GREETINGS TO THE RED RIVER COUNTIES LIST Greetings,Ms:Peck >> Thank you for the nice welcome to Grayson Co. List. My Daug, Zella >>Coffman and my self , Carl Coffman in Wichita, are a co-team, after and >>chasing a very long lost rabbit that we found Court Doc. on in Fannin Co., >>last week . We were there in person, and everybody was super and nice and >>very >>helpful. I loved the way the clerk ladies talked, they were charming. We >>had a >>lot of success in the records at court house. and went to view >>Great-Grandfather and our Great-Grandmothers land 4 miles north on farm >>road >>898. When I say land I mean the general area.. There was no cemetery index >>at >>Brown's cemetery but we sure did look just the same as it would be just >>west >>of the part section of the farm. Lot of un-marked graves. Let me jump to a >>new para. and tell the list a story of this Rabbit who had 4 wives. thee >>married other place's and ended up in Fannin, A girl friend in Grayson, >>Our >>records show he died in Cooke,11/3/1873, Married in Polk Co. Missouri,#1, >>next #2 (our Anc. In Harrison) #3 In Harrison, Co. Tx Also. # 4 in Fannin >><1870 to Laura F. Brown (she is all over Fannin Census, keep the Brown >>Name >>after Andrew Died. Well the stage is set for a over a 50 year chase after >>his >>Info and that of his children's. Got to admit, The Red River Valley was a >>nice place to stop running. >> This story started in Tenn. in the year of Andrew David Coffman and >>twin >>brother John H.B. Coffman birth,1824 . There was 9-11 children born to >>David,b.1787-1838 and wife Susanna Bunch. David Father was in the American >>Rev and lived in Lancaster Penn. and left Penn with a brother about1780 to >>Tenn.. Let see we have Andrew's father and grandfather listed and that far >>enough for now. How?? it was easy as they never were lost like this Rabbit >>Andrew D,a/k/a Dedrick/Deadrich Coffman,a/k/a, Haufman/Kaufmann/ >>kauffman. >>Lost my place here, just to many names for one person; oh yew Andrew was >>born >>in 1824 in Tenn. His father David was a Baptist Preacher and had a calling >>to go the wilds of Missouri to start a church/school in abt. 1835. All the >>children, friends, and members Build it and I've been there in Aldrish, >>Mo. >>near the Truman Dam, Walked the farm on canes and said a few words over >>David and Susanna Graves on their own old homestead. I felt very sad that >>David died 3 years after coming to Missouri. Susanna lived on and raised >>all >>her children. There was a private war broke out in Polk and Benton >>Counties >>of mountain men. It was called the slickers war and it was run by a bully >>and >>his 4 sons and bar room buddies, If this bunch didn't like you they would >>steal your land, Tie you to a tree, tear off your shirt,take a small limb, >>tear off all bark, and beat your back until you were bleeding, and what >>ever >>and untied you and told to leave the county or die. Those against the >>Slickers were called Anti-Slickers. There was many killings for a period >>of >>4-5 years and there wasn't enough law to control them.. The slickers were >>at a Baptist church meeting at Aldrich about 4 years after David the >>preacher died, and thot the wards the preacher was speaking on was >>directed >>at them. They got up in front and told all the members if they didn't,t >>stop >>they would be run out of the county also. Andrew and his Family had to be >>in >>attendance that night. Many were killed, run out of the county, and it >>took >>the Missouri Army to stop the mayhem in these two counties. The book is >>sold, >>about the Slickers War at, Polk County,Mo. Historical Socy., Bolivar.Mo. >>Andrew was Married 1849 to a very nice Tenn. Lady I never could find out >>any >>info nor if she had any children with Andrew. Her name was Elizabeth S. >>Sanders, I did find the couple in Polk Co, Census and never again as a >>Couple, only Andrew Again in Caddo,La./ Harrison,Tx.I did Find a Women, >>Elizabeth Sanders marring again in 1854 at Jefferson County Mo. just west >>of >>St. Lewis and Two Boys named Sanders in next co. west of polk, Dade Co. >>with >>a different named Family with the story that this was raising them because >>they couldn't't get along with one of their parents. I will always wonder >>if >>Andrew, Elizabeth, and those two boys were on the run for their lives >>because >>of fall-out from the Slickers War. Some of them must of hated until they >>died. We call that the Show- Me State Any way they are all gone and Andrew >>was shown marring Magdalean S. Sheltman In Caddo Parish.LA.in March >>of1866. >>The first marriage was not in the book and the one in Caddo was false, It >>was >>in Harrison Co Marriage Book. as Dedrick Kaufman. >> I've got to stop as i'm very tired and Continue this tale into the >>Redriver area Later And Barbara as he was in several Texas Counties I hope >>you do not mind if I send all at once to different counties. Let me know >>if >>you want the rest of the story. It now get interesting. Regards Carl >>Coffman >>in Wichita >> >> >> >> Regards: Carl and Zella (daughter) Coffman >> 1448 S Handley St. >> Wichita, KS 67213 >> >> >> > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com