Generation No. 8

 

61.  THOMAS GRAVES9 COFFEE (ELIZABETH8 GRAVES, HENRY7, HENRY6, RALPH5, RALPH4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, THOMAS1) was born September 04, 1769 in Prince Edward Co., VA, and died August 05, 1846 in Lauderdale Co., AL.  He married MARY KNIGHT July 10, 1787 in Amelia Co., VA, daughter of CHARLES KNIGHT and MARY SMITH.  She was born June 25, 1770 in Virginia, and died August 27, 1832 in Lauderdale Co., AL.

 

Notes for THOMAS GRAVES COFFEE:

Both Thomas and Mary are said to be buried in a Coffee Cemetery, sometimes called Fritts Cemetery, in Lauderdale County, Alabama.

 

Marriage Bonds in Amelia County

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 2.

   (Oct., 1907), pp. 81-95.

                         MARRIAGE BOND IN AMELIA COUNTY.

                       (Continued from Volume XV., page 264).

p. 84

July 10, 1787, Coffee, Thos & Mary Knight (d. of Chas.)

 

In the vertical files of TN State Lib. and Archives is a copy of a letter dated Jun 18, 1925 from 503 E. Tuscaloosa St., Florence, AL, and signed by Miss Ada V. Coffee. In it, she writes that the children of Thomas and Mary Knight Coffee were: Richard Smith, Jack, Joshua, Elizabeth, Polly Knight, Caroline, Prudence and Missiniah.

 

Transcription of deed for Thomas Coffee to his children.  Florence, Alabama Deed Book 6 Page 76

 

                 Coffee to his Children

 

This indenture made on this 15 day of June 1832 between Thomas Coffee of the county of Lauderdale in the State of Alabama of the first part and his daughter Mary K. Mayes and Caroline G. Coffee of the other part witnesseth that the said Thomas Coffee for and in consideration of the natural love and affection which he bearith to his said daughters Mary K. Mays, Caroline G. Coffee and for the sum of one dollar to him the said Thomas Coffee in hand paid by his said daughters Mary K. Mays and Caroline G.Coffee hath given granted and confirm and by these present doth give grant a lot enfoff and confirm unto the said Mary K. Mays and Caroline G. Coffee their heirs and assigns all that tract ofland and plantation where on the said Thomas Coffee now lives and resides on Blue Water Creek in the County of Lauderdale and State of Alabama and which is now partially distinguished as the west half of the southwest quarter of section number twenty two in Township number two of range Number Eight together with all and singular Hereditaments and Appurentenance issues and profits there of and al[ the estate right with interest claim and demand whatsoever of him the said Thomas Coffee of in and to the said premises and to every past and present share to have and to hold the said tenants and premises already Granted and Confirmed unto them appurtenances unto the said Mary K. Mays and Caroline G. Coffee their heirs and assigns and unto Thomas Coffee for himself and his heirs or assigns doth covenant and agree to acid with the said Mary K. Mays and Caroline G Coffee their heirs or assigns that the before unpaid track ofland and bargained premises he will warrant and forever defend the legal Claim ofall persons what so ever and the said Thomas Coffee futher more doth hereby give to his said daughters Mary K. Mays and Caroline G Coffee this negro woman Lucy to than and their heirs forever provided nevertheless that if the said Mary K Mays dies before her sister Elizabeth W. Jackson who is also the daughter of the said Thomas Coffee when and in that event the said Negro woman Lucy is to to the said Elizabeth W. Jackson and her heirs and the said Thomas Coffee doth here by give to his daughter Caroline G. Coffee small Negro girl Sarah age about four years who is the daughter of his woman Lucy which said girl Sarah he here by giveth to his said daughter Caroline and her heirs forever and he will warrant the rights and title of said Girl Sarah to the said Caroline G. Coffee from himself and his heirs and every of them and from all persons whatsoever The intent and meaning of the forgoing deed of bargain and gift between Thomas Coffee and his daughter Mary K. Mays and Caroline G. Coffee is as follows to the said Thomas Coffee is to retain usage of his tract of Land and plantation and his Negro woman Lucy as long as he lives that is to say himself lives on and occupy the plantation as residence but his heirs not to dispose ofit in any other manner or way the residence so long as he lives and he is to retain the use ofthe woman Lucy to labor for him during his lifetime on the plantation but heirs not to dispose of her in any other way the small girl Sarah he hath delivered up to Caroline G. Coffee on this day as her own property forever to dispose of as she may think proper In testimony of all and signed this forgoing premises the said Thomas Coffee hath hereto sat his hand and seal the date above signed sealed and delivered

