Harriet Elizabeth Coffey Stewart, known as Hattie, was the eldest of five children born to Elijah Coffey (1838-1891) and his wife Mary Ann Nelson Coffey (1843-1929) of Patterson, Caldwell Co., NC. Her parents descended from some of the earliest pioneers in the upper Yadkin Valley. Hattie grew up on the family farm. On December 22, 1896 she married James Alexander Stewart (1858-1929), a native of Canada, whom she met when he taught school in the Valley.
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Stewart-Coffey.
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss Hattie E. Coffey, daughter of the late Elijah Coffey, Esq., of Patterson, to Mr. J.A. Stewart, of Minco, Ind. Ter. Rev. Geo. D. Sherrill is to officiate, and the ceremony is to take place at Harper's Chapel, this (Tuesday ) evening.
We congratulate our friend Stewart on his good sense in coming back to Caldwell for a wife. He formerly lived at Connelly's Springs, and taught school at Patterson several years ago. He is at present engaged in merchandising at the place named above where he will take his bride to live. The TOPIC, in advance, extends its heartiest congratulations.
["The Lenoir Topic" (Lenoir, NC), December 22, 1896, 3.]
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Immediately after their wedding, Hattie and "J. Alek" moved to the Oklahoma Territory where he had been promised a teaching position. Though that position never materialized the couple remained out west, settling in Minco where J. Alek opened a hardware store. The couple had two children: Mary Helen (b. 1897) and John Forbes (b. 1900). Sadly, son John died in a drowning accident in 1920 at the age of 20. The family never fully recovered from the tragedy. J. Alek Stewart retired from his business and moved with his wife to Enid, OK where their daughter was then teaching. There he lived as a semi-invalid until his death in 1929. Daughter Helen never married. She taught school and remained her mother's companion until Hattie's death in 1954.
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MRS. HATTIE STEWART
Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Stewart were conducted at 4 p.m. today in the Henninger-Allen funeral home chapel with Dr. Ray E. Snodgrass and the Rev. George Pratt officiating. Burial will be at 10 a.m. Friday in the Minco cemetery beside her husband, J.A. Stewart, who died in 1929. The Rev. Hugh Sinclair will have charge of the graveside services.
Pallbearers were C.E. Loomis, J.J. Osborn, Charles Dillon, A.L. Fisher, D. Bruce Selby and Homer Henson.
Mrs. Stewart, 86, died late Tuesday at her home at 1516 West Broadway, after an illness of several months. A native of Patterson, N.C., she came to Oklahoma in December of 1896, first living at Minco, moving to Enid in 1921, where she had lived since.
She was a member of the Central Christian church and the WCTU.
Survivors include one daughter, Miss Helen Stewart, of the home; one sister, Miss Mary Coffey, Lenoir, N.C.; two brothers, John W. Coffey, Raleigh, N.C., and Dr. George N. Coffey, Wooster, Ohio. One son died in 1920.
[Unidentified Enid, OK newspaper, 18 November 1954.]
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Stewart-Coffey.
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss Hattie E. Coffey, daughter of the late Elijah Coffey, Esq., of Patterson, to Mr. J.A. Stewart, of Minco, Ind. Ter. Rev. Geo. D. Sherrill is to officiate, and the ceremony is to take place at Harper's Chapel, this (Tuesday ) evening.
We congratulate our friend Stewart on his good sense in coming back to Caldwell for a wife. He formerly lived at Connelly's Springs, and taught school at Patterson several years ago. He is at present engaged in merchandising at the place named above where he will take his bride to live. The TOPIC, in advance, extends its heartiest congratulations.
["The Lenoir Topic" (Lenoir, NC), December 22, 1896, 3.]
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Immediately after their wedding, Hattie and "J. Alek" moved to the Oklahoma Territory where he had been promised a teaching position. Though that position never materialized the couple remained out west, settling in Minco where J. Alek opened a hardware store. The couple had two children: Mary Helen (b. 1897) and John Forbes (b. 1900). Sadly, son John died in a drowning accident in 1920 at the age of 20. The family never fully recovered from the tragedy. J. Alek Stewart retired from his business and moved with his wife to Enid, OK where their daughter was then teaching. There he lived as a semi-invalid until his death in 1929. Daughter Helen never married. She taught school and remained her mother's companion until Hattie's death in 1954.
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MRS. HATTIE STEWART
Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Stewart were conducted at 4 p.m. today in the Henninger-Allen funeral home chapel with Dr. Ray E. Snodgrass and the Rev. George Pratt officiating. Burial will be at 10 a.m. Friday in the Minco cemetery beside her husband, J.A. Stewart, who died in 1929. The Rev. Hugh Sinclair will have charge of the graveside services.
Pallbearers were C.E. Loomis, J.J. Osborn, Charles Dillon, A.L. Fisher, D. Bruce Selby and Homer Henson.
Mrs. Stewart, 86, died late Tuesday at her home at 1516 West Broadway, after an illness of several months. A native of Patterson, N.C., she came to Oklahoma in December of 1896, first living at Minco, moving to Enid in 1921, where she had lived since.
She was a member of the Central Christian church and the WCTU.
Survivors include one daughter, Miss Helen Stewart, of the home; one sister, Miss Mary Coffey, Lenoir, N.C.; two brothers, John W. Coffey, Raleigh, N.C., and Dr. George N. Coffey, Wooster, Ohio. One son died in 1920.
[Unidentified Enid, OK newspaper, 18 November 1954.]
Harriet Elizabeth Coffey Stewart, known as Hattie, was the eldest of five children born to Elijah Coffey (1838-1891) and his wife Mary Ann Nelson Coffey (1843-1929) of Patterson, Caldwell Co., NC. Her parents descended from some of the earliest pioneers in the upper Yadkin Valley. Hattie grew up on the family farm. On December 22, 1896 she married James Alexander Stewart (1858-1929), a native of Canada, whom she met when he taught school in the Valley.
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Stewart-Coffey.
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss Hattie E. Coffey, daughter of the late Elijah Coffey, Esq., of Patterson, to Mr. J.A. Stewart, of Minco, Ind. Ter. Rev. Geo. D. Sherrill is to officiate, and the ceremony is to take place at Harper's Chapel, this (Tuesday ) evening.
We congratulate our friend Stewart on his good sense in coming back to Caldwell for a wife. He formerly lived at Connelly's Springs, and taught school at Patterson several years ago. He is at present engaged in merchandising at the place named above where he will take his bride to live. The TOPIC, in advance, extends its heartiest congratulations.
["The Lenoir Topic" (Lenoir, NC), December 22, 1896, 3.]
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Immediately after their wedding, Hattie and "J. Alek" moved to the Oklahoma Territory where he had been promised a teaching position. Though that position never materialized the couple remained out west, settling in Minco where J. Alek opened a hardware store. The couple had two children: Mary Helen (b. 1897) and John Forbes (b. 1900). Sadly, son John died in a drowning accident in 1920 at the age of 20. The family never fully recovered from the tragedy. J. Alek Stewart retired from his business and moved with his wife to Enid, OK where their daughter was then teaching. There he lived as a semi-invalid until his death in 1929. Daughter Helen never married. She taught school and remained her mother's companion until Hattie's death in 1954.
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MRS. HATTIE STEWART
Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Stewart were conducted at 4 p.m. today in the Henninger-Allen funeral home chapel with Dr. Ray E. Snodgrass and the Rev. George Pratt officiating. Burial will be at 10 a.m. Friday in the Minco cemetery beside her husband, J.A. Stewart, who died in 1929. The Rev. Hugh Sinclair will have charge of the graveside services.
Pallbearers were C.E. Loomis, J.J. Osborn, Charles Dillon, A.L. Fisher, D. Bruce Selby and Homer Henson.
Mrs. Stewart, 86, died late Tuesday at her home at 1516 West Broadway, after an illness of several months. A native of Patterson, N.C., she came to Oklahoma in December of 1896, first living at Minco, moving to Enid in 1921, where she had lived since.
She was a member of the Central Christian church and the WCTU.
Survivors include one daughter, Miss Helen Stewart, of the home; one sister, Miss Mary Coffey, Lenoir, N.C.; two brothers, John W. Coffey, Raleigh, N.C., and Dr. George N. Coffey, Wooster, Ohio. One son died in 1920.
[Unidentified Enid, OK newspaper, 18 November 1954.]
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Stewart-Coffey.
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss Hattie E. Coffey, daughter of the late Elijah Coffey, Esq., of Patterson, to Mr. J.A. Stewart, of Minco, Ind. Ter. Rev. Geo. D. Sherrill is to officiate, and the ceremony is to take place at Harper's Chapel, this (Tuesday ) evening.
We congratulate our friend Stewart on his good sense in coming back to Caldwell for a wife. He formerly lived at Connelly's Springs, and taught school at Patterson several years ago. He is at present engaged in merchandising at the place named above where he will take his bride to live. The TOPIC, in advance, extends its heartiest congratulations.
["The Lenoir Topic" (Lenoir, NC), December 22, 1896, 3.]
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Immediately after their wedding, Hattie and "J. Alek" moved to the Oklahoma Territory where he had been promised a teaching position. Though that position never materialized the couple remained out west, settling in Minco where J. Alek opened a hardware store. The couple had two children: Mary Helen (b. 1897) and John Forbes (b. 1900). Sadly, son John died in a drowning accident in 1920 at the age of 20. The family never fully recovered from the tragedy. J. Alek Stewart retired from his business and moved with his wife to Enid, OK where their daughter was then teaching. There he lived as a semi-invalid until his death in 1929. Daughter Helen never married. She taught school and remained her mother's companion until Hattie's death in 1954.
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MRS. HATTIE STEWART
Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Stewart were conducted at 4 p.m. today in the Henninger-Allen funeral home chapel with Dr. Ray E. Snodgrass and the Rev. George Pratt officiating. Burial will be at 10 a.m. Friday in the Minco cemetery beside her husband, J.A. Stewart, who died in 1929. The Rev. Hugh Sinclair will have charge of the graveside services.
Pallbearers were C.E. Loomis, J.J. Osborn, Charles Dillon, A.L. Fisher, D. Bruce Selby and Homer Henson.
Mrs. Stewart, 86, died late Tuesday at her home at 1516 West Broadway, after an illness of several months. A native of Patterson, N.C., she came to Oklahoma in December of 1896, first living at Minco, moving to Enid in 1921, where she had lived since.
She was a member of the Central Christian church and the WCTU.
Survivors include one daughter, Miss Helen Stewart, of the home; one sister, Miss Mary Coffey, Lenoir, N.C.; two brothers, John W. Coffey, Raleigh, N.C., and Dr. George N. Coffey, Wooster, Ohio. One son died in 1920.
[Unidentified Enid, OK newspaper, 18 November 1954.]
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