Seventh Generation

4342. Henry Joseph Coffey was born in October 1871 in Nelson Co., VA. He lived with his parents in Nelson Co., VA on 30 June 1880. Henry died at home in Alexandria, Mount Vernon Dist., Fairfax Co., VA on 24 June 1945 from a cerebral hemorrhage and was buried at All Saints Episcopal Church, Sharon Chapel in Alexandria City, VA on 26 June 1945 .^13991,13992

Henry Joseph Coffey and Mildred Jane Dodd were married on 3 November 1890 in Nelson Co., VA.^13993,13994 They^13993,13994 appeared in the census on 23 June 1900 in Massies Mill Dist., Nelson Co, VA.¹³⁹⁹⁵ They¹³⁹⁹⁵ appeared in the census on 20 April 1910 in Campbells Creek, Massies Mill Dist., Nelson Co., VA.¹³⁹⁹⁶ Henry and Mildred¹³⁹⁹⁶ appeared in the census on 29 January 1920 in Massies Mill, Nelson Co, VA.¹³⁹⁹⁷ They¹³⁹⁹⁷ appeared in the census on 15 April 1930 in Mount Vernon, Fairfax Co., VA.¹³⁹⁹⁸ They¹³⁹⁹⁸ appeared in the census on 5 July 1940 in Mount Vernon, Fairfax Co., VA.¹³⁹⁹⁹ Mildred Jane Dodd, daughter of Alexander Dodd and Mary Alice Anderson, was born circa 1872 in Massies Mill, Nelson Co, VA. Mildred died on 22 April 1962 at the age of 90 in Virginia and was buried at All Saints Episcopal Church, Sharon Chapel in Alexandria City, VA.^14000,14001

Obituary, The Evening Star, Washington, DC, Tue., Apr. 24, 1962, Page 28

Mrs. Mildred Jane Coffey; Grandmother to 24 Was 91

Mrs. Mildred Jane Coffey, 91, known to her friends, children, 24 grandchildren and 55 great-grandchildren for her knitting and handmade quilts, died Sunday in Sibley Hospital after a fall.

Born Mildred Dodd in December, 1870, in Nelson County, Va., Mrs. Coffey was the widow of Henry Joseph Coffey. He died in 1945. Until 1949, she lived at their home on Telegraph Road in Alexandria, but since then has lived with her daughter, Mrs. Nannie McGrady, 5208 Twenty-eighth street N.W.

Mrs. Coffey was a member of the Chevy Chase Baptist Church.

In addition to Mrs. McGrady and the grandchildren and great grandchildren, Mrs. Coffey leaves three great-great-grandchildren.

Her other immediate survivors are a sister, Mrs. Ella Fitzgerald, of Franconia, Va., two brothers, Richard Dodd, of Fisherville, Va., and Parker R. Dodd, Waynesboro, Va.

Also four sons, Wallace of Lyndhurst, Va.; Noel of Groveton, Va.; Francis, of Woodbridge, Va., and Watson, of Rockville, Md., and 921 Hamilton street N.W., Washington.

Services will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Cunningham Funeral Home, Cameron and North Alfred streets, Alexandria, with burial in the family plot at Sharon Chapel Cemetery, Alexandria.

Henry Joseph Coffey and Mildred Jane Dodd had the following children: