Seventh Generation


5933. Buena Vista Coffey was born on 27 August 1891 in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC.19518

Obituary reports that she was born in Avery Co., NC. Buena died on 6 April 1987 at the age of 95 in Edgemont, Caldwell Co., NC and was buried at Gragg Family Cemetery in Roseborough, Avery Co., NC on 8 April 1987.19519,19520

Obituary, unknown periodical, dated Apr. 7, 1987

Bunia Vista Coffey

Homemaker

Bunia Vista Coffey, 95, of Edgemont, died Monday following an extended illness.

Mrs. Coffey was born Aug. 27, 1891 in Avery County, to the late Scott and Margaret Coffey. She was a homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John Sherman Coffey; a son, Cuba M. Coffey, and one daughter, Cordelia Coffey. Survivors include two sons, Willie Coffey and Horace R. Coffey, both of Lenoir; 10 daughters, Carolyn Pearson of Charlotte, Delores Gragg of McArthur, W. Va., Mildred Holland of Goldsboro, Cenie Coffey of Roseborough, Lorraine Corley and Colleen Annas, both of Hudson, and Ollie Hollander, Onnie Gragg, Molly Jones, and Doris Setzer, all of Lenoir; 49 grandchildren, 95 great-grandchildren, 33 great-great grandchildren and one great-great-great-grandchild.

The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Poovey's Chapel Baptist [sic], with the Rev. H. Dean Harold officiating. The body will lie in state 30 minutes prior to the service. Burial will be in the family cemetery in Roseborough.

The family will receive friends tonight from 7 until 9 at Pendry's Lenoir Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be grandsons.

Buena Vista Coffey and John Sherman Coffey were married in 1907 in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC.19521 They19521 appeared in the census on 15 April 1910 in Wilson Creek Twp., Caldwell Co., NC.19522 They19522 appeared in the census on 15 January 1920 in Wilson Creek Twp., Avery Co., NC.19523 Buena and John19523 appeared in the census on 7 April 1930 in Wilson Creek Twp., Avery Co., NC.19524 They19524 appeared in the census on 14 June 1940 in Wilson Creek Twp., Avery Co., NC.19525 John Sherman Coffey, son of Thomas M. Coffey and Cordelia Gragg, was born on 25 May 1885 in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC. He lived with Newton M. Gragg in Globe Twp., Caldwell Co., NC on 7 June 1900. John died of heart failure [probably] on 30 August 1945 at the age of 60 in Roseborough, Avery Co., NC and was buried 2 September 1945 in the "family cemetery" at Gragg Family Cemetery in Roseborough, Avery Co., NC.19526,19527

Buena Vista Coffey and John Sherman Coffey had the following children:

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Ollie Mae Coffey.

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Cuba Monroe Coffey.

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Onie Flossie Coffey.

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Margaret Cordelia Coffey was born on 23 July 1914 in Gragg, Wilson Creek Twp., Avery Co., NC. Margaret died of meningitis on 18 January 1915 5 mos., 26 days in Gragg, Wilson Creek Twp., Avery Co., NC and was buried at Gragg Cemetery in Gragg, Avery Co., NC on 20 January 1915.19528,19529

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Helen Cenia Coffey.

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Molly Greta Coffey.

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William Martin "Willie" Coffey.

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Susan Coleen Coffey.

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Horace Ray Coffey.

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Mildred C. Coffey was born on 25 January 1925 in Avery Co., NC.19530

Married a Holland.

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Delores Coffey.

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Living was born in 1931 in Wilson Creek Twp., Avery Co., NC.19531

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Doris Elizabeth Coffey was born on 22 October 1931 in Wilson Creek Twp., Avery Co., NC.19532 Doris died in North Carolina on 18 January 2013.

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Living was born in 1934 in Roseborough, Avery Co., NC.19533
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