Margaret Coffey was the youngest of eleven children born to William Coffey (1812-1893) and his wife Margaret Robins (1816-1882). She grew up on her parents' farm "on Buffaloe Creek" in the upper Yadkin River Valley known as Happy Valley. Around 1880 she married a cousin, Thomas Clingman Coffey (1858-1932). The couple lived in Happy Valley and raised five children: Louisa Victoria (b. 1883), Finley Houck (b. 1886), Jesse Clingman (b. 1890), Margaret Elizabeth (b. 1897), and Bertha (b. 1898). Margaret died at the age of seventy-three in 1930.
Fact: Residence (1860) Patterson District, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States
Fact: Residence (1870) Yadkin Valley Township, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States
Fact: Residence (1880) Buffalo, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States
Fact: Residence (1900) Yadkin Valley, Blackstone & Buffalo Cove Townships, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States
Fact: Residence (1910) Yadkin Valley, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States
Fact: Residence (1920) Yadkin Valley, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 01 December 2019), memorial page for Margaret Coffey Coffey (13 Apr 1858–12 Jan 1930), Find A Grave Memorial no. 43192431, citing Coffey Home Cemetery - Upton, Caldwell County, North Carolina, USA ; Maintained by John W. Coffey (contributor 47365586)
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Kelly Stamper for creating WikiTree profile Coffey-767 through the import of Jackson Stamper Family Tree.ged on May 5, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Kelly and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Margaret by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Margaret: