Seventh Generation

4256. Joel Simmonds Coffey¹³⁸²⁰ was born on 8 December 1885 in Rugby, Bartholomew Co., IN. Joel died of heart disease on 17 November 1951 at the age of 65 at White Cross Hospital in Columbus, Franklin Co., OH and was buried at Union Cemetery in Columbus, Franklin Co., OH on 20 November 1951 .^{13821,13822,13823}

Obituary, Wilmington [Ohio] News-Journal, 19 Nov 1951, Page 1

Ohio Pig Judge Dies

COLUMBUS. Nov. 19—Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Joel Simmonds Coffey, 65. professor of animal husbandry at Ohio State University. He died Saturday. Coffey was in charge of swine production courses at Ohio State and was known nationally as a judge of swine. He had taught at Ohio State 37 vears.

According to the Ohio State University Bulletin, Vol. 27, Issue 6, for period 1921-22, Joel Simmonds Coffey was on the teaching staff at that university. He was described as having graduated with a B.Sc. from the University of Illinois in 1912; was an instructor at Purdue University from 1912-14; lecturer in Animal Husbandry, Iowa State University during the summers of 1914, 1915 and 1918. He was then assistant professor of animal husbandry at Ohio State from 1914 to 1918. From 1918 to the publication of this Bulletin, he was a full professor of animal husbandry.

Joel Simmonds Coffey and Dorothy Elizabeth Neff were married circa 1922. Dorothy Elizabeth Neff was born on 28 May 1901 in Ohio. Dorothy died in Los Angeles Co., CA on 26 September 1966.¹³⁸²⁴

Joel Simmonds Coffey and Dorothy Elizabeth Neff had the following children: