Joseph Harrison Wellborn was born Mar. 3, 1873 in Wilkes Co., NC to F.D. and Mary M. Wellborn. The 1880 census locates F.D. and Mary in Lewis Fork Twp., Wilkes Co. with two Wellborn children and three Tulbert [or, Tolbert] step-children.
Carrie Elizabeth Coffey was born Aug. 14, 1877 in Patterson Twp., Caldwell Co., NC to Thomas and Rachel M. Coffey Coffey. Thomas was a son of William Coffey, Jr., and Margaret Robbins; Rachel was a daughter of McCaleb Coffey and Elizabeth Collett. William was a nephew as well as a first cousin once removed to McCaleb.
Caldwell Co. marriage book 11, page 245 records the union of Carrie and Joseph in that place in 1896. According to the 1900 Patterson Twp. Caldwell Co. census, Carrie was mother to three children, two of which had died in infancy. Their first child to reach adulthood was Jennie Beatrice, born May 11, 1900.
In 1910, the family was found in Chase, Mecklenburg Co., VA where Joseph was farming. However, by 1917 Joseph was confined to Long's Sanitorium in Statesville, Iredell Co., NC where according to his death certificate he died from cirhosis of the liver on Oct. 11, 1917. He was buried on Oct 13, 1917 in Patterson Twp. The death certificate is not specific on burial location.
Carrie remained a widow in Patterson Twp. for the rest of her life, and died there from uremia on Mar. 22, 1951. She is buried at Harpers Chapel Cemetery in Patterson. Joseph is likely buried there as well.
Their children were:
Jennie Beatrice, born May 11, 1900, died Dec. 30, 1978 in Lenoir, Caldwell Co. She married Thomas Hamilton (Hamp) Robbins in that county in 1920. Thomas was a son of Thomas Clingman and Sarah Curtis Robbins. He was born on Oct. 17, 1888 in Caldwell Co., and died Mar. 5, 1965 in Lower Creek, Caldwell Co. Thomas is buried at Harpers Chapel and, Jennie is also presumed to be buried there. They had at least four children: Mary Gwendolyn, born Sep. 7, 1920; Thomas Hamilton, born Sep. 11, 1922; George Welborn, born Aug. 17, 1924, died Nov. 21, 2004; and Robert Joseph, born Dec. 5, 1926.
Carl Coffey, born Aug, 6, 1902 in Wilkes Co., died May 15, 1986 in Lenoir, Caldwell Co. He married Lula Bell Hamby in Caldwell Co. in 1921. She was born Oct. 18, 1898 in NC and died Dec. 8, 1933 in Lenoir. Lula is buried at Harpers Chapel, and Carl is probably buried there as well. Their five known children were: Clyde Colene, born Oct. 6, 1921; Mildred Marie, born 1923; Joseph Henry, born 1924, died 1997; Earl Russell, born Apr. 3, 1928, died Jun. 22, 1994; and a daughter who was stillborn on Mar. 31, 1932. Death of the child was attributed to hydrocephalus and spina bifida.
Alma M., born c1904
Annie L., born c1906
Robert Louis, born Dec. 11, 1908, died Dec. 29, 1990. It is unknown whether or not he married and fathered children.
Carrie was the sixth child. She was born Sep. 13, 1910 and died Feb. 28, 1985. She married Hugh Hardin Edmisten, a son of Newton and Alice Holshouser Edmisten. Hugh was born Aug. 19, 1905 in Watauga Co., and died in Lenoir on Aug. 16, 1963. Hugh is buried at Belleview Cemetery in Lenoir, and Carrie is also thought to have been buried there.
Joseph Dale, born Mar. 14, 1913
Blanche Gertrude, born Nov. 19, 1914, died Mar. 8, 2004. Blanche first married William Lee Martin, a son of Roby Sherrill and Ivalee Crisp Martin. He was born on Dec. 23, 1913 in NC and died in Winston-Salem, Forsyth Co., on Aug. 4, 1966. He is buried in Wilson Memorial Park in Caldwell Co. Carrie's second husband was H.C. (Bud) Andrews for whom I have no information. It appears that Blanche did not have children by either husband, but I am not sure of that. She is also buried at Wilson Memorial Park.
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