STANLY COUNTY, NC - HOFFMAN - Coble Homeplace
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From the Notebook of Lilly Carter Hoffman:
 
Jacob Coble was a son of David and Martha Coble. He was never married and he 
lived with his parents as long as they lived. Then he made his home with my 
grandparents, Ephraim and Mary Ann Catherine Efird Coble. When David Coble I 
died he left the homeplace, a farm of 307 acres of land to his grandson, 
Ephraim Coble who was then seventeen years of age. When Ephraim decided to 
marry, his grandmother Martha Coble refused to vacate her small home, so 
Ephraim with Coble slave labor built a new house, one end of which fastened to 
the Coble dwelling. The new Coble house was a story and a half with a long 
porch at the front leading to the old Coble home. I think the marriage took 
place in 1849 after the house was completed. Ephraim Coble and wife, Mary Ann 
Catherine Efird looked after his grandmother Martha until her death about 1851 
and then her son Jacob Coble moved into the new house with his nephew, Ephraim 
and remained there until his death in 1854.
Ephraim then remodeled the old Coble home into a kitchen and dining area for 
the Coble family. The slaves lived nearby in cabins built by David Coble I and 
the older slaves did most of the work. The Coble homestead was well taken care 
of for a century. Then in 1949 it burned.
 
Submitted by Jodie Gee