After the death of her husband Elijah in 1891, Mary Ann Nelson Coffey remained on the family farm in Happy Valley with her younger children. In 1905 she sold the property and bought a house in Lenoir with her youngest child Mary, a school teacher. The house in Lenoir (no longer extant) stood on the corner or Ashe Ave. and Boundary St. Upon moving to Lenoir, Mary A. Nelson Coffey joined the North Lenoir Advent Christian Church on N. Main St.
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MRS. MARY COFFEY WAS BURIED TODAY
Mrs. Mary Ann Coffey died at her home here Sunday at 12:45 o'clock following an illness of about two weeks. She was first taken sick with "flu" which caused her death. She was in her 86th year. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home on West Boundary St., Rev. S.E. Thurlow and Rev. R.L. Isbell conducting same. Interment was at Harper's Chapel, Patterson, ground in Yadkin Valley. The city schools closed at noon today out of courtesy to Miss Mary Coffey, a valued teacher in them.
The pallbearers were nephews: J.L. Nelson, Jr., A.S. and J.B. Nelson, Tom Moore, Carlisle Sagle and Dudley Nelson.
Mrs. Coffey, before marriage, was Miss Mary Ann Nelson, a daughter of John Nelson and Elizabeth Nelson, and a brother of our townsman, J.L. Nelson. She was born February 23, 1843, at the old Nelson home just above Patterson. In 1867 she was married to Elijah Coffey, and to them five children were born, all of whom are living. After their marriage they lived for many years in the Valley. On October 6, 1891, Mr. Coffey passed away, and then Mrs. Coffey came to Lenoir and made her home with her daughter, Miss Mary Coffey in 1905. For a number of years Mrs. Coffey has been in poor health, but it was only about two weeks ago that her condition became serious, resulting in death Sunday afternoon.
Early in life Mrs. Coffey joined the Baptist church at Patterson, but later connected herself with the adventist church, of which church she was a member at death. Mrs. Coffey was a woman of christian character, and was held in the highest esteem by her relatives and friends.
Deceased is survived by three sons and two daughters, John Coffey, Raleigh; George Coffey, Worcester, Ohio; Lee Coffey, Minco, Okla.; Mrs. J.A. Stewart, Enid, Okla., and Miss Mary Coffey, Lenoir. Also two sisters, Mrs. J.B. Moore, Elizabethton, Tenn., Mrs. Jane E. Gragg, Blowing Rock and one brother, J.L. Nelson, Lenoir.
With the exception of Mrs. Stewart, of Enid, Okla., all of the children were present when death came and attended the funeral services.
[Lenoir News-Topic (Lenoir, NC), January 7, 1929, 1, 3.]
After the death of her husband Elijah in 1891, Mary Ann Nelson Coffey remained on the family farm in Happy Valley with her younger children. In 1905 she sold the property and bought a house in Lenoir with her youngest child Mary, a school teacher. The house in Lenoir (no longer extant) stood on the corner or Ashe Ave. and Boundary St. Upon moving to Lenoir, Mary A. Nelson Coffey joined the North Lenoir Advent Christian Church on N. Main St.
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MRS. MARY COFFEY WAS BURIED TODAY
Mrs. Mary Ann Coffey died at her home here Sunday at 12:45 o'clock following an illness of about two weeks. She was first taken sick with "flu" which caused her death. She was in her 86th year. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home on West Boundary St., Rev. S.E. Thurlow and Rev. R.L. Isbell conducting same. Interment was at Harper's Chapel, Patterson, ground in Yadkin Valley. The city schools closed at noon today out of courtesy to Miss Mary Coffey, a valued teacher in them.
The pallbearers were nephews: J.L. Nelson, Jr., A.S. and J.B. Nelson, Tom Moore, Carlisle Sagle and Dudley Nelson.
Mrs. Coffey, before marriage, was Miss Mary Ann Nelson, a daughter of John Nelson and Elizabeth Nelson, and a brother of our townsman, J.L. Nelson. She was born February 23, 1843, at the old Nelson home just above Patterson. In 1867 she was married to Elijah Coffey, and to them five children were born, all of whom are living. After their marriage they lived for many years in the Valley. On October 6, 1891, Mr. Coffey passed away, and then Mrs. Coffey came to Lenoir and made her home with her daughter, Miss Mary Coffey in 1905. For a number of years Mrs. Coffey has been in poor health, but it was only about two weeks ago that her condition became serious, resulting in death Sunday afternoon.
Early in life Mrs. Coffey joined the Baptist church at Patterson, but later connected herself with the adventist church, of which church she was a member at death. Mrs. Coffey was a woman of christian character, and was held in the highest esteem by her relatives and friends.
Deceased is survived by three sons and two daughters, John Coffey, Raleigh; George Coffey, Worcester, Ohio; Lee Coffey, Minco, Okla.; Mrs. J.A. Stewart, Enid, Okla., and Miss Mary Coffey, Lenoir. Also two sisters, Mrs. J.B. Moore, Elizabethton, Tenn., Mrs. Jane E. Gragg, Blowing Rock and one brother, J.L. Nelson, Lenoir.
With the exception of Mrs. Stewart, of Enid, Okla., all of the children were present when death came and attended the funeral services.
[Lenoir News-Topic (Lenoir, NC), January 7, 1929, 1, 3.]
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