Matching family tree profiles for Reuben Coffey, Sr.
view all 28
Immediate Family
-
wife -
daughter
-
son -
-
-
-
-
daughter -
son
-
daughter
-
daughter
About Reuben Coffey, Sr.
- Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE
- Birth: CIRCA 1744 SPOTSYLVANIA CO VIRGINIA
- Death: 1813 BURKE CO NORTH CAROLINA
- Service Source: NC REV WAR PAY VOUCHERS, #32, #191, ROLL #S.115.77
- Service Description: 1) PROVIDED SUPPLIES
Great confusion exists about two men of this name, uncle & nephew, both of whom resided for some years in Burke (now Coldwell Co.) N.C. They may be differentiated as Ruben Coffey Sr. of the Globe settlement, on Johns River; and Rubin Coffey (1759-1842), the Revolutionary pensioner, of Blair Fork, afterwards of Wayne County Ky. REUBEN COFFEY Senior, son of John and Jane (Graves) Coffey, was b. perhaps ca 1744, and was much older than his nephew of the same name. Ruben Sr. removed from Albermarle Co., Va. to Burke County, N.C. at some time before 1770. He m. Sarah Scott, called Sally, but it has not yet been determined whether they were married in Va. or in N. Carolina, since the exact date of the marriage and the migration are not known. There were several Scott families in Burke county, but this is a common surname, and there may also, Scott families in Albemarle county, Va. Rubin Coffey Sr. continued to reside in Burke county until his death, which occured between 1810-1820. He lived in what has always been called the Globe, near the head of Johns River, in the present Coldwell county. His widow Sally (ScottO Coffey survived him for some years, as is shown by Burke Co. tax lists and census reports. The total number of there children is not known. It can be ascertained from cencus reports that they had at least two daughters (one born 1774/84, one 1784/90 and four sons, but there were probably one or two more sons and perhaps some older daughters. Until something more definite is known about the date of their marriage, the possibility remains that Rubin Sr. and Sally could have had some children as early as the late 1760's; from cencus returnes it appears that their last child was a son born between 1790 and 1794. The 1810 census also shows with them a boy under 10 years of age, probably a grandson, since by that time Sally was at least 55 years of age and probably older. Only of of the children of Rubin Sr. and Sally (Scott) Coffey has ben positively identified -- Elijah Coffey, b. 7 Mar. 1779 in the Globe settlement, Burke County; m. 1803, Mary Dyer of Ashe Co., and some years afterward removed to Owen county, Ind. This is Mrs. Griffin's ancestor.
view all 20
Reuben Coffey, Sr.'s Timeline
| 1744 |
1744
|
Spotsylvania County, Virginia
|
|
| 1768 |
1768
|
Albemarle, Virginia, United States
|
|
| 1770 |
1770
|
||
| 1771 |
July 21, 1771
|
Albemarle County, VA, United States
|
|
| 1772 |
1772
|
Virginia, United States
|
|
| 1774 |
1774
|
Albemarle, Virginia, United States
|
|
| 1775 |
1775
|
Albemarle, Virginia, United States
|
|
| 1776 |
July 30, 1776
|
North Carolina, United States
|
|
| 1779 |
March 11, 1779
|
Globe, Burke, North Carolina, United States
|