Eighth Generation

7759. Hugh Burrell Coffey was born on 4 July 1879 in Omaha, Morris Co., TX. He lived with his parents in Morris Co., TX on 1 June 1900. He lived with his parents in Omaha, Morris Co., TX on 4 May 1910. He registered for the WWI draft on 10 September 1918 in Dallas Co., TX.²⁴⁸⁰² Hugh died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 19 April 1944 at the age of 64 at 3100 Littlejohn in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., TX. Hillcrest Cemetery in Dallas, Dallas Co., TX on 20 April 1944 .^24803,24804

Obituary

Fort Worth Star Telegram, Wednesday, April 19. 1944

H. B. Coffey, 64, Head of Radio Company, Dies

H. B. Coffey, 64, resident here since 1920 and owner of the Worth Radio and Appliance Company at 205 Main, died early Wednesday of a heart attack at his home, 3100 Littlejohn. A native of Omaha, Tx. Mr. Coffey retired several years ago because of his health. Surviving are the widow; a daughter, Mrs. Walter Cox Johnston, and two grandsons, Freddie and Donnie Johnston, Fort Worth; two sisters, Mrs. Nora E. Leeves, Dallas, and Mrs. Mary A. Ledbetter, Ennis; and two brothers, W.E. of Quanah and R. M. Coffey, Dallas. The funeral will be at 2 P.M. Thursday in the Gause-Ware Chapel, with Rev. W.D. Wyatt officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery at Dallas.

Vanita said that Big Daddy built the first two-story home in Omaha,. It was the last house inside the city limits down Main St. from downtown (towards Naples just outside of town according to Thomas Beasley) on 5 acres. He owned a grocery store. Sybil Kimmell Beasley thinks Hugh Ben had a grocery store in Polytechnic, Tx. Does not remeber him owing one in Omaha,.

Bill Stewart tells that his mother always had a huge garden and Hugh would come by to eat. (In those days the children would always eat last and if their parents did not put a chicken leg to the side the kids just got left out) Hugh would sit at that table and eat cornbread and water for a filler - he would eat fried chicken and vegetables and corn on the cob - "he could sure eat, man could he eat" and the kids would always worry if anything would be left for them. Bill remebers that they thought that Hugh was a wealthy man because he had hugh collections of everything. He had the body frame of an automobile with tires on it and pulled it with his mules. He go along the highway and pick up anything - he had a huge collection of bottles and other stuff. Hugh was actualy killed on the highway.

Hugh Burrell Coffey and Vassie Alberta Lewis were married on 22 July 1900 in Morris Co., TX.²⁴⁸⁰⁵ Vassie Alberta Lewis, daughter of James Lewis, was born in September 1881 in Morris Co., TX.²⁴⁸⁰⁶ She lived with her father and step-mother in Morris Co., TX on 5 June 1900. Vassie died in Omaha, Morris Co., TX on 13 September 1904 and was buried at Omaha Cemetery in Omaha, Morris Co., TX in September 1904 .²⁴⁸⁰⁷

Vassie was 22 years old when she died of Typhoid Fever after nursing her baby boy and causing him to die of Typhoid Fever. Vanita says she thinks she was about 2 years old when her mother died. I think she is buried in Naples, Tx.

Hugh Burrell Coffey and Vassie Alberta Lewis had the following children:

+14962	i.	Vanita Ann Coffey.
14963	ii.	Tom H. Coffey was born on 14 September 1903 in Omaha, Morris Co., TX. Tom died in Omaha, Morris Co., TX on 4 October 1904. We are told that Vassie nursed her baby boy while she was sick withTyphoid Fever (they called it Breast Fever). She died September 13, 1904 and he died 20 days later on October 4, 1904 at 1 year, 1 month old. His sister, Vanita, tells us that she was about 2 years old when they died. Because of the dates on their headstones and Vanita feeling she was about 2 years old when this happened, I have changed her birth date to 1902. Tom is buried with his mother (Vassie) in The Public Cemetery of Omaha,Tx. in the old section A. They share a headstone, Vassie on one side and Tom on the other. I have taken the liberty of assuming Tom H.'s middle name was Hugh as his father was Hugh Ben Coffey.

Hugh Burrell Coffey and Ella Hood were married on 16 April 1905 in Omaha, Morris Co., TX.²⁴⁸⁰⁸ Ella Hood was born (date unknown).

Hugh Burrell Coffey and Josephine Angela Blackmon were married circa 1929. They appeared in the census on 9 May 1930 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., TX.²⁴⁸⁰⁹ They^{²⁴⁸⁰⁹} appeared in the census on 23 April 1940 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., TX.²⁴⁸¹⁰ Josephine Angela Blackmon was born on 19 December 1898 in Dallas, Dallas Co., TX. Josephine died in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., TX on 18 January 1952 of colon cancer and was buried at Hillcrest Cemetery in Dallas, Dallas Co., TX on 18 January 1952 .^24811,24812