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Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] Re: 'junk' and other things...
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 07:29:31 EDT
In a message dated 5/9/01 2:57:59 AM !!!First Boot!!!, writes:
<< Some say he was named for a Confederate Army officer , Coffee, and others
say he was a Coffee descendant. >>
He was named for Gen. John Coffee of TN and AL. This John married Mary
Donelson neice of the wife of Gen. Andrew jackson. There is another Gen. John
Coffee of GA. The two Johns were 1st cousins and contemporaries. Just
something else to confuse genealogists and historians. The Gen John in GA. is
the one who laid out the Old Coffee Road. Betty.
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