 

                                      Thomas Coffee

Presence of

 

John Coffee

A.T. Huchings

Francis Camper

 

The State of Alabama that john Coffee and Francis Camper made oath before the under-

Lauderdale County signed made oath before the undersigned Judge ofthe County Court ofsaid county. That

Thomas Coffee signed sealed and delivered the fore going deed in their presence and they severally entaed their names as

witness to said deed.

 

                                      Atest S. C. Posey, Judge ofthe County

 

                                     Court of lauderdale

Recorded April 24, 1833

 

End of Will ----------------------------

 

Transcribed letter from Thomas and Mary Coffee to their children Joshua D. and Mary Coffee August 15, 1829

 

                                      Aug 15th 1829, Bluewater, Ala

Der

Children these Lines Leaves our family in tolible health except sore eyes. Your mother have been nearly bline but is Reather on the mend your mother got home from tennessee Friday week she left misiniah Bob & the children weel, they Intend coming Dow some time next week messaniah intends saying Down some time bob intends going back in a few Days if its convenient you'd as well come up to see him Mr. Crittentun lost a young negro Last night it was fist taken with the Disentary it was anns child wee wish to here from you both as son as posible & your uncles Family I Expect to be Down on Friday Evening an perhaps your mother with me- - your brothers & sisters a generally well Except Sore Eyes. I hope this may find you both in helth with your uncle & family, these frrom your loving Parrents this is with Respt & ??? till death

                                     Thos & polley Coffee

Joshua D. Coffee &

Mary K. mays

 

End of Letter ---------------------------

 

Transcribed letter from Missiniah Coffee to her parents Thomas and Mary Coffee March 29, 1831

 

March the 29 1831 Giles city Tennessee

 

Dear father and Mother,

     I received your kind letter and alls so the orrange and tract and was very much grattified to hear of your health and that of our relations in geneerl, we are all in tolerable good health at present there has been a gooeal of sickness in the neighbourhood and several deaths but its getting more heathy 6 of our family was down at the same time 2 of them was considred dangerous but they all recovered, severall very serious accidents has happened latenly, about ten days past in turning of aloat Robert Steels skull was supposed to be broken he sufferd a greateal and died on last Sunday. Mr. Harrrell was thrown from his horse was not exspected to live for some time but is now in the mend.  Rebecca Harvell was Baptized last sabbath she shouted manfully it is supposed theat Henry Harvelf has ahope and will come out shortly. You all must come and see us as soon as you can tell sister Mays and Caroline they must come shortly tell Mr CAintun and P they must come R and S Mr J and Betsy and all the rest of the connection tell Betsy to let Catherine come and stay awhile with me and if she cannot spare her to let Julia or Caroline come give my best love to all ing uiring friends, tell little Missaniah she must come and stay with me little Prudence AC can run all about fat and sassy and misceivious as she can be.  Mother Mr. Wells joins me in love to you all you must write shortly write all the news tell Jeferson and Joshua howdy no more but remain you loving daughter

 

                                      MC Wells

T and M coffee

 

End of Letter ----------------------------

 

Transcribed letter from Missiniah Coffee to her parents Thomas and Mary Coffee June 27, 1831

 

 

