This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Coffman, McDade, Hagler Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TgB.2ACE/2247 Message Board Post: Elwyn Mauriece Coffman Sr., 104, a resident of Haws Memorial Nursing Home in Fulton and a former resident of South Fulton, died at the nursing home 2:10 p.m. Oct. 24, 2002. He was a World War I U.S. Army veteran who had received the Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Hornbeak Funeral Home in Fulton, with burial following in Greenlea Cemetery in Fulton. Elder Houston Patrick will officiate. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 this evening and from 8 a.m. until the hour of services Saturday. He was born Dec. 7, 1897, in Weakley County, son of the late John James and Orah Ann (McDade) Coffman. He was the widower of Hyacinth (Hagler) Coffman, who died in 1979, and was a retired farmer. He had lived in this area all his life and was a member of Sandy Branch Primitive Baptist Church in Weakley County and the American Legion. He had introduced the valuable seed known as Sericea Lespedeza to the agricultural world. Survivors include his son, Wendell Hagler Coffman of Fulton; his daughter, Margaret Ann Perry of South Fulton; and five grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. He was also preceded in death by his son, Elwyn Mauriece Coffman Jr.; and a grandchild, Jeff Coffman. (I am not related to this family, posting from UC Messenger because of his age and that he was a WWI Vet.