SENT BY AMOS HIATT
SENT BY AMOS HIATT
SENT BY AMOS HIATT
(1893.) WILLIAM HIATT COFFIN (720.) (192.) (28.) (3.) (1.):
b. 26-9mo-1825, Wayne Co., Indiana, m. (1st). l6-10mo-1854, to SARAH WILSON; d. 10mo-1901; m. (2nd). LINDA COBB; b. 21-12mo-1839.CH: (By first wife). (3814.) John W.; (3815.) William H.; (3816.) Albert; (3817.) Robert; (3818.) Frank.
Discrepancy as to last names of spouses, at this time I will not change and need futher documentation. Since my last data was taken from close family members will leave for now. In review. Larry Anderson 16 April 2013
Sent by Amos Hiatt and Margaret Hawkins. See Harmon Hiatt record, 1895.
William was a farmer and traded largely in cattle somewhere in Kansas. Have no record of his marriage or further life.William Hiatt Coffin lived (1825-1925), son of Elijah and Naomi, father of William Henry Coffin. His goal was to have saved $1000.00 for every year he'd lived by the time he died. He lectured at University in Whittier, CA when he was almost 100 years old.
Information from Willard Heiss's "ABSTRACTS OF THE RECORDS OF SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN INDIANA" says William H. and wife Sarah with children John, William Henry, Albert, and Robert B. received on certificate from Whitewater Monthly Meeting, Wayne Co., IN to Milford Monthly Meeting, Wayne Co., IN. On 27 Jul 1858, William H. and wife Sarah set off to Kansas Monthly Meeting, Kansas.
moved to KS in Nov. 1855
D/o John Wilson and Ann Calloway.
(1893.) WILLIAM HIATT COFFIN (720.) (192.) (28.) (3.) (1.):
b. 26-9mo-1825, Wayne Co., Indiana, m. (1st). l6-10mo-1854, to SARAH WILSON; d. 10mo-1901; m. (2nd). LINDA COBB; b. 21-12mo-1839.CH: (By first wife). (3814.) John W.; (3815.) William H.; (3816.) Albert; (3817.) Robert; (3818.) Frank.
Discrepancy as to last names of spouses, at this time I will not change and need futher documentation. Since my last data was taken from close family members will leave for now. In review. Larry Anderson 16 April 2013
Sent by Amos Hiatt and Margaret Hawkins. See Harmon Hiatt record, 1895.
William was a farmer and traded largely in cattle somewhere in Kansas. Have no record of his marriage or further life.William Hiatt Coffin lived (1825-1925), son of Elijah and Naomi, father of William Henry Coffin. His goal was to have saved $1000.00 for every year he'd lived by the time he died. He lectured at University in Whittier, CA when he was almost 100 years old.
Information from Willard Heiss's "ABSTRACTS OF THE RECORDS OF SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN INDIANA" says William H. and wife Sarah with children John, William Henry, Albert, and Robert B. received on certificate from Whitewater Monthly Meeting, Wayne Co., IN to Milford Monthly Meeting, Wayne Co., IN. On 27 Jul 1858, William H. and wife Sarah set off to Kansas Monthly Meeting, Kansas.
moved to KS in Nov. 1855
Linda m. (1st) Mr. Cobb.
Sent by Amos Hiatt and Margaret Hawkins, Barbara Hiatt and Roger Boone.
Found in Harmon Hiatt records, 1895.
Elijah Coffin was well educated and an accomplished school teacher. (He was the second teacher in my early life) He was a clerk of Indiana yearly meeting of Friends for many years. He was cashier of the Richmond branch of the old State Bank of Indiana during the life of its charter, and he closed it up without one cent of loss. A precise and honest business man, and after a useful life, he died at Richmond.
S/o Bethuel Coffin and Hannah Dicks
North Carolina to Indiana by Charles F. Coffin
In the spring of 1818 my father, Elijah Coffin made a journey on horseback from North Carolina to Indiana and back. During this journey, he saw different parts of the State and looked from that time towards to removing. He married two years lter and continued to reside in Guilford Co., North Carolina until 1824, when he says in his Journal, "My wife's father, Benajah Hiatt, having determinted to removed to the western country with his family, we set off together, leaving our native state in the eighth month of 1824. We were favored to reach the neighborhood of Milford, Indiana, in about four weeks, in which we settled and I took up a school in the village of Milton."
They left their native State with great regret. While the soil in many
places had become inpoverished it had a delightful climate and beautiful
forest, and their friends and associates of a life-time resided there, but the existence of slavery and the consequent troubles likely to arise, led them to remove to a free state.
My father and mother at the time had two children, Miriam Allison, aged
about three and one half years, and Charles Fisher, aged eighteen months.
When it was found that they had settled on removal, a number of their
friends joined the party which finally increased, including children and grown folks, to about forty. There were no public conveyances, between the two states and turnpike roads were unknown at the time. In order to preform the journey they procured two horse wagons, covered with white cotton cloth to protect them from the rain and weather. Such wagons were very fimiliar in
Indiana a few years later, 1830-40 and 1850, as there were large numbers of
movers passing frequently over the National Road from Ohio to Indiana to the
western states. They camped out at night and took with them only such bedding, tents and clothing as seemed essential. They had also to provide articles of food which would supply them through the journey, gathering on the way additional provisions a they needed for themselves and their horses. No doubt they presented a picturesque and interesting appearance as the large number of wagons passed in procession along the way. They averaged probably twenty to thirty miles a day and when night came usually stopped beside a stream. There they could obtain a supply of water, erected their tents and spent the night. They traveled slowly and had to frequently double the teams that is taking four horses upon on wagon and going back for the other. Of course, when able to do so, they walked and I have heard my aunt Esther Hiatt (afterwards Dickinson,) who was a young girl at the time, tell of leading me up the mountains which, of course, must have been very slowly as I was a small child.
It was in many respects a wearisome way of traveling, but had its
compensations. They enjoyed the outdoors life and the interesting scenery
through which they passed, and when they camped at night there was quite a
circle around the campfire, for enjoyment and rest after they had partaken of
the evening meal. They took their course through western North Carolina and a portion of Virginia to the Cumberland Gap, through which they passed into the Blue Grass region of Kentucky here they found a road which had been traveled for many years, entitled "The Wilderness Road" upon which they continued their journey to the Ohio River at Cincinnati, crossing the river, they traveled through a portion of Ohio and Indiana to their destination in Wayne Co., Indiana, to the village of Milton.
The facts here narrated were gathered during the lifetime in conversation
with my parents and those who accompanied them. I am indebted to my sister,
Mary Coffin Johnson, for the following:
"Our aged Uncle John Hiatt, just before his death, gave many particluars of the migrating colony from North Carolina to Indiana. He recalled the long
tedious journey with great clearness, and indeed made the narrative so
interesting that I fortunately took notes of what he said from which I
extracted the following:
The emigrant colony numbered, as has already been stated about forty,
including children, who were all members of the Society of Friends, and born
and brought up in Guilford and Randolph Counties, N.C. Many of these were near kindred. They started from Guilford Co., on the 20th of August 1824, and were four or five weeks on the journey, reaching Milton, Wayne County, Indiana very early in October. Milton was then but a hamlet containing a few log houses. There were in the company the following:
Benajah Hiatt, Elizabeth his wife, and their two daughters Esther and Hanna Hiatt. Joel Hiatt and Charity (William) Hiatt, mother of Benajah Hiatt, she was upwards of 74 years af age. She lived in Indiana fifteen and a half years.
Elijah Coffin, Naomi (Hiatt) Coffin, his wife, and their two children
Miriam Allison and Charles Fisher.
John Hiatt, Rebecca Hiatt, his wife ( Rebecca was the daughter of Josiah and Anna Britton Unthank) they had been married but six months.
The Hiatt party had one covered wagon and one carriage. They carried a tent in which the family slept every night, except two, during the entire journey.
The bride Rebecca and her husband lodged in the wagon.
Lydia Jessup, a young woman who was brought up by Benajah and Elizabeth
Hiatt Miriam Macy, a near relative. Driver Boon, Anna Boon, his wife and two
children Rachel and Rhoda. Michael Weasner, his wife, and four children.
1) Michael Jr., 2) Abagail, 3) Jonathan, and 4) Ruth.
Mrs. Mendenhall, mother of Mrs. Weasner. Isaac Hodson, a single young man, Levi Bowman, single young man, Lydia Gordon, single young woman, Miriam
Baldwin, a single young woman, and Aaron Stanley.
While traveling in the mountains in Virginia on the way they camped in the vicinity of Joseph Hiatt and visited him and his family. Joseph Hiatt was the youngest child of our great great grandparents, George and Martha (Wakefield) Hiatt. He never removed from Virginia.
Our parents spoke in after life of the toilsome journey over the mountains, and the of the grand, wild scenery. The road, when there was one, was an exceedingly poor and rough one. The trails were bad and there were no bridges. They were forced to hitch logs to trees they cut by their way, for breaks to the wagons when descending the steep rugged places.
The few mountaineers they saw were living in rude cabins, on an exceedingly low plane of civilization and morality, steeped in ignorance, shiftless and coarse.
Drink was the prevailing curse. They raised small patches of barley and
Indian corn, from which they manufactured liquors in domestic stills, erected on the springs, brooks and creeks.
With few exceptions, these Quakers emigrants were all young active persons, enjoying excellent health and of good habits. They were a valuable addition to early settlement of the then young State of Indiana.
There is a Coffin Family Newsletter by David Coffin: 8907 Mohawk Lane,
Bethesda, Maryland 20817-3519Line in Record @I49236@ (RIN 49229) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
EVEN
TYPE Get Certifcate to
DATE 14 AUG 1824
PLAC Wayne County, Indiana, Whitewater MM.
Taken from HH Book
(720.) NAOMI HIATT (192.) (28.) (3.) (1.):
b. 15-11mo-1797, Guilford Co., NC.; d. 14-6mo-1866, Richmond, Wayne Co., Indiana; m. 2-2mo-1820, Guilford Co., NC., to ELIJAH COFFIN, son of Bethuel and Hannah (Dicks). Coffin; b. 17-11mo-1793, Guilford Co., NC.; d. 22-1mo-1862, Richmond, Wayne Co., Indiana. To Indiana 1824; he was a banker.CH: (1891.) Miriam Allinson; (1892.) Charles Fisher; (1893.) William Hiatt; (1894.) Eliphalet; (1895.) Caroline Elizabeth; (1896.) Mary C.; (1897.) Hannah Amalia.
New Garden Mo. Mtg., Guilford Co., NC.:
2-2mo-1820 - Naomi Hiatt, d/o Benajah and Elizabeth, Guilford Co., m. Elijah Coffin. (R45).Sent by Margaret Hawkins, Thomas Hamm.
Tribute to the Memory of my Mother
by Charles F. Coffin.
The word Mother arouses in me the most tender and affectionate recollections. My love for her knew no bounds. We were connected not only by natural ties, but by years of close union, freedom and love. I could always approach her in times of trouble, as well as joy, with confidence and recieved words of comfort, cheer and appreciation. Her memory is precious to me, and I have prepared the following tribute to her for the benefit of her numerous descendants, who never saw her, or had the opportunity to know much about her. Jan 1908.Naomi Coffin was the daughter of Benajah and Elizabeth Hiatt. She was the eldest of a family of ten children. Her father was a saddle and harness maker and always had some appretices who formed part of his family. Their house was an open one for friends, as well as strangers, and they rarely spent a night without some one outside of the family being with them.
Her parents were deeply religious people, her father a minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends, and a great reader and student of the Bible. She was thus trained to a thorough Christian life and a full knowledge of the Bible. As she grew to womanhood, she became impressed with a feeling that she was a sinner and needed a change of heart, and on one occasion while passing through a wood became so impressed with her condition as to kneel down by the side of a log and pour out her soul to God in prayer. This was followed with great peace of mind, and the consecration thus made continued with her all through life. She was early called into the service of the Church and was the appointed clerk of the Preparative meeting when she was about seventeen years of age.
