Looking for Coffman connections from Limestone Co. I was in Athens on 1/23/04 & found great data in the Archives at the annex, but time did not permit finding cemetery records that would have let me know where most of the Coffman's are buried. I understand that most were from the NW part of county, across the Elk River. After returning home, I was disappointed to find out that most of the records were not accessible via internet.My lineage is David Harmon Coffman > Lovell J > Lovell S. > James Alfred Coffman, my Gr.grandfather who is buried in Crockett Co., TN

There is a COFFMAN cemetery here in Limestone CoALL... I don't know if that would be your ancestors or not... also, there are some COFFMAN's in my lineage who married into the RAGLE families , the DOWNS families so I have a little bit of info on the COFFMAN lines... please let me know if you would like to have more information.

It may also interest you there are some COFFMANs buried at New Garden cemetery in Elkmont,AL. There was also a COFFMAN who was killed in the KOREAN war who was also from that area.

Alice, Thanks for your reply. I'm most interested in the Coffman cemetery you mentioned, & if there is a listing for it. My branch of Coffman ( Lovell S. Coffman > Lovell J. + Mary Fielder ) moved towards what is Crockett Co., TN in the mid 1800's . Most are buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery, near Friendship, TN, along w/ Craigs, Harwell & Martin relatives. ((Crockett county has a terrific interactive site that you can access ALL the cemetery list, plus pictures of many of the tombstones.)) So, I'm most interested in the early to mid 1800 births & deaths. I have a lot of the data from David Harmon Coffman forward, w/ some research data that traces David's KAUFFMAN roots thru PA & even back to Germany & Switzerland.

I think this will interest you.. this is in four parts of RAGLE info that I have... I will post part 3 here. If you would like to see the other parts email me directly and I will send them to you in text file format.. I think our families are connected. I will check on the list for the cemetery. THE FOLLOWING IS WHAT PEGGY JONES, GRANDAUGHTER OF AUNT LYDIA RAGLE JONES HAS ON THE COFFMAN SIDE OF THE FAMILY THE FAMILY OF OUR GRANDMOTHER RHODA EVALINE COFFMAN.
___?___ SHELTON (ENGLISH) HAD A SON JAMES (JIM) AND A DAUGHTER RHODA ANN. RHODA ANN DIED NOVEMBER 2,1853 -NO RECORD OF HER BIRTHDATE.

____?_____COFFMAN HAD A SON DAVID HARMON COFFMAN , BORN JANUARY 3,1791 DIED AUGUST 10,1858, A SON MARK AND A DAUGHTER SARAH BORN? DIED OCTOBER 20,1853. MARK HAD A SON JIM.

DAVID HARMON COFFMAN BORN JANUARY 3,1791 DIED AUGUST 10,1858 MARRIED RHODA ANN SHELTON DATE OF BIRTH NOT KNOWN DIED NOV.2,1853.

CHILDREN:

1. NANCY ANN CALLED NAN BORN MAR. 23,1825 DIED NOV. 23,1887. NANCE MARRIED ALFRED H. AKERS BORN SEPT. 18,1822 DIED SEPT 6, 1865. NAN LATER MARRIED A TOP EASTEP.(SPELLED ESTEP IN THE PAPER BUT I BELIEVE IT IS EASTEP) SHE RAISED GRANDAD JONES (OUR UNCLE JOHN LOUIS JONES, WHO MARRIED AUNT LYDIA RAGLE.
2. JESSE WHO MARIED POLLY _?__
3.HIRAM WHO MARRIED HARRIETT JONES . THEIR CHILDREN ARE ROBERT ALLEN,DAVID,PRICE,JAMES, MARY AND MOORE.
4.BOB,WHO MARRIED E. AKERS A SSITER OF ALFRED AKERS.
5.WILLIAM(CALLED BILLIE) MARRIED BETSY HANNES.
6.JAMES S. WHO MARRIED ELIZABETH BARNETT.
7.RHODA EVALINE COFFMAN WHO MARRIED JOHN ALBERT RAGLE (OUR GRANDPARENTS)
8. SALLY(AN OLD MAID)
9.COLEMAN WHO MARRIED CAROLINE HANEY
10.MARY ANN MARRIED NEHEMIAH JONES. SHE DIED NOV. 17,1854
11. SERENA ANN ELIZABETH BORN JAN 10,1932 DIED JULY 3 1858 MARRIED ROBET LOUIS ALLEN JONES,OUR GREAT UNCLE JOHN LOUIS JONES WAS THEIR SON. SHE LATER MARRIED A JAMES LONG AND HAD ONE SON RICHARD (DICK) LONG.
12. LUCINDA WHO MARRIED A SELLARS. THIS ACCORDING TO MOTHER PARTHENIA ELIZABETH RIGGS.

AUNT ETHEL , PEGGY JONES AUNT, AND DAUGHTER OF AUNT LYDIA JONES SOMETIME AGO GOT A LETTER FROM AN E. O. COFFAN IN LAWRENCEBURG,TN WANTING SOME INFORMATION ABOUT RHODA SHELTON. I COULD NOT HELP HIM ANY ON IT AS HE HAD THE SAME INFORMATION I HAVE. SHE WAS ENGLISH AHD ONE BROTHER JAMES (JIM) WHO WAS A BAPTIST MINISTER AND RHODA DIED ON NOV.2,1853.
HE GAVE ME BILLIE COFFMAN'S FAMILY: ELMORE, KILLED IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY-- JOHN,FRANK,LOVEL,GEORGE,ALMANDA,LOUIZA , SARAH, MARY AND BETTIE(LIT.)
E.O. COFFMAN WAS GEORGE'S SON. GEORGE MARRIED VIRGINIA LEGG AND THEIR CHILDREN WERE :E VERETT OSCAR,LILLIE,PEARL, MYRTLE, TILDA,EARL,STILTZ,ERNEST,EDD AND LINDSEY. HE SAID HE AND LILLIE LIVED IN LAWRENCEBURG,TENN, EDD IN KENTUCKY MYRTLE IN TEXAS AND TILDA IN OHIO.

Alice, I would like to know exactly where the Coffman cemetery is. (where I can find & reference it on a map) My Coffman relatives were from David Harmon Coffman > Lovell S. > Lovell J. > James Alfred, who was my Gr Grandfather. These last 2 are buried in Crockett Co., TN as well as several cousins ie.Craigs, Martins, Harwell. I have not found the two family names in my branches of Coffman. It would be great if Limestone Co., had all their cemeteries listed & interactive searchable like most I have been searching in W. TN. Check out the one I mentioned above & you will see what I mean. Thanks for the clues, Lary Walker

I will have to get my Mother to give you the exact location. In case you didn't know this there is a book on David Harmon COFFMAN's (KAUFMAN) ancestors at the Limestone county Archives office. Did you know there are a lot of them buried at Anderson Cemetery in Lauderdale County at the Old Primitive Baptist Church?

Alice, I saw the book at Limestone archives & made copies of over 20 pages of it. The anonymous individual that did the research on all of those Coffman decendants of David H. Coffman is to be commended. I'd like to shake their hand &/or share my family data w/ them, since it was missing.

I did not know about the Coffman's buried in Lauderdale Co., I'd be interested in any details & where that cemetery is. I have tried to do some web reseach on my Turnley roots from there but didn't have much luck.

Let me know if you would like to exchange info on the Coffman families. I've gathered a lot in the last several years.

I wuuld love to exchange info and I apologize for being so slow about getting all of the information you need . However, I have been swamped with lookups and I am behind. I work fulltime and have a family as well so you can see I work foour or five jobs sometimes...ha ha .. I don't know if your aware of this or not but the archives will be moving into the L & N train depot station. They have ran out of room. I do not know the exact date but will keep you posted. Please don't give up on me..

Alice, Understand the busy part, this is my diversion to TV. Heard about the archives moving, but since I'm in Kansas, be a long time til I'm back there. When you get some time to exchange, contact me direct lwalker@everestkc.net , have tried an old email for you, but it didn't go thru. Lary