His father was a native of Edgecombe County, N.C., and was born in 1789. In 1802 the father came with his parents to this county. They were among the first settlers here, and upon their arrival they at once proceeded to patent about 1,000 acres of land. The father died in this county about 1843, the mother in 1832.
Subject is the youngest of a family of seven children and is the only one now living.
His father died when he was eleven years old, and he subsequently came to Marion, where he attended school. He also spent some time at the Cumberland Presybterian College at Princeton, and the old seminary at Hopkinsville. At the age of twenty-one, he began merchandising at Marion and followed it for about eighteen months, then purchased a farm in the Hurricane District, where he still resides, owning about 100 acres. This lady was born in 1837, and died October 22, 1858. Mrs. Coffield is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.