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Arthur W. Coffin[1]

Male 1859 - 1892  (32 years)


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  • Name Arthur W. Coffin 
    Born Jul 29, 1859  Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Jan 14, 1892  Round Rock, Williamson county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Round Rock Cemetery, Round Rock, Williamson county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • In 1880 he is living with his uncle Massena WIESS in Round Rock and working in his store there.
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      1880 census, TA. Williamson, pct 8
      Massina WIESS, self, M, W, 30, TX, Genl Merchant, Poland, Scotland,
      Elvira E. WIESS, wife, F, W, 26, TX, keeping house, AR, TX
      Sarah N. WIESS, dau, F, W, 7, TX, TX, TX
      Clyda WIESS, dau, F, W, 5, TX, TX, TX
      Everet M. WIESS, son, M, W, 3, TX, TX, TX
      Blanche WIESS, dau, F, 6M, TX, TX, TX
      Auther W. COFFIN, nephew, 21, (single), M, W, TX, clerk in store, PA, TX
      Augustus J. BROOK(?), other, M, W, 30, VA, lumber clerk, VA, VA
      Saml. P. WILLIAMS, other, M, W, 26, LA, dry goods mch, GA, GA
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      Arthur and Emma Schram were married only four months -- from February through August 1883, when she died.  They were married at his uncle Valentine Wiess' home.  Valentine was himself widowed at the time but married Laura McCampbell in June, before Arthur was widowed by Emma's death in August.
      Arthur remarried Sarah Dyer in 1890 and their son, Arthur Coffin Jr., was born 9 years after Emma's death.
      Arthur Jr. is living with his mother and his grandparents in 1900.
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      1900 census, TX, Williamson, pct 8, T623-1680, p. 73
      DYER, Wm F, head, W, M, Oct 1825, 74, m1, 52 years, TX, MD, TX, farmer
      DYER, Paula C, wife, W, F, Apr 1825, 75, m1, 52 years, 5 children, 4 living, Swed, Swed, Swec, immigrated in 1847, 53 years in USA
      DYER, Swen, son, W, M, May 1855, 45, single, TX, TX, Swed, farmer
      COFFIN, Margaret, daughter, W, F, Sept 1860, 39, widowed, 1 child, 1 living, TX, TX, Sweden
      COFFIN, Arthur, grandson, W, M, Apr, 1892, 8, TX, TX, TX
      one servant and one boarder.
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      Gravestone inscription:
      Arthur W. Coffin
      Born at Wiess Bluff, Jasper County, Texas July 29, 1859
      Died at Round Rock Jan. 14, 1892
      Death is the Crown of Life.
      Death's but a Path that must be trod,
      If Man would ever pass to God.
      He is buried with S. Margreta Coffin, his wife, and with their child, infant Coffin, in a fenced enclosure at Round Rock Cemetery.
    Person ID I1454  mykindred
    Last Modified Jun 10, 2014 

    Father Abel W. Coffin, Jr.,   b. 1828, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1866, Wiess Bluff, Jasper county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years) 
    Mother Pauline "Sissy" Wiess,   b. May 14, 1837, Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Dec 13, 1930, Wiess Bluff, Jasper county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 93 years) 
    Married Oct 14, 1858  Jasper county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • 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)
    Family ID F548  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Emma H.F. Schram,   b. Aug 27, 1861,   d. Aug 26, 1883  (Age 21 years) 
    Married Feb 18, 1883  residence of Valentine Wiess Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    • From xerox copy of family Bible page in the possession of Linda Gillespie of Beaumont:  "Arthur W. Coffin and Emma H. F. Schram, Married at residence of Mr. Valentine Wiess Sunday, Feby 18th, 1883."
    Family ID F549  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Sarah Margreta "Maggie" Dyer,   b. Sep 11, 1860, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aug 29, 1905, Round Rock, Williamson county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 44 years) 
    Married Apr 14, 1890  Williamson county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Children 
     1. infant Coffin,   b. May 31, 1891, Round Rock, Williamson county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Round Rock, Williamson county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Arthur Wiess Coffin, Jr.,   b. Apr 05, 1892, Round Rock, Williamson county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Sep 24, 1978, Wiess Bluff, Jasper county, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
    Family ID F19417  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarried - Feb 18, 1883 - residence of Valentine Wiess Link to Google Earth
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  • Headstones
    Coffin, Arthur W.
    Coffin, Arthur W.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2128] A Brief History of Wiess Bluff, Texas.

    2. [S969] Kate Rogers Scrapbook (1882-1889 at Wiess' Bluff, Texas).

    3. [S869] Family Bible.
      Arthur W. Coffin and Emma H. F. Schram, Married at residence of Mr. Valentine Wiess Sunday, Feby 18th, 1883
      xerox copy of Bible page in the possession of Linda Gillespie of Beaumont -- whose Bible is unknown (believed to be from the Donovan family).

    4. [S788] Marriage record, Williamson county, Texas -- book 7 p 184 (Reliability: 3).