Eighth Generation

7175. Woodson "Woods" Coffee was born on 1 March 1862 in Gonzales Co., TX. He appeared in the census on 7 April 1930 at 1603 Madison in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX.²³³⁵⁵ Woodson resided in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX on 10 April 1936. Woodson died of bronchopneumonia on 12 June 1953 at the age of 91 at home in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX and was buried at Llano Cemetery in Amarillo, Randall Co., TX on 15 June 1953.^{23356,23357,23358}

News Item, Amarillo Daily News, Amarillo, TX, Jun. 13, 1953

Death Claims Woods Coffee

One of the real pioneers of the Panhandle, Woods Coffee, died yesterday at 5:10 PM at his home at 1603 Madison.

He was 91 years old and had lived in the Panhandle more than 70 years.

Woods Coffee was scarcely more than a boy when he came to the Panhandle. But the Panhandle was young then, too.

He grew up with the country.

It was in the spring of 1882 that he arrived at the Quarter-Circle T outfit in Hutchinson County, riding a pony he called Yellow Boy and got a job, at $25 a month.

That was what he had in mind the fall before when he and a neighbor left South Texas, headed for the cow country.

Woods Coffee spent his boyhood in South Texas. He picked cotton and rained a few cattle trying to get enough monty together to go to medical school - he wanted to be a doctor.

He was looking for a job to pay for the schooling when he started west.

He started west in August of 1881 and got as far as Comanche before he came down with the measles. When he recovered he and his partner starter again. Their route led through Cisco and Alband to Fort Griffin.

At the Watt Reynolds Ranch on the Clear Fork of the Beazos, he took a job herding sheep. It didn't suit him and he took another job cooking for a cow outfit.

The next spring he reached the Panhandle and got a job with T. S. Bugbee, owner of the Quarter-Circle T. The first year he made $312 and saved $300 of it.

His first work was on the Canadian River, at the round-up of the Turkey Track and Quarter-Circle T ranches, about where Borger now stands.

Then he went up the trail. Soon afterward the Turkey Track and the Double H ranches were consolidated into the Handsford Land and Cattle Company and Woods Coffee was a cowboy on that ranch.

That fall Cape Willingham became superintendent of the outfit.

Soon after that the wagon boss of the outfit rode up to Woods one day and said: "Look after things until I get back."

He didn't come bacl and Woods Coffee became wagon boss. The job paid $75 a month. He saved his money and bought a quarter interest in a ranch his father had acquired in Throckmorton County.

I August of 1890 he married Miss Ollie Stribling and started ranching in the Brazos River country. There year later he moved to Oklahoma. In 1894 he was back in Hutchinson County.

He became manager of the Creswell Cattle Company, operating in Roberts and Hutchinson counties.

While manager of this outfit, known as the Bar C, he did a great deal of trading in cattle, buying steers in lower Texas and finishing them in the Panhandle.

Late in the nineties he moved his wife and two children to Miami. He bought 303 acres near the town and in 1900 added five sections of land.

He was one of the original stockholders of the First State Bank at Miami, organized in 1907. In 1913 he sold his bank interests and invested in land in Moore County.

From time to time he added to his holdings in Moore County until he had extensive holdings when the oil boom hit Moore County in 1926.

He bought his home in Amarillo in 1926.

He became a Master Mason in 1889, in the Throckmorton Lodge. He helped organize Miami Lodge No. 805 and was a past master of that lodge. He was a member of the Royal Arch, the Commandery and was a member of Khiva Temple.

He was a member of the Baptist Church.

The first Mrs. Coffee died here in 1930.

He was married in 1932 to Velda Bangs, who survives him.

Besides hiw wife he is survived by two daughters and four sons. Daughters are Mrs. Ruth Coffee Coble of Amarillo and Mrs. Ollie Coffee Willis of San Antonio. Sons are Woodson Coffee Jr. of Miami, Oran Coffee of Amarillo, Roy Coffee of Datil, NM, and Jack Coffee of Estes Park, Colo.

Also surviving are three brothers, Henry and Glen Coffee of Pampa and James V. Coffee of Miami, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Coffee Locke of Big Spring.

The body is at Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements will be announced. The family has requested that no flowers be sent, requesting that friends make contributions to Boys Ranch, in which Mr. Coffee had been greatly interested.

Woodson was appointed to Honorary Membership in Terrys Texas Rangers (8th Texas Cavalry) at a reunion held in Austin, TX Nov. 22-23, 1909.

