Jesse Perry Coffey (1784 - 1850)

Born 26 May 1784 in Amherst, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Tabitha Elizabeth (Riffe) Coffey — married 16 Feb 1805 in Pulaski, Kentucky, USA

Descendants

Died 15 Jul 1850 at age 66 in Middleburg, Casey, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Jesse was born in 1784. He was the son of Osborne Coffey and Mary Nightingale. He passed away in 1850. Buried in Middleburg Cemetery, Middleburg, Casey Co., Kentucky^[1]

Jesse Coffey, born May 26, 1784 to Osborn and Mary (Polly) Nightingale Coffey, married Elizabeth Riffe Feb. 16, 1805 in Pulaski Co., KY. He died Jul., 1850 in Casey Co., KY. Elizabeth, who some researchers have named Tabitha, was born Jul. 3, 1758 in Lincoln Co., KY, and died Sep. 29, 1842 in Casey Co.

Jesse is also said to have fathered a daughter named Sally, and two sons, C.R., and Jesse, Jr. Their mother is unknown to me.

Jesse was a Colonel in the War of 1812, a state senator in 1834, and a member of the delegation that wrote the Kentucky state constitution in June 1850, a month before he died .

"Probably the most prominent of the early settlers was Colonel Jesse Coffey, a soldier of the War of 1812, who fought in the Battle of Thames in Canada, in which the famous Indian chieftain, Tecumseh, was slain, as was also the noted pioneer Kentuckian, Colonel William Whitley, who founded Whitley's Station near Crab Orchard."

"Colonel Coffey owned a large boundary of good land in and around Middleburg and it was he who built the old watermill, so long a landmark in the little town, on the site occupied by the modern water-power mill now owned and operated by Mr. L. F. Young. Colonel Coffey's mansion, built at about the same time as the old water-mill, stood on the hill just behind the home now owned by Mr. J. W. Short, and was the scene of the famous wedding of Polly Coffey as related in Peter B. Riffe's History of Casey County."

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Stephanie Sanchez, Monday, December 9, 2013.

• http://coffeycousins.blogspot.com/2007/03/jesse-and-elizabeth-riffe-coffey.html
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18188262

Acknowledgments

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