Sixth Generation

1623. Smith W. Coffey⁶⁰³² was born in May 1832 in Burke Co., NC. He lived with his mother in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC on 22 July 1850. Smith enlisted in the Co. A, 2d Cav. Regt., NC on 18 June 1861 at Cherokee Co., NC.^6033,6034 He applied for his CW pension in Watauga Co., NC on 7 July 1913. It was disallowed.⁶⁰³⁵ Smith died on 11 January 1916 at the age of 83 in Carter Co., TN and was buried at the Coffey Cemetery in Shulls Mill, Watauga Co., NC.⁶⁰³⁶

The death certificate for his son Henry B. Coffey reports his father's name as Samuel S. (Smith?) Coffey and mother as Elizabeth Reidman.

On 17 January 1916 the heirs of he relinquished their right to administer his estate and requested the Superior Court in Boone to appoint S. E. Gragg in their stead.⁶⁰³⁷

"Smith Coffey was born in 1832 in Caldwell county, and says that Jesse was a brother of Daniel Boone, and had three daughters; Anna, who married William Coffey; Hannah, who married Smith Coffey, and Celie, who married Buck Craig [sic] [Gragg]. The Smith Coffey who married Hannah Boone was the present Smith Coffey's grandfather. Smith Coffey's father moved to Cherokee in 1838 and settled on Hiwassee river four miles above Murphy, after which he moved to Peach Tree creek where he died a year later, his family returning to Caldwell. In 1858 Smith returned to Cherokee and lived on a place adjoining the farm of George Hayes on Valley river, and had a fight with that gentleman concerning a sow just before the Civil War. Nevertheless he joined Hayes' company, when the war began, which became Company A in the Second N.C. Cavalry. After the battle before New Bern, Hayes resigned and returned to Cherokee, and William B. Tidwell of Tusquitte, now Clay county, was elected captain from the ranks, and retained that place till the close of the war."

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Smith W. Coffey and Elizabeth Redmond were married on 25 June 1854 in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC.^6038,6039 They^6038,6039 appeared in the census on 6 June 1860 in Cherokee Co., NC.⁶⁰⁴⁰ They⁶⁰⁴⁰ appeared in the census on 14 June 1880 in Watauga Co., NC.⁶⁰⁴¹ Smith and Elizabeth⁶⁰⁴¹ appeared in the census on 28 June 1900 in Watauga Co., NC.⁶⁰⁴² They⁶⁰⁴² appeared in the census on 4 May 1910 in Watauga Co., NC.⁶⁰⁴³ Elizabeth Redmond⁵⁹⁹⁷ was born on 25 June 1836 in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC. She lived with Lucy Baker in Lower Creek, Caldwell Co., NC on 6 September 1850.⁶⁰⁴⁴ Elizabeth died on 20 May 1912 at the age of 75 in North Carolina and was buried at Coffey Cemetery in Shulls Mill, Watauga Co., NC.⁶⁰⁴⁵

Laurence Coffey gives this name as Elizabeth Baker Redmond, indicating to me that she was probably married previous to her marriage to Smith. However, in an e-mail dated Aug. 23, 1007, Carolyn Curtis wrote this:

"Elizabeth was born 6/25/1836 and died 5/20/1912. She was not married prior to her marriage to Smith Coffey on June 25, 1854 (that was her 18th Birthday). According to the Caldwell County Court of Pleas and Quarter Session, Volume II – January Term 1848, Elizabeth, an orphan child of 11 years of age, was bound to Lucinda Baker (that is where the Baker name originated) until age 18, at which time she was give her freedom, $6.00, a new suit of clothes, a bible and she was to be taught to read and write."

The death certificate for her daughter Emma Irene Coffey Cozart also reports her mother's name as Lizabeth Baker.

Smith W. Coffey and Elizabeth Redmond had the following children: