Coffman Cemetery

The community took its name from a family known for mules. A 1938 Coffman Jottings column in the McKinney Daily Courier Gazette called Coffman an old settled community three or four miles northwest of Melissa, in one of the county's best farming sections, named for the Coffmans. It described George Coffman as one of the most successful farmers and livestock breeders the county ever had, a breeder of jacks and jennies who raised big, heavy mules. Farmers and mule buyers, the column said, came many miles to his farm.

What the plaque says

Coffman Cemetery This cemetery, which dates to the mid-19th century, is on land donated by early settler John Coffman (1804-1880). His son, George W. Coffman (1840-1913), owned and operated a homestead one mile west of this site. The oldest marked grave dates to 1876. Descendants of many of the families represented in the graveyard still reside in this part of Collin County. The primary burial ground for the community of Coffman for over a century, this cemetery serves as a reminder of the area's past. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary — 12 mi
  A 289-acre sanctuary in McKinney that Bessie Heard founded at the age of 80, with five habitats, a 50-acre wetland and 6.5 miles of trails.
• Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site — 27 mi
  The two-story farmhouse west of Bonham that the longtime Speaker of the House built in 1916 and kept as his home, left as he lived in it and open as a museum since 1975.

More markers nearby

• Dr. William Edward Throckmorton — 1.4 mi
• Highland Cemetery — 1.9 mi
• Public Education in Anna — 2.5 mi
• First Christian Church of Anna — 2.6 mi