Eighth Generation

9995. Walton Wilmuth Coffey was born on 12 March 1889 in Amherst Co., VA.⁵¹²⁶ He registered for the WWI draft on 5 June 1917 in Buena Vista, Independent City, VA.²⁹⁷⁹⁷ He registered for the WWII draft on 27 April 1942 in Lexington, VA.²⁹⁷⁹⁸ Walton died in Lexington, VA on 23 October 1968 and was buried at Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital in Lexington, VA in October 1968 .²⁹⁷⁹⁹

Death notice, The Richmond Times Dispatch, Richmond, VA, Thu., Oct. 24, 1968, Page 42

W. W. Coffey, 79, Dies; Lexington Contractor

Lexington - Walton Wilmouth Coffey, 79, senior member of W. W. Coffey and Son, Inc., local building contracting firm, died Wednesday after a long illness.

Mr. Coffey built the Mayflower Hotel on South Main Street in 1930, where he and his family lived until Dec. 1, 1941, when he sold it and built the Coffey Apartments on Main Sgreet.

He was a charter member and elder in Grace Presbyterian Church, and was a member of Gideons International and secretary of the Rockbridge Gideons.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lula McCormick Coffey of Lexington; two sons, James F. Coffey of Lexington and S. Sgt. William T. Coffey, stationed in Vietnam; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Yeager of Lexington; a brother, W. A. Coffey of Roanoke; and a sister, Mrs. Sadie Bruin of Draper. Funeral arrangements were incomplete Wednesday.

Walton Wilmuth Coffey and Lula Elizabeth McCormick were married circa 1915 in Virginia. They lived with her parents in Hartsook Shop, Rocbridge Co., VA on 30 January 1920.²⁹⁸⁰⁰ They²⁹⁸⁰⁰ appeared in the census on 16 April 1930 in Lexington, VA.²⁹⁸⁰¹ Walton and Lula²⁹⁸⁰¹ appeared in the census on 8 April 1940 in Lexington, VA.²⁹⁸⁰² Lula Elizabeth McCormick, daughter of Nathaniel Steele McCormick and Louisa Allen, was born in October 1897 in Rockbridge Co., VA. Lula died in Virginia on 7 April 1979 and was buried at Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital in Lexington, VA in April 1979 .²⁹⁸⁰³

Walton Wilmuth Coffey and Lula Elizabeth McCormick had the following children: