Mansel Coffee held this Office in 1876 and 1878

http://www.txgenweb2.org/txlavaca/coffee.htm
Mansel Coffee's 1876 School Census
This is an amazing record of families with children,
and who could read or not, ages, and if and where they went to school.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txlavaca/index.htm
The information on this site is unbelievably helpful.
And the people at the library make you feel at home.
My favorite place to go to study, Halletsville.

http://www.columbustexas.net/library/history%20index.htm
Columbus Co. TX, a neighbor county to Lavaca
Many of the friends and relatives stories are here.
(I can't make this link work. But, the library site is online, and it is a wonderful source of family and history.)

http://www.thecoffeycousins.org/coffeycousins.html
The Ultimate in Decades of Coffee/ey Research and gathering of Coffee/ey information.

http://www.texasescapes.com/TOWNS/Hackberry/Hackberry_Texas.htm

The wonderful little town of Hackberry

http://www.texasescapes.com/TOWNS/Hallettsville/Hallettsville.htm
Hallettsville, a wonderful town and it's history.