Surname COFFMAN family research.
State of Kentucky ~ Brief History ~ as it applies to Coffman research Prior 1772 A few American settlers had moved into the region of present-day Kentucky prior to the completion of the western portion of the border survey between Virginia and North Carolina in 1748. 1772 Kentucky was under
Free Land! Small registration Fee. Just take up residence on the land, improve it—and it is yours! The Homestead Act of 1862 drew people like my great-great-grandfather, Harmon Coffman, to migrate from one state to another. In his case from Kentucky to Missouri. And I suspect that many people did
A few years after the migration from Virginia to Kentucky, people again moved from there to Missouri. My Coffman lineage came to Missouri from Kentucky during its third major migration wave which “was between 1820 and 1860 when the Ohio-Mississippi-Missouri river system and the extension of the Cumberland Road to
~ In Table form Below are Harmon Coffman’s found during research. There were so many of them, I had to chart them to keep it straight. Undocumented information is entered in italics. First/Middle Name Birth Death ParentsFather & Mother Spouse(s) Residences Harmon 1802 VA 15-Feb-1880 MO Abraham Coffman Elinder (Ellender)
An absolutely fascinating page on German naming conventions has shed a great deal of light on why you find two or three different names for the same person. His explanations on John is worth the reading alone! We’ve all found the same name occurring over and over again within a