David Benson Coffman

Family/Spouse: Sherry Rapier. Sherry was born on 9 Jan 1941; died on 17 Dec 2012; was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Living
3. Living

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Died:
Living with son Michael

Carlos married Gladys Ruth Schovan on 2 Mar 1936 in Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan, USA. Gladys was born on 12 Mar 1919 in New Port Richey, Pasco County, Florida, USA; died on 7 Jun 2003 in Garland, Dallas County, Texas, USA; was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hubert married Mary Lista Hutcheson on 5 Aug 1908 in Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA. Mary (daughter of Leander Travis (L.T.) Hutcheson, Sr and Olive Irene Kuykendall) was born on 6 Nov 1884 in Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA; died on 19 Jun 1984 in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA; was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary Lista married Hubert O. Coffman August 5, 1908. They had 2 children. Hubert was a banker and they lived most of their years at Fern Dale, Michigan. After retirement they moved to Denver, Colorado to be with Evalyn who had gone west for her health. Mary outlived Hubert by several years. She enjoyed trout fishing and bowled every week when she was in her nineties. She never weighed over 90 pounds.
- From notes by James Murphy

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According to Ancestry.com user AnnDeemer39, Frank Coffman was postmaster at Coffman, Kentucky, the post office being named after him. He also owned the Jimtown Mine and Store

Buried:
GRid=73545399; as Franklin Oliver; nice large headstone

Died:
Age: 78

Francis married Laura May Everly on 27 Mar 1882. Laura was born on 11 Nov 1863 in Kentucky, USA; died on 2 Aug 1899 in Ohio County, Kentucky, USA; was buried in Point Pleasant Cemetery, Ohio County, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Probate: 11 Jan 1934, White County, Tennessee, USA; Died intestate; estate administered by W.L. Swallows, his son-in-law

Notes:

Leander Travis Hutcheson Sr. married Alma Freiley in 1910. None of his children approved, or got along well with her - to say the least. My (Robin's) Grandmother, Edith, was 11 at the time, and she told us that her stepmother regularly threatened to send her away to an orphanage. At age 98, Edith still resented her step mother bitterly.

James Murphy (husband of L.T.'s granddaughter Elizabeth Swallows) reports:
None of Leander Travis Sr.'s children should have married "Miss" Alma and as soon as they could they went on their own. After Grandpa died Jan. 16, 1934 she never shared anything from the home with any child. There was one exception: "Miss Alma" after some time married a Mr. Howard and lived on the Sparta-Cookeville highway and then one day in the 1950's Mattie Hutcheson Swallows stopped and asked her to give the family Bible with all the family records to her. She agreed to do so. It was rebound and the broken sheets were laminated.

See also the attached letters written by and about him


Birth:
Some records identify him as "Lee" Hutheson

Buried:
GRid=61645406; Short obit. Small upright stone. Inscription: Married to Olive Kuykendall Sept. 23 1880

Leander married Olive Irene Kuykendall on 23 Sep 1880 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA. Olive (daughter of James Edward Kuykendall and Mary Ann (Polly) Matheny) was born on 28 Feb 1860 in Putnam County, Tennessee, USA; died on 13 Sep 1908 in Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Town Cemetery, Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
GRid=80945818; Inscription: "Wife of L.T. Hutcheson" and "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on... they will rest from their labor" (Revelation 14:13)

Died:
"Slow fever"; remembered by her daughter Edith as Typhoid fever