Eighth Generation

7764. John Lafayette Coffey was born on 16 October 1874 in Omaha, Morris Co., TX. He registered for the WWI draft on 12 September 1917 in Omaha, Morris Co., TX.²⁴⁸²⁹ John died in Tyler, Smith Co., TX on 9 July 1946 and was buried at Liberty Hill Cemetery in Tyler, Smith Co., TX in July 1946 .²⁴⁸³⁰

John Lafayette Coffey and Ollie Parham were married on 27 August 1902 in Morris Co., TX.²⁴⁸³¹ Ollie Parham was born in 1887. She appeared in the census on 21 April 1910 as a widow with her daughter and her parents in Omaha, Morris Co., TX. Ollie died in Bixby, Tulsa Co., OK in 1981.

John Lafayette Coffey and Ollie Parham had the following children:

John Lafayette Coffey and Martha Emma McCullars Smith were married on 15 October 1919 in Smith Co., TX.²⁴⁸³² They²⁴⁸³² appeared in the census on 17 January 1920 in Tyler, Smith Co., TX.²⁴⁸³³ Martha Emma McCullars Smith, daughter of John P. McCullars and Mattie E. Tomlinson, was born on 30 October 1877 in Smith Co., TX. Martha died at Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Smith Co., TX on 20 December 1963 of myocardial failure and was buried at Liberty Hill Cemetery in Tyler, Smith Co., TX on 22 December 1963 .^{24834,24835,24836}