June the 27 1831                             Giles City Tennessee

Dear parents

     My great anxiety to hear from you and to see you has caused me to attempt to write you a few lines it appears that I am entirely forgoten by all my relations in Alabama. They neither write nor come. I have been looking for some of you for a considerable time but all in vain. Not one soul has came the last time I herd from you was by Mrs Brooks she informed me that Mother was very unwell and I have ben vary anxious to hear how she had got. We are all in moderate health at this time little Prudence AC is fat and saucy can run all about the yard and call papa and mama she is called very pretty and smart she is very anxious to see hergrand parents uncles aunts and all her little cousins tell them all howdy for me Brothers Sisters uncles aunts and every connection I have tell Prudence Betsy Sally Polly Caroline and all that 1 want to see them very bad tell them to write to me some of you must come shortly I never was more anxious to see you in my life the Camp meeting at Pisgah commences the 28 of July some of you must come to it write me immediately and let me know when any of you are coming give my best love to Harriet and tell her to write to me if it is in our power we will go down when the crops laid by no more but remain your loving daughter until death.

 

                                      Messaniah C. Wells

Thomas and

Mary Coffee

 

PS I want you to send me as much wool as you can spare by the first one of you the first one of you that passes if it is not carded

send it so.    (Envelope-Pulaski T July 8 Mr. Thomas Coffee Florence Alabama)

 

End of Letter ----------------------------

 

 

 

 

More About THOMAS GRAVES COFFEE:

Burial: Abt. August 05, 1846, Coffee (Fritts) Cemetary (Unmarked) / Houstontown, Lauderdale Co., AL

 

More About MARY KNIGHT:

Burial: Abt. August 27, 1832, Coffee (Fritts) Cemetary (Unmarked) / Houstontown, Lauderdale Co., AL

 

More About THOMAS COFFEE and MARY KNIGHT:

Marriage: July 10, 1787, Amelia Co., VA

     

Children of THOMAS COFFEE and MARY KNIGHT are:

                  i.    CAROLINE GRAVES10 COFFEE, d. Unknown.

66.             ii.    MISSINIAH C. COFFEE, b. Virginia; d. Unknown.

67.            iii.    ELIZABETH WOODSON COFFEE, b. August 07, 1788; d. May 10, 1852, Lauderdale Co., AL.

                iv.    MARY KNIGHT COFFEE, b. Abt. 1789; d. Unknown; m. CLAIBORN MAYS, June 13, 1820, Lauderdale Co., AL; d. Unknown.

 

More About CLAIBORN MAYS and MARY COFFEE:

Marriage: June 13, 1820, Lauderdale Co., AL

 

68.            v.    RICHARD SMITH COFFEE, b. March 21, 1800, Prince Edward Co., VA; d. August 21, 1879, Lauderdale Co., AL.

69.            vi.    PRUDENCE J. COFFEE, b. Abt. 1805; d. Unknown.

70.           vii.    JOSHUA D. COFFEE, b. Abt. 1808; d. Unknown.

 

 

62.  GENERAL JOHN R.9 COFFEE (ELIZABETH8 GRAVES, HENRY7, HENRY6, RALPH5, RALPH4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, THOMAS1) was born June 02, 1772 in Prince Edward Co., VA, and died July 07, 1833 in Florence, Lauderdale Co., AL.  He married MARY DONELSON October 03, 1809 in Davidson Co., TN, daughter of JOHN DONELSON and MARY PURNELL.  She was born June 13, 1793, and died December 07, 1871 in Florence, Lauderdale Co., AL.

 

Notes for GENERAL JOHN R. COFFEE:

John Coffee was a colonel of a regiment of mounted gunmen in the Tenn Vol Calvary in the expedition to Natchez from 10 Dec, 1812 to 27 Apr 1813.  He was on active duty again during the Creek Wars from 24 Sep, 1813 to 29 Oct, 1813 when he was promoted to major general.  He continued in service until 10 May, 1814.  He also was a brigadier general at the Battle of New Orleans under General Andrew Jackson and served from 11 Sep, 1814 to 20 Jun, 1815.  The widow applied for bounty land on 28 Dec, 1854 in Lauderdale Co, AL, and received BL Wt Terr in Mar, 1817 and moved to Huntsville, Madison Co, from Davidson Co., TN;  later he moved to Lauderdale Co, AL.  Mary Donelson was a niece of Rachael Donelson, the wife of Andrew Jackson.  Information from McCown and Burns, from Hill, and from the National Archives.  Copied from the Natchez Trace Traveler Vol. 8, No. 4, Nov 1988 Page 140.

