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Arizona. He is self-employed in the computer
business.
Louise, the eleventh child, lives in Califor-
nia. She married Louie Price.
Sidney, the twelfth and youngest, lives in
California. Sidney served in the Army during
the Korean War.
My mother died in 1956. My father died in
1963. After my mother died, my father was
baptized in the First Baptist Church in
Meridian. He was converted at the age of
nineteen, but was not united with the church
until he was in his eighties.
I, Opal, was the third child. I was married
to Bryan Bateman in 1936. He was the son
of the late Steve and Ada Bateman of the
Spring Creek community. Bryan served in
World War I. At the time of his death, he had
served seven and a half years as county
commissioner. We had three children: Doro-
thy, Bryan, Jr. (Butch) and Steve. My step
children were: Wayne, Bill, Ben, Edna Rose
and Bert. Wayne, Bill and Ben served in
World War II. Bill is buried in the Iredell
Cemetery. My husband, Bryan, died in 1964.
He is buried in the Iredell Cemetery.
by Opal Bateman
COFFELT FAMILY
F204
The Coffelt family is of German origin, first
appearing in the Harz mountains of Germany
in 1611, where they were glassblowers by
trade. Later they moved to the Zweibruchen
area of Germany where they operated the
Odenbacher Hof (farmstead manor), where
they were brandyweinbrenners (wine mak-
ers), and the name was spelled Kauffeldt.
The family then moved to Philadelphia,
arriving in 1738, and later went to Virginia
and Tennessee.
George Washington Coffelt was born in
1857, in Tennessee, the son of Henry Madi-
son Coffelt and Ruth Ann Shelton. Henry
Madison Coffelt and family left Tennessee in
1894 and moved to McGregor, Texas. There,
George and his brothers William "Will",
James "Bob", and Elijah "Eli", established
the firm of Coffelt Brothers. This business
involved a mercantile store and dealt in the
sale of everything from farm equipment and
millinery to produce.
George Washington Coffelt and Ruth Ann
Gilbert married 1899, in McGregor. Ruth
Gilbert was the daughter of Rev. Henry
DeKalb Gilbert, pastor of the First Baptist
Church there.
After the mercantile store of Coffelt Broth-
ers was dissolved in 1916, George Coffelt and
family purchased a stock farm in the Willow
Springs community of Bosque County. They
lived in Walnut Springs during the construc-
tion of a new home on the property, and
moved into it in the latter part of 1916.
George and Ruth (Gilbert) Coffelt were the
parents of three sons. (1) George Harold
(1902), married Ruth Lea Biggs in 1929, and
had three children. (2) Charles Sidney Coffelt
(1907), married Ruben Naewasa McCoy in
1932. (3) Henry Gilbert Coffelt (1912),
married Lennie Eula Golden in 1932.
George W. Coffelt died in 1940, and is
buried in Oak Grove Cemetery near Walnut
Springs. Ruth (Gilbert) Coffelt died in 1956,
and is buried beside her husband.
Henry Gilbert Coffelt and Lennie Eula
214(Golden) Coffelt are the parents of two sons:
Robert Kenneth (1937), married Sallie Sue
Swaner, and Henry Rex Coffelt (1941),
married Gwendolyn Flatt.
by Robert K. Coffelt
COFFELT-SWANER FAMILY
F205
In 1958, Robert Kenneth Coffelt and Sallie
Sue Swaner married in Waco. After two
years' residence in Waco, they moved to
Dallas and Garland, then to Los Alamos, New
Mexico, for two years. In 1964, they returned
to the Garland-Dallas area where they re-
mained for the next fourteen years. Robert
was employed by the City of Garland in
management and civil engineering capacities,
and Sue was a secretary and office manager,
and owner of Coffelt Secretarial Service, in
Dallas.
The acreage formerly owned by Otto and
Emma Schramm, five miles north of Clifton
near Highway 6, was purchased by the
Coffelts in 1973. The acreage known as
Kauffeldt Ranch, is the home of a small
commercial herd of cattle.
