From the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Arizona, Saturday morning March 14, 1930:
"Funeral Services for Coffey Today -
Funeral services for Theodore C. Coffey of Pana, Ill., Baptist minister, who died here Wednesday night will be conducted this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Arizona Mortuary chapel. Rev. Richard S. Beal will officiate.
Reverend Coffey had been a winter resident in Tucson for the past four years, and at his death resided at 1225 East Sixth Street. He had been a Baptist minister for 50 years.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Julia Coffey, and a daughter, Mrs. Grace Ward of Tonica, Ill. who were in Tucson at the time of his death, Reverend Coffey left a son, Prof. R. V. Coffey of St. Louis, Mo. and two other daughters, Miss Carolyn Coffey of Wenona, Ill. and Mrs. F. A. Cutler of Pana.
The body will be removed to Pana, Ill. Monday morning for burial."
The following biography is from: Portrait and Biographical Record of Effingham, Jasper and Richland Counties Illinois, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Governors of the State, and the Presidents of the United States. (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1887), p. 553. Transcribed by Judy Rosella Edwards.
"Mr. Coffey is a native of Indiana. He was born near Bloomington, Monroe County, on the 11th of November, 1847, and is a son of Cornelius and Margaret Coffey. The early education of our subject was acquired in the public schools, after which he was a student in the seminary of Ladoga, Ind., and also in Shurtleff College, pursuing a four-years classical and three-years theological course in the latter institution, graduating in the respective classes of 1871 and 1874. He was now fitted for the ministry and soon afterward entered upon the work for which he had prepared himself. His first charge was in Tuscola, Ill., after which he was pastor of the Baptist Church in Appleton, Wis., for two years. The succeeding nine years of his life were spent in pastoral work in Kansas, after which he was for two years a minister of the Baptist Church in Griggsville, Ill. As before stated, he then received a call from Effingham and came to this place on the 1st of June, 1891. Mr. Coffey was united in marriage with Miss Julia A. Vallette, a native of Ohio. Their union, which was celebrated on the 28th of January, 1875, took place in Upper Alton, Ill. Unto them have been born four children, who are yet living: Grace, Roy, Maggie and Carrie. They also lost one child, May, who died at the age of a year and a-half. Mr. Coffey is a scholarly gentleman and in Effingham he has won many friends, not only among his own people, but among those of other denominations. He has the confidence and respect of the entire community."
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Find A Grave contributor Roy Fredrick provided the following:
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BIO: REV. THEODORE C. COFFEY. The Baptist Church at Griggsville, Pike County, is in charge of a man of broad culture, comprehensive views, and earnest zeal in the cause to which he has devoted his talents. His scholarly tastes are inherited and he has been a lifelong student, eager to obtain knowledge, particularly in those lines which will add to his influence over the minds of those to whom he is presenting the truths of the Gospel.
The Coffey family has been known in America for about two hundred years, its founder having come from the North of Ireland and located in Virginia, whence the family afterward went to North Carolina. The Rev. Reuben Coffey, grandfather of our subject, was a native of Caldwell County. N. C. He won for his wife Polly Dowell. Their son Cornelius was born March 12, 1812, was well educated and studied for the ministry, at the same time working at the carpenter's bench or at farming. He was never ordained, but became a voluminous writer for religious papers. He became a resident of Indiana. marrying in that State Miss Margaret Smith, the ceremony being solemnized in 1836 near the town of Bloomington. The bride was born in Kentucky and was a daughter of John and Achsah (Belcha) Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Coffey spent their entire wedded lives in the Hoosier State. the husband dying there in 1852 at the age of forty years. The widow survived until 1883 and breathed her last when sixty-five years old.
The family of this good couple consisted of four children, (Theodore) being the third in order of birth. The oldest, Copernicus II., became a soldier in Company I. Twenty-second Indiana Infantry and was promoted to the position of Orderly-Sergeant. When his term of enlistment expired he re-entered as a veteran and was at the head of his company at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., where he fell mortally wounded. He lay on the field two days and nights before death ended his sufferings. Susan S., the second child, is engaged in teaching in Ulysses, Grant County, Kan., and Sarah B.. the youngest child. is devoted to the same work in that place.
The gentleman of whom we write was born at Bloomington, Ind., November 11. 1847. He took advantage of every opportunity to attend school, advancing his knowledge in the district schools principally until he was sixteen years old, when he entered Ladoga, Ind., Seminary. taking an academic course. He subsequently taught in that institution one year as head assistant. He next went to Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Ill., where he completed a collegiate course, being graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1871. He then took up the study of theology in the same institution and three years later received the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
In 1875, the year following his graduation, Mr. Coffey was ordained in the Baptist Church and spent some time in Appleton, Wis.; engaged in Ministerial labors. He was then sent as a missionary to Kansas, in which State he sojourned nine years, preaching in various places, building up the church and opening up new fields. He came from Herington, Ks., to Griggsville in February. 1889, and with his customary ardor is endeavoring to meet the wants of the people in his new field of labor. His affable manners, which seem incited by the law of love, give him a foothold among those who are not easily attracted toward Christianity. and are an additional reason for the respect of his people.
The Rev. Mr. Coffey, at Upper Alton in 1875, led to the hymeneal altar Miss Julia A. Valette and the congenial union has been blest by the birth of five children—Grace, Roy, Maggie, Carrie, and May. Mrs. Coffey was born in Cincinnati, Ohio., where her father was formerly engaged in business. Her parents, 105921481 Frederick A. and 89805858 Marcia (Field) Valette came to this state some years ago and her father became a lumber dealer. Mrs. Coffey is cultered and refined, and possesses the kindly spirit so necessary to a ministers wife.
[Source: Portrait and Biographical Album Pike and Calhoun Counties, Illinois]
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"Funeral Services for Coffey Today -
Funeral services for Theodore C. Coffey of Pana, Ill., Baptist minister, who died here Wednesday night will be conducted this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Arizona Mortuary chapel. Rev. Richard S. Beal will officiate.
Reverend Coffey had been a winter resident in Tucson for the past four years, and at his death resided at 1225 East Sixth Street. He had been a Baptist minister for 50 years.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Julia Coffey, and a daughter, Mrs. Grace Ward of Tonica, Ill. who were in Tucson at the time of his death, Reverend Coffey left a son, Prof. R. V. Coffey of St. Louis, Mo. and two other daughters, Miss Carolyn Coffey of Wenona, Ill. and Mrs. F. A. Cutler of Pana.
The body will be removed to Pana, Ill. Monday morning for burial."
The following biography is from: Portrait and Biographical Record of Effingham, Jasper and Richland Counties Illinois, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Governors of the State, and the Presidents of the United States. (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1887), p. 553. Transcribed by Judy Rosella Edwards.
"Mr. Coffey is a native of Indiana. He was born near Bloomington, Monroe County, on the 11th of November, 1847, and is a son of Cornelius and Margaret Coffey. The early education of our subject was acquired in the public schools, after which he was a student in the seminary of Ladoga, Ind., and also in Shurtleff College, pursuing a four-years classical and three-years theological course in the latter institution, graduating in the respective classes of 1871 and 1874. He was now fitted for the ministry and soon afterward entered upon the work for which he had prepared himself. His first charge was in Tuscola, Ill., after which he was pastor of the Baptist Church in Appleton, Wis., for two years. The succeeding nine years of his life were spent in pastoral work in Kansas, after which he was for two years a minister of the Baptist Church in Griggsville, Ill. As before stated, he then received a call from Effingham and came to this place on the 1st of June, 1891. Mr. Coffey was united in marriage with Miss Julia A. Vallette, a native of Ohio. Their union, which was celebrated on the 28th of January, 1875, took place in Upper Alton, Ill. Unto them have been born four children, who are yet living: Grace, Roy, Maggie and Carrie. They also lost one child, May, who died at the age of a year and a-half. Mr. Coffey is a scholarly gentleman and in Effingham he has won many friends, not only among his own people, but among those of other denominations. He has the confidence and respect of the entire community."
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Find A Grave contributor Roy Fredrick provided the following:
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BIO: REV. THEODORE C. COFFEY. The Baptist Church at Griggsville, Pike County, is in charge of a man of broad culture, comprehensive views, and earnest zeal in the cause to which he has devoted his talents. His scholarly tastes are inherited and he has been a lifelong student, eager to obtain knowledge, particularly in those lines which will add to his influence over the minds of those to whom he is presenting the truths of the Gospel.
The Coffey family has been known in America for about two hundred years, its founder having come from the North of Ireland and located in Virginia, whence the family afterward went to North Carolina. The Rev. Reuben Coffey, grandfather of our subject, was a native of Caldwell County. N. C. He won for his wife Polly Dowell. Their son Cornelius was born March 12, 1812, was well educated and studied for the ministry, at the same time working at the carpenter's bench or at farming. He was never ordained, but became a voluminous writer for religious papers. He became a resident of Indiana. marrying in that State Miss Margaret Smith, the ceremony being solemnized in 1836 near the town of Bloomington. The bride was born in Kentucky and was a daughter of John and Achsah (Belcha) Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Coffey spent their entire wedded lives in the Hoosier State. the husband dying there in 1852 at the age of forty years. The widow survived until 1883 and breathed her last when sixty-five years old.
The family of this good couple consisted of four children, (Theodore) being the third in order of birth. The oldest, Copernicus II., became a soldier in Company I. Twenty-second Indiana Infantry and was promoted to the position of Orderly-Sergeant. When his term of enlistment expired he re-entered as a veteran and was at the head of his company at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., where he fell mortally wounded. He lay on the field two days and nights before death ended his sufferings. Susan S., the second child, is engaged in teaching in Ulysses, Grant County, Kan., and Sarah B.. the youngest child. is devoted to the same work in that place.
The gentleman of whom we write was born at Bloomington, Ind., November 11. 1847. He took advantage of every opportunity to attend school, advancing his knowledge in the district schools principally until he was sixteen years old, when he entered Ladoga, Ind., Seminary. taking an academic course. He subsequently taught in that institution one year as head assistant. He next went to Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Ill., where he completed a collegiate course, being graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1871. He then took up the study of theology in the same institution and three years later received the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
In 1875, the year following his graduation, Mr. Coffey was ordained in the Baptist Church and spent some time in Appleton, Wis.; engaged in Ministerial labors. He was then sent as a missionary to Kansas, in which State he sojourned nine years, preaching in various places, building up the church and opening up new fields. He came from Herington, Ks., to Griggsville in February. 1889, and with his customary ardor is endeavoring to meet the wants of the people in his new field of labor. His affable manners, which seem incited by the law of love, give him a foothold among those who are not easily attracted toward Christianity. and are an additional reason for the respect of his people.
The Rev. Mr. Coffey, at Upper Alton in 1875, led to the hymeneal altar Miss Julia A. Valette and the congenial union has been blest by the birth of five children—Grace, Roy, Maggie, Carrie, and May. Mrs. Coffey was born in Cincinnati, Ohio., where her father was formerly engaged in business. Her parents, 105921481 Frederick A. and 89805858 Marcia (Field) Valette came to this state some years ago and her father became a lumber dealer. Mrs. Coffey is cultered and refined, and possesses the kindly spirit so necessary to a ministers wife.
[Source: Portrait and Biographical Album Pike and Calhoun Counties, Illinois]
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From the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Arizona, Saturday morning March 14, 1930:
"Funeral Services for Coffey Today -
Funeral services for Theodore C. Coffey of Pana, Ill., Baptist minister, who died here Wednesday night will be conducted this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Arizona Mortuary chapel. Rev. Richard S. Beal will officiate.
Reverend Coffey had been a winter resident in Tucson for the past four years, and at his death resided at 1225 East Sixth Street. He had been a Baptist minister for 50 years.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Julia Coffey, and a daughter, Mrs. Grace Ward of Tonica, Ill. who were in Tucson at the time of his death, Reverend Coffey left a son, Prof. R. V. Coffey of St. Louis, Mo. and two other daughters, Miss Carolyn Coffey of Wenona, Ill. and Mrs. F. A. Cutler of Pana.
The body will be removed to Pana, Ill. Monday morning for burial."
The following biography is from: Portrait and Biographical Record of Effingham, Jasper and Richland Counties Illinois, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Governors of the State, and the Presidents of the United States. (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1887), p. 553. Transcribed by Judy Rosella Edwards.
"Mr. Coffey is a native of Indiana. He was born near Bloomington, Monroe County, on the 11th of November, 1847, and is a son of Cornelius and Margaret Coffey. The early education of our subject was acquired in the public schools, after which he was a student in the seminary of Ladoga, Ind., and also in Shurtleff College, pursuing a four-years classical and three-years theological course in the latter institution, graduating in the respective classes of 1871 and 1874. He was now fitted for the ministry and soon afterward entered upon the work for which he had prepared himself. His first charge was in Tuscola, Ill., after which he was pastor of the Baptist Church in Appleton, Wis., for two years. The succeeding nine years of his life were spent in pastoral work in Kansas, after which he was for two years a minister of the Baptist Church in Griggsville, Ill. As before stated, he then received a call from Effingham and came to this place on the 1st of June, 1891. Mr. Coffey was united in marriage with Miss Julia A. Vallette, a native of Ohio. Their union, which was celebrated on the 28th of January, 1875, took place in Upper Alton, Ill. Unto them have been born four children, who are yet living: Grace, Roy, Maggie and Carrie. They also lost one child, May, who died at the age of a year and a-half. Mr. Coffey is a scholarly gentleman and in Effingham he has won many friends, not only among his own people, but among those of other denominations. He has the confidence and respect of the entire community."
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Find A Grave contributor Roy Fredrick provided the following:
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BIO: REV. THEODORE C. COFFEY. The Baptist Church at Griggsville, Pike County, is in charge of a man of broad culture, comprehensive views, and earnest zeal in the cause to which he has devoted his talents. His scholarly tastes are inherited and he has been a lifelong student, eager to obtain knowledge, particularly in those lines which will add to his influence over the minds of those to whom he is presenting the truths of the Gospel.
The Coffey family has been known in America for about two hundred years, its founder having come from the North of Ireland and located in Virginia, whence the family afterward went to North Carolina. The Rev. Reuben Coffey, grandfather of our subject, was a native of Caldwell County. N. C. He won for his wife Polly Dowell. Their son Cornelius was born March 12, 1812, was well educated and studied for the ministry, at the same time working at the carpenter's bench or at farming. He was never ordained, but became a voluminous writer for religious papers. He became a resident of Indiana. marrying in that State Miss Margaret Smith, the ceremony being solemnized in 1836 near the town of Bloomington. The bride was born in Kentucky and was a daughter of John and Achsah (Belcha) Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Coffey spent their entire wedded lives in the Hoosier State. the husband dying there in 1852 at the age of forty years. The widow survived until 1883 and breathed her last when sixty-five years old.
The family of this good couple consisted of four children, (Theodore) being the third in order of birth. The oldest, Copernicus II., became a soldier in Company I. Twenty-second Indiana Infantry and was promoted to the position of Orderly-Sergeant. When his term of enlistment expired he re-entered as a veteran and was at the head of his company at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., where he fell mortally wounded. He lay on the field two days and nights before death ended his sufferings. Susan S., the second child, is engaged in teaching in Ulysses, Grant County, Kan., and Sarah B.. the youngest child. is devoted to the same work in that place.
The gentleman of whom we write was born at Bloomington, Ind., November 11. 1847. He took advantage of every opportunity to attend school, advancing his knowledge in the district schools principally until he was sixteen years old, when he entered Ladoga, Ind., Seminary. taking an academic course. He subsequently taught in that institution one year as head assistant. He next went to Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Ill., where he completed a collegiate course, being graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1871. He then took up the study of theology in the same institution and three years later received the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
In 1875, the year following his graduation, Mr. Coffey was ordained in the Baptist Church and spent some time in Appleton, Wis.; engaged in Ministerial labors. He was then sent as a missionary to Kansas, in which State he sojourned nine years, preaching in various places, building up the church and opening up new fields. He came from Herington, Ks., to Griggsville in February. 1889, and with his customary ardor is endeavoring to meet the wants of the people in his new field of labor. His affable manners, which seem incited by the law of love, give him a foothold among those who are not easily attracted toward Christianity. and are an additional reason for the respect of his people.
The Rev. Mr. Coffey, at Upper Alton in 1875, led to the hymeneal altar Miss Julia A. Valette and the congenial union has been blest by the birth of five children—Grace, Roy, Maggie, Carrie, and May. Mrs. Coffey was born in Cincinnati, Ohio., where her father was formerly engaged in business. Her parents, 105921481 Frederick A. and 89805858 Marcia (Field) Valette came to this state some years ago and her father became a lumber dealer. Mrs. Coffey is cultered and refined, and possesses the kindly spirit so necessary to a ministers wife.
[Source: Portrait and Biographical Album Pike and Calhoun Counties, Illinois]
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"Funeral Services for Coffey Today -
Funeral services for Theodore C. Coffey of Pana, Ill., Baptist minister, who died here Wednesday night will be conducted this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Arizona Mortuary chapel. Rev. Richard S. Beal will officiate.
Reverend Coffey had been a winter resident in Tucson for the past four years, and at his death resided at 1225 East Sixth Street. He had been a Baptist minister for 50 years.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Julia Coffey, and a daughter, Mrs. Grace Ward of Tonica, Ill. who were in Tucson at the time of his death, Reverend Coffey left a son, Prof. R. V. Coffey of St. Louis, Mo. and two other daughters, Miss Carolyn Coffey of Wenona, Ill. and Mrs. F. A. Cutler of Pana.
The body will be removed to Pana, Ill. Monday morning for burial."
The following biography is from: Portrait and Biographical Record of Effingham, Jasper and Richland Counties Illinois, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Governors of the State, and the Presidents of the United States. (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1887), p. 553. Transcribed by Judy Rosella Edwards.
"Mr. Coffey is a native of Indiana. He was born near Bloomington, Monroe County, on the 11th of November, 1847, and is a son of Cornelius and Margaret Coffey. The early education of our subject was acquired in the public schools, after which he was a student in the seminary of Ladoga, Ind., and also in Shurtleff College, pursuing a four-years classical and three-years theological course in the latter institution, graduating in the respective classes of 1871 and 1874. He was now fitted for the ministry and soon afterward entered upon the work for which he had prepared himself. His first charge was in Tuscola, Ill., after which he was pastor of the Baptist Church in Appleton, Wis., for two years. The succeeding nine years of his life were spent in pastoral work in Kansas, after which he was for two years a minister of the Baptist Church in Griggsville, Ill. As before stated, he then received a call from Effingham and came to this place on the 1st of June, 1891. Mr. Coffey was united in marriage with Miss Julia A. Vallette, a native of Ohio. Their union, which was celebrated on the 28th of January, 1875, took place in Upper Alton, Ill. Unto them have been born four children, who are yet living: Grace, Roy, Maggie and Carrie. They also lost one child, May, who died at the age of a year and a-half. Mr. Coffey is a scholarly gentleman and in Effingham he has won many friends, not only among his own people, but among those of other denominations. He has the confidence and respect of the entire community."
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Find A Grave contributor Roy Fredrick provided the following:
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BIO: REV. THEODORE C. COFFEY. The Baptist Church at Griggsville, Pike County, is in charge of a man of broad culture, comprehensive views, and earnest zeal in the cause to which he has devoted his talents. His scholarly tastes are inherited and he has been a lifelong student, eager to obtain knowledge, particularly in those lines which will add to his influence over the minds of those to whom he is presenting the truths of the Gospel.
The Coffey family has been known in America for about two hundred years, its founder having come from the North of Ireland and located in Virginia, whence the family afterward went to North Carolina. The Rev. Reuben Coffey, grandfather of our subject, was a native of Caldwell County. N. C. He won for his wife Polly Dowell. Their son Cornelius was born March 12, 1812, was well educated and studied for the ministry, at the same time working at the carpenter's bench or at farming. He was never ordained, but became a voluminous writer for religious papers. He became a resident of Indiana. marrying in that State Miss Margaret Smith, the ceremony being solemnized in 1836 near the town of Bloomington. The bride was born in Kentucky and was a daughter of John and Achsah (Belcha) Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Coffey spent their entire wedded lives in the Hoosier State. the husband dying there in 1852 at the age of forty years. The widow survived until 1883 and breathed her last when sixty-five years old.
The family of this good couple consisted of four children, (Theodore) being the third in order of birth. The oldest, Copernicus II., became a soldier in Company I. Twenty-second Indiana Infantry and was promoted to the position of Orderly-Sergeant. When his term of enlistment expired he re-entered as a veteran and was at the head of his company at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., where he fell mortally wounded. He lay on the field two days and nights before death ended his sufferings. Susan S., the second child, is engaged in teaching in Ulysses, Grant County, Kan., and Sarah B.. the youngest child. is devoted to the same work in that place.
The gentleman of whom we write was born at Bloomington, Ind., November 11. 1847. He took advantage of every opportunity to attend school, advancing his knowledge in the district schools principally until he was sixteen years old, when he entered Ladoga, Ind., Seminary. taking an academic course. He subsequently taught in that institution one year as head assistant. He next went to Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Ill., where he completed a collegiate course, being graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1871. He then took up the study of theology in the same institution and three years later received the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
In 1875, the year following his graduation, Mr. Coffey was ordained in the Baptist Church and spent some time in Appleton, Wis.; engaged in Ministerial labors. He was then sent as a missionary to Kansas, in which State he sojourned nine years, preaching in various places, building up the church and opening up new fields. He came from Herington, Ks., to Griggsville in February. 1889, and with his customary ardor is endeavoring to meet the wants of the people in his new field of labor. His affable manners, which seem incited by the law of love, give him a foothold among those who are not easily attracted toward Christianity. and are an additional reason for the respect of his people.
The Rev. Mr. Coffey, at Upper Alton in 1875, led to the hymeneal altar Miss Julia A. Valette and the congenial union has been blest by the birth of five children—Grace, Roy, Maggie, Carrie, and May. Mrs. Coffey was born in Cincinnati, Ohio., where her father was formerly engaged in business. Her parents, 105921481 Frederick A. and 89805858 Marcia (Field) Valette came to this state some years ago and her father became a lumber dealer. Mrs. Coffey is cultered and refined, and possesses the kindly spirit so necessary to a ministers wife.
[Source: Portrait and Biographical Album Pike and Calhoun Counties, Illinois]
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