Woodson "Woods" Coffee and Ollie Pickens Stribling were married on 14 August 1890 in Throckmorton Co., TX.²³³⁵⁹ They^²³³⁵⁹ appeared in the census on 29 June 1900 in Miami, Roberts Co., TX.²³³⁶⁰ They^²³³⁶⁰ appeared in the census on 23 April 1910 in Roberts Co., TX.²³³⁶¹ Woods and Ollie^²³³⁶¹ appeared in the census on 16 February 1920 in Roberts Co., TX.²³³⁶² Ollie Pickens Stribling, daughter of Cornelius Kinchelo Stribling and Nancy Carolina Stribling, was born on 14 August 1868 in Palo Pinto Co., TX. Ollie died of influenza on 23 January 1930 at the age of 61 at 211 Fifth St in San Antonio, Bexar Co., TX and was buried at Llano Cemetery in Amarillo, Randall Co., TX.^{23363,23364,23365}

Obituary, The San Jacinto Booster, Wed., Jan. 29. 1930

Funeral Rites for Mrs. Ollie Coffee Were Held Sunday

Funeral services were held at Griggs & Sons Sunday afternoon for Mrs. Ollie Coffee, aged sixty, wife of Woods Coffee, 1603 Madison Street, pioneer resident of the Panhandle. Mrs. Coffee passed away at a sanitarium in San Antonio following a siege of pneumonia.

Besides her husband, Mrs. Coffee is survived by six children, Mrs. Edgar Cobble [sic] and Oran Coffee, Amarillo; Woodson and Jack Coffee, Silverton; Roy Coffee, Wichita Falls, and Mrs. Wade Willis, San Antonio.

Active pall bearers were E. H. Petty, Bob Wakefield, J. B. Bechtold, Dr. W. M. Curl, Charley Wells and George Cooper. Honorary pall bearers were old-timers, friends of the Coffee family and the Amarillo Fire Department.

Rev. W. P. Garvin, pastor of the San Jacinto Methodist Church had charge of the funeral service. Interment was in in Llano cemetery.

Woodson "Woods" Coffee and Ollie Pickens Stribling had the following children:

+14385	i.	Ruth Eileen Coffee.
14386	ii.	Benjamin Stribling Coffee was born on 1 December 1892 in Throckmorton Co., TX. Benjamin died of appendicitis/peritonitis on 9 October 1914 at the age of 21 at Lumpkin & Thomas Hospital in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX and was buried at Miami Cemetery in Miami, Roberts Co., TX on 10 October 1914.^{23366,23367,23368} Obituary, unsourced newspaper, Oct. 13, 1914 Ben Coffee Dies Ben Coffee, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Woods Coffee, and a very fine young man of our community died Friday of last week in Amarillo, following an operation for appendicitis. The remains were shipped to Miami Saturday morning and after the funeral at the Baptist Church by Rev. Rees, the remains were laid to rest in the Miami Cemetery. Young Ben was an extremely find young man and one who had the friendship of all who knew him. It is with deep regret that we loose him from our midst.
14387	iii.	Grace was born on 9 March 1894 in Indian Territory, OK and Indian Territory, OK on 28 March 1894. Her burial site is unknown.
+14388	iv.	Judge Woodson "Woods" Coffee Jr..
+14389	v.	Oran Coffee.
+14390	vi.	Roy Coburn Coffee.
14391	vii.	Frank Coffee was born on 11 November 1900 in Roberts Co., TX. Frank died in Miami, Roberts Co., TX on 14 February 1901 and was buried at Miami Cemetery in Miami, Roberts Co., TX in February 1901 .²³³⁶⁹
+14392	viii.	Oliver "Girlie, Ollie, etc." Coffee.
+14393	ix.	Jack Kinchelo Coffee.

Woodson "Woods" Coffee and Velda Marguerite Bangs were married on 1 January 1932. They appeared in the census on 10 April 1940 in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX.²³³⁷⁰ Velda Marguerite Bangs, daughter of Walter Justus Bangs and Cora Maria Powers, was born on 21 February 1895 in Illinois. She lived with her mother in Wauconda Twp., Lake Co., IL on 22 April 1910. She lived with her brother Andrew in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX on 7 April 1930. Velda died in Potter Co., TX on 20 March 1986 and was buried at Wauconda Cemetery in Wauconda Twp., Lake Co., IL in March 1986 .^23371,23372

Obituary, Thur., Mar. 20, 1986, paper not known to me

Velda Bangs Coffee

Velda Bangs Coffee, 91, of 1603 Madison, died today.

Services are pending with N. S. Griggs & Sons Funeral Directors.

Mrs. Coffee was an Amarillo resident since 1927 and was a homemaker and past regent of Llano Estrada Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Survivors include a stepdaughter, Ruth Coffee Coble of Amarillo; a sister-in-law, Marguerite Bangs of Amarillo, a nephew, a great niece, and a great-nephew.