GILBREATH-MORROW CEMETERY-PREACHER HOLT ROAD-MAURY COUNTY TENNESSEE


 

COFFEE, Isaac H.,(Isaac Hamilton), 19 Jun 1828 - 28 Feb 1868. Mason. (married to Emily (Emma) Frances West of Blue Branch - northern Giles County) One child-William Fine Coffee, born about the time of Isaac's death. (Soldier of the Civil War possibly a Major in the Confederacy. His son William F Coffee mentioned him in the 1950s as Major Hamilton Coffee. The records I've seen shows the rank of Sergeant). Family legend says he was killed in a prize fight shortly after the Civil War Another story was that he fell off a horse and died. My opinion is he died as one of the many confederate solders murdered in the aftermath of the civil war. Inscription reads: "This is a memorial of Isaac H. Coffee. he Was born June 19th 1828 & departed this life February 28th 1868". History of his old Pennsylvania Rifle Isaac left for the family to pass down thru the generations.
From the family history records of Wayne Austin who developed this cemtery site.