Enlisted in Co K, Missouri 47th Reg't Infantry on 31 August 1865 at Ste. Genevieve, MO
Died of measles, complicated by pneumonia.
Information from Civil War Service Record and Widow's Pension file
When Joshua Peter Coffer was born in 1838 in Missouri, his father, Joshua Coffer, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth "Crain" Coffer, was 56. He married Sarah Eveline Boyd on December 18, 1859, in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. They had two children during their marriage. He died as a young father on January 20, 1865, in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 27.
Information from Ste. Genevieve Missouri Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Camp # 326
Died of measles, complicated by pneumonia.
Information from Civil War Service Record and Widow's Pension file
When Joshua Peter Coffer was born in 1838 in Missouri, his father, Joshua Coffer, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth "Crain" Coffer, was 56. He married Sarah Eveline Boyd on December 18, 1859, in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. They had two children during their marriage. He died as a young father on January 20, 1865, in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 27.
Information from Ste. Genevieve Missouri Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Camp # 326
Enlisted in Co K, Missouri 47th Reg't Infantry on 31 August 1865 at Ste. Genevieve, MO
Died of measles, complicated by pneumonia.
Information from Civil War Service Record and Widow's Pension file
When Joshua Peter Coffer was born in 1838 in Missouri, his father, Joshua Coffer, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth "Crain" Coffer, was 56. He married Sarah Eveline Boyd on December 18, 1859, in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. They had two children during their marriage. He died as a young father on January 20, 1865, in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 27.
Information from Ste. Genevieve Missouri Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Camp # 326
Died of measles, complicated by pneumonia.
Information from Civil War Service Record and Widow's Pension file
When Joshua Peter Coffer was born in 1838 in Missouri, his father, Joshua Coffer, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth "Crain" Coffer, was 56. He married Sarah Eveline Boyd on December 18, 1859, in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. They had two children during their marriage. He died as a young father on January 20, 1865, in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 27.
Information from Ste. Genevieve Missouri Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Camp # 326
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