This oil portrait of Zebulon B. Coffin, my second great grandfather, has hung in my living room since shortly after we moved into this house in 1983. Before that it spent I don’t know how much time in several attics. …
I recently connected with a possible relative through DNA testing. Our mitochondrial DNA looks vaguely like there is a connection, so we have been emailing about possible shared ancestors. While exchanging surnames, the Coffin line looked promising (although not my …
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Susan Wilcox was the last of my direct female ancestors to have migrated from Nantucket to Cincinnati in the early 1800s. She was about 14 years old when her mother (Phebe Foye), step-father (Thomas Myrick), and 3 half-siblings moved off …
Abigail Butler Coffin is my third female ancestor who migrated with her husband and children from Nantucket to Cincinnati in the early 1800s. She came with four or five young children (the birth date of one son isn’t well recorded). …
As I said in the brief story of Sarah last month, she was a widow in her 50s with young and unmarried children still in her care when she left Nantucket and migrated to Cincinnati. While I don’t know the …