Sixth Generation

1165. Mildred "Millie" Coffey was born in January 1813 in Casey Co., KY. Mildred died in Missouri on 14 January 1879 and was buried at Kent Cemetery in Denver, Worth Co., MO in January 1879 .⁴⁵²⁶

Mildred "Millie" Coffey and Benjamin Dawson were married in 1830 in Casey Co., KY.⁴⁵¹⁶ They⁴⁵¹⁶ appeared in the census on 18 September 1850 in Casey Co., KY.⁴⁵²⁷ Benjamin Dawson⁴⁵²⁸, son of Benjamin Dawson, was born on 1 June 1808 in Casey Co., KY. Benjamin died in Albany, Gentry Co., MO on 28 December 1855 and was buried at Bulla Cemetery in Albany, Gentry Co., MO in December 1855 .⁴⁵²⁹

Benjamin Dawson, father of John C. Dawson, was born in Casey County, Kentucky, June 1, 1908, and there secured his education in the country schools, this latter being supplemented by much reading and study, so that he became a man of more than ordinary attainments of an intellectual nature. He was reared an agriculturist, having come of a family of farmers, and in 1851 came to Missouri by way of wagon, being accompanied by two young men, James Richards, deceased, and Joel Sweeney, still living and resides at Albany, who settled in Gentry County and reared families there.

Mr. Dawson located nine miles north of Albany, Missouri, in Gentry County, and there continued to pass the remainder of his life in farming, passing away in 1855, at the age of forty-seven years. He had more than average ability and intelligence, had little to do with politics aside from voting the democratic ticket, and belonged to no church, no any fraternity. Physically a large man, he weighed in the neighborhood of two hundred pounds, and was a typical, courteous Southerner, with a family good conversational turn.

He was married in Casey County, Kentucky, to Milley Coffey a daughter of Col. Jesse Coffey. She died in January, 1879, having been the mother of thirteen children, as follows: Christopher R., who passed his life as a merchant, farmer and stock dealer; and left a family at Denver when he died; Mary E., who married first Mr. James KcKinney and second Simon Leverege, and died in Gentry County in 1861; Martha Frances, who became Mrs. John D. Stevens, and resides near Denver, Missouri; Osborn Coffey, who spent his life as a farmer and merchant and died while a resident of Goodland, Kansas; Susan Catherine, of Garfield, Kansas, who married Amon Brumfield; Jesse Butler, who for forty-seven years has been a merchant of Grant City; Margaret, who married William McGee, and resides at Martins, ville, Missouri; Sarah Ann, who married Charles H. Kent, and died near Denver, Missouri, in 1873; John C., of this review; Cordelia, who married John McComas and resides at Grant City; Milley, who married Taylor Spianhower [sic], of Denver, Missouri; Benjamin, who was engaged in farming and merchandising until his death in Salt Lake, Utah, at which time he left a family; and Joseph, the youngest, a resident of Denver.

Mildred "Millie" Coffey and Benjamin Dawson had the following children: