The Edward Coffey Project

Mary Lou Coffey Miller Mary Louise was the last child of John William and Frances Little Coffey.  She was born Feb. 7, 1905 in Raleigh, W...

Frances Coffey Green Frances was the third child of John William and Frances Little Coffey. She was born Jul. 4, 1904 in Raleigh, Wake C...

John Wm. Coffey Fannie Little John William was the second child and first son born to Elijah and Mary Ann Nelson Coffey.  He was born ...

I have ju st received these photographs from John W. Coffey in Raleigh, NC. He wrote that the beard seen here on Elijah was added to the pho...

A friend, after reading my blog about Bailey Eliphalet Chaney, wrote to me about the eccentric preacher Lorenzo Dow who labored in the conti...