Per http://www.erols.com/fmoran/coffey2.html document, Serena was the granddaughter of Sarah Perkins White
From Pennie Fletcher, PFletc2115 Pennie's husband is a descendant of Calvin and Serena's oldest William Franklin Coffey. She sent me via email the following:
Serena's seventh child Selena or Serena Keesie, born 1864 never got to see her father nor did he ever see her. It is said that he joined the Confederates and served until the end of the war and on the way back to his home he was walking in the woods and fell over a fallen tree and broke his leg. He died of the complications of that break without ever reaching home. The place of his burial has been lost to the family record.
Serena continued to live on her land next to her brother, Jonas White, and she raised her children there alone. The hilly land was no good for field crops so she fed her children on garden goods, milk, butter, corn bread, wild game and she had a cow and hogs that foraged in the woods for their fodder. It is said another son, John, had died at a young age. After 30 years as a widow, Serena married a friend of the family, A. J. Watson, and in April of 1895 he died just three months after the marriage. She then moved into the home of her oldest son, William Franklin Coffey, where she lived another 18 years. She died in 1913 and is buried with her parents in the White Family Graveyard on the high hill overlooking White's Creek and the homesite where she had been born and had lived most of her eighty-seven years. Next to her grave is the sandstone slab marking the grave of her grandmother, Sarah Perkins White.
Written by Helen S. Smith, Wilkes County Heritage Book, Vol. l Sources: Census records, county records, state records, family knowledge. family bibles.
More About Serena White: Burial: White Family Cemetery, Little River, Alexander County, North Carolina.2847
More About Serena White and Calvin Coffey: Marriage: 1850, Alexander, Caldwell County, North Carolina.2847
Serena White (b. Abt. 1829, d. 1914)
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