| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Seventh Generation2599. William Green Coffey was born in September 1840 in Russell Co., KY. William died in Polk Co., IA and was buried at Monroe Cemetery in Monroe, Jasper Co., IA .9511 A Green Coffey was enumerated din the 1870 Wayne Co., KY census. However, all of the members were enumerated as "black." Members of the family include Green, age 29, Esther, age 27, Mary, age 6, Sidney, age 4, and Viana (?), age 1. Next door was the black family of Jane Coffey, age 36 with children Charles, age 9, Harriet, age 7 and Viana, age 58. Adjacent to them was the white family of Thomas C. Coffey with wife Amanda, both age 51. Children were Marshall, age 20, Amanda, age 19, Olly, age 17, and Mary, age 15. Also in the household was Edward Coffey, age 14, enumerated as black and William Stone, white and age 15. Also on the same page as the above is the family of Agness Coffey, age 61 and black, with children Dinah, age 20, James, age 5, and Mary, age 1. Not too far away is the single household of a white Joseph Coffey, age 34. William Green Coffey and Nancy J. Taylor Shaw were married on 21 February 1907 in Monroe, Jasper Co., IA.9512 They9512 appeared in the census on 16 April 1910 at Fairview Twp. in Monroe, Jasper Co., IA.9513 Nancy J. Taylor Shaw, daughter of John Taylor and Louisa Boggess, was born circa 1851 in Indiana. William Green Coffey and Cinthia (Synthea, Cynthia) Jane Williams were married on 11 November 1859 in Russell Co., KY.9514 They9514 lived with his parents in Jamestown, Russell Co., KY on 6 June 1860. They appeared in the census on 22 June 1900 at Des Moines Twp. in Jasper Co., IA.9515 Cinthia (Synthea, Cynthia) Jane Williams was born on 13 August 1841 in Tennessee. Cinthia died in Iowa on 25 October 1905 and was buried at Monroe Cemetery in Monroe, Jasper Co., IA in October 1905 .9516 William Green Coffey and Cinthia (Synthea, Cynthia) Jane Williams had the following children:
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