Her [Henrietta] father, William Coffey, was born and reared in Kentucky, but came from Jackson County, Alabama, to Texas in 1844, and settled first in Titus County, and in 1859 came to Lavaca County, where he was a slave-holding farmer until the war. He died in November, 1875, at the age of eighty. He married Elizabeth Schooler, who died in 1871, and their children were as follows: Milton of Morris County, Texas; Mary J., who married Millis Higginbotham, and died in Titus County; Eliza, who married William Riley, and died in Lavaca County; Emeline, who died unmarried; Catherine, the wife of John Williams, lives near Mrs. Lawrence, who is the next in the family; Margaret, who married Steve Pool, of San Angelo; and John, of Brown County." William Saunders Coffey and Elizabeth Schooler were married. They appeared in the census on 12 September 1850 in Titus Co., TX.675 They675 appeared in the census on 23 July 1860 in Lavaca Co., TX.676 William and Elizabeth676 appeared in the census on 13 June 1870 in Lavaca Co., TX.677 Elizabeth Schooler678, daughter of John Schooler and Polly Pond, was born on 20 March 1808 in Kentucky.679 Elizabeth died on 26 April 1871 at the age of 63 in Lavaca Co., TX and was buried at Coffey Cemetery in Hackberry, Lavaca Co., TX.680,681 William Saunders Coffey and Elizabeth Schooler had the following children:
William Saunders Coffey and Mary Jane "Jane" Schooler were married on 18 April 1875 in Lavaca Co., TX.684 Mary Jane "Jane" Schooler was born on 14 June 1807 in Kentucky. She lived with her nephew R. H. Schooler in Lavaca Co., TX on 28 June 1880. Mary died in Lavaca Co., TX on 2 December 1880. Williams Cemetery in Hackberry, Lavaca Co., TX in December 1880 .685,686 |