Sixth Generation

1665. Susan Caroline Coffey was born on 6 October 1845 in Murphy, Cherokee Co., NC.¹⁵⁷⁰ She mentioned as child of Athan Coffey in Plott petition to administer Athan's estate on 24 June 1882 in Clay Co., NC. She lived with her daughter Mary A. Lutz in Lenoir, Lenoir Twp., Caldwell Co., NC on 16 April 1930. Susan lived with her daughter Mary A. Lutz in Longview, Hickory Twp., Catawba Co., NC on 10 April 1940. Susan died at home in Mulberry Twp., Caldwell Co., NC on 23 January 1949 of hypostatic pneumonia due to a fractured hip and was buried at Harpers Chapel Cemetery in Patterson, Caldwell Co., NC in January 1949 .^{6236,6237,6238}

Death Notice, The Greensboro Daily News, Tue., Jan. 25, 1949, Page 4

Mrs. Wilson, 103, Dies in Caldwell

Lenoir, Jan. 24.--Mrs. Susan Caroline Coffey Wilson, 103, Caldwell County's oldest resident, died Sunday following a brief illness.

Funeral will be held at Harper's Chapel Methodist Church Tuesday at 11 a.m.

A native of Murphy, Mrs. Wilson was widely connected throughout Western North Carolina. She was married October 28, 1862, to R. M. Wilson of Caldwell County who died in 1926.

Mrs. Wilson retained keen eyesight and acute hearing despite her advanced age. She "puttered around" in her vegetable and flower gardens at the home of a nephew, J. H. Wilson, with whom she lived.

Surviving are three daughters and a son, all of Oregon or Washington, 13 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

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Lenoir, N.C., Jan. 24, (AP): Mrs. Susan Carolina Coffey Wilson died last night at the age of 103. She was born in 1845 at Murphy when Indians roamed the western part of the state.

The Civil War was in its second year when she married R. M. Wilson, a farmer, in 1862, and moved to Caldwell county. Her husband died in 1926 [sic] [1920].

Mrs. Wilson had been ill only a few days. She lived near here with a nephew, J. H. Wilson. Until the last her mind was alert, her vision keen and her stride steady.

Survivors include three daughters and a son, now residents of Oregon or Washington.

Susan Caroline Coffey and Robert Monroe Wilson were married in 1862 in Cherokee Co., NC. They appeared in the census on 8 June 1880 in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC.⁶²³⁹ They⁶²³⁹ appeared in the census on 12 June 1900 in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC.⁶²⁴⁰ Susan and Robert⁶²⁴⁰ appeared in the census on 12 May 1910 in Patterson Twp., Caldwell Co., NC.⁶²⁴¹ They⁶²⁴¹ appeared in the census on 2 January 1920 in Mulberry Twp., Caldwell Co., NC.⁶²⁴² Robert Monroe Wilson, son of Jordan Wilson and Nancy Baker, was born on 26 April 1837 in Burke Co., NC. Robert died at home in Mulberry Twp., Caldwell Co., NC on 29 June 1920 of valvular heart disease and was buried at Harpers Chapel Cemetery in Patterson, Caldwell Co., NC on 30 June 1920 .^6243,6244

Susan Caroline Coffey and Robert Monroe Wilson had the following children: