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March 2, 2006

Thomas Stewart Coffey

Thomas Stewart Coffey, a son of Thomas Jefferson and Mollie Greer Coffey, was born c1883 in North Carolina. Tradition holds that he married Josephine Carr, and fathered a daughter named Josephine Carr Coffey.

The North Carolina birth index lists the birth of Thomas Stewart Coffey, Jr. in Iredell Co. on Aug. 1, 1915 to Thomas S. Coffey and Josephine Sanborn. There are no other births recorded there for this family.

The 1920 census for that county shows children Marjorie, age 6, Thomas S., Jr., age 4, and Josephine, age 1 yr., 6 mos. Also in the family is Mollie Coffey, age 72, the widowed mother of Thomas, Sr.

In 1930 the family was still in Iredell Co. Children were Doris, age 10, Stuart, age 14, and Marjorie, age 17.

Anyone having information about this family please contact me.

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