Coffin, Clyde 1883-1968

COFFIN, BRAY, SHAFER, MCCRACKEN

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 6/19/2003 at 16:48:34

"Clyde Coffin died Sat. at the Washington County Hospital. Burial in Pleasant Plain Friends Cemetery. Born Mar. 2 1883, son of Jeremiah and Martha Bray Coffin. He lived his entire life in the Pleasant Plain community; member Friends Church. Feb 27 1917 married Alta Shafer of Brighton; she died in 1964. He is survived by a foster son, Alfred McCracken; two sisters, Mrs. Sumner McCracken, Richland, and Mrs. Duane McCracken, Mankato, Minn. Preceded in death by wife, an infant son, three brothers and three sisters. Gould Funeral Home in Brighton."
Fairfield Ledger
Mon., April 15, 1968, 8-5.

"Clyde Coffin. . . . .lived all his life in the farm house where he was born. Grad. Pleasant Plain Friends Academy and also had been a member of the board of William Penn College at Oskaloosa for a number of years. . . . . "
Brighton Enterprise
Thur., Apr. 18, 1968 1-6.