BIO:  COFFEY, Moses T., s/o Lewis & Delilah (Turpin) Coffey, Green & Russell Co., KY
Submitted by: Diana Flynn <ivie@tima.com>
COFFEY  TURPIN  RENNER  "COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND 
BIOGRAPHICAL. "CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLEJACKSON TOWNSHIP AND MORGANTOWN, MORGAN CO., IN.PAGE 248

MOSES T. COFFEY, stock-raiser and farmer, is a native of this county, wasborn May 24, 1831, 
and is the fifth of the ten children of Lewis and Delilah(Turpin) Coffey, natives of Kentucky, 
and respectively of English and Irishdescent.  Lewis Coffey emigrated to this county in 1828;  
entered land,which he afterward cleared and sold, then engaged in flat-boating to NewOrleans 
and died in the spring of 1844.  Moses was reared on the paternalfarm, and received the 
rudiments of an education from subscription schools.After the death of his father, the care 
of the family descended upon him,and to which he gave the wages earned by monthly labor;  yet 
now, as aresult of his economy and application, he owns a good farm of fifty acres,containing 
stock, and being generally well improved.  March 11, 1852, hemarried Miss Lucinda Renner, a 
native of Ohio, born March 24, 1834, a unionwhich has been prolific in thirteen children, 
only eight of whom receivednames--George W., Mary J., John D., Philip L., Barbara A., Eliza 
C., MarthaP. and William T.  Mr. Coffey is a radical and active Democrat, by whichparty he 
was elected Justice of the Peace in 1874, for a term of four years.He is a liberal gentleman 
and his wife is a member of the MethodistEpiscopal Church.

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I believe Moses Coffey's father, Lewis, is the son of Martin Coffey ofGreen/Russel Cos., KY. 
Martin had a son Lewis born about 1790, making thisLewis a likely candidate.  -- Jeffrey W. 
Simmons simmons@galesburg.net, 14 Aug. 1999
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