In a message dated 5/9/01 2:57:59 AM !!!First Boot!!!, wyly1@juno.com writes: << Some say he was named for a Confederate Army officer , Coffee, and others say he was a Coffee descendant. >> He was named for Gen. John Coffee of TN and AL. This John married Mary Donelson neice of the wife of Gen. Andrew jackson. There is another Gen. John Coffee of GA. The two Johns were 1st cousins and contemporaries. Just something else to confuse genealogists and historians. The Gen John in GA. is the one who laid out the Old Coffee Road. Betty.