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Daisy Hope Coffman Holley

Daughter of David Emily "Dee" Coffman · 1896–1934

Daisy Hope Coffman Holley

Confirmed

Daughter of David Emily "Dee" Coffman · 1896–1934

Born
in Texas
Died
on 17 March 1934
Parents
David Emily "Dee" Coffman & Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright
Sources
2

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as a daughter of David Emily “Dee” Coffman and Mary Jane “Mollie” Wright. Her Texas death certificate, no. 15321, read from the image, names her father as D. E. Coffman, born in Virginia, and her mother as Mary J. Wright, born in Texas; her husband, Owen Holly, gave the information S350. The 1910 census, also read from the image, lists Daisy, 14, as a daughter in her parents’ household at Abilene S347. The certificate image was read on 24 September 2026 and again on 11 October 2026; both readings give the same names for her father, her mother and her husband.

Life in the order the records give it

Burial1934
Daisy Hope Coffman Holley died on 17 March 1934 at 834 Ambler Avenue, Abilene, Taylor County, Texas, of lobar pneumonia after influenza, aged 37. She was born in Texas on 5 April 1896, and was buried at Abilene on 18 March 1934 S350.
Birth
The certificate gives her age as 36, which is the clerk’s arithmetic; from her date of birth she was 37.
Death2026
History of this card. 11 Oct 2026
card written when she was added to the family tree, from the death certificate image (S350).

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1940
Wife of Owen Holly, who is named as her husband and informant on the certificate S350. The certificate spells the surname Holly; a family history printed in 1940 gives her as Daisy Hope Coffman, born 5 April 1896, married to W. Owen Holley, a mail carrier at Abilene. Her husband and children do not have cards, and the children are not named here.

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Probable
Probable confirm or correct → Born in Taylor County, Texas, by the FamilySearch index of her death certificate. What is weak or missing: the certificate image says only Texas, so the county comes from an index alone, and the same index misreads her mother’s name as “Martha” Wright where the image has Mary J. Wright. Her middle name, Hope, is on the index and in the 1940 family history, not on the certificate image as read. No marriage record has been found. Know more, or think this is wrong? Use “Add to this record”.
Cited on this card S347 S350 Card added 2026-10-11

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Daisy Hope Coffman Holley · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

2 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S3471910 U.S. Federal Census — Abilene Ward 3, Taylor Co., Texas, ED 266, sheet 16B. Ancestry record 28640074. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed David E., 52, farmer, renting; Mary Jane, married 31 years, mother of 10 children, 7 living; at home Jessie Lee 19, Sue 16, Daisy 14 and Dee Carl 12. Mary Jane's age is written 58, an enumerator slip; her 1859 birth stands.
  2. S350Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — no. 15321, Daisy Holly, 1934. Ancestry record 81672982. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Daisy Holly, born 5 Apr 1896, Texas, died 17 Mar 1934 at 834 Ambler Ave., Abilene, of lobar pneumonia after influenza; husband and informant Owen Holly; father D. E. Coffman, b. Va.; mother Mary J. Wright, b. Tex.; buried Abilene, 18 Mar 1934. Serves the card of Daisy Hope Coffman Holley; the image was read again on 11 October 2026, with the same names. The stated age of 36 is the clerk's arithmetic. The FamilySearch index of this certificate (K3F6-FF3) misreads the mother as “Martha” Wright and adds Taylor County as the place of birth, which the image does not give. Her children are not named here.

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