Eighth Generation

10112. Eva Lena Coffey was born on 30 August 1908 in Buena Vista, Independent City, VA.¹⁴⁶⁹⁶ Eva died on 28 March 1963 at the age of 54 in Lexington, VA and was buried at Green Hill Cemetery in Buena Vista, Independent City, VA.^14696,30120

Obituary, Roanoke Times, unknown date

Mrs. Eva Coffey Pugh, 55, died last Thursday morning in a Lexington hospital. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Edward Potter, Buena Vista; one son, Marshall Ray Pugh, Buena Vista; three sisters, Mrs. James Fitzgerald, Miss Myrtle Coffey, both of Buena Vista, Mrs. Jewel Everett, Maryland; one brother, Russell Coffey, Glasgow; four grandchildren. funeral services were held at 4 PM Saturday at the Pentecostal Holiness Church by the Rev. B. L. Underwood. Burial was in Green Hill Cemetery.

Eva Lena Coffey and Horace Orey Pugh were married on 16 March 1936 in Buena Vista, Independent City, VA.³⁰¹²¹ Horace Orey Pugh³⁰¹²², son of P. P. Pugh and Fannie Hickman, was born on 3 October 1894 in Rockcastle Co., KY.⁵¹²⁶ He registered for the WWI draft on 5 June 1917 in Buena Vista, Independent City, VA.³⁰¹²³ He registered for the WWII draft on 27 April 1942 in Buena Vista, Independent City, VA.³⁰¹²⁴ Horace died of heart failure on 14 March 1958 at the age of 63 in Buena Vista, Independent City, VA and was buried at Green Hill Cemetery in Buena Vista, Independent City, VA.^14696,29846

Obituary, The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, VA, Mar. 16, 1958

Buena Vista, March 15 - Horace O. Pugh, 61, died Friday while at work at a local firm. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Eva Coffey Pugh; a son, Marshall Ray Pugh; a daughter, Mrs. Edward Potter; three brothers, W.T. Pugh, Morris J. Pugh, all of Buena Vista; Harry Pugh, Roanoke; four sisters, Mrs. Emmett Ellinger, Waynesboro; Mrs. Elizabeth Huffman, Mrs. Clarence Whiteside, Mrs. Harry Flint, Buena Vista. Services will be held at 3 PM Sunday in the Pentecostal Holiness Church with burial in Green Hill Cemetery.

"Horace was among 60 young men from Buena Vista & Rockbridge County who left for Camp Lee Boot Camp in October, 1917 on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. He was a PFC in Co., A, 371 Infantry of WW1, PH. He was awarded the Purple Heart for chest wounds he received from anti-aircraft shells while serving in Nice, France during WWI. At the time of his marriage he was working in a Buena Vista Silk Mill, later becoming a night watchman for the mill. When the mill burned down in the early 50's, Reeves Brothers Vulcan Company in New York moved one of their divisions into the building. Horace became the night watchman for them until his death."