Archie Lee (Arch) Coffman, Sr: Robin's Roots

1888 - 1927 (39 years)

TNG Descendant Charts

Please note that you don't have to depend on these descriptions; you can quickly try out each of the chart types.

Graphical formats

"Standard" charts have a marvelous graphical format and show a fair amount of data for each person, but they generate so much whitespace that they tend to be wider than the screen (or a printed page) They tend to be hard to read and almost impossible to print if you generate more than three or four generations of data.
"Compact" charts have similar graphical layout, and are easier to read and print, but don't display any data other than each person's name.
Note that if you want to print a "Compact" chart with more than three or four generations of data, you should probably specify "Landscape" orientation when you print.
The "PDF chart" is kind of a cross between the standard and compact formats, generated as a PDF. On most computers, any web page can be printed as a PDF, but this PDF format handles page breaks for specific paper sizes, wheras PDF printouts of web pages just run the text through the page breaks

(The graphical charts' connecting lines sometimes disappear at certain zoom level. When they are missing, you can use you mouse scroll whell or hit control-plus or control-minus to change the zoom level.)

Text formats

"Text" charts follow a standard outline-style format that provides more (i.e. denser) data than the graphical charts do.
"Text+" charts are kind of a cross between the graphical and text formats. They can display much more data in less space than graphical charts or the "Text" chart. (That's good news and bad news). In particular, they requires much less horizontal scrolling, and can accommodate large charts in one printed page width (albeit sometimes with legal-sized paper in landscape mode). They are also much more flexible than the other formats, with several (perhaps too many) run-time options.
However,
- The process of printing a Text+ chart can be a bit daunting, and
- When you are looking at just a few generations, and when enough data is visible on the screen, the graphical charts tend to be easier to read.
"Register" charts are detailed descriptive reports. They contain almost all of the data that I have for each person, including free-form notes. But they aren't really 'charts' in the normal sense, and don't give this kind of overview of the family tree that the other charts give.
"Count" charts don't list descendants at all; they just show how many descendants a person has, broken out by generation.

Less detail

Generation: 1

Archie Lee (Arch) Coffman, Sr was born on 29 Sep 1888 in Centertown, Ohio County, Kentucky, USA; died on 27 Nov 1927 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1900, Rosine, Ohio County, Kentucky, USA; Living with his maternal grandmother, Nancy Everly, and brother Charlie (9). His brother Hubert (17)and widowed father were in his paternal grandparents' household, listed on the same census sheet.
Residence: 1910, Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA
Residence: 3 Jun 1917, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; Receiving Clerk for Troy Mill Co; wife and 3 children
Residence: 1920, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA

Notes:

When Laura May Everly Coffman died 2 August 1899, the family split up. By the next year 1900 census, Frank, husband, and 17 yr. old Hubert are listed with Alfred T and "Lue" Coffman, his parents. The other two boys, Archie Lee, age 11, and Charlie, age 9, went to live with their maternal grandma, Nancy Everly who was widowed. She also had two other family members living with her.

Buried:
GRid=141704010; no photos or biographical information

Died:
His wife, Fannie, outlived him by 61 years.

Archie married F.C. Hutcheson [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

2. Oliver Lee Coffman was born on 10 Nov 1910 in Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA; died in 1922 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA.
3. Hannah Louise Coffman was born on 21 Dec 1912 in Livermore, McLean County, Kentucky, USA; died on 16 Mar 1933 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA.
4. Helen Fay Coffman was born on 27 Dec 1914 in McLean County, Kentucky, USA; died on 28 Feb 2012 in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.
5. John Coffman was born on 25 Jan 1920 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; died in 1920 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA.
6. Archie Lee Coffman, Jr was born on 21 Aug 1921 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; died on 17 Feb 2010 in Warren, Macomb County, Michigan, USA; was buried in Great Lakes National Cemetery, Holly, Oakland County, Michigan, USA.
7. Gordon Stanley Coffman was born on 29 Jul 1923 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; died on 8 Jun 2003 in Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, USA.
8. E.M. Coffman

