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From: Jim Blease <>
Subject: Re: Jackson Duel?
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:34:26 -0500
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wrote:

And just to confuse things there is
> another Gen. John Coffee who was from GA. He and John of TN and AL were
> contemporaries and 1st cousins. Betty.

I think the Georgia John Coffee was the one who opened the Old Coffee
Road through South Georgia and opened it to settlement after the
territory was stolen from the Creeks.

Back in the '50's, a friend opened a restaurant and RV camp at the
intersection of that road and newly opened I-75. I tried to talk him
into calling it the Old Coffee Cafe but for some reason he wouldn't
agree to it.

Jim Blease

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