Seventh Generation

4551. Virgil Lee "Little Floyd" Coffey was born on 13 December 1875 in Nelson Co., VA.⁵¹²⁶ He registered for the WWI draft on 12 September 1918 in Lyndhurst, Augusta Co., VA.¹⁴⁷¹³ Virgil died on 21 March 1950 at the age of 74 in Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA and was buried at Riverview Cemetery in Waynesboro, Independent City, VA.^14714,14715

Obituary, Waynesboro News Virginian, Mar. 22, 1950

Virgil Lee Coffey, 74, died Tuesday night at the home of his, Elmer F. Coffey in Lancaster, Pa.
Mr. Coffey was born in Love, the son of the late Floyd Lee and Mary Jane Weaver Coffey. He was preceded in death by his wife, Alice Hewitt Coffey, who died in 1935.

He had been making his home in Lancaster for the past eight years. He was a retired employee of the Lehigh Portland Cement Company of Fordwick, where he was employed for 25 years. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Augusta Springs.

Mr. Coffey is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Hessie L. Maser Jr. of Lancaster; four sons, Thomas L. and Elmer F. of Lancaster, Zandy A. of Staunton, and William L. Coffey of Richmond.

Also, six sisters, Mrs. Martha Arnold, Mrs. Mary Etta Everitt, Mrs. Theresa Coffey and Mrs. Ella Fitzgerald of Lyndhurst, Mrs. Minnie A. Campbell of Stuarts Draft, and Mrs. Murlvinia Gregory of Waynesboro; one brother, Zandy Coffey of Lyndhurst and ten grandchildren.

The body will arrive in Waynesboro Friday morning and will remain at Etter Funeral Home. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Etter Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be in Riverview Cemetery.

Virgil Lee "Little Floyd" Coffey and Alice P. Hewitt¹⁴⁷¹⁶ were married on 27 December 1904 in Love, Augusta Co., VA. They appeared in the census on 15 April 1910 in Augusta Co., VA.¹⁴⁷¹⁷ They¹⁴⁷¹⁷ appeared in the census on 19 February 1920 in Augusta Co., VA.¹⁴⁷¹⁸ Little Floyd and Alice¹⁴⁷¹⁸ appeared in the census on 19 April 1930 in Augusta Co., VA.¹⁴⁷¹⁹ Alice P. Hewitt, daughter of Joseph Clay Hewitt and Mary Ann Elizabeth Coffey, was born on 30 January 1882 in Love, Augusta Co., VA. Alice died on 30 October 1935 at the age of 53 in Augusta Springs, Augusta Co., VA and was buried at Riverview Cemetery in Waynesboro, Independent City, VA in November 1935 .^14720,14721

Virgil Lee "Little Floyd" Coffey and Alice P. Hewitt had the following children:

A living couple was married in 1938 in Hagerstown, Washington Co., MD. He/she was divorced in 1942 in Staunton, Independent City., VA.¹⁴⁷²² Living (private).