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Holland Coffee of Red River
there,4 it seems that the McMinnville vicinity may have been
home, at least briefly, for the restless pioneer. After Ambrose's
death in 1818, Holland and Christopher Greenup, only surviving
child of Ambrose's second marriage in 1812, probably went to
McMinnville to live.
In traveling to the Arkansas-Texas area over a decade later
Holland Coffee was associated with a group of Warren County
residents,5 a fact which indicates that he began his migration to
Texas from that section rather than from Wayne and Pulaski
counties in Kentucky where his father lived the last several years
of his life. The exact date of the party's departure from Tennessee
is not recorded. But George Strother Gaines, who in the fall of
1830 led a small company of Choctaws to the Indian Territory to
choose lands for the relocation of the tribe west of the Mississippi,
reported that while in camp on the south bank of the Arkansas
River near Fort Smith, Arkansas, he purchased supplies from
Coffee and Colville, traders.o In 1833, at the head of a party of
forty trappers, Coffee explored trade possibilities to the southwest
and in rapid succession set up posts, the first of which was in
present-day Tillman County, Oklahoma, while the other two
were to the east near Red River in what are presently Love and
Cotton counties.,
Another report on Holland Coffee in the Red River area came
from James Bowie, who wrote:
Natches August 3rd, 1835
Mr. Henry Rueg
Jefe Politico of Nacodoches District
Sir I have made my tour through the Indian villages and make
this my report. The Shawnees were all in a drunken frollick which
I learned before reaching them and did not call on them, I then
4Both America and Elizabeth Coffee were in Warren County, Tennessee. Myra,
their sister, married William Edmondson and lived there until her death in 1835.
Jesse Coffee, oldest of the children of Ambrose and Mildred, married Ann Hackett,
and in 1825 built what is presently known as the Black home at 801 West Main
Street, McMinnville, Tennessee. Elisabeth Wheeler Francis and Ethel Sivley Moore,
Lost Links (Nashville, 1945) , 156; Jean Young Leonard, great-great niece of Holland
Coffee's partner Silas Colville, to A.J.M. and G.M., February 5, 1962 (MS. in pos-
session of the writers).
1Ibid.
OGrant Foreman, Indian Removal (Norman, 1932), 32.
'Strickland, "History of Fannin County, Texas, 1836-1843," Southwestern His-
torical Quarterly, XXXIII, 267-268.147
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