Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Jacob COFFMAN

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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JACOB COFFMAN - deceased - was born in Greenbrier County, in 1807, Michael COFFMAN, 
his father, one of the earliest and most prominent settlers here. The old COFFMAN
farm is situated about four miles south from Lewisburg, and a part of which is 
now owned by Mason D. COFFMAN, who is engaged in its cultivation. It is for him
this sketch is compiled, and he is the only survivor of the family, and is unmarried.
He was a child of the late Jacob COFFMAN by his third wife, and was born in Greenbrier
County, March 9, 1858. His mother's maiden name was Mary HEDRICK, and she was born
in Greenbrier County, November 2, 1817, and became the wife of Mr. COFFMAN on the 
8th of June 1848. Jacob COFFMAN died August 26, 1858, and his widow died September
7, 1872. The COFFMAN family have always maintained a high reputation for all those 
characteristics that distinguish the Virginian, and the present representative of 
the family is held in the community. Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, West Virginia,
is Mason D. COFFMAN's post office address.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.