She was married February the 2nd, 1820 to Elijah Coffin, and was at that time in her twenty-third year, a young wman of fine presence, perfect health and great strength of character, medium height and weighing about 100 pounds. The union was an especially happy one. Through life they were most deeply attached, and their children were impressed strongly with the sanctity and inviolability of the marriage relation and with the fact that what God hath joined together, man should not put asunder. They entered upon the duties of married life full of hope, and with a bright and cheerful prospect before them, although their pecuniary means were not large. My father taught school for several years in North Carolina, and during their residence there their two eldest children were born, but not being satisfied to remain in a slave state they concluded in the 1824 to emigrate to Indiana. They left their native state with great reluctance, and it was an effort for them to sunder the ties which bound them to their friends there. There was considerable company which emigrated with them at the same time. The long journey was preformed in a 2-horse wagon with such necessary things as they could carry with them. They camped out at night and cooked their own foot, sleeping in the wagon. They were young and full of energy, and although the journey had its hardships they met them cheerfully and enjoyed the scenery through which they passed occupying about six weeks before their arrival in Indiana. The energy andd force of my Mother, who of course with the care of two little children and providing the food for the family , was fully drawn out.
They stopped for a time in Richmond, Indiana, but soon settled in Milton in Wayne Co., Indiana. They first settled in a log cabin on the banks of the West Fork of the White Water, and my father was soon attacked with a serious case of fever and was sick for several weeks. This was another occasion which called forth the full energy and force of my mother. There was great difficulty in procuring the delicacies necessary for a very sick man but he recovered finally and they built soon after a one story log house on the hills, a little back from the river where they resided for several years. Here my brother, William was born. My father taught school for some time and was very popular as a teacher, but after the village of Milton was laid out he built a two story frame house and opened a country store. This house is still standing, although at least eighty years of age and is quite a comfortable residence yet.
He received the appointment of Post Master at Milton. My mother in addition to the cares of a family and the duties which devolved necessarily upon her, visited the sick and ministered to them and was otherwise employed as far as she was able to doing good to others and in benefiting her fellow beings.
She frequently spoke in meetings for worship, and was in the course of a few years, acknowledged a minister. Her communications were always short, but bery beautiful and delivered in a fine tone of voice. She had a remarkable
voice which enabled her to reach an audience of any size, and I attribute my own success in that respect to this trait which I inherited. In this house my sister, Carolin was born, but after a few years time Father became dissatisfied with his business, although it had been to a good degree prosperous, and the family removed to Cincinnati in the summer of 1833. While living in Milton in 1832 my brother, Eliphalet, who was born there, died when over two years of age. I was nine years of age and have a very vivid recollection of standing by my Mother who was sitting near the bedside weeping freely-my Grandfather Coffin was sitting very near the dying boy watching his death struggles. (it was the first death I have ever witnesses and made a deep impression on my mind.) My father also was near by. It was quite remarkable that with this exception all the children of my father and mother are still living (1908) the oldest had just passed her 87th birthday and the youngest her 70th.
At that season Cincinnati was extremely hot and mosquitoes abounded so that it really was a very unpleasant place to live, and while there my sister Mary was born. Mother's health although usually excellent was not good during this period, and Father being offered a place as cashier of a bank at Richmond they removed there in the fall of 1834 where she remained until her death, June the 14, 1866.
She at one entered upon Church work and took an active part in the meetings, both for worship and discipline, and on several occasions received minutes for religious services, generally in the limits of Indiana Yearly Meetings, though on one occasion she went to Iowa, going down the Ohio and up the Mississippi before the construction of railroads.
Her life was a continued blessing to those around her, and I recollect with warmest interest her special kindness toward me.
During a course of years their house was the home for traveling ministers. She was a woman during this period of great dignity, and had increased in weight until she was near two hundred pounds, but never seemed unwieldly, alwasy dressed well in the garb of the Friends, and was a remarkably well developed specimen of womanhood. My sister, Hannah, was born in Richmond.
After my mother was fifty years of age she began to develop a trouble in her feet which resulted in slow paralysis, which gradually extended up her limbs until she was unable for several years in the latter part of her life to walk.
Her mental faculties were preserved unimparied to the last, and as she sat in her arm chair with a nurse to care for her, it was a great pleasure to visit her and very many Friends called to see her. During this period my residence was near by, and I made it a rule to spend a portion of each day so far as practicable with her. I could always go to her with any cause of anxiety or trouble, and always received consolation, comfort and support. In Church as well as in the community she was a peace maker, and did all she could to prevent difficulty arising and to settle those which had arisen. She was for many years a member of the Committee of Friends Boarding School which afterwards became Earlham College, and was engaged upon the Committee of the Monthly and Yearly Meetings to a very considerable extent. She was a very diligent reader, and although her early education had been limited, she was a well developed mind and became a well educated person. She read much in the Friends Journals, and also such works as Fenelon and Madame Guion which gave rather a puritanical turn to her religious feelings, although she herself was very liberal towards others.
After the questions of higher Christian life was agitated she read many of the works of writers on that subject, while there was never any special period of marked change, she continually grew in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and was a model of Christian life and character.
Her death was quiet and peaceful. She was interred in Earlham Cem., Richmond, Ind.
My father died in 1862, and my mother lived four years afterwards, during most of the time being a confirmed invalid and always peaceful and happy.
(1894.) ELIPHALET COFFIN (720.) (192.) (28.) (3.) (1.):
b. 25-8mo-1828; d. 5-5mo-1831.
Get Certifcate 1 MAY 1780 Guilford Co., NC, New Garden MM.
Get Certifcate 28 AUG 1824 Wayne Co., IN, Milford MM.
Moved 26 JUN 1773 Guilford Co., NC, New Garden MM.
lived only a short time
S/o John Maxwell and Hannah Whitlock. Hugh m. (1st) Ruth A. James, they had
5 children, 1 Mary, 2. Sarah, 3. Caroline, 4. Emeline, 5. Ann Maxwell. Hugh
and Ruth were married on 14 Feb 1939 in West Grove MM., Wayne Co., IN. Ruth
d/o of David James and Mary.
(1891.) MIRIAM ALLINSON COFFIN (720.) (192.) (28.) (3.) (1.):
b. 9-1mo-1821, NC.; m. (1st). 31-5mo-1843, to WILLIAM ASH RAMBO; m. (2ND). 1-1mo-1862, to HUGH MAXWELL.CH: (by first husband). (3806.) Edward B.; (3807.) Naomi C.; (3808.) Francis H.
lived in Cincinnati, OH
(1892.) CHARLES FISHER COFFIN (720.) (192.) (28.) (3.) (1.):
b. 3-4mo-1823, NC.; m. 25-3mo-1847, to RHODA M. JOHNSON.CH: (3809.) Elijah; (3810.) Charles Henry; (3811.) Francis Albion; (3812.) William Edward; (3813.) Percival.
Charles F. Coffin had several children. Charles was distinguished as a Quaker Preacher and traveled extensively, passing around the world.
Sent by Jackie Strickland, found in Coffin Family Newsletter Vol III, Number 2. May 1987Charles Fisher Coffin was born 3 Apr 1823, in Guilford Co., NC. He was the son of Elijah and Naomi (Hiatt) Coffin who were both devout and acitve members of the Society of Friends as had been Elijah's father and grandfather. When one year old, his family, along with his mother's Hiatt family and several others travelled by wagon for some four weeks over the Cumberland Gap to Wayne Co., Ind. near where his aunt Hannah Symons had settled in 1811.
His father Elijah was an experienced teacher and for several years until a school was established, taught Charles and other children. Elijah was an Elder in the Society of Friends and his mother was an acknowledged minister. Charles
was only five when the Hicksite movement divided the Quaker, and even divided immediate family groups. At age ten his father sold his business and moved to the large city of Cincinnati. Less than two years later they returned to Wayne
Co. when his father was appointed cashier of the Richmond branch of the State Bank of Indiana. In 1835, at age 12 Charles F. Coffin was employed by the bank as an office boy. From that time until nearly fifty years later he was
continously associated with bank or its successors.
In 1841 when he was 18 years of age Charles F. Coffin assumed his first responsible position in the work of the Church. The previous year he had been appointed clerk of a Bible Society when he attended in place of his father who
had been clerk. From that time until shortly before his death at age 93 he was almost continuosly and deeply involved in the work of his church and community.This first position was as Clerk of the Young Friends Boarding School Association who purpose was to raise funds and build a building to be used for education of the young people of the Society and community. Friends of the
Indiana Yearly Meeting had been striving for some 20 yesrs to provide better education for the young people. The Friends Boarding School was the neuclous for what was later Earlham College, where there is a Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin Memorial Library. Charles F. was appointed to progressively responbile positions until in 1858 at age 35 he was made clerk of Indiana Yearly Meeting.Cont. on page 2. (We do not have page 2)
D/o John Johnson and Judith Faulkner.