Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-01-13
JUDGE COFFIN'S
FUNERAL HERE
Body of Distinguished Ar
kansan, Who Died Here
to rest in BellWood.
MANY TIMES HONORED
Was Mayor Of Batesyille and Candi-
date for L. $. Senator at
Time of Death.
TIMES HONOiRED

Funeral services. over the remains
of Judge Charles Coffin, who died
are to be conducted this morning at
10 o'clock, from the residence of his
brother-in-law, DR.. Z. Orto, No.
121 Laurel street. Dr. J. l. Norris,
pastor Of the First Presbyterian
church, will officiate and members
of the j. Ed Murray Camp, U. G. v,
will attend il body. Veterans also
compose the list of pallbearers, who
are as follows, and interment will
be in Bellwood cemetery. Thomas
Green, Sr., Junius Jordan, H. A.
Mccoy, A. H. d. Perkins, B. r.
Benton, H. B. Holmes (Fordyce), J Z.
D. Assma1. H. l.. Assman, and H.
L. Lyon.
The Little Rock Board of Trade
will be represented at the funeral of
Judge Coffin. E. B. Bloom and
Captain S. F. Hilzheim, of this city,
both honorary members Of the Lit
tie Rock Board of Trade, will repre-
sent that body at the funeral by re-
guest of Secretary George kuss
Brown. The Little Rock commerce
ial body also sent a beautiful floral
piece to be placed on the casket as a
tribute from the members of that
organization.
Judge Charles Coffin, was II years
old. He was a candidate for United
States senator and mayor of Bates
vile, Arkansas. His. death was due
to uraemia, the result of a long
standing attack of kidney trouble.
At his bedside were his brother,
James P Coffin, of Batesville, and
members of the Orto family OF this
city, also relatives of the deceased.
Judge Coffin's death, while sudden,
was not wholly unexpected. His con-
dition the last few days had created
alarm and on Saturday he was .dke1
from DR.. Orto's home to the Flor
ence Sanitarium for treatment. At
that time it was stated that H. con-
dition was grave and instead of re-
spending to careful medical aid, he
grew worse and the end came sud
denly.
The death of Judge Coffin removes
from Arkansas one of it's most dis
tinguished and Useful citizens He
was gentleman of the Southern
type and his career was one of use
fulness and honor. Two brothers
survive, James P. Coffin, of Bates
Vile, and Hector Coffin, of Knox
Vile, Tenn His only sister, Mrs. z :.
Orto, of this city, died in 1900.
Judge Coffin was born April %,
1912, at Rogerville, Tenn. When but
five years old he moved with his
parents TO Knoxville. His parents,
| Charles H. and Mrs. Elizabeth Park
Coffin, died some years ago. Judge
Coffin was reared in Knoxville and
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there. He entered the junior class
at Princeton in 1860 and just before
the close of his junior year, in 1861,
he returned to the South, with the
other Southern boys attending the
institution, and entered Company e,
Third Battalion, Tennessee cavalry
as private. In May, 1862, this
company became Company l of the
Second Regiment of Tennessee Cava-
Try. For valiant service on the bat
tlefield, Private Coffin was appoint
ed sergeant major OF the regiment
and served in that capacity until the
close of the war between the states
EXCEPT IA months which he spent in
federal prisons. He surrendered
under his colors under General j.
E. Johnson in North Carolina in
1865.
After the war he went to Memphis
where he lived from 1865 to 1869,
when, with his two brothers. he
came to Arkansas. They located In
Lawrence county. In 1872 Judge
Coffin took up the study of law and
was admitted to the bar at Pawhatan
/ in that county in 1874. He was q
member of the extraordinary session
of the General Assembly in 1874 and
added in calling the constitutional
convention. In 1878 he was elected