Seventh Generation

3681. Angelina "Lina" Coffey was born on 30 September 1876 in Jackson Co., AL. Lina died of coronary occlusion on 9 February 1953 at the age of 76 at Memorial Hospital in Houston, Harris Co., TX and was buried at Mission Burial Park South in San Antonio, Bexar Co., TX on 10 February 1953.^{4212,12251,12252}

Angelina "Lina" Coffey and Rev. Willis Walter Lee were married on 26 March 1902 in Rash, Jackson Co., AL.^12253,12254 They^12253,12254 appeared in the census on 21 April 1910 in Shelby Co., AL.¹²²⁵⁵ They¹²²⁵⁵ appeared in the census on 10 January 1920 in Bexar Co., TX.¹²²⁵⁶ Lina and Willis¹²²⁵⁶ appeared in the census on 3 April 1930 in Cameron Co., TX.¹²²⁵⁷ Rev. Willis Walter Lee, son of Joshua Lee and Eliza Doster, was born on 11 July 1869 in Rome, Floyd Co., GA. He lived with his parents in Chattooga Co., GA on 18 June 1880. He lived with D. W. Ward in Hale Co., AL on 18 June 1900. Rev. Lee died of heart failure on 13 December 1935 at the age of 66 in Harlingen, Cameron Co., TX and was buried at Mission Burial Park South in San Antonio, Bexar Co., TX on 16 December 1935.^{12258,12259,12260}

Funeral Notice, The Heraldo de Brownsville, Brownsville, TX, Sun., Dec. 15, 1935, Page 9

Funeral Set For Rev. Lee

Retired Harlingen Pastor To Be Buried At San Antonio

(Special to The Herald)

Harlinger, Dec. 14.--Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist church here Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock for Rev. W. W. Lee, retired Baptist minister who died at his home here Friday night at 11:20 o'clock.

Rev. Lee, 66, was pastor of the church here for nine years, and resigned his pastorate last January because of failing health.

The widely-known pastor was born in Georgia, and was educated at Howard college, Birmingham, Ala., and later at Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville, KY. He held pastorates at several Alabama cities including Birmingham. He was married to Miss Lina Coffee [sic] at Rash, Ala., and taught school for a short time before entering the ministry.

In 1906, Rev. Lee accepted the pastorate of the Calvary Baptist church at San Antonio and remained as head of that church for 14 years.

After accepting the Harlingen pastorate, he was instrumental in the erection of the new church building here.

Rev. Lee held several church positions. He was a member of the state executive board, Baptist General convention, for 15 years; was moderator of the San Antonio association for 9 years; was moderator of the Valley association for 6 years; was a member of the executive board of the Southern Baptist Seminary; and was a member of the board of the Valley Baptist hospital here. He also was a member of the Alzafar Temple at San Antonio.

Survivors include his wife; four sons, W. W., Jr., of Cleveland, Tenn.; Dallas of Edinburg; Ralph of Houston; and Howard, student of Baylor University; and four brothers, Frank of Tennessee; Dallas of Georgia; Charles of Florida; and Eli of Oklahoma City; and two grandchildren, Ima Ruth and Mary Virginia.

Following services at the church under direction of Rev. E. Douglas Carver and with church deacons serving as pallbearers, the body will be forwarded Sunday night to San Antonio for Interment.

Autobiography of W.W. Lee as recorded in his own handwriting in The Diary of the Home by Angelina Coffey Lee pp.64-75; 78).

"I was born 11 miles N.E. of Rome Floyd County Ga. My father moved to Chattooga County Ga seven miles west of Dirt Town (now Kortah) post office Jan 1871 and lived there until December 1878 where he bought a small farm 1 1/4 miles from Lyerly Ga on the Gayensville road where [he] lived thirty years."

Rev. Lee was a pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in San Antonio from 1912 until 1925. Between 1925 and 1935 he was pastor at The First Baptist Church in Harlingen.

Angelina "Lina" Coffey and Rev. Willis Walter Lee had the following children: