Courts Suspended Out of Respect to John Coffey May 11, 1904
THE CINCINNATI TIMES-STAR
May 11, 1904
NEWS
scans from newspaper collection
of
Ruth
Adams-Battle
transcribed by Dorothy
Wiland
Courts Suspended Out of Respect to
John Coffey.
Remains of the beloved
Wit of the Hamilton County Bar
Were Laid at Rest With
mpressive and Solemn Ceremonies -
G.A.R. Members Attended
Obsequies.
Remains of the Beloved
Wit of the Hamilton County Bar Were Laid at Rest With Impressive
and Solemn Ceremonies – G.A.R. Members Attend Obsequies.
The high esteem in which
the late Attorney John Coffey was held by the members of his church and
his profession, as well as his associates in other walks of life, was
shown
Wednesday by the closing of the Temple of Justice, every room of which
had resounded with the eloquence of the man, whose memory was so
signally
honored Wednesday by the large number of representative people who paid
their last respects to the dead. Among those who attended the
funeral
was a full representation of the entire bench of Hamilton county—a
demonstration
indeed seldom seen. The services were held in the Church of the
Guardian
Angel, the temporal affairs of which were very near to the heart of the
honored dead, whose home was near by. The church was represented
by men of prominence, for John Coffey was a most devout churchman, who
gave time and experience to the ministration of it functions. He
gave in proportion to his means, so the church loses one of its best
men
in this man. Father Brinkmeyer, whose sad office it was to preach
the sermon over the remains of Mrs. Coffey and their two sons,
performed
this last duty for his late intimate friend. Prominent in the
gathering
was seen the blue of the G ? R and the bent forms of the survivors of
the
old Thirty-fourth O.V.I., which went through the civil war. These
men knew Mr. Coffey as one of the bravest men who ever shouldered a
musket
for his country. Many attorneys stopped in their busy rounds t go
to the house of mourning to take a last look at the features of their
late
colleague, who, after waging the contests of his profession in their
midst
for decades, leaves only friends in their ranks—a circumstance not
often
tobe truly recorded. The pallbearers were Judge C. D. Robertson,
Judge Edward Dempsey, Messrs. Guy W. Mallon, Geo. Mills, Harry W.
Vordenberg
and William McFarland Smith, all of whom were closely connected with
Mr.
Coffey in his daily affairs.
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