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- There is no direct connection to the following record but it is intriguing because of the similarity of the names. Julia Ann was used by two of Jacob Coffman's children to name grandchildren.
Joh. Jacob KAUFFMANN - International Genealogical Index/GE
Parents: Father: Joh. Jacob KAUFFMANN Mother: Juliana Catharina
Source Information:
Batch number: J986541 Dates: 1700-1799 Source Call No.: 0488291 Type: Film
Gender: M Christening: 14 Aug 1773 Evangelisch, Hassloch, Pfalz, Bayern
BIOGRAPHY: Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois & History of Hancock Co. Scofield Vol. 11; pg. 1186 Sketch of Aaron DeWitt: "...The grandparents of Mrs. DeWitt, Jacob and Ezra (Fowler) Coffman, were born in Kentucky, and he was a son of Jacob Coffman, a native of Germany. When Jacob Coffman, Mrs. DeWitt's grandfather was three years old the family started for Illinois, and when they reached the Illinois side of the Ohio River they were attacked by the Indians and old grandfather was killed. His wife, two sons and a negro servant escaped, fled to the woods and kept on traveling until the crow of a rooster told them they had reached a white settlement. They finally made their way to McDonough County, where they entered land from the government, but none of the survivors ever forgot their terrible experience with the hostile Red Men."
History of Sacramento County, 1890, by Winfield J. Davis, CA State Library #qc979 .453 D2; mfm#C115 #13 Book 2382; p. 479 From sketch of his son, Alfred Coffman: "The father Jacob, a native of Germany, came to this country when four years old and settled in Kentucky, where they subsisted by digging the ginseng and selling it, and hunting deer and dressing their skins. He was well acquainted with Daniel Boone. He moved to Illinois, and was there during the Black Hawk war [1832], in which he took part. He was the first man to settle in Burlington, Iowa, which place he found while swimming the Mississippi River after Indians for whom he had a deadly hatred. [I have found no record to substantiate this claim, however Isaac Crenshaw, a neighbor of Jacob's, did lead a party of Illinois settlers to the Burlington area. I have not yet checked early land claims but the histories of the area do not mention Jacob Coffman.] When sixty-two years of age he moved to Missouri, to a town called Jamestown, five miles from St. Joseph [Buchanan County]. [A banking and post town of Moniteau Co. 5 miles south of the Missouri River and 20 miles southeast of Boonville. 1900 population- 344. St. Joseph is over 140 miles away!] He became so fond of frontier life that he followed it until his death, which occurred in Illinois, at the age of seventy-two years. He shot his last deer in Illinois, while on horseback, shortly before his death. His son Alfred has the old rifle with which he killed the deer. Seven of the children of Jacob Coffman are living, the youngest being sixty six years of age."
MARRIAGE: 1805; Marriage Book I: 61 Washington Co. KY; Know all men by these presents that we Jacob Coffman and John Hungate are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency the Governor of Kentucky in the sum of fifty pounds current money to the payment of which ____ and truly to be made to the said Governor and his successors we bind our selves our heirs to jointly and severally firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and sealed this 18th day of April 1805. The condition of this obligation is such that whereas there is a marriage shortly intended between the above bound Jacob Coffman and Arey Fowler for which a license has issued now if there be no careful cause to obstruct the said marriage then the obligation to be void or else to remain in full force and virtue.
Witness John Reed
Jacob Coffman Seal
John Hungate Seal
also found in Bounty Land file from National Archives.
Residence: 1818-1829 Jefferson Co. IL per son William's obituary Shawneetown, Jefferson Co. per daughter Mary's obituary.
Residence: 1823 Son Alfred says he was born in Hamilton Co., IL in 1823.
Census: 1820 Check Jefferson Co. IL
Census: 1830 IL McDonough Co., 7N-4W; Jacob Coffman, head; male 50-60[Jacob 50]; 1 female 40- 50[Eary 45]; 1 male 15-20[Thomas 17]; 2 males 10-15[William 15 and Henry 12]; 1 female 10-15[ Dorcas 13]; 1 male 5-10[Alfred 7]; The following children were not enumerated in the household in 1830: Elizabeth 24, Nancy 23, Mary 22 and Leroy 20.
Census: 1830 Illinois, Schuyler Co.; There is a Jacob Coffman listed on pg.
96 line 22 per index found by Jane Risser.
Occupation: "At the special election held August 7, [1830] in the several Magistrate's Districts...In the Third district...were elected...Francis Reading and Jacob Coffman, Constables; History of McDonough County, IL, by S.J.
Clarke, Springfield, IL, D.W. Lusk, State Printer and Binder, 1878, p. 22, SUTRO mfm 292-ree l 56-book218
Residence: Came to McDonough 1830 and erected a cabin on section 8, Blandinsville Township. After a few years residence removed to Missouri. History of McDonough Co. IL, Continental historical co., 1885, p. 861, SUTRO mfm 292-reel 56-book 219; 1907 history lists him as living on section 3, Historical Encyclopedia of IL and History of McDonough Co., Alexander McLean, Editor, Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1907, p. 670 SUTRO mfm 292-reel 55- book 217
Occupation: Jacob Coffman was either a party in court cases or a juryman, 1832 to 1836 in Fountain Green Township; History of Hancock Co., 1880 Gregg, pg. 819.
Residence: 1833; Jacob and Eary's daughter, Dorcas married Charles Duncan in McDonough Co. 1 0 Nov 1833; IGI-IL p. 5133; Jan 1992.
Census: 1840 Not in McDonough maybe in MO. Daughter, Elizabeth's husband was from Leavenworth, _______ Co., MO. Biography mentions St. Joseph,______ Co. and Jamestown, Moniteau Co.
Census: 1850 IL McDonough Co., p. 256a house 372; occupation farmer; age 70; b. VA; Evry, age 65 b. MD
Military: Served as private in Black Hawk War in McDonough County battalion of mounted rangers commanded by Major Samuel Bogart. Received from the government a bounty of eighty acres of land. History of McDonough Co. IL Continental historical co., 1885, p. 119, SUTRO, mfm 292 -reel 56-book 219.
Military: "I certify that Jacob Coffman volunteered as a Mounted Ranger into the service of the United States on the Eleventh day of June 1832, and served as a private in my company in the Odd Battalion, commanded by Major Samuel Bogart, and discharged therefrom on the Fourth day of Sept. 1832.
Given under my hand this 14th day of Sept. 1832.
Peter Butler Capt.
The information above was received from the National Archives.
Birth-DEATH-Burial: Hillsborough Cemetery, McDonough Co., Illinois; corner of 100 E and 215 0 N; Section 19 Blandinsville Twp.; inscription: Jacob Coffman, Died Mar 26, 1852, Aged 71 yr s. 5 mos. 11 days
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1780 - 1852 (71 years)
