"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
JACKSON TOWNSHIP AND MORGANTOWN, MORGAN CO., IN.
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MOSES T. COFFEY, stock-raiser and farmer, is a native of this county, was
born 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 Irish
descent. Lewis Coffey emigrated to this county in 1828; entered land,
which he afterward cleared and sold, then engaged in flat-boating to New
Orleans and died in the spring of 1844. Moses was reared on the paternal
farm, 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 a
result of his economy and application, he owns a good farm of fifty acres,
containing stock, and being generally well improved. March 11, 1852, he
married Miss Lucinda Renner, a native of Ohio, born March 24, 1834, a union
which has been prolific in thirteen children, only eight of whom received
names--George W., Mary J., John D., Philip L., Barbara A., Eliza C., Martha
P. and William T. Mr. Coffey is a radical and active Democrat, by which
party 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 Methodist
Episcopal Church.
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