GRANDFATHER JIM COFFEY My dad, James Coffey, born 22 april 1889 in wolf creek, Mccreary county, KY and now a resident of Wayne county, reminiscences about his childhood. He was the son of Nelson C. Coffey and Sarah Emerine Worley and the grandson of James Nelson Coffey and Sarah Margaret Barrier. " In 1907, we moved to Elk Spring Valley, at the head of the valley to the old Ingram farm then occupied by Perry Ingram and his father who was an old man at that time. I was 18 yrs old and my grandfather Jim had just bought the farm for $20,000. we had lived in what is now mccreary county where grandfather Jim had sold all his timber land to Hopplewell and Watson, a big timber co. and we had to move. we moved in to the house that Ebbin Flinn and Alice his wife lived in, and almost all of grandpa Coffey's nine children moved too. just above our house Steve and Sally Dobbs bought some land from Mr. Ingram and built a store and a dwelling house. This was the Oil valley post office, that steve built in 1907 and lived here about 8 or 10 yeras, when he sold it to his father in law Jackson Roberts. it had several owners later- Jim Goddard, Elmer Denney, Fate Foster and others. Perry Ingram was a nice friendly man who had married a Miss Wilhite, a relative to Johnm Wilhite of the Monticello bank. I guess he had children, but I never recall seeing any of them, and was told they all moved to the Bluegrass area. My uncle Burl Coffey moved to a log house, not far from the cemetary. Sevela Cox had lived there when Mr Ingram owned it. She had a son named Lincoln Cox who married Miss Tempy Dolen, daughter of George Dolen and Florence Phips. Lincoln worked for the Ingrams, I think. This log house where uncle Burl lived, was just behind the present house that he built and live in for a long time. Just above the Ingram spring, was another log house occupied by the Ingram cook, Lindey Crisp. She had a son named Warnie Crisp and a daughter, but I can't recall her name. When grandpa died, John Cooper and Vina built a house on this part and lived there until they were old. This was Aunt Vina's part of the farm Near the old Crisp house on the hill above the Ingram Orchard, was another log house that Elisha Howard and his son Porter lived in, about a year after grandpa bought it. There was a family cemetery on this farm where all the older Ingram's were buried and later my people too. My grandpa Jim and Sarah Margaret his wife, my father and mother and lots of my aunts and uncles. When the big rains came, all of the valley was flooded all the way to the Bob Bell farm and it was impossible to get to the Big House unless you crossed in a boat. This would happen just about every spring, but it didn't last long. We had the finest timber and apple orchard that I ever saw.......... NOTE:--there is more -- It's in a big red book-titled Wayne County Pioneers.