Robert K. Coffelt was born in 1937 near
Iredell, to Henry Gilbert Coffelt and Lennie
Eula (Golden) Coffelt. Sue (Swaner) Coffelt
was born in 1939 in Waco, to Eddie Arline
Swaner (1910) and Hortense (Cannon) Swan-
er (1911). Her sister, Mary Helen Swaner, was
born in 1937.
Eddie A. Swaner is the son of Robert Allen
Swaner (1875), (son of William Joshua
Swaner and Susan Elizabeth Rainer), and
Mattie Pearl (Selby) Swaner (daughter of
John James Selby and Sophia Holloway).
Hortense (Cannon) Swaner is the daughter
of Ernest Watson Cannon (son of David
Watson Cannon and Angeline Goode), and
Nellie Leota (Jay) Cannon (daughter of
Jasper Jay and Nancy Elizabeth (Turner)
Jay, of China Spring).
Robert K. Coffelt is presently city manager
of the City of Granbury, Texas.
by Sue Swaner Coffelt
COFFMAN, MARVIN DOYLE, SR.
F206
Marvin Doyle Coffman, Sr. was born in
1906 in Horton, Kansas. He was graduated
from Horton High School and received a
Bachelor of Science degree from the Univer-
sity of Kansas at Pittsburg. Following this, he
traveled for Practical Drawing Company of
Dallas for some nine years, calling on all high
schools and colleges in towns of over two
thousand. During this time he lectured on art.
He was in charge of Practical Drawing
Company's art exhibits at the New York
World's Fair and also at the Chicago World's
Fair.
In 1942 when the famous art reproductions
could not be obtained, he took a Civil Service
exam and became the Civilian Personnel
Manager at McCloskey General Hospital,
Temple. He started with eighty-five civilian
employees, and when he resigned in 1945,
there were over 1100 civilian employees
under his jurisdiction.
In 1945, Marvin became associated with
Mutual of Omaha in Dallas as salesman andthen Division Manager in Big Spring and in
Rochester, Minnesota.
In 1945, Marvin was married to Ada Belle
Harris, daughter of George and Cora Harris
(see separate story), who was working in
Dallas for Mutual of Omaha. To this union
two sons were born: Marvin D. Coffman of
Austin and Robert L. (Bobby) Coffman of
Clifton. Both sons were graduated from
Clifton High School, as the family returned
to Clifton in 1950 to reside. Marvin and Ada
owned and operated the ABC Grocery and
Market until Marvin's death in 1958. He is
buried in Clifton Cemetery.
In the latter part of 1951, Ada began
working for Goodall and Witcher Hospital,
where she worked in the office in several
capacities, becoming office manager of the
hospital in 1966 when the hospital and clinic
separated. After twenty-nine years, Ada
retired from the hospital office at the end of
1980.
In 1962 Ada married Willis C. Windham,
who died in 1977. (see W.W. Windham family
history). He is buried in the Clifton Ceme-
tery.).
Marvin D. Coffman married Kaye Conrad
in 1968, and two children were born, Jill and
Mark. (see other history of this family.)
Robert L. (Bobby) Coffman, who works as
a cattle buyer, finished North Texas State,
Denton. He lives in Clifton and has not
married.
by Ada Windham
COGBURN, JESSE E. FAMILY
F20714L
Bonnie and J.E. Cogburn in front of Mackey Hotel-
1945
My mother, Bonnie Mae Mackey (1895-
1975), was born in Bosque County. She
married Will K. Ellis in August, 1910, and
they had one son, John Fern Ellis, who was
born in June, 1911. Only one year after the
birth of his son, Will Ellis died in 1912.
Bonnie Mackey Ellis married Jesse Edwin
Cogburn on November 18, 1917. Jesse Cog-
burn, a native of Louisiana, was the son of
James E. Cogburn and Nancy Elizabeth
Headrick Cogburn. The James Cogburn
family, consisting of Mrs. Cogburn, two
daughters, and her son, Jesse, had moved to
Texas around 1903.
My parents, Jesse and Bonnie Cogburn,
lived in Bosque County most of their lives.
Jesse could do most anything. He worked at
the ice plant and for the City of Clifton. He
was a carpenter and a farm worker. Three
children, Raymond, Beatrice, and Clyde,
were born to the couple.
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