Fourth Generation

96. William Coffey was born on 29 November 1782 in Wilkes Co., NC.²⁸⁸ William died on 15 May 1839 at the age of 56 in Wilkes Co., NC and was buried at Rufus Baptist Church Cemetery in Mulberry Twp., Caldwell Co., NC on 22 May 1839.^{289,290,291,292}
William and Anna are buried in family graveyard Mulberry Section in Caldwell Co., NC

Found in the referenced Bible was a deed "Made this 28 day September 1813 in the year of Our Lord one Thousand eight hundred & thirteen Between Jesse Boone of Birke [sic] County & North Carolina of the one part and Israel Boone of Said county & State, afore Said of the other part Witnesseth that the Said Jessie Boon for the Consideration of the Sum of Eleven hundred (Dollars to him in hand) paid by Israel Boon the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge I have Rargenad & Sold and by these presents Do Sell unti the Said Israel Boon his heirs and assigns a certain track of Land or parcel Situate or lying and being in the County & State aforeSaid on Mulberry Creek of John River beginning at a pine Jesse Boones S. W. corner running East forth six chanes to a stake then south to the top of the ridge then east with the medders of the ridge to a Redoak near the point then crossing..."

On the back of the deed was written the "William Coffey family record transcribed on his large Bible this 24th day of August 1831." Also there was written, "whoever sees this please let it remain in the big bible and oblige. Anna Coffey."

William Coffey and Anna "Annie" Boone^293,294 were married on 16 October 1804 in Boone, Watauga Co., NC.^295,296

From Boone's Watauga Relatives.

"William Coffey married Anna Boone, a sister [false, she was a daughter] of Jesse Boone and a niece of Daniel Boone. She had another brother called Israel Boone. Jesse Boone undoubtedly lived in a cabin which used to stand in a field four miles from Shulls's mills and two miles from Kelsey post office, where he had cleared a field. The chimney foundation is still shown as his. On the 8th of July, 1823, Jesse Boone conveyed to William and Alexander Elrod for $600 350 acres of land on Flannery's fork of New River and on Roaring branch, about two miles southeast of Boone village; adjoining land then being owned by John Agers, Jesse Council and Russell Sams, and now owned in part by J. W. Farthing. The deed was registered in Book M., page 391, of Ashe county records, July 2, 1841."
Anna "Annie" Boone, daughter of Jesse Boone and Sarah McMahan, was born on 26 July 1785 in Burke Co., NC.²⁹⁷ She appeared in the census on 25 July 1850 in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC.²⁹⁸ She appeared in the census on 2 August 1860 in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC.²⁹⁹ Annie lived with her grandson Patterson V. Coffey in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC on 30 July 1870. Anna died on 16 January 1876 at the age of 90 in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC and was buried at Mulberry Twp., Caldwell Co., NC on 17 January 1876.^300,301,302

William Coffey and Anna "Annie" Boone had the following children: