| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Eighth Generation11825. William Harston Coffey was born on 29 May 1897 in Watauga Co., NC. He registered for the WWI draft on 5 June 1918 in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC.33910 William died of uremia on 20 October 1964 at the age of 67 at Blowing Rock Hospital in Blowing Rock, Watauga Co., NC and was buried at Clarks Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Watauga Co., NC on 21 October 1964.33911,33912,33913,33914 Obituary, The Greensboro Daily News, Greensboro, NC, Thur., Oct. 22, 1964, Page 22, Col. 2 Boone, Oct. 21 - William Harston Coffey, 67, of Route 1, Banner Elk, died Tuesday at Blowing Rock Hospital. Survivors: A son, Edgar Coffey of Valle Crucis; three daughters, Mrs. Lucille Byrd of Vilas, Mrs. Reba Townsend and Mrs. Gertrude Isaacs of Banner Elk; three sisters, Mrs. Robert Crawford of Greensboro, Mrs. Emma Hayes of Boone, Mrs. Beula Hayes of Charlotte; three brothers, Lloyd Coffey and Don Coffey of Blowing Rock, Cecil Coffey of Hickory; 15 grandchildren. Funeral 11 a.m. Thursday, Clarks Creek Baptist Church, burial church cemetery. William Harston Coffey and Nila Adeline Rowe were married on 31 July 1920 in Watauga Co., NC.15302,33915 They15302,33915 appeared in the census on 4 April 1930 in Watauga Co., NC.33916 Nila Adeline Rowe, daughter of George Washington Rowe and Sarah Ann Sifford, was born on 6 September 1889 in Valle Crucis, Watauga Co., NC. She lived with her parents in Watauga Twp., Watauga Co., NC on 13 June 1900. She lived with her parents in Watauga Twp., Watauga Co., NC on 30 April 1910. Nila lived with her parents in Watauga Twp., Watauga Co., NC on 21 January 1920. Nila died of terminal pneumonia on 6 April 1957 at the age of 67 at Blowing Rock Hospital in Blowing Rock, Watauga Co., NC and was buried at Clarks Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Watauga Co., NC.33917,33918 William Harston Coffey and Nila Adeline Rowe had the following children:
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