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Sterling Price Coffey
6 Jun 1862 – 21 Sep 1944
| Birth | 6 Jun 1862 |
| Death | 21 Sep 1944 |
| Cemetery | Fitzhugh Cemetery Lucas , Collin County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Allen Rountree on 23 Jul 2025 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42538347 |
Bio
Sterling P. Coffey was a merchant in McKinney, where he ran a livery stable. Sterling and Ida Elizabeth Rountree were married by Elder J.B. Faulkner in Collin County, Texas on July 19, 1886. The Courier-Gazette McKinney, Texas, Thursday, September 21, 1944 Sterling Price Coffey, extensive land owner, financier and business man of McKinney, passed away at 3:40 am Thursday at his home on Benge Street following a two-week serious illness. Mr. Coffey was a Pioneer of Collin County being born June 6, 1862, 3 miles east of Allen. His parents. Sales and Mary Coffey, came to Texas in a wagon train from Kentucky when the state was a republic. They settled near Allen, where the deceased was born and where he lived until he moved to McKinney in early manhood. Sterling Coffey and Miss Ida Elizabeth Rountree were married June 21,1886 at Forest Grove. They were the parents of five children: Mary Frances passed away in 1892, a son Dudley Otto died May 27, 1929. Surviving children are Fred S. Coffey and Miss Hallie Coffey, McKinney and Laurin Price Coffey of Bryan, Texas. Other survivors are two granddaughters, Mrs. Jack Rattan and Mrs. John Lowry of McKinney, a great granddaughter Helen Floyce Rattan and a half sister, Mrs Nancy Jane Ligett of Vashti, Texas. Mrs. Sterling Coffey passed away Sept 6, 1937. Mr. Coffey was a director in the Central National Bank for many years and never missed a director's meeting. For thirty years he was in the Livery and Transfer business. Aye, Allen Rountree FG 47072491
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- Jesse Salathiel Coffey 1837–1844 FaG
- Lettitia "Lettie" Coffey Reagan Wasson 1838–1868 FaG
- Sidney Ballew 1839–1865 FaG
- Mary Ann "Polly" Coffey McKinney 1840–1918 FaG
- William Stanley Coffey 1842–1922 FaG
- Sarah Ellen Ballew Wharton 1843–1915 FaG
- Harriet Coffey Whisenant 1844–1891 FaG
- Melissa Ballew 1845–1862 FaG
- Milton Wolford "Mint" Coffey 1846–1922 FaG
- Canzada Ballew Whisenant 1847–1891 FaG
- Zachariah Taylor "Zachary" Coffey 1848–1922 FaG
- Octavia Ballew Bigler 1850–1899 FaG
- Nancy Jane Coffey Liggett 1851–1946 FaG
- John Houston Ballew 1853–1908 FaG
- Margaret E. Coffey Kerby 1856–1930
- Josie Coffey Kerby 1859–1925
Children
- Dudley Otto Coffey 1887–1929
- Fred Samuel Coffey 1889–1965
- Mary F. Coffey 1892–1892
- Hallie Lee Coffey Lockhart 1895–1991
- Laurin Price Coffey 1897–1973
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