Jackson County AlArchives Biographies.....Coffey, W. A. August 26 1837 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   W. A. COFFEY, president of Jackson county bank, was born in Bedford county,
Tenn., August 26, 1837. He is a son of Alexander H. Coffey, who was born in
Tennessee; always lived there, was a farmer all his life and died in 1864, aged
fifty-five years. He was a justice of the peace for many years. He married Nancy
Weatherly, a native of Tennessee, and to them were born four children, viz.:
Napoleon B., deceased; Mary, deceased wife of Pleasant Lovelady, also deceased;
R. A. of Scottsboro, and W. A. W. A. Coffey was educated at the schools of
Bedford county, Tenn., and came to Alabama at the age of nineteen, settling at
Stevenson, where he clerked for two years for Austin, Coffey & Co., Mr. Coffey,
of this firm, being his uncle. In 1858 he and his brother, R. A., purchased the
business and carried it on until March, 1861, when he entered the Confederate
service as a member of the Seventh Alabama infantry, commanded by Col. John S.
Coltart. He served as a private soldier until June, 1861, when he was granted a
furlough on account of ill health. In the fall of 1861 he organized a company in
Jackson county, which became company C of the Thirty-first Alabama infantry. Of
this company Mr. Coffey was made captain. The regiment afterward became the
Forty-ninth. Mr. Coffey served as captain of his company until after the battle
of Shiloh, when the regiment was reorganized, and though he did not retain his
captaincy, he remained with the regiment until July 9, 1863, when he was
captured at Port Hudson and immediately paroled. He was not afterward in active
service. The principal battles he was.engaged in were those of Shiloh and Port
Hudson, and he was in several minor engagement. After the war he went to
Stevenson, remaining there until February, 1866, engaged in clerking. He then
moved to Maynard's Cove, and was there engaged in farming until 1888, when he
removed to Scottsboro. In February, 1889, he was made president of the Jackson
county bank, which position he still retains. In March, 1892, he and his
brother, R. A. Coffey, and J. W. Moody, opened a general store, which they still
carry on. Mr. Coffey is largely interested in farming in Jackson county. He is a
democrat, but takes but little interest in politics. He is a Mason and a member
of the Missionary Baptist church, and he has been a deacon of his church for
many years. He was married May 2, 1866, to Miss Mary E. Harris, daughter of
Carter O. Harris, a native of Kentucky, and to this marriage were born six
children, all of whom survive, viz.: Alexander Harris; Rice Abner, Eula Lee, W.
A., Jr., Mamie and Vivie.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1135-1136
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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