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George Lewis Coffinberry
(1760-1851)

 

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Elizabeth Kline

George Lewis Coffinberry 2

  • Born: 10 Feb 1760, Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA 2
  • Marriage: Elizabeth Kline on 5 Dec 1786 in Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA 1
  • Died: 1851, Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, USA at age 91 2

bullet   Another name for George was George Lewis Kaufenbaerger.

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bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• Military Service: during the Revolutionary War: , Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA. 1 2 Enlisted from Berkeley County at the age of 16 in Captain Culbert Anderson's company. He was in service in the Carolinas under General Nathaniel Green.

• Book: Genealogy of the Coffinberry Family, 1952. 1 George Lewis Coffinberry was a lawyer and was elected to the Legislature in Virginia about 1790. His name was Kaufenbaerger, and while he was serving in that capacity he petitioned the Legislature to change his name to Coffinberry, and it was granted. That is where the name Coffinberry originated and started from.


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George married Elizabeth Kline, daughter of George Kline and Elizabeth Truggat, on 5 Dec 1786 in Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA.1 (Elizabeth Kline was born circa 1769 in , , Alsace, France 1 and died circa 1858.)
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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 9.

2 Ibid, Page 8.

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