 

Expedition to Natchez (War of 1812)

General Wilkinson was in command of the western forces.  He was located in New Orleans where he heard about the Creek unrest.  He requested that the War Department send him some troops immediately.  The Secretary of War contacted Gov. Blount of Tennessee and Blount asked Andrew Jackson to raise some militia.  By 10 Dec, 1812, Jackson had assembled 2000 men at Nashville, TN.  On 7 Jan, 1813 he dispatched 600 of them, under Col. John Coffee, to Natchez, Miss Terr, via the Natchez Trace.  The remainder were placed on flatboats and transported via Cumberland, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers to Natchez.  They traversed over 1000 miles in just 39 days, reaching Natchez on 15 Feb, 1813.  Col. Coffee and his troops were already there.  While there, Jackson received orders from the War Department to discharge his troops immediately.  When Wilkinson found out who was in charge of the troops, he decided he didn't want to be rescued by Andrew Jackson.  They were competitors; earlier in the war, Jackson had been passed over by the Secretary of the War in favor of WILKINSON because the Secretary knew WILKINSON personally and did not know  JACKSON.  The War Department thought JACKSON was still in Nashville so thought little about sending the order to disband.  JACKSON, however, was in Natchez.  He refused the order.  He declared his men were from Nashville and that is where they would be discharged.  They had no supplies or food.  Andrew JACKSON purchased these with his own money and marched the troops back to Nashville, via the Natchez Trace.  They arrived there on 18 May 1813.  It was on this trip that his men named him "Old Hickory" because he was as tough as old hickory wood.  JACKSON later was reimbursed for the supplies he purchased.  Copied from the Natchez Trace Traveler Vol. 8, No. 4, Nov 1988 Page 127.

 

Creek Indian War

Late in 1813, the country heard about the massacre at Fort Mims (in that part of Miss Terr that became Alabama) where Creek Indians had killed almost all the white people, including women and children.  Col COFFEE was sent immediately to Huntsville, Miss Terr ( now Al ), with 500 dragoons.  Gen JACKSON assembled 5,000 militia and volunteers at Fayetteville, TN, on 7 Oct 1813 and marched to join Col COFFEE.  At the same time, Gen COCKE assembled 2,500 militia in Knoxville, TN, and marched toward the Creek settlements.  Brig Gen FLOYD of Georgia and Gen CLAIBORNE of Louisiana also assembled militia and marched to join battle with the Creeks.  This was the start of the Creek Wars.  Early in Mar 1814 Jackson's forces were augmented by 600 regular Army soldiers from the 39th U.S. Infantry.  On 27 Mar 1814 JACKSON sent his command against the Creeks at their heavily fortified camp on the bend in the Tallapoosa River ( then in Miss Terr, now in AL ).  At this Battle of Horseshoe Bend, 557 Creek Indians were slain on the battlefield and more were killed attempting to cross the river.  The American losses were 26 white men and 23 Cherokee and friendly Creek Indians.  There were several other smaller battles before and after the Battle of Horseshoe Bend but this was the major battle and the one that really won the war against the Creeks.  In May 1814 JACKSON was appointed commander of the Mobile-New Orleans Military District. 

To an extent, the Spanish were involved in the Creek Wars.  The Spanish Governor of East Florida sold arms and ammunition to the Creek Indians.  JACKSON decided that this threat to America must cease and marched on Pensacola.  Although he won the battle, the Spanish remained in control of East Florida.  After the Battle of New Orleans, the British attempted to join forces with the Spanish but were again driven off.  Copied from the Natchez Trace Traveler Vol. 8, No.. 4, Nov 1988 Page 127.

 

Fort Coffee

Fort Coffee was established June 16, 1834 in Skullyville, north of Spiro, Oklahoma by the 7th infantry and named in honor of General John Coffee of Tennessee.  The fort was abandoned by the U.S. army in November, 1838.  In 1842, the site was selected by the Choctaw council and established as Ft. Coffee Academy for Boys.  During the Civil War, the buildings were used as barracks by Confederate forces.  In Oct., 1863, it was captured by Federal troops and the principal buildings were burned.

