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Cemetery:           Lower Cane Creek Cemetery
Name:               Lewis Coffee & Family
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Coffey, Family Killed By Tornado Mar 18, 1899
Parents:
Coffey, Lewis                             Born 1845       Mar 18, 1899
  Justice of the Peace
  Former Tax Collector
  Co E 22 AL CSA 
Coffey, Nancy Jane Bennett                Born 1854       Mar 18, 1899
  Children:
Coffey, Charity Leela                     Born 1880       Mar 18, 1899
Coffey, James                             Born 1880       Mar 18, 1899
Coffey, Lula                              Born 1882       Mar 18, 1899
Coffey, Jack                              Born 1885       Mar 18, 1899
Coffey, Dolly                             Born 1889       Mar 18, 1899
Coffey, Davero                            Born 1891       Mar 18, 1899
Coffey, Grover                            Born 1893       Mar 18, 1899
Coffey, John                              Born 1895       Mar 18, 1899


Additional Comments:
Source: Old Calhoun County Newspaper Article 
Date: March 1899

TRACK OF THE STORM

Papers of Ill Fated Lewis Coffey Scattered to Four Winds

The following incident of a storm's tragic sequel are so unusual and out of the 
ordinary that they are printed herewith, says the Rome Tribune. The 
Cartersville News prints the following this week:

The readers of the newspaper well remember the passage through North Alabama 
and North Georgia of the cyclone on the 18th of the present month and its 
fearful work at Edwardsville, Cleburne County, Alabama, where Lewis Coffey, a 
prominent citizen, and his entire family were killed. He and his wife with 
eight children were buried in one grave. The grave was eight feet deep, nine 
feet wide and twenty-three feet long.

There was a legal paper picked up on the farm of Squire Fariss at Cassville one 
day last week that no doubt was blown from the scene of horror in Alabama, and 
it was written by this same Lewis Coffey who was a justice of the peace in 
1880, the date of it execution. It was an old of "Rolley Jenkins vs. Wm. 
Parnell" for a few dollars and a levy has been entered upon it.

The paper was found on a justice of the peace's land and as Coffey was a 
justice of the peace the affair makes a strange coincidence.

From Cave Springs come the following:

Your correspondence has come into possession of a scrap of paper which was 
blown from the home of Lewis Coffey, near Edwardsville, Ala., by the cyclone 
which recently wrecked the Coffey home and killed ten members of his family. 
The paper is a receipt given Coffey in 1881, and it was found in the woods near 
here the day after the cyclone, a distance of twenty-three miles form the 
Coffey home. The paper is well preserved and is clean, although it passed 
through the terrible cyclone.


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