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Surnames: coffield
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QSJ.2ACIB/6.7.9.15.37.1
Message Board Post:
Hi Sandra,
My grandfather was Timothius Cofield/Coffield of
Savannah Georgia. He married Mary Gilchrist. He was
born around 1890 and could be the son of one of the
men you are researching. If I can be of further help,
let me know.
Richard Lovin, son of Yvonne Coffield.
email: n7viy@ yahoo.com
JOSHUA COFFIELD, another energetic descendant of pioneers who left the
Emerald Isle to make a home in America, is a prosperous farmer of East
Finley township, and a grandson of John Coffield, who was born in County
Leitrim, Ireland, about 1757. He was one of five brothers who were famous
for their physical powers, and had no equals in their native county for
muscular strength. He was a man of massive frame, a splendid specimen of
well-developed manhood. Mr. Coffield was married in Ireland, and had nine
children. In 1798 he took passage on the ship "Happy Return," which was
very filthy and carried all kinds of freight, but as he was a poor man
the cheapest had to suffice. After the vessel was a few weeks out,
drinking water became scarce, and before the voyage (which lasted three
months) was ended, nearly one-third of the crew and some of the
passengers died, three of Mr. Coffield's children being among the number.
At last the terrible journey was ended, and the family landed at New
Castle, Del., near which place they lived for a time, doing farm work,
but the father soon after died, and the five children (Arthur, Lawrence,
James, Ann and Elizabeth) were obliged to earn a living for themselves
and their widowed mother, by working their way, the family finally
reached Washington county, Penn., and first located near Washington
borough, where they remained a short time, then came to East Finley
township, and locating on the present farm of J. Wiley Patterson, the
boys began to clear the land and make a home. The mother died in 1811,
and the children (all except Arthur) grew to an adult age and married.
Lawrence Coffield was married in 1810, to Elizabeth Rawden (who was born
in 1773), whose parents came from Ireland in the same ship as the family
of John Coffield. To their union were born children as follows: John
(moved to Illinois and died in Adams county, in 1891); Joshua (subject of
this sketch); Thomas (a farmer in Belmont county, Ohio, deceased in
1887); James, Jane and Elizabeth (all three deceased in infancy). After
his marriage Mr. Coffield located on the home farm in East Finley
township, where he resided until 1846, when his wife died, and he removed
to Adams county, III., and there died in 1848.
Joshua Coffield was born in East Finley township, this county, January
17, 1813, and passed his boyhood on his father's farm, receiving but a
limited education, which he improved by cultivating his natural
inclination for reading. After the death of his father he purchased the
old "Rawden farm," on the head waters of Wheeling creek, which had been
previously entered by his maternal grandfather. Mr. Coffield enjoys the
esteem of all who know him, and though well advanced in years can do a
day's work which would do credit to many younger men. Politically he was
formerly a Whig, and is now a stanch supporter of the Republican party.
Text taken from page 1047 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington
County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).
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