Author Betty White Martin grew up in Morristown and White Pine, TN, the only child of Lonnie White. She has Coffey ancestry that extends all the way back to Edward and Ann Powell Coffey.
Her grandfather was John McHenry White, a son of Susan Isabelle Dalton White. Susan was the daughter of of Carter and Nancy Whitsett Dalton. Carter Dalton was a son of Matilda Coffey, wife of Tandy Witcher Dalton. Matilda was a daughter of George and Margaret Rucker Coffey.
Nancy Whitsett Dalton was the daughter of Elizabeth Coffey, wife of Nathan Whitsett and later, wife of George W. Hayes. Elizabeth Coffey was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Rucker Coffey.
Betty has authored at least three books containing photos and some history of these families. I have also documented them rather extensively in The Edward Coffey Project.
Our Coffey and Dalton Families In Photos, which begins with descendants of Cleveland Coffey and his wife, Susan Hayes.
Ramblings From the North Side of
A Woman of Vim and Vigor which is based loosely on the life of Nancy Whitsett Dalton Cozart. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Coffey and Nathan P. Whitsett. Nancy married twice; beginning in 1854* to Carter Coffey Dalton with whom she had at least five children: Susan who married Thomas Jefferson White; James Tandy, married Mary Emeline Jackson; Betty; Tennessee, who married Perry Singleton and, Pleasant. There may have been others because it was seven or more years between Tennessee, born 1867 and Pleasant, born c1874.
Carter and Nancy apparently divorced because they were married a second time in 1860**. When Carter died in 1877 Nancy had an affair with his uncle, Anderson Dalton and had two more children, Matilda, born c1877 and Milton, born in 1880. Nancy seems to have also had an affair with her former father-in-law, Tandy Witcher Dalton, a brother to Anderson and had another child, Charles S.
Tandy did not die until 1909 so they likely divorced as well for on Oct. 13, 1888 she married James Wiley Cozart. No children are known from that union.
These books are very reasonably priced and available on Amazon.com. They can be reviewed and purchased by clicking on the title of each book. E-mail me if you would like to discuss these books with the author.
*https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8YC-1LX
** https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8Y8-7VH
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