COFFEY, T. J.
COFFEY, T. J.
PLANO MAN IS NOW OWNER OF TRUNK THAT ONCE BELONGED TO GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON
Special to the Times Herald Plano, Tex.
March 12 – T. J. Coffey, who resides on the Jarrett Dickerson farm, two miles south of Plano, was in the city Friday. Mr. Coffey came here recently from Red River county. He is a native of Alabama, and has lived in Texas since 1894, having settled in the Big Springs community, southeast of Plano, where he lived for eleven years, after coming to Texas.
Mr. Coffey has in the vault of the Plano National bank an old trunk of which there is much history attached. The trunk which was formerly the property of General Andrew Jackson, has been in Mr. Coffey’s family 112 years.
The battle of New Orleans was fought January 8, 1815, after which Jackson and his men started upon their return back home. They stopped in North Alabama, Lauderdale county, to rest. General Jackson was furnished a room in the home of Mr. Coffey’s great grandfather, where he remained for two weeks. Upon his departure he gave the trunk to Mr. Coffey’s grandmother, who was then just a little girl. Mr. Coffey was born in 1859, at which time his grandmother gave him the trunk and it has been in his possession ever since.
The trunk is about twenty-six inches in length and fourteen inches in width, about eight inches deep. It is made of poplar and covered in black leather and mounted with brass tack, 3,400 in number.
This trunk is lined with newspapers which bear the respective dates, 1844, 1846, and 1847, placed in it by Mr. Coffey’s grandmother.
The trunk is prized highly by Mr. Coffey.
General John Coffee, who was with General Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans, was a brother of Mr. Coffey’s great grandfather.
The Battle of New Orleans was fought just south of the city limits, at which time General Andrew Jackson defeated the British under General Packenham.
General Packenham had sent word to General Jackson that on the morning of the 8th of January, 1815, he would eat breakfast in New Orleans. Jackson’s replay was: “If you do you will east supper in hell.” Packenham was killed during the battle.
PLANO MAN IS NOW OWNER OF TRUNK THAT ONCE BELONGED TO GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON
Special to the Times Herald Plano, Tex.
March 12 – T. J. Coffey, who resides on the Jarrett Dickerson farm, two miles south of Plano, was in the city Friday. Mr. Coffey came here recently from Red River county. He is a native of Alabama, and has lived in Texas since 1894, having settled in the Big Springs community, southeast of Plano, where he lived for eleven years, after coming to Texas.
Mr. Coffey has in the vault of the Plano National bank an old trunk of which there is much history attached. The trunk which was formerly the property of General Andrew Jackson, has been in Mr. Coffey’s family 112 years.
The battle of New Orleans was fought January 8, 1815, after which Jackson and his men started upon their return back home. They stopped in North Alabama, Lauderdale county, to rest. General Jackson was furnished a room in the home of Mr. Coffey’s great grandfather, where he remained for two weeks. Upon his departure he gave the trunk to Mr. Coffey’s grandmother, who was then just a little girl. Mr. Coffey was born in 1859, at which time his grandmother gave him the trunk and it has been in his possession ever since.
The trunk is about twenty-six inches in length and fourteen inches in width, about eight inches deep. It is made of poplar and covered in black leather and mounted with brass tack, 3,400 in number.
This trunk is lined with newspapers which bear the respective dates, 1844, 1846, and 1847, placed in it by Mr. Coffey’s grandmother.
The trunk is prized highly by Mr. Coffey.
General John Coffee, who was with General Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans, was a brother of Mr. Coffey’s great grandfather.
The Battle of New Orleans was fought just south of the city limits, at which time General Andrew Jackson defeated the British under General Packenham.
General Packenham had sent word to General Jackson that on the morning of the 8th of January, 1815, he would eat breakfast in New Orleans. Jackson’s replay was: “If you do you will east supper in hell.” Packenham was killed during the battle.
