Sixth Generation

1918. Edgar Stuart Coffey Esquire was born on 5 July 1867 in Watauga Co., NC. Edgar Stuart departed Boone, Watauga Co., NC on 2 May 1912 for Baltimore Sanitorium to bring daughter Ruth home.⁷¹⁹⁸ Edgar Stuart departed Boone, Watauga Co., NC 9 January 1913 for Morganton, Burke Co., NC where he will serve as NC State Senator during the current legislative session.⁷¹⁹⁹ Edgar died of heart failure on 30 August 1925 at the age of 58 in Boone, Watauga Co., NC and was buried at Boone City Cemetery in Boone, Watauga Co., NC.^{7200,7201,7202}

Death Notice, The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC, Wed. Sep. 2, 1925, Col. 6

Prominent Lawyer Dies After Prolonged Illness

Mr. Coffey Had Held Several Positions of Trust and Was Well Known

Boone, Sept. 1. - E. S. Coffey died Sunday evening at 7 o'clock after a long illness. He was a graduate of Wake Forest college of the class of 1890. He studied law under Judge G. N. Folk, in the Happy Valley, in Caldwell county, and began the practice of his profession in Boone, and continued till his death.

He was a candidate for solicitor of this district in 1902. He represented Watauga, Ashe and Allegheny counties in the state senate during the session of 1913. In 1917 and 1918 he held a government position in Washington, but in the interest of his family, whom he had with him in Washington, he resigned the position and returned to Boone. In 1921 he and F. A. Linney formed a law partnership.

Mr. Coffey was a Mason, becoming a Royal Arch Mason in 1912 and a Shriner in 1919. He has been one of the trustees of the Appalachian State Normal for a number of years, and was a member of the executive committee and of the building committee.

Mr. Coffey joined the Baptist church about 1912 and has been a devoted member and a faithful attendant on the Sunday school and church services, being a teacher in the Sunday school and a deacon in the church.

Edgar Stuart Coffey Esquire and Annie Elizabeth Parks⁷²⁰³ were married on 19 December 1894 in Watauga Co., NC.⁷²⁰⁴ They⁷²⁰⁴ appeared in the census on 1 January 1900 in Watauga Co., NC.⁷²⁰⁵ They⁷²⁰⁵ appeared in the census on 15 April 1910 in Boone, Watauga Co., NC.⁷²⁰⁶ Edgar and Annie⁷²⁰⁶ appeared in the census on 5 January 1920 in Boone, Watauga Co., NC.⁷²⁰⁷ Annie Elizabeth Parks, daughter of William Carroll Parks and Celia Jane Young, was born on 7 May 1874 in Grayson Co., VA. She appeared in the census on 8 April 1930 in Boone, Watauga Co., NC.⁷²⁰⁸ Annie died of terminal pneumonia on 9 December 1959 at the age of 85 in Boone, Watauga Co., NC and was buried at Boone City Cemetery in Boone, Watauga Co., NC on 11 December 1959.^7209,7210

Edgar Stuart Coffey Esquire and Annie Elizabeth Parks had the following children: