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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