Eighth Generation

10932. Glenn Hinkle Coffey¹⁶³²³ was born on 7 June 1918 in Elizabethton, Carter Co., TN.¹⁶³²³ Glenn died in Bethlehem, Alexander Co., NC on 3 December 2009 and was buried at Inurnment was at at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens in Hickory, Catawba Co., NC on 6 December 2009.³¹⁹⁸⁷

Obituary, The Hickory Daily Record, Hickory, NC, Dec. 4, 2009

TAYLORSVILLE - Glenn Hinkle Coffey, 91, of Bethlehem, died Dec. 3, 2009. The funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009, at Alexander Funeral & Cremation Service, with burial in Woodlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum in Hickory. The family will be at the funeral home at 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

Obituary, The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC, Fri., Dec. 4, 2009

BETHLEHEM - Glenn Hinkle Coffey, 91, died December 3, 2009. Funeral with Masonic rites, 3pm, visitation 1:30pm, Sunday, Alexander Funeral; military rites burial, Woodlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum.

Note by Charles Crabtree

I met Glenn H. Coffey, son of Henry Boone Coffee and Jennie Brown at the Brown Family Reunion in Galax, VA on July 21, 2007 and had the opportunity to speak with him. Glenn advises that Henry Boone's father was Samuel Coffey and that Samuel had married an Indain by the name of Charity. He also advised that his grandfather Samuel had a Concubine by the name of Rebecca Danner. According to Gleen, Samuel had at least three children by his wife Charity and at least five by Rebecca. Glenn says that Samuel and Rebecca never married but other say he married her late in life.

I was able to find information on this arrangement but the internet shows Henry Coffey's father to be Smith W. Coffey and Charity to be Charity Elizabeth Redmond or Redman. There are nine children listed at various places on the internet for Smith W. Coffey and at this time I am not able to find out which children belong to which mother.

One individual at Rootsweb writes"

Smith Coffey's son was Squire Coffey who in turn was the father of Smith W. Coffey. Smith W. Coffey was born in Old Burke County, North Carolina (now Caldwell County) on May 18, 1832 and he died January 11, 1916 in Carter County Tennessee. He was married to a Cherokee Indian Lady named Elizabeth Redmond, They are both buried in the Coffey Graveyard, which overlooks Boone's Fork near Shull's Mills, Watauga County North Carolina. Smith had a second marriage to Rebecca L. Danner who was a woman who lived on a neighboring farm in Watauga County. Smith served in Company A 2nd NC Cavalry as a Private during the Civil War.

Smith W. Coffey's father, Squire Coffey was born about 1802\3 in Burke County North Carolina and died after 1840 in Cherokee County North Carolina, reportedly buried in the Peachtree Cemetery in the same county. Married, Burke County North Carolina on October 2, 1828 to Ella (Alley) Webb.

A living couple was married in 1940 in Edgewood, Roanoke Co., VA.³¹⁹⁸⁸ Living, daughter of Frank Alexander Helms and Emma Ida Pyeritz, was born circa 1918 in Roanoke, VA.

Glenn Hinkle Coffey and Sarah Ingram were married on 10 March 1950 in Alexander Co., NC.³¹⁹⁸⁹ Sarah Ingram, daughter of Garfield F. Ingram and Gertrude Campbell, was born on 16 February 1919.³¹⁹⁹⁰ Sarah died in Catawba Co., NC on 2 March 2003. Her place of burial is not yet known.³¹⁹⁹¹

Glenn Hinkle Coffey and Sarah Ingram had the following children: