Seventh Generation

5439. Alton Powell Coffey was born on 3 July 1904 in Nashville, Brown Co., IN. He lived with his parents in Brown Co., IN on 2 April 1930. Alton died in Brown Co., IN in July 1978 and was buried at Greenlawn Cemetery in Nashville, Brown Co., IN in July 1978 .¹⁷⁶⁴⁹
After graduation from high school, Alton entered the John Herron Art School in Indianapolis where he studied for four years under William Forsyth and Clifton Wheeler. He studied figure painting, still life and landscape painting.

Alton Powell Coffey and Pauline Almyra Wilkinson were married on 11 September 1937 in Brown Co., IN.¹⁷⁶⁵⁰ They¹⁷⁶⁵⁰ appeared in the census on 24 April 1940 in Wayne Twp., Marion Co., IN.¹⁷⁶⁵¹ They¹⁷⁶⁵¹ lived at 4924 W. 24th in Indianapolis, Center Twp., Marion Co., IN in 1942.¹⁷⁶⁵² Pauline Almyra Wilkinson, daughter of Jerry Wilkinson and Stella Weekly, was born on 11 May 1919 in Brown Co., IN. Pauline died in Indiana on 26 November 1981 and was buried at Greenlawn Cemetery in Nashville, Brown Co., IN in November 1981 .¹⁷⁶⁵³