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Eva Mae Coffman Manly

Daughter of Dee Carl Coffman · 1920–2013

Eva Mae Coffman Manly

Probable

Daughter of Dee Carl Coffman · 1920–2013

Born
at Abilene, Taylor County, Texas
Parents
Dee Carl Coffman & Minnie Mae Schultz Coffman
Married
Dennis Price Manly
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE as a daughter of Dee Carl Coffman and Minnie Mae Schultz Coffman. The evidence is strong: the index of her Texas birth certificate names both parents and gives her birth at Abilene on 17 September 1920 S1738; the census pages of 1930 and 1940, read from the images, show two daughters with Minnie Mae at 426 Elm, Abilene, though their names were not copied from the pages S1220S1221. It stays Probable because the certificate itself has not been read, only its index, and her name has not been read on any image.

Evidence: The index of her Texas birth certificate names her parents as Dee Carl Coffman and Minnie Mae Schultz and gives her birth at Abilene on 17 September 1920; the Social Security Death Index and the Find a Grave index give her death on 19 May 2013 (S1738); the census pages of 1930 and 1940, read from the images, show two daughters with Minnie Mae at 426 Elm (S1220, S1221). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: The certificate itself has not been read, only its index, and her name has not been read on any image; no place of death is known; the marriage index shows no date. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Death2013
Eva Mae Coffman Manly died on 19 May 2013. She was born at Abilene, Taylor County, Texas, on 17 September 1920. The birth is in the index of her birth certificate, and the death in the Social Security Death Index and the Find a Grave index S1738. No place of death is given in any index read.
Census2026
History of this card. 12 Oct 2026
card written when she was added to the family tree, from the birth certificate, Social Security, grave, marriage and census indexes (S1738). 12 Oct 2026 — her husband linked to a card of his own, graded Probable; until then the card said he had none.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1917
She married Dennis Price Manly (1917–1996). A Texas marriage index names the couple and shows no date, and the index of the 1950 census lists them together S1738. The marriage is graded Probable. Her children are not named here.

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Probable
Probable confirm or correct → Daughter of Dee Carl Coffman (1898–1938) and Minnie Mae Schultz Coffman (1900–1975). Granddaughter of Pauline Augusta Betcher Schultz, in whose house at 426 Elm the family lived. Her sister Dorothy Dee Coffman is named only, because she may be living.
Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: every record of her own is an index, and no image naming her has been read; no place of death is known; the marriage index shows no date. Know more, or think this is wrong? Use “Add to this record”.

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Eva Mae Coffman Manly · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

3 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. 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’ names were not copied from the page. One may be living and is not named; the other is probably Eva Mae Coffman Manly (S1738). The census gives Dee Carl’s father born in Virginia; the 1920 census says Texas.
  2. S12211940 census — Mina May Coffman, widow, 426 Elm, Abilene, Texas. Ancestry, “1940 United States Federal Census”, record 159283694. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 4 October 2026. Confirmed Abilene, ED 221-12, sheet 2B: “Mina May” Coffman, 39, widowed, four years of high school, in the owned house of her mother Pauline Schultz, 74, widow, born in Germany, at 426 Elm, with her daughters. ⚠ The index spells the head “Chultz”; the image says Schultz. The daughters’ names were not copied from the page. One may be living and is not named; the other is probably Eva Mae Coffman Manly (S1738).
  3. S1738Indexes — Eva Mae Coffman (Mrs. Dennis Price Manly) and her husband, Abilene, Texas, 1917–2013. FamilySearch: Texas birth certificate index (X2RZ-SXT); Social Security Death Index (KNWC-VVT); Find a Grave index (QVG4-4KB9); Texas county marriages index (QV1Z-3R97); 1950 census index (6XP9-LFMZ); for her husband, Social Security claim index (6K7G-MSPW), draft card index (QL36-BJZM) and Find a Grave index (QVG4-4KBM). Indexes read on 5 October 2026; no image read. Probable Birth certificate index: Eva Mae Coffman, born 17 Sep 1920 at Abilene, parents Dee Carl Coffman and Minnie Mae Schultz. Social Security and grave indexes: died 19 May 2013. Marriage index: Eva Mae Coffman and Dennis Price Manly, no date shown. 1950: the couple in one household. Her husband: the claim index gives his birth on 25 Jan 1917 at Lueders, Jones County, Texas, and the draft card index the same date; the grave index gives his death on 27 Sep 1996 and his year of birth as 1916. ⚠ Index only: no image has been read, the certificate included. No place of death is indexed for either of them. The birth certificate has three entry numbers on FamilySearch: X2RZ-SXT for the child, X2RZ-SXY for her father and X2RZ-SXB for her mother. Serves the cards of Eva Mae Coffman Manly, Dennis Price Manly, Dee Carl Coffman and Minnie Mae Schultz Coffman.

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