Pulaski-Telfair-Dodge County GaArchives Obituaries.....Coffee, John Alford Sr, Captain March 11, 1901
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PULASKI COUNTY, GEORGIA, NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, Volume V., 1898-1907, By: Tad Evans, See Pages 133 & 134,, dated Thursday, March 14, 1901.
PULASKI COUNTY, GEORGIA
NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Volume V.
1898-1907
By: Tad Evans
Pages 133 &  134.

Thursday, March 14, 1901

DEATH OF CAPT. J. A. COFFEE

Capt. John A. Coffee died at the home of his son-in-law, Mr. M. W. Leman, in 
this place, last Monday morning at four o'clock, aged sixty-three years.  
Capt. Coffee was born and reared in Telfair County, and at one time conducted 
a mercantile business in this place, but at the time of his death and for a 
number of years prior thereto was a resident of Houston County, where he 
engaged in farming being one of the leading planters of that county.  He had 
been a sufferer for some time with bladder trouble and came here about two 
weeks ago for medical treatment, but he continued to grow worse in spite of 
all that could be done for him.  All other efforts having failed to do him any 
good, he decided, as a last resort, to undergo an operation, which was 
successfully performed Thursday night by Dr. Hicks, of Dublin, but it only 
gave him temporary relief, and after lingering until four o'clock Monday 
morning, he passed away as above stated.
 
Capt. Coffee was well known throughout this section, and had many friends  
will be pained to learn of his death.

He is survived by a wife and eight children, six daughters and two sons, and 
three brothers, besides other relatives.

The funeral services were conducted at nine o'clock Tuesday morning by Rev. J. 
W. Domingos, of the Methodist Church, after which the remains were interred in 
Orange Hill Cemetery by the Masons, the deceased being a member of Mount Hope 
Lodge of this place.

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Among the out-of-town relatives who attended the funeral of Capt. John A. 
Coffee Thursday last, were Dr. J. G. Slappy, of Jeffersonville;  Mr. Robert 
Brown, of Macon,  H. L. Brown, of Longstreet,  Mr. and Mrs. John Green Brown, 
of Grovania;  Mr. Peter Coffee  andd Mrs Thomas Weeks, of Rochelle;  Dr. Mark 
Coffee  and  Joshua Coffee, of Rhine.



Additional Comments:
Compiler Notes:  Captain John Alford Coffee, Sr. was born  26 April 1838 in 
Telfair County, Georgia and died 11 March 1901 in Hawkinsville, Pulaski.  Date 
& Month with the years are verified  from the Files Of Tad Evans noted Author 
of the Coffee Family. When I surveyed this cemetery in 1993 these graves were 
not marked as they are today.  John D. Willcox, from Eastman, Ga. had these 
graves marked.  He headed the Presevation Of the Grave sites of the earlier 
Wilcox/Willcox Families.,  Known as the Willcox Foundation. John D. Willcox 
died 6 Jan 1997 in Eastman, Georgia.

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