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Leaves from the Family Tree |
 | | Coffey served as treasurer of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, later moved to Missouri and was appointed Indian agent by President Filmore. |
 | | The Coffey family, which is widely scattered through the southeastern states, traces its ancestry to John Coffey, who emigrated from Ireland to Virginia in 1637, and the ancient Irish family from which John Coffey came is said to be descended from Milesius, King of Spain, through the line of Heremon, his eighth son. |
 | | James Coffey and his family made their home in Amherst County, Virginia, from 1764 until 1776, when he sold his plantation on Tye River and moved to North Carolina, settling in that part of Surry County which was formed in Wilkes. |
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