 

                                               GENERAL JOHN COFFEE                                                                 

                        From: History of Lauderdale County, AL; by Jill

                                          Knight Garrett, 1964; pp. 195-197

 

GENERAL JOHN COFFEE -- born June 2, 1772, Prince Edward County, Virginia, and died July 7, 1833, buried in the Coffee Cemetery on the Cloverdale Road, He was the son of Joshua Coffee (born 1745, died 1797) and Elizabeth Graves (born 1751, married 1767,) Joshua Coffee served as captain of mounted gunners during the American Revolution. In April 1798 John Coffee and his mother settled on the Cumberland River a few miles above Nashville, It was here that the strong friendship between him and Andrew Jackson developed This friendship was to continue, unimpaired until Jackson's death. He formed a partnership with Jackson in a mercantile business which was

not successful, Coffee withdrew from this venture in 1807 and devoted himself to surveying.

 

He was considered the most even-tempered and least selfish of Jackson's lifelong friends. He was described as a big awkward man, careless of dress, slow of speech, but kindly, tactful and wise, He did at one t time challenge Nathaniel A. McNairy for publishing derogatory statements about Jackson, During the course of the duel, McNairy unintentionally fired before the word, wounding Coffee in the thigh. In reparation, McNairy offered to lay down his pistol and give Coffee an extra shot.  The weapons used in the duel were later used in the celebrated Jackson-Dickinson duel,

 

When Aaron Burr came to Nashville, Jackson paid Burr a stiff call, taking Coffee along as his witness.  Another time he was second with Jackson in a duel with Jess Benton. After Jackson

was wounded, Benton was preparing to fire again, Coffee strode in, firing at Benton and missing. He then clubbed Benton with the pistol,

 

After the house of Jackson and Hutchings failed, with Coffee as a silent partner, Coffee gave Jackson his note for his share of the debts. When Coffee married Mary Donelson on October 3,

1809, Jackson opened his iron strongbox and gave Coffee's notes to the bride. Her father Captain John Donelson gave her a farm on Stones River on Rutherford County Old Jefferson, and they lived there throughout his military career, until they went to Lauderdale County in 1819.  While living at old Jefferson Coffee was elected court clerk of Rutherford County.

 

His first military experience was with the Natchez Expedition of 1812.  In that expedition he commanded the cavalry numbering 670, who assembled at Franklin, Tennessee, and proceeded to their destination.  He was Jackson's main dependence in the Creek War.  During the Battle of Tallushatchee with the Red Sticks, on November 3, 1813, the enemy was completely destroyed.  Coffee lost only five men, with 41 wounded, Davy Crockett who fought wrote, "We shot them like dogs and the town was wiped from the face of the earth."  During the Creek expedition, when the

volunteers deserted Jackson because there were no supplies, Coffee's volunteer cavalry voted to stay with Jackson.

 

Some of the most wistful letters from Coffee to his wife came from this period.  He wrote from Fort Williams, Talladega County, on April 1, 1814:

                   I hope to enjoy the remainder of my life with you in quiet.

 

On April 18, 1814, writing from the junction of 'Coosey and Tallapoosey'

                   ,..I shall be able to return home and remain in quiet with

                   you, and enjoy the blessings of private and social life,

                   the remainder of my life.

 

On October 22, 1814, from Camp Gaines, located 15 miles below St. Stephen, he wrote:

                   I look forward with solicitude to the time of discharge

                   when I can return home  and join you in the sweet enjoy-

                   ment of domestic life, The more I experience of public

                   life, the less I apprise it, and the more I appreciate the

                  enjoyment of a quiet fireside in society of an affectionate

                   wife and darling child, and I think I can with propriety

                   say, this will be the last campaign I shall ever make,

                   having satisfied my anxiety when I relieved this country,

 

Before he was to return to his quiet hearthside, Coffee was to win for himself a place in history, as a hero of the Battle of New Orleans. He was promoted from Brigadier General to Major General. Andrew Jackson was to say of him, "He is a great general, but he doesn't know it."

 

On May 19, 1815, he crossed the Tennessee River by ferry on the trip back to Nashville, He was appointed surveyor of public lands in March 1817 and moved to Huntsville that year.  He became one of the founders of the Cypress Land Company and purchased land on Coxes Creek about two miles north of Florence.  On this land he built a one-room log house. Later a more spacious and comfortable home was built around the original cabin. His home was named Hickory Hills.

 

Portraits of General Coffee and his wife Mary are at the Hermitage in Nashville as well as swords and other mementoes given by his son A.D. Coffee.

 

In 1833 he went to Washington to testify in defense of treaties with Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians. From the long and arduous journey, Coffee took a severe cold and died July 7.  He is buried near the site of his old home. 

 

Andrew Jackson wrote the remarkable epitaph placed on Coffee's tombstone.   It is a great tribute of a great man to a man but little less great:

 

                        Sacred to the Memory of General John Coffee

                        Who departed this life 7th day of July 1833

 

                                                                   Aged 61 years

 

             As a husband, parent and friend, he was affectionate, tender

             and sincere.  He was brave,  prompt,  and skillful general;

             a distinguished and sagacious patriot; an unpretending,

             just and honest man, To complete his character, religion

             mingled with these virtues her serene and gentle influence,

             and gave him that solid distinction among men which

             detraction cannot sully, nor the grave conceal. Death

             could not do more than to remove so excellent a being from

             the theater he so much adorned in this world, to the bosom

             of God who created him , and who alone has the power to

             reward the immortal spirit with exhaustless bliss.

 

He was 6 ft.  3 inches tall, weighed 250 pounds and was a man of fine

and commanding presence. 

 

Dictated at the Tennessee State Library and Archives at Nashville,       

Tenn, Oct. 12, 1973 and transcribed at Oxford, Miss. Jan 4, 1974

 

The following is from "Letters from Alabama 1817 - 1822" by Anne Royall. Edited and annotated by Lucille Griffith.

Huntsville, January 1st, 1818.

 

     GENERAL JOHN COFFEE Last evening I had the pleasure of seeing this renowned soldier and companion of General Jackson. This hero, of whom you have heard so much, is upwards of six feet in height, and proportionally made. Nor did I ever see so fine a figure. He is 35 or 36 years of age. His face is round and full, and features handsome. His complexion is ruddy, though sunburnt. His hair and eyes black, and a soft serenity diffuses his countenance. His hair is carelessly thrown to one side, in front, and displays one of the finest foreheads in nature - high, smoothe, and retreating. His countenance has much animation, while speaking, and his eyes sparkle; but the moment he ceases to speak, it resumes its wonted placidness, which is characteristic of the Tennesseans.

     In General Coffee, I expected to see a stern, haughty, fierce, warrior. No such thing. You look in vain for the rapidity with which he marched and defeated the Indians at Tallashatches; nor could I trace in his countenance the swiftness of pursuit, and sudden defeat of the Indians again at Emucfau; much less his severe conflicts at the head of his gallant men at New Orleans. He is as mild as the dew drops; but deep in his soul you see very plain that deliberate, firm, cool and manly courage, which has covered him with glory, he must be a host when he is roused. All these Tennesseans are mild and gentle, except they are excited, which is hard to do, but when they are once raised, it is victory or death.  General Coffee speaks very slow, and may weigh about 200 weight."

 

 

 

                              

 

More About GENERAL JOHN R. COFFEE:

Burial: Unknown, John Coffee Cemetery / Florence, Lauderdale Co., AL

 

More About MARY DONELSON:

Burial: Unknown, John Coffee Cemetery / Florence, Lauderdale Co., AL

 

More About JOHN COFFEE and MARY DONELSON:

Marriage: October 03, 1809, Davidson Co., TN

     

Children of JOHN COFFEE and MARY DONELSON are:

71.             i.    ALEXANDER DONELSON10 COFFEE, b. June 03, 1821; d. May 12, 1901.

72.             ii.    MARY DONELSON COFFEE, b. September 24, 1812; d. December 04, 1839.

73.            iii.    JOHN DONELSON COFFEE, b. March 15, 1815; d. August 18, 1837.

74.            iv.    ANDREW JACKSON COFFEE, b. January 28, 1819; d. March 11, 1891.

                 v.    ELIZABETH GRAVES COFFEE, b. February 24, 1817; d. January 19, 1838.

                vi.    RACHAEL JACKSON COFFEE, b. November 03, 1823; d. September 18, 1892; m. ALEX J. DYAS, October 23, 1856; b. October 15, 1815; d. February 03, 1900.

 

More About ALEX DYAS and RACHAEL COFFEE:

Marriage: October 23, 1856

 

               vii.    CATHERINE HARRIET COFFEE, b. September 24, 1826; d. November 09, 1881.

75.          viii.    WILLIAM DONELSON COFFEE, b. Abt. 1830; d. 1903.

                ix.    JOSHUA COFFEE, b. August 19, 1832; d. January 25, 1879.

                 x.    EMILY HUTCHINGS COFFEE, b. July 23, 1828; d. August 1829.

 

 

63.  MARY9 COFFEE (ELIZABETH8 GRAVES, HENRY7, HENRY6, RALPH5, RALPH4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, THOMAS1) was born August 01, 1774, and died Unknown.  She married SIMPSON HARRIS.  He died Unknown.

     

Children of MARY COFFEE and SIMPSON HARRIS are:

                  i.    ROBERT D.10 HARRIS, d. Unknown; m. LUCY LEGRAND; d. Unknown.

76.             ii.    ELIZABETH HARRIS, d. Unknown.

                iii.    HARRIET HARRIS, d. Unknown; m. SAMUEL MORGAN; d. Unknown.

                iv.    LUCINDA HARRIS, d. Unknown; m. BENJAMIN HARRIS; d. Unknown.

                 v.    JOHN COFFEE HARRIS, d. Unknown; m. JANE RAGSDALE; d. Unknown.

 

 

64.  MARTIN9 HENDRICK (DAVID8, RACHAEL7 GRAVES, HENRY6, RALPH5, RALPH4, JOHN3, THOMAS2, THOMAS1) was born January 03, 1812 in Baldwin, GA, and died April 23, 1884 in Farmersville, LA.  He married NANCY JANE RALEY June 08, 1841 in Farmersville, LA.  She was born October 08, 1824 in Georgia, and died January 31, 1897 in Quachita Parish, LA.

 

More About MARTIN HENDRICK and NANCY RALEY:

Marriage: June 08, 1841, Farmersville, LA

     

Child of MARTIN HENDRICK and NANCY RALEY is:

                  i.    MELISSA ANN10 HENDRICK, b. April 05, 1844, Farmersville, LA; d. March 14, 1926, Farmersville, LA; m. HENRY CLAY NOLAN, December 08, 1864, Farmersville, LA; b. December 12, 1846, Americus Co., AL; d. July 25, 1921, Farmersville, LA.

 

More About HENRY NOLAN and MELISSA HENDRICK:

Marriage: December 08, 1864, Farmersville, LA

 

 

65.  CATHERINE9 GRAVES (JOHN HERNDON8, JOHN7, THOMAS SR.6, JOHN5, THOMAS4, THOMAS JR.3, THOMAS2, THOMAS1) was born February 23, 1773, and died January 12, 1860 in Cadwell, NC.  She married (1) GRAVES HOWARD.  He died Unknown.  She married (2) GROVES HOWARD February 12, 1792 in Owensboro, KY.  He was born April 25, 1769, and died Unknown.

 

More About CATHERINE GRAVES:

Date born 2: February 23, 1773, Caswell, NC

 

More About GROVES HOWARD and CATHERINE GRAVES:

Marriage: February 12, 1792, Owensboro, KY

     

Child of CATHERINE GRAVES and GROVES HOWARD is:

77.             i.    GROVES LEA10 HOWARD, b. October 27, 1801, Caldwell Co., KY; d. March 01, 1850, New Orleans, LA.