George Kline
Elizabeth Truggat
George Lewis Coffinberry
(1760-1851)
Elizabeth Kline
(1768-Abt 1858)
Mary Coffinberry
(1787-1861)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Abram Bitcher

Mary Coffinberry 1 2

  • Born: 2 Sep 1787, Martinsburg, Berkeley, WV 1 3
  • Marriage (1): Abram Bitcher in 1803
  • Died: 1861, Lancaster, Fairfield, OH at age 74 1 3

   Other names for Mary were Mary Coffinbury 4 and Polly Coffinbury.5

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Book: Genealogy of the Coffinberry Family, 1952. 1
Mary (Polly) Coffinberry was born September 2, 1787. (Died 1861.) She married a Swiss by the name of Abram Bitcher. At this time the name Bitcher was pronounced Pitcher; but a generation or so later it was changed to Beecher, which descendants now bear. Mary Coffinberry married Abram Bitcher in the year 1803. He was born in 1782 and died in 1844. ___ children were born of this union. I am not positive, but think that the names which follow are those of the children of Mary Coffinberry: Abram, George, Burke, Gilruth, Jane, Eliza, Sara Lucinda.
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Mary married Abram Bitcher in 1803. (Abram Bitcher was born in 1782 in Basle, , , CHE 1 3 and died in 1844 1 3.)

Sources

1 Scott, Beatrice Berman, Genealogy of the Coffinberry Family (Cleveland, Ohio: F.A. Myers, 1952, 64 pgs. Online at Heritage Quest Book Search.), Page 18.

2 History of Virgo County, Indiana (History of Vigo County, Indiana : with biographical selections
Chicago: S.B. Nelson & Co., 1891, 1016 pgs.), Page 680-681.

3 Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.), Application 98493 October 15, 1969 of Herbert LeRoy Smith Jr. Descendant of George Lewis Coffinberry.

4 Logan Esarey, William F. Cronin, History of Indiana from Its Exploration to 1922 (Published 1922. Dayton Historical Publishing Co. Available online via Google Book Search.), Page 216.

5 Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.), Application 45214 October 25, 1927 of William George Kerr Descendant of George Lewis Coffinberry.


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