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Jessie Loveta Coffman Riley

Daughter of Jesse Lee Coffman · 1931–1989

Jessie Loveta Coffman Riley

Probable

Daughter of Jesse Lee Coffman · 1931–1989

Born
on 6 November 1931
Parents
Jesse Lee Coffman & Mattie Jane Moody Coffman
Sources
4

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE as a daughter of Jesse Lee Coffman and Mattie Jane Moody Coffman. The evidence is strong: the index of her Social Security claim names both parents and gives her birth at Eula, Callahan County, on 6 November 1931 S1739; and the Texas birth certificate of a daughter of this couple, filed on 1 January 1932 and read from the image, fits that birth S1368. It stays Probable because the certificate leaves the child’s name and date of birth blank, so her name and her dates rest on indexes alone.

Evidence: The index of her Social Security claim names her parents as Jesse Lee Coffman and Mattie Jane Moody and gives her birth at Eula, Callahan County, on 6 November 1931; the Texas Death Index gives her death on 14 April 1989 in Howard County (S1739); the Texas birth certificate of a daughter of this couple, filed on 1 January 1932 and read from the image, fits that birth (S1368). The evidence is strong. Weak or missing: The birth certificate leaves the child's name and date of birth blank, so her name and her dates rest on indexes alone; the claim gives Eula for her birth and the certificate gives Clyde. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Death1989
Jessie Loveta Coffman Riley died on 14 April 1989 in Howard County, Texas. She was born on 6 November 1931. The death is in the Texas Death Index and the birth in the index of her Social Security claim S1739.
Birth
Her birthplace has two readings. The index of her Social Security claim gives Eula, Callahan County, and that is followed here; the birth certificate read from the image gives Clyde, Route 2, Callahan County S1739S1368. Both are kept.
Burial2026
History of this card. 12 Oct 2026
card written when she was added to the family tree, from the Social Security, death, grave and marriage indexes (S1739) and the 1932 birth certificate image (S1368). Until then she was left unnamed on this record as possibly living; the index of her death in 1989 ended that.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents1940
She is probably the daughter, 8, in her father’s household in Taylor County in 1940, and the daughter with her parents in Abilene in 1950 S1369S1534; her name was not copied from either page. A Texas marriage index names her with a husband named Riley and shows no date S1739; he is not named further here, and her children are not named.

Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it

Probable
Probable confirm or correct → Daughter of Jesse Lee Coffman (1891–1967) and Mattie Jane Moody Coffman (1906–1987). Her brother is not named here.
Weak or missing
What is weak or missing: the birth certificate names no child and gives no date; her name, both her dates and the place of her death are in indexes alone; two places are given for her birth. Know more, or think this is wrong? Use “Add to this record”.

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Jessie Loveta Coffman Riley · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

4 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. S1368Texas certificate of birth, register no. 114596 — a daughter of Jesse Lee Coffman, Clyde, Callahan County, filed 1 January 1932. Ancestry, “Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1903–1932”, record 108732749. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 4 October 2026. Confirmed A daughter, born at Clyde, Route 2, Callahan County, her name and birth date left blank; father Jesse Lee Coffman, of Clyde, 40, born Texas, a teacher; mother Mattie Jane Moody, 25, born Texas, housewife; the mother’s second child, both living; filed with the state 4 January 1932. ⚠ The form names no child and gives no birth date. The daughter is probably Jessie Loveta Coffman Riley, born 6 November 1931 and dead in 1989 by the indexes in S1739; until 12 October 2026 she was left unnamed here as possibly living. Jesse’s birthplace is given only as Texas; Clyde in the index is the child’s birthplace.
  2. S13691940 census — Jessie L. Coffman household, Justice Precinct 5, Taylor County, Texas, ED 221-31, sheet 5A, lines 20–23, 10–11 April 1940. Ancestry, “1940 United States Federal Census”, record 157954822. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 4 October 2026. Confirmed Coffman, Jessie L., head, renting at $5 a month, 49, four years of college, born Texas, in the same place in 1935, a public-school teacher who worked 52 weeks for $1,170; Mattie J., wife, 34, four years of high school, born Texas, the informant; their son, 14; and their daughter, 8. ⚠ The son, born about 1926, is not named here under the site’s privacy rule. The daughter, born about 1932, is probably Jessie Loveta Coffman Riley (S1739); her name was not copied from the page.
  3. S15341950 census — Abilene, Taylor County, Texas, ED 221-50, sheet 74, lines 24–26 — Lee J. Coffman household. Ancestry, “1950 United States Federal Census”, record 195413915. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 4 October 2026. Confirmed Lee J. Coffman, 59, born Texas, a high-school mathematics teacher; his wife Mattie J., 44; and their daughter. (The daughter’s name and age were not copied from the page; she is probably Jessie Loveta Coffman Riley, who died in 1989, S1739.) ⚠ None: the same wife and daughter as 1940 (S1369).
  4. S1739Indexes — Jessie Loveta Coffman (Mrs. Riley), Callahan and Howard Counties, Texas, 1931–1989. FamilySearch: Social Security claim index (6K76-8SPN); Texas Death Index (JVJ1-TJ7); Find a Grave index (QV2T-X878); Texas county marriages index (QV1Z-7753); Texas birth certificate index (KHJZ-WCF). Indexes read on 5 October 2026; no image read. Probable Claim index: Jessie Loveta Coffman, born 6 Nov 1931 at Eula, Callahan County, parents Jesse Lee Coffman and Mattie Jane Moody. Death index: died 14 Apr 1989 in Howard County. Marriage index: no date shown. ⚠ Index only. The birth certificate read from the image (S1368) names no child and gives Clyde, not Eula; that the birth certificate index entry and that image are the same certificate has not been checked. Her husband and her brother are not named here. Serves the cards of Jessie Loveta Coffman Riley, Jesse Lee Coffman and Mattie Jane Moody Coffman.

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