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Re: Catherine Demasters/Reuben Lee Campbell (Parents of Charles Palmer Campbell)
Carol--
Question--in your "Saga" you state:
There was another Jesse DeMasters usually shown as Jesse K. DeMasters born 1835 who married Elizabeth "Betty" DeMasters 1859 in Augusta Co. This Elizabeth/Betty was a sister of the above mentioned Jesse and Catherine, children of John & Mary. The father of Jesse K. DeMasters b 1835 was James DeMasters, this from Jesse's marriage record. This Jesse K. DeMasters also enlisted at Massies Mill on the same day as the other Jesse, however this one was discharged in 1862.
I wonder if Jesse K.'s parents were James and Elizabeth Tilford Demastus???? The time frame would be right. James and Mary (?) Demastus of Revolutionary time would have been too old to be his parents and I show that their son Jesse married Easter Horn and had three children none of whom were named Jesse. James and Elizabeth Tilford Demastus are of the right ages to have had a children born 1835 and 1838. James was born in 1785 which would have made him 50 - 53 when Jesse and Mary Katherine were born; Elizabeth would have been 49 - 52. I would presume that Jesse K. and Mary Katherine were their youngest children. This would also make sense because of the marriage traditions of the time where cousins married cousins. Jesse K. and Elizabeth would have been first cousins as their fathers were brothers (James 1785 and John 1796).
What do you think of that theory? Is there anyone you know of that we might confirm this with???
Deb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Harlow" <charlow1(a)ntelos.net>
To: "Deborah Tower" <dbtower(a)cox.net>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: Catherine Demasters/Reuben Lee Campbell (Parents of Charles Palmer Campbell)
> Deb,
> I am attaching a brief outline of this DeMasters saga.
> Carol
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deborah Tower" <dbtower(a)cox.net>
> To: "Carol Harlow" <charlow1(a)ntelos.net>; <Campbell-L(a)rootsweb.com>;
> <Coffey-L(a)rootsweb.com>; <demastus-L(a)rootsweb.com>; <Coffee-L(a)rootsweb.com>;
> <Demasters-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Catherine Demasters/Reuben Lee Campbell (Parents of Charles
> Palmer Campbell)
>
>
>> Okay Carol--
>>
>> Where to start??? Based on your most recent message it would appear that
>> the Catherine you say was married to Reuben Lee Campbell is one and the
> same
>> as Mary Katherine who married George Washington Coffey. I have compared
> her
>> siblings against those I have to the John and Mary Anne "Polly" Coffey
>> Demasters (d/o of Edmund F. & Elizabeth Burgher Coffey) and they are all
> the
>> same. I only have a DOB for her, no DOD unfortunately. My information
> has
>> come from family members old enough to have known her and passed down
>> through the generations via bible records. I have never seen anything to
>> indicate that she had ever been married to anyone other than George
>> Washington Coffey. As I understand it, the family land located in Chicken
>> Hollow that has passed through 7 or 8 generations actually belonged, at
> one
>> time, to the Demasters/us family and was part of an original land grant
> from
>> Revolutionary War time period. When John and Mary died the land was
> divided
>> between the children and when Catherine died it passed into the Coffey
>> family.
>>
>> However, I don't believe that the Catherine married to Reuben Campbell is
>> the same as Mary Katherine (d/o John and Mary Anne Coffey Demasters, d/o
>> Edmund F. and Elizabeth Burgher Coffey) for several reasons. First, you
>> indicated that the Catherine married to Reubin died in 1856. This doesn't
>> jive with my date for Mary Catherine who was born abt 1839, married G. W.
>> Coffey 11/1/1856 and had a total of 10 children the youngest of which was
>> born in 1880. I'm thinking that the other John Demasters married to a
> Mary
>> (?) that I have is possibly a better match. That info is as follows:
>>
>> 1 John Demastus
>> .. +Mary (?)
>> ........ 2 Jesse Demastus 1841 -
>> ............ +Marletia Coffey 1843 -
>>
>> The only common denominator I see that might tell us who was related to
> who
>> is possibly Jesse Demastus (who would have been Catherine's brother) since
>> my Mary Katherine also had a brother by that name born about the same
> time.
>> That info is as follows:
>>
>> 1 John Demasters 1796 - 1870
>> .. +Mary Anne Coffey 1806 - 1879
>> ........ 2 Jesse Demastus 1838 -
>> ............ +Bettie (?)
>> ................... 3 Luke C. Demastus 1860 - 1920
>> ....................... +Anna Bell Coffey 1870 - 1901
>> ............................. 4 [6] Fannie Demastus 1900 - 1952
>> ................................. +[5] Alvin Reynolds Coffey 1895 - 1956
>> ........................................ 5 [7] Oakley W. Coffey 1920 -
>> ............................................ +[8] Doris Mae Wayland
>> .................................................. 6 [9] John Michael
> Coffey
>> .................................................. 6 [10] Ronald Coffey
>> 1945 -........................................ 5 [11] Lorene Virginia
> Coffey
>> 1922 -........................................ 5 [12] Betty Celene Coffey
>> 1924 -............................................ +[13] Charles H.
> Matheny
>> .................................................. 6 [14] Gloria Jean
>> Matheny
>> .................................................. 6 [15] Joyce Ann
> Matheny
>> ........................................ 5 [16] DeWitt Malcolm Coffey
>> 1926 -............................................ +[17] Helen Marie
> Maupin
>> .................................................. 6 [18] Dennis DeWitt
>> Coffey 1948 - 1998
>> ...................................................... +[19] (?)
>> Higginbotham
>> .................................................. 6 [20] William Douglas
>> Coffey 1952 - 1959
>> .................................................. 6 [21] Bruce Malcolm
>> Coffey 1954 -
>> ........ *2nd Wife of Jesse Demastus:
>> ............ +Laticia Coffey 1964
>>
>> What do you think of this argument????? Maybe someone else out there can
>> shed some light on exactly who Catherine's parents of John and Mary Anne
>> "Polly" Coffey Demasters were, who they descended from, etc.
>>
>> Deb
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Carol Harlow" <charlow1(a)ntelos.net>
>> To: "Deborah Tower" <dbtower(a)cox.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:32 AM
>> Subject: Re: Catherine Demasters
>>
>>
>> > Catherine DeMasters d/o Joho & Mary "Polly" Coffey DeMasters had
> siblings
>> > Peter; Edmond; Elizabeth; John: Martha; Jesse. I don't know who
> Johs )the
>> > father) parents were, it is one of my dead ends. Mary "Polly" Coffey
> and
>> > d/o Edmond Coffey and Elizabeth Burger.
>> > I don't have parents of Mary Katherine DeMasters who married George W.
>> > Coffey, I would dearly love to have this information.
>> > Carol
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Deborah Tower" <dbtower(a)cox.net>
>> > To: "Carol Harlow" <charlow1(a)ntelos.net>
>> > Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:53 PM
>> > Subject: Catherine Demasters
>> >
>> >
>> >> Carol--
>> >>
>> >> Would Catherine Demasters, d/o John and Mary Anne Polly Coffey
> Demasters
>> > be
>> >> the same Mary Katherine Demasters that married George Washington Coffey
>> >> (January 1836 - June 1910) on 11/1/1856???? I don't think it is since
>> > Mary
>> >> Katherine was born in 1839.
>> >>
>> >> Or would she have been the d/o John Demastus and Mary who had a son
> named
>> >> Jesse born in August 1841? (Jesse married a Marletia Coffey
> 12/25/1862).
>> >>
>> >> I don't have any other John Demasters/us married to a Mary Anne Polly
>> >> Coffey.
>> >>
>> >> Deb
>>
>>
>>
>
Okay Carol--
Where to start??? Based on your most recent message it would appear that
the Catherine you say was married to Reuben Lee Campbell is one and the same
as Mary Katherine who married George Washington Coffey. I have compared her
siblings against those I have to the John and Mary Anne "Polly" Coffey
Demasters (d/o of Edmund F. & Elizabeth Burgher Coffey) and they are all the
same. I only have a DOB for her, no DOD unfortunately. My information has
come from family members old enough to have known her and passed down
through the generations via bible records. I have never seen anything to
indicate that she had ever been married to anyone other than George
Washington Coffey. As I understand it, the family land located in Chicken
Hollow that has passed through 7 or 8 generations actually belonged, at one
time, to the Demasters/us family and was part of an original land grant from
Revolutionary War time period. When John and Mary died the land was divided
between the children and when Catherine died it passed into the Coffey
family.
However, I don't believe that the Catherine married to Reuben Campbell is
the same as Mary Katherine (d/o John and Mary Anne Coffey Demasters, d/o
Edmund F. and Elizabeth Burgher Coffey) for several reasons. First, you
indicated that the Catherine married to Reubin died in 1856. This doesn't
jive with my date for Mary Catherine who was born abt 1839, married G. W.
Coffey 11/1/1856 and had a total of 10 children the youngest of which was
born in 1880. I'm thinking that the other John Demasters married to a Mary
(?) that I have is possibly a better match. That info is as follows:
1 John Demastus
.. +Mary (?)
........ 2 Jesse Demastus 1841 -
............ +Marletia Coffey 1843 -
The only common denominator I see that might tell us who was related to who
is possibly Jesse Demastus (who would have been Catherine's brother) since
my Mary Katherine also had a brother by that name born about the same time.
That info is as follows:
1 John Demasters 1796 - 1870
.. +Mary Anne Coffey 1806 - 1879
........ 2 Jesse Demastus 1838 -
............ +Bettie (?)
................... 3 Luke C. Demastus 1860 - 1920
....................... +Anna Bell Coffey 1870 - 1901
............................. 4 [6] Fannie Demastus 1900 - 1952
................................. +[5] Alvin Reynolds Coffey 1895 - 1956
........................................ 5 [7] Oakley W. Coffey 1920 -
............................................ +[8] Doris Mae Wayland
.................................................. 6 [9] John Michael Coffey
.................................................. 6 [10] Ronald Coffey
1945 -........................................ 5 [11] Lorene Virginia Coffey
1922 -........................................ 5 [12] Betty Celene Coffey
1924 -............................................ +[13] Charles H. Matheny
.................................................. 6 [14] Gloria Jean
Matheny
.................................................. 6 [15] Joyce Ann Matheny
........................................ 5 [16] DeWitt Malcolm Coffey
1926 -............................................ +[17] Helen Marie Maupin
.................................................. 6 [18] Dennis DeWitt
Coffey 1948 - 1998
...................................................... +[19] (?)
Higginbotham
.................................................. 6 [20] William Douglas
Coffey 1952 - 1959
.................................................. 6 [21] Bruce Malcolm
Coffey 1954 -
........ *2nd Wife of Jesse Demastus:
............ +Laticia Coffey 1964
What do you think of this argument????? Maybe someone else out there can
shed some light on exactly who Catherine's parents of John and Mary Anne
"Polly" Coffey Demasters were, who they descended from, etc.
Deb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Harlow" <charlow1(a)ntelos.net>
To: "Deborah Tower" <dbtower(a)cox.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:32 AM
Subject: Re: Catherine Demasters
> Catherine DeMasters d/o Joho & Mary "Polly" Coffey DeMasters had siblings
> Peter; Edmond; Elizabeth; John: Martha; Jesse. I don't know who Johs )the
> father) parents were, it is one of my dead ends. Mary "Polly" Coffey and
> d/o Edmond Coffey and Elizabeth Burger.
> I don't have parents of Mary Katherine DeMasters who married George W.
> Coffey, I would dearly love to have this information.
> Carol
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deborah Tower" <dbtower(a)cox.net>
> To: "Carol Harlow" <charlow1(a)ntelos.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:53 PM
> Subject: Catherine Demasters
>
>
>> Carol--
>>
>> Would Catherine Demasters, d/o John and Mary Anne Polly Coffey Demasters
> be
>> the same Mary Katherine Demasters that married George Washington Coffey
>> (January 1836 - June 1910) on 11/1/1856???? I don't think it is since
> Mary
>> Katherine was born in 1839.
>>
>> Or would she have been the d/o John Demastus and Mary who had a son named
>> Jesse born in August 1841? (Jesse married a Marletia Coffey 12/25/1862).
>>
>> I don't have any other John Demasters/us married to a Mary Anne Polly
>> Coffey.
>>
>> Deb