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- W.T. Block wrote http://block.dynip.com/wtblockjr/history.htm>
"During an interview with Arthur Coffin of Wiess Bluff in 1973, the writer was informed that Sam Houston spent the night on two occasions at the old Simon Wiess home there, Wiess Bluff being an old steamboat stop on the Neches River, sixteen miles north of Beaumont. Wiess had known Houston in Nacogdoches as early as 1835. Coffin's grandmother, Mrs. Pauline Wiess Coffin, was born in Nacogdoches in 1837, but she had lived in the old Wiess home for ninety years, from 1840 until 1930. She could remember General Houston from days when she was a little girl. However, the times that he visited there must have been subsequent to 1846. Steamboat passenger service on the Neches did not begin until 1846, the year that the "Angelina" made its maiden voyage from Pattonia, Nacogdoches County, to Sabine Pass. Occasionally, deep-sea schooners may have traveled as far inland as Wiess Bluff, but generally wind velocity sufficient to fill schooner sails ended whenever the timberline was reached.
1850 census, TX, Jefferson cty, (M432-912, 238)
Oct. 23, 1850, lines 17-26, HH 203/203
J.M. Ketchem, 28, M, Carpenter, $1333 real estate, Penn
Clara C " , 25, F, Ohio
Mary T (or F) " , 2, F, Penn
Abel C " , 9/12, M, Do (ditto)
Benj. Granger, 31, M, Carpenter, $1333 real estate, N York
M.B. Atkinson, 30, M, ditto (carpenter), Georgia
Abel Coffin Sr, 50, M, ship carpenter, Mass
Abel Jr, 24, M, ditto (ship carpenter), Penn
Wm Burgett, 34, M, Painter, Vermont
James Brown, 27, M, Sailor, Rusia (?)
1860 census, TX, Jefferson, Sabine Pass, pct 5, p. 56, (p. 432)
JUL 10, 1860, HH 332
Abel Coffin, 32, M, W, Tinner & store dealer, (no real estate value given), $3600, Penn
Polena, 23, F, W, housekeeper, Tex
Mary, 7, F, W, Tex
Arthur W., 1, M, W, Tex
Martha Coffin, 20, F, W, Spinster??, Ohio
living near:
- S.K. Burch (44) & Caroline (#328)
- K.D. Keith (#329)
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