| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Sixth Generation1724. Rev. Theodore Cornelius Coffey was born on 11 November 1847 in Bloomington Twp., Monroe Co., IN. He lived with his parents in Washington, Owen Co., IN on 28 August 1850. He lived with Lum [?] and Margaret Mayfield in Monroe Co., IN on 21 August 1860. Rev. Theodore died of senility and was buried at on 12 March 1930 at the age of 82 in Tucson, Pima Co., AZ and was buried at Linwood Cemetery in Pana, Christian Co., IL on 17 March 1930 .6524,6525 Obituary, 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." [Janet Amtower]
Theodore, of Bloomington, IN, was listed as a member of the 1870 Junior Class at Shurtleff College at Alton, IL. The school became part of the Southern Illinois University system in 1957. Rev. Theodore Cornelius Coffey and Julia Anne Vallette6526 were married on 28 January 1875 in Upper Alton, Madison Co., IL.6527 They6527 appeared in the census on 14 June 1880 in Burlington, Coffey Co., KS.6528 On 1 March 1885 they6528 resided in Sabetha, Nemeha Co., KS6529 Theodore and Julia6529 appeared in the census on 1 June 1900 in Eden, LaSalle Co., IL.6530 They6530 appeared in the census on 25 April 1910 in Virden Twp., Macoupin Co., IL.6531 They6531 appeared in the census on 12 January 1920 in Bunker Hill, Macoupin Co., IL.6532 Roy Valette and Marion Grace were members of the 1897 class at Pittsville High School in Pittsfield, Pike Co., IL. Julia Anne Vallette, daughter of Frederic Augustus Vallette and Marcy Ann Field, was born on 23 August 1847 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH.6533 Julia died in Pana, Christian Co., IL on 24 August 1946 and was buried at Linwood Cemetery in Pana, Christian Co., IL on 27 August 1946 .6534,6535 Rev. Theodore Cornelius Coffey and Julia Anne Vallette had the following children:
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