Coffinberry, Sarah

Coffinberry, Sarah

Female 1791 - 1870  (78 years)

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  • Name Coffinberry, Sarah  [1, 2
    Born 20 Jun 1791  Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Virginia (now WV), Estimate Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Died 1870  [1, 2
    Person ID I18348  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 21 Jan 2022 

    Father Coffinberry, George Lewis,   b. 10 Feb 1760, Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jul 1851, Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 91 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Little, Elizabeth,   b. 1769, Strasburg, Alsace-Loraine, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jun 1854, Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 5 Dec 1785  Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Family ID F7396  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Gilkison, John Creyton,   b. Between 1 Jun 1786 and 1789,   d. 1859  (Age 72 years) 
    Married 1808  [2
    Children 
     1. Gilkison, Allen Lewis  [natural]
     2. Gilkison, James Alexander  [natural]
     3. Gilkison, Mansfield Hedges,   b. 2 Feb 1811, Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Feb 1885, Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)  [natural]
     4. Gilkison, Hiram Nigh,   b. Between 1 Apr 1813 and 1818, Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1878  (Age 64 years)  [natural]
     5. Gilkison, Angeline Olivia,   b. 29 Mar 1818,   d. 3 Apr 1869  (Age 51 years)  [natural]
     6. Gilkison, John McCandles,   b. 15 Mar 1819, Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1900  (Age 80 years)  [natural]
     7. Gilkison, William Franklin,   b. 1821, Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
     8. Gilkison, Newton Young or Yarron,   b. 1824  [natural]
     9. Gilkison, Sarah Amanda,   b. 29 Sep 1827  [natural]
     10. Gilkison, Mary Ann,   b. 1832  [natural]
     11. Gilkison, Charles Carl,   b. 1833  [natural]
    Last Modified 21 Jan 2022 
    Family ID F7400  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Gilkison, John C. 
    Last Modified 21 Jan 2022 
    Family ID F7399  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 20 Jun 1791 - Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., Virginia (now WV), Estimate Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    JOHN CREYTON GILKISON AND SARAH COFFINBERRY GILKISON
    JOHN CREYTON GILKISON AND SARAH COFFINBERRY GILKISON
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  • Notes 


    • (Nancy and her. sister, Sarah, married brothers, James M. to Nancy and John C. to Sarah.)

  • Sources 
    1. [S108] Download - Coffinberry, Leslie Ann Kelly Edmunds, darryl_leslie@email.msn.com, (Name: GEDCOM Import;).
      Date of Import: Mar 10, 2001

    2. [S148] Gilkison Family Research, Maureen (Molly) McGuire Colson, (Name: GEDCOM Import;).
      Date of Import: Mar 26, 2001

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

    4. [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.


    5. [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