The Edward Coffey Project

In the last blog, I transcribed the death report for Woodson "Woods" Coffee, a native Texan, from the Amarillo Daily News of ...

William Preston "Press" Buchanan was born in Tennessee - probably Giles Co. -  in about 1844 to Charles Clayton and Mary Abernath...

Another Coffey Cousins' reunion is over! If I have counted correctly, it was number 30; the first was held in Boone, NC in 1984. Thi...

William Larkin Coffey Photo via Benna J .[1] William Larkin was a son of Lewis Elbert and Hester Gravitt Coffey and, Nancy, a daughter o...

Tom & Ethel w/grandchild who donated the photograph Thomas Henry "Tom" Coffey was the first son and fourth of nine childre...

F inley Luckey Coffey was born on July 7, 1849 in Collin Co., TX to the union of Osborn Nightingale and Jane L. Bell Coffey.   He married hi...

An obituary in my morning e-mail alerted me to the death of Nancy Virginia Plogger Graves on Oct. 15, 2011 in Roanoke City, VA.  After readi...

William Henry Harvey Clark William Henry Harvey Clark was born Dec. 25, 1845 in North Carolina, perhaps Caldwell or Avery Co.  I sus...

Corrections/additions highlighted . The Loudermelt surname is spelled any number of ways, depending, it seems, on the specific family.  On...

William Larkin Coffey was a son of Lewis Elbert & Jester "Hettie" Gravitt Coffey. He was born in Gilmer Co., GA on Mar. 23, 1...

UPDATED 11/23/2010 with info received from Jerry Dickinson Francis Marion "Marion" Clark* was the eldest child and a son of Joh...

Meredith appears to be the only child born to John W. and Rebecca Ragsdale Coffey. At some point in time, this family began to spell their...

Captain Andrew Jackson Critcher was a son of Nathaniel & Cynthia A. Clark Critcher.  Nathaniel was born in Granville Co., NC in 1803 and...

In his 1915 A History of Watauga County, North Carolina , John Preston Arthur wrote about James Aldridge who appeared in Shulls Mill, Watau...

Death Certificate for Lillie Ann Coffey Carter Click to Enlarge This is a North Carolina death certificate for Lillie Ann Coffey Carter,...

Monroe Cleveland or Jesse Cleveland Coffey? Within a couple of days of writing the previous blog about headstones, I received this from L...

In the census record and on their headstones, this family and their descendants spelled their surname with the double-E ending. The change s...