Seventh Generation

4325. Francis Marion Coffey was born on 30 October 1868 in Nelson Co., VA. Francis died at Lynchburg Memorial Hospital in Lynchburg, Independent City, VA on 23 March 1956 of lung cancer and was buried at Spring Hill Cemetery in Lynchburg, Independent City, VA on 24 March 1956 .^{5565,5566,5567}

Obituary, Waynesboro News Virginian, Mar, 26, 1956

ROCKFISH VALLEY-Francis Marion Coffey, 87, died at 12:30 a.m. Friday in Memorial Hospital, Lynchburg, following a long illness.

Mr. Coffey was born Oct. 30, 1868, near Nash, Nelson County, son of the late Andrew J. and Rebecca Campbell Coffey. He married Miss Emma Campbell, also of Nash, and shortly after their marriage they moved into the Beech Grove community here where they resided for some years, going from here to Lynchburg around 50 years ago. His wife died in 1942.

Mr. Coffey was proprietor and owner of Westover Grocery, located just outside the Lynchburg College grounds. He had owned the business for the past 46 years and was known to hundreds of Lynchburg College students who patronized his store through the years. Loved by everyone, he was affectionately known is Lynchburg as "Mayor of West End."

He was a member and honorary elder of Memorial Christian Church, Lynchburg, which he helped to found just a few years ago. Two years ago he presented a $4,000 Wurlitzer organ to this church in memory of his wife and brother, the Rev. H. D. Coffey, a minister of the Disciples of Christ Churches for more than 50 years. He also helped found the Euclid Avenue Christian Church, Lynchburg, a few years after moving there. He was a neighborhood leader and a pioneer in his section of the city, having opened his business when most of West Lynchburg was an open field.

Mr. Coffey was a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, the Woodmen of the World, the Retail Merchants' Association and the Quality Foods Association.

Survivors include two adopted daughters, Mrs. Christie C. Patterson and Mrs. Gladys C. Roach, both of Lynchburg, and one adopted son, Shelby Hopwood Coffey, who is the youngest child of the late Rev. H. D. Coffey; one brother, Charlie C. Coffey, Lynchburg; two sisters, Mrs. Laura Meredith and Mrs. Cleveland G. Campbell, both of Lynchburg; also three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Saturday in Memorial Christian Church, conducted by the following ministers: the Rev. J. T. Watson, pastor of Perkins Park Christian Church; the Rev. R. N. Redford, pastor of First Christian Church; the Rev. Ross Terrell, pastor of Euclid Christian Church, all of Lynchburg; and the Rev. Clarence Smoot, pastor of the Graham Christian Church, Bluefield, Va., who was the first pastor of Memorial Christian Church. Mrs. Evelyn Byrd was the organist. Interment was in Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg.

Pallbearers were Marion Roach, Kenneth Roach, Gene Earl Wells, Wilson Meredith, Larry Allen and Charles Thornburg.

Another obituary also appeared in the Richmond Times Dispatch, Richmond, VA on Sat., Mar. 24, 1956, Page 3

F. M. Coffey

Lynchburg, March 23 - Francis Marion Coffey, 87, died early Friday in a Lynchburg hospital. Survivors are a son, Shelby H. Coffey; two daughters, Mrs. Christie C. Patterson and Mrs. Gladys V. Roach, all of Lynchburg; a brother, C. C. Coffey, of Lynchburg, and two sisters, Mrs. Cleveland Campbell and Mrs. Laura Meredithm also of Lynchburg.

Francis Marion Coffey and Emma D. Campbell were married on 23 April 1893 in Nelson Co., VA.⁵⁵⁶² They⁵⁵⁶² appeared in the census on 16 June 1900 in Rockfish Dist., Nelson Co., VA.⁵⁵⁶³ They⁵⁵⁶³ appeared in the census on 30 April 1910 in Brookville Twp., Campbell Co., VA.⁵⁵⁶⁴ Emma D. Campbell, daughter of Francis Jefferson Campbell and N. Catherine Stover, was born on 22 June 1874 in Nelson Co., VA. Emma died in Lynchburg, Independent City, VA on 12 January 1942 of a coronary thrombosis and was buried at Spring Hill Cemetery in Lynchburg, Independent City, VA on 13 January 1942 .^{5558,5559,5560,5561}

Francis Marion Coffey and Emma D. Campbell had the following children: