Seventh Generation

4097. John Walton Coffey was born on 19 May 1866 in Nelson Co., VA. John died on 8 December 1945 at the age of 79 in Staunton, Independent City., VA and was buried at Thornrose Cemetery in Staunton, Independent City., VA on 10 December 1945.^13182,13183

Obituary, Staunton News Leader, 9 Dec. 1945

John Walton Coffey died suddenly at two-thirty Saturday afternoon at his home on the Parkersburg Pike. Mr. Coffey was born in Nelson County May 19, 1866, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris W. Coffey. He is survived by two sons, William Coffey, caretaker at the North River dam; John W. Coffey, at home; three daughters, Mrs. Rudolph Lanning, route five; Mrs. Mary Van Fossen, Staunton; Mrs. W. F. Owen, Simmons, W. Va.; fourteen grand-children, eight great-grandchildren; a brother, Nick Coffey of Verona; two sisters, Miss Alice Coffey and Mrs. Mary Huett, Stuarts Draft. He was a member of the Beverley Street Methodist Church. Funeral services will be held at two-thirty Monday from Beverley Street Methodist Church, conducted by the Rev. D. N. Welford, burial following in Thornrose Cemetery. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers and granddaughters as flower-bearers.

John Walton Coffey and Sarah Henry "Sallie" Coffey were married on 5 April 1888 in Nelson Co., VA.^13184,13185 They^13184,13185 appeared in the census on 9 May 1910 in Beverley Manor Dist., Augusta Co., VA.¹³¹⁸⁶ They¹³¹⁸⁶ appeared in the census on 16 January 1920 in Staunton, Independent City., VA.¹³¹⁸⁷ John and Sallie¹³¹⁸⁷ appeared in the census on 11 April 1930 in Lyndhurst, Augusta Co., VA.¹³¹⁸⁸ Sarah Henry "Sallie" Coffey, daughter of George Washington Coffey and Mary Catherine Demastus, was born circa 1865 in Nelson Co., VA. Sarah died in Staunton, Independent City., VA on 28 September 1949 of pulmonary tuberculosis and was buried at Thornrose Cemetery in Staunton, Independent City., VA on 30 September 1949 .^{13189,13190,13191,13192}

John Walton Coffey and Sarah Henry "Sallie" Coffey had the following children: