Fifth Generation

349. Mary A. Coffey was born circa 1830 in Grainger Co., TN. Mary died in Morgan Co., IL on 8 August 1846.

Bennie Coffey Loftin in her work, Lizzie's Legacy and Our Coffey Cousins, wrote that there was a male child, born about 1811 that died young. He research did not show Mary as a child of Meredith.

Mary A. Coffey and Henderson Dyer were married on 29 October 1838 in Grainger Co., TN.¹²⁰²

Henderson and Mary are both thought to have died before 1850. However, there is a Henderson Dyer family in the 1870 Phelps Co., Rolla Twp., MO Federal Census. See page 5, dwelling/family 31.
Henderson died in Morgan Co., IL about 1845.

Mary A. Coffey and Henderson Dyer had the following children:

1331	i.	Isaac Dyer was born circa 1838.
1332	ii.	Wesley Dyer was born in 1842.
1333	iii.	James Dyer was born in 1845.