Generation: 2

2.	Oliver Lee Coffman (1.Archie¹) was born on 10 Nov 1910 in Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA; died in 1922 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA. Other Events and Attributes: Residence: 1920, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA

Hannah Louise Coffman

(1.Archie¹) was born on 21 Dec 1912 in Livermore, McLean County, Kentucky, USA; died on 16 Mar 1933 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1920, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1930, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA

Notes:

Died:
From gangrenous hepatitis. The surnames of Hannah and her father were recorded as "Fagan", which was probably a fabrication as was her recorded husband, Raymond Riley

Hannah married ?? in (none). died in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

9. Dolores Frances Coffman was born on 15 Sep 1931 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; died on 19 Jun 1991 in Ferndale, Oakland County, Michigan, USA; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA.

Hannah married W.F. Stadelman [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Helen Fay Coffman

(1.Archie¹) was born on 27 Dec 1914 in McLean County, Kentucky, USA; died on 28 Feb 2012 in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1920, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1930, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1940, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1950, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA

Helen married O.R. Baaso [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

10. D.L. Baaso
11. Glenn Robert Baaso was born on 12 Oct 1946 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; died on 24 Sep 2011 in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.
12. C.F. Baaso

5. John Coffman (1.Archie¹) was born on 25 Jan 1920 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; died in 1920 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA.

Archie Lee Coffman, Jr

(1.Archie¹) was born on 21 Aug 1921 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; died on 17 Feb 2010 in Warren, Macomb County, Michigan, USA; was buried in Great Lakes National Cemetery, Holly, Oakland County, Michigan, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1930, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1940, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1941, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; Married, works at Fort Motor Company
Military: Betw 1944 and 1945, Germany; Was copilot of a B17 and flew 35 missions
Residence: 1950, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1996, Warren, Macomb County, Michigan, USA

Notes:

Archie was an avuncular gentleman with a great love of family, and was loved by many. He lived in the Detroit area his entire life, near his extended family, whom he hosted at his home frequently. I only met him a couple of times; the last at a small family reunion he hosted at his home in about 1998. He was patriotic, and proud of his military service. In the last few years of his live, he maintain an email discussion list, and send frequent emails to friends and family. Many were written by Archie or his sister, Helen, and he passed on other family messages and topical message of the day. The messages were quite clever and interesting, and non-infrequently displayed his conservative political bent.
- Robin
His online obituary, with condolence messages memorializes him much better than I did.

Archie married R.P. Lavery [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

Gordon Stanley Coffman

(1.Archie¹) was born on 29 Jul 1923 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; died on 8 Jun 2003 in Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1930, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1940, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 30 Oct 1941, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1950, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1955, East Detroit; Roseville; Fraser, Macomb County, Michigan, USA
Residence: 1993, Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, USA

Gordon married D.M. Kidman [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

E.M. Coffman

(1.Archie¹)

E.M. married W.T. Stevens [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

E.M. married R.H. Schoenberg [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

29. A.M. Schoenberg

Generation: 3

Dolores Frances Coffman

(3.Hannah², 1.Archie¹) was born on 15 Sep 1931 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; died on 19 Jun 1991 in Ferndale, Oakland County, Michigan, USA; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Residence: 1940, Royal Oak, Oakland County, Michigan, USA; Her mother died when she was just 2. She's listed with her adoptive parents (who were also her aunt and uncle)
Residence: 1987, Westland, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; As Dolores Holman

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=218587141; photo of in-ground marker

Dolores married W.F. Watson, Jr [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

Dolores married C. Holman [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

10.
D.L. Baaso (4.Helen², 1.Archie¹)
D.L. married P.A. Davey [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

33. L.C. Baaso

34. C.S. Baaso

11.

Glenn Robert Baaso

(4.Helen², 1.Archie¹) was born on 12 Oct 1946 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA; died on 24 Sep 2011 in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.

Other Events and Attributes: