Coffin Family of Sabine Pass

(Note:  Click on any names underlined to go to photographs of individual gravestones)

The following family members are buried in a crypt in Pace Cemetery, Sabine Pass, Texas:

Mary Ann Coffin, wife of Abel Coffin

Isiah M. Ketchem, husband of Clara Coffin Ketchem, is buried in Pace Cemetery
Clara Coffin Ketchem, daughter of Mary Ann and Abel Coffin, is buried in Sabine Pass Cemetery
Emma Catherine Coffin, daughter of Mary Ann and Abel Coffin, is buried in Pace Cemetery
Clara Ketchem McClanahan, is buried with her husband, W. F. McClanahan
Augusta Coffin Jackson, daughter of Mary Ann and Abel Coffin.  This information from Don Benton:  Augusta Coffin Jackson died either in childbirth or from complications soon afterwards.  Her husband, T. R. (Thomas Rivers) Jackson, was buried in the McGaffey Cemetery in Sabine Pass.  Later, his remains were moved to Magnolia Cemetery in Beaumont (see headstone below) where he was reinterred with Mary McGaffey Jackson.  Burwell Jackson, T. R. Jackson's father, is buried in Sabine Pass.

Photograph Courtesy of Don Benton

Sarah Elizabeth Coffin Harper, daughter of Mary Ann and Abel Coffin is buried in Sabine Pass Cemetery.  She was born 12 October 1831 in Pennsylvania.  She died 19 August 1862 in Sabine Pass, Texas.  She was the wife of Professor Samuel Harper, who was a teacher and elected Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3, in Jefferson County from 1874 to 1884.

Submitted by Kathy