Holland Coffee

Holland Coffee (August 15, 1807 – October 1, 1846) was an American trader, guide, interpreter, and representative of Fannin County. He was involved with the settlement of the present-day Lake Texoma area and acted as a liaison between the Native Americans and Euro-American settlers in the area. Coffee was known chiefly for his trading and relations with Native American tribes such as the Comanches, Kiowa, Caddo, Wichita, and Delaware, and his many trading posts established in places such as Tillman, Love, and Cotton Counties.

Coffee, Colville, and Company days In 1829, Holland Coffee and Silas Colville arrived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, where they established Coffee, Colville, and Company. even going so far as to say that Coffee encouraged them Some scholars conjecture that the conflict began when Coffee responded to an offensive comment about his wife. Coffee was buried behind his home, Glen Eden; his remains later were relocated to Preston Bend Cemetery.