Family: Coffinberry, George Lewis / Little, Elizabeth (F7396)

m. 5 Dec 1785


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  • Coffinberry, George LewisFather | Male
    Coffinberry, George Lewis

    Born  10 Feb 1760  Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  13 Jul 1851  Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Spring Mills, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location
    Married  5 Dec 1785  [1, 2, 3]  Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, USA  [1, 2, 3] Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Kaufenbaerger, Georg Ludwig | F7414 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Kimmel, Maria Veronika | F7414 Group Sheet 

    Little, ElizabethMother | Female
    Little, Elizabeth

    Born  1769  Strasburg, Alsace-Loraine, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  23 Jun 1854  Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Klein, George | F7404 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Truggat, Elizabeth | F7404 Group Sheet 

    Coffinberry, Mary PollyChild 1 | Female
    Coffinberry, Mary Polly

    Born  2 Sep 1787  Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  1861   
    Buried    Lagrange, Lagrange, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Bitcher, Abram | F21887 
    Married  1803   

    Coffinberry, AndrewChild 2 | Male
    Coffinberry, Andrew

    Born  20 Aug 1789  Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  12 May 1856   
    Buried     

    Coffinberry, SarahChild 3 | Female
    Coffinberry, Sarah

    Born  20 Jun 1791  Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Virginia (now WV), Estimate Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  1870   
    Buried     
    Spouse  Gilkison, John Creyton | F7400 
    Married  1808   
    Spouse  Gilkison, John C. | F7399 
    Married     

    Coffinberry, NancyChild 4 | Female
    Coffinberry, Nancy

    Born  13 May 1793  Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Virginia (now WV), Estimate Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  11 Jul 1861  Lagrange, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Topeka, LaGrange County, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Gilkison, James M. | F6935 
    Married  17 Nov 1808  Fairfield, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location

    Coffinberry, GeorgeChild 5 | Male
    Coffinberry, George

    Born  13 May 1793  Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Virginia (now WV), Estimate Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Jun 1793   
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    Coffinberry, George LewisChild 6 | Male
    Coffinberry, George Lewis

    Born  15 Mar 1795  Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Virginia (now WV), Estimate Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died     
    Buried     
    Spouse  Gilkison, Sarah | F7402 
    Married     

    Coffinberry, Jacob WolfChild 7 | Male
    Coffinberry, Jacob Wolf

    Born  25 May 1797  Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  1875   
    Buried     
    Spouse  Galligher, Sallie Ann | F7403 
    Married  Bef 1827  Hocking, Ohio, Estimate Find all individuals with events at this location

    Coffinberry, JohnChild 8 | Male
    Coffinberry, John

    Born  22 Sep 1799  Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Virginia (now WV), Estimate Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died     
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    Coffinberry, IsaacChild 9 | Male
    Coffinberry, Isaac

    Born  28 Jan 1802  Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Virginia (now WV), Estimate Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died     
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    Coffinberry, ElizabethChild 10 | Female
    Coffinberry, Elizabeth

    Born  26 Jan 1803  Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Virginia (now WV), Estimate Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died     
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    Coffinberry, StevenChild 11 | Male
    Coffinberry, Steven

    Born  Abt 1805  Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Virginia (now WV), Estimate Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died     
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    Coffinberry, Wright LewisChild 12 | Male
    Coffinberry, Wright Lewis

    Born  5 Apr 1807  Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  26 Mar 1889  Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Beach, Jane | F21888 
    Married  18 Aug 1831  Grand Rapids, MI Find all individuals with events at this location

    Coffinberry, Salathiel CurtisChild 13 | Male
    Coffinberry, Salathiel Curtis

    Born  26 Feb 1809  Lancaster, Fairfield, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  20 Sep 1889  Constantine, St. Joseph County, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried    Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Coffinberry, Artemisia | F21889 
    Married  18 Jan 1843  Richland, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location

    Coffinberry, Abram BitcherChild 14 | Male
    Coffinberry, Abram Bitcher

    Born  19 Aug 1811  Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  1851  Sacramento, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  Beach, Eliza | F21890 
    Married  7 Oct 1834  Richland, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location

  • Sources 
    1. [S256] My Ancestor George Ludwig (Lewis) Coffinberry, Marjorie McCaddon Constanz.

    2. [S142] Genealogy of the Coffinberry Family: Descendants of George Lewis Coffinberry (1760-1851) Revolutionary War Soldier, compiled by Mrs. Beatrice Berman Scott b. 1893, (Name: published 1927;), pages 8-11.
      [George Lewis Coffinberry] married December 5, 1786, at Martinsburg, West Virginia. Married Miss Elizabeth (Klein) Little, who was born near Alsace Loraine about 1769. Elizabeth Little believed herself to be a descendant of royalty. She was gifted with language and from her pen came forth at command prose and poetry, and her writings, if they had been cared for and published, most certainly would have made her known as a lady of letters in the western world.
      An item of interest to those of this present generation was the fact that in the days of Elizabeth Little, false teeth or plates were unknown and so she made her own teeth, by taking a cow’s horn and soaking it in water until flexible, then carefully shaping it to her mouth and by filing teeth in it, made a very serviceable set of lower and upper teeth. The only fault with these kind of teeth was the fact that they wore out too soon and the same performance had to be gone through with again.
      Elizabeth Little had a brother that we know of. A Mrs. Cope of Chattanooga, Tennessee, claims to be a descendant of this brother.

      ...

      ELIZABETH LITTLE COFFINBERRY, wife of George Lewis Coffinberry, was a blonde with blue eyes. Her hair kept its golden tinge until she was quite an old lady. Her father was George Kline (Little) and her mother was Elizabeth Truggat. They were both born in Strasburg, in Alsace, early in the eighteenth century, and were married there. They came to the town of Chambersburg in the colony of Penn, where they both died within six months after their settlement, leaving George Little, 2 years old, and Elizabeth, 6 months old.
      These children were taken to Martinsburg, Va., by their mother’s sister, who reared them and where George was married to Caroline Roush, and Elizabeth to George Lewis Coffinberry. The name of her family was originally Kline, but was later changed to Little. The word Kline means “little” in the German language. Elizabeth Little Coffinberry always told her children that some day they would come into a great heritage through her people, but just what this was I do not know.


    3. [S948] West Virginia, Marriages Index, 1785-1971, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;).
      Record for George Lewis Coffenberry