| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Eighth Generation11680. William Gordon Coffey was born on 29 November 1884 in Watauga Co., NC. He registered for the WWI draft on 12 September 1918 in Watauga Co., NC.33363 William died in Burke Co., NC on 5 July 1959 and was buried at Mountain Grove Baptist Church Cemetery in Connell Springs, Burke Co., NC in July 1959 .33364,33365 Obituary, The Greensboro Daily News, Greensboro, Guilford Co., NC William G. Coffey LENOIR, July 7 - Funeral services for William Gordon Coffey, 74, of Route 1, Hudson, were conducted this afternoon at Mountain Grove Baptist Church by the Revs. Howard McGhinnis and W. T. Brackett. Burial was in the church cemetery. Coffey died at his home Sunday after an illness of five weeks. He was a retired farmer and a native of Watauga County. Surviving are his wife; a son, Bobby Coffey of Route 1, Hudson; three daughters, Mrs. Chloe Henderson of Boone, Mrs. Clara Miller of Stanley and Mrs. Willa Jean Church of Ohio; a stepson, O. D. Gragg of Route 3, Lenoir; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Christine Austine of Boone; two brothers, Marion Coffey of Blowing Rock and Joe Coffey of Deep Gap; three sisters, Mrs. Julie Hampton and Mrs. Roxie Brown of Boone; 21 grandchildren; and a number of great-grandchildren. William Gordon Coffey and Ada Susana Brown were married on 28 April 1909 in Watauga Co., NC.15302,15328 They15302,15328 appeared in the census on 15 January 1920 in Blue Ridge Twp., Watauga Co., NC.33366 They33366 appeared in the census on 16 April 1930 in Boone, Boone Twp., Watauga Co., NC.33367 Ada Susana Brown33368, daughter of William Brown and Martha A. Brown, was born on 13 December 1887 in Watauga Co., NC. Ada died of uremic poisoning on 22 January 1931 at the age of 43 in Boone, Watauga Co., NC and was buried at Boone City Cemetery in Boone, Watauga Co., NC >on 24 January 1931>.33369,33370 William Gordon Coffey and Ada Susana Brown had the following children:
William Gordon Coffey and Elma Beatrice Coffey were married on 24 August 1932 in Watauga Co., NC.33371 They33371 appeared in the census on 1 April 1940 in Blue Ridge Twp., Watauga Co., NC.33372 Elma Beatrice Coffey, daughter of Charles L. Coffey and Alice Amanda Holloway, was born on 10 August 1893 in Watauga Co., NC. She appeared in the census on 2 April 1930 in Watauga Twp., Watauga Co., NC.20053 Elma died in Lenoir, Caldwell Co., NC on 7 August 1988 and was buried in Mountain Grove Baptist Church Cemetery in Connell Springs, Burke Co., NC in August 1988 .20054,20055 Elma was probably a Coffey, and the widow of Thomas A. Gragg at the time she married William. The 1930 Watauga Co. census lists a widow Elma Gragg, age 36, with two children; Olin D., age 16, and Christine, age 7. William Gordon Coffey and Elma Beatrice Coffey had the following children:
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