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Hello:
This is my first posting to the Coffield list. I have a list of the
following people and who they married thought perhaps it might be helpful.
Do not have references/documentation for these unless shown below.
Sarah Wyatt, dau of Samuel Wyatt and Rebecca Bennett m. James Coffelt,
1796, Greene Co., TN
Goldene Fillers Burgner, Greene Co., TN Marriages, 1783-1868. p. 10
Susannah Wyatt, d/o Samuel Wyatt and Rebecca Bennett m. Jacob Coffelt, 1804,
Greene Co., TN
John Bible m Rebecca Coffett, John Wilson, bondsman, 12 Jul 1797
Burgner, Greene Co., TN Marriages, p. 12
William Ray m. Mary Ann Coffet, Frederick Haile bondsman, 02 Jul 1801
Burgner, Greene Co., TN Marriages, p. 18
Henry Coffelt m Barbary Fare, Christopher Long bondsman, 22 Dec 1804
Burgner, Greene Co., TN Marriages, p 23
This came on another list. I enjoyed it very much and hope you do,
too.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
They think that I should cook and clean,
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I tell them it's more interesting
to study Grandpa's life.
They simply do not understand
why I hate to go to bed . . .
I'd rather do two hundred years
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Why waste the time we have on earth
just snoring and asleep?
When we can learn of ancestors
that sailed upon the deep?
We have Priests, Rabbis, lawmen, soldiers,
more than just a few.
And yes, there's many scoundrels,
and a bootlegger or two.
How can a person find this life
an awful drudge or bore?
When we can live the lives of all
those folks who came before?
A hundred years from now of course,
no one will ever know
Whether I did laundry,
but they'll see our Tree and glow . . .
'Cause their dear old granny left for them,
for all posterity,
not clean hankies and the like,
but a finished family tree.
My home may be untidy,
'cause I've better things to do . . .
I'm checking all the records
to provide us with a clue.
Old great granny's pulling roots
and branches out with glee,
Her clothes ain't hanging out to dry,
she's hung up on the Tree.
--Mel Oshins, via A Cohen
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Hi All,
Jean Pizarro and I have been wondering about a Briggs who seemed to be
in 2 places during one census. She did a little research for us so I
thought I would pass this on.
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Talking about census dates. I am going to write what I found in the
"Genealogy Bulletin", Number 35 Sep-Oct 1996. Their title article
"Census Records: Look Again!" is really wonderful. Here is what is said
about Census dates.
"In each enabling law authorizing a census to be taken, Congress
specified a "census day" for gathering the census information from each
household in America.
>From 1790 to 1820 the census day was the first Monday in August. The
census day was not the day the enumerator arrived at a household, it was
the day for which all the statistics of the census was collected. The
actual instructions given to all the U.S. Marshals prior to the 1820
census explains:
'...all the questions refer to the day when the enumeration is to
commence: the first Monday in August next. Your assistants will thereby
understand that they are to insert in their returns all the persons
belonging to the family on the first Monday in August, even those who
may be deceased at the time when they take the account; and, on the
other hand, that they will not include in it, infants born after that
day.'
These instructions meant that a census enumerator who showed up at a
house on Marth 7, 1821 - seven months after the census day -- was to
count the people who lived in that house as of August 7, 1820, the
census day, and include anyone who may have died after August
7th, but exclude any child who was born after August 7th.
Similar instructions have been given for every census 1790-1990, but
with different census days. The following table shows the census day
for each census, 1790-1920 and the time allowed to take the census.
YEAR CENSUS DAY TIME ALLOWED
1790 2 Aug 1790 9 months
1800 4 Aug 1800 9 months
1810 6 Aug 1810 10 months
1820 7 Aug 1820 13 months
1830 1 Jun 1830 12 months
1840 1 Jun 1840 18 months
1850 1 Jun 1850 5 months
1860 1 Jun 1860 5 months
1870 1 Jun 1870 5 months
1880 1 Jun 1880 1 month
1890 1 Jun 1890 1 month
1900 1 Jun 1900 1 month
1910 15 Apr 1910 1 month
1920 1 Jan 1920 1 month
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Got this off another mail list as it explained more about the problems
Jean and I are finding with the 1850 census.
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I'm not an expert, but the FTM people / GRA lookup services mention in
the info. they send out with their lookups that duplication is one of
the known problems with the 1850 census. To quote their sheet:
"Problems with the 1850 census:
Many census takers did not get around to their assigned districts until
late in 1850; some were as late as October and
November. Because of this an individual might be listed twice in the
census if he moved during the taking of the census."
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Now Jean and I have a question about the 1860 Darke Co, OH census.
Sarah Briggs age 61 is living with her son Isaac 22, both ages are
suspect as Sarah was 57 and Isaac was 20 in 1850. My question is about a
Coffelt Huff, no age listed in 1860 along with the above Briggs and
Lafeyette Huff age 30. Coffelt is a surname so I feel that there are
Coffelt/Coffields mixed in with the Briggs. Maybe Letitia was a Coffield
In case this isn't clear;
1850 Darke Co, OH
390-397
Sarah Briggs 57 PA
Isaac Briggs 20 OH
390-398
Lafeyette Huff 20 farmer OH
Letitia Huff 17 PA
1860 Darke Co, OH PA
Sarah Briggs 61
Isaac Briggs 22 OH
Isaac Huff 30 no place of birth listed
Coffelt Huff no age or place of birth listed
Any help on this will certainly be appreciated.
Sylvia