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Person · Dee Carl Coffman
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline654 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople312 cards, by generationDee Carl Coffman
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1227, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
- Add to this recorda form, read by Earl
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proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
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testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
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government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.
ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
Not foundSearched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the
person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
DNA evidenceBiological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does
not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
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shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.
- Born
- 1 Mar 1898
- Parents
- David Emily "Dee" Coffman & Mary Jane "Mollie" Wright
- Sources
- 2
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED. Son of David Emily ’Dee’ Coffman and Mary Jane Wright. Sources: Texas Deaths 1890-1977 (FamilySearch K3M3-Z4Z): Dee Carl Coffman, b. 1 Mar 1898 Potosi, d. 23 Mar 1938 Abilene, Taylor Co., parents D. E. Coffman and Mary Jane Wright (index; certificate image not read); 1910 census, Abilene (FamilySearch M238-MGP): Dee Carl, 12, son of D. E. and Mary Jane; his mother’s obituary, Abilene Daily Reporter 7 Dec 1934 p. 15, names son D. C. Coffman of Abilene. He died a month before his father. Husband of Minnie Mae Schultz. Added to the family tree on Earl’s approval of 4 October 2026. Added 4 October 2026
Life in the order the records give it
Death1898
Dee Carl Coffman: born 1 Mar 1898 in Potosi, Taylor, Texas; died 23 Mar 1938 in Abilene, Taylor, Texas
Census1930
In 1930 he was a salesman for a packing company in Abilene and a veteran of the World War
S1220; the 1940 Kauffman-Coffman genealogy says he served in the U.S. Navy in 1918
S1222Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it
Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: his death record has been read only as an index; the certificate image has not been read. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.
Probable
Probable confirm or correct → Married Minnie Mae Schultz on 24 June 1919, a date from that compiled genealogy only
S1222; the county marriage record has not been read. Know more? Use “Add to this record”
In the record
Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents and their siblings
- S12201930 census — D. C. and Minnie M. Coffman, 426 Elm, Abilene, Texas. Ancestry, “1930 United States Federal Census (also record 60833934, same page)”, record 60833985. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 4 October 2026. Confirmed Abilene, ED 221-12, sheet 20B: D. C. Coffman, 32, salesman for a packing company, a veteran of the World War, and Minnie M., 29, born Texas of German-born parents, with their two daughters, in her widowed mother Pauline Schultz’s house at 426 Elm. ⚠ The daughters are not named here because they may be living. The census gives Dee Carl’s father born in Virginia; the 1920 census says Texas.
- S1222Kauffman-Coffman genealogy (1940), p. 567, Texan Branch — Dee Carl Coffman, F11558. Ancestry, “U.S., Family History Books”, record 4518012354. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 4 October 2026. Probable Dee Carl Coffman, born 1 March 1898, U.S. Navy 1918, meat salesman, 426 Elm St., Abilene, married Minnie Mae Shultz on 24 June 1919. The page lists his whole sibling group. ⚠ A compiled genealogy printed in 1940, not a marriage record: the 24 June 1919 date is PROBABLE until the Taylor County marriage image (FamilySearch QV1Z-SB7B) is read. It fits the 1920 census, where the couple are already married.