Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 630
PLEASANT B. COFFMAN

Pleasant B. COFFMAN (deceased), located on section 10, of Raglan Township, in the autumn of 1866, on forty acres of partly improved land, upon which there was a small log cabin, in which he lived one summer and then built the house now serving as a residence for the family. He set out an orchard of fifty trees; planted out shade trees and put round his place a good fence.

Mr. COFFMAN was a native of Alabama, born in August, 1836, the son of Jacob and Rebecca COFFMAN, natives of East Tennessee, who had three children: John T., Marion, and Pleasant B. The family moved from Alabama to Missouri, and from there to Appanoose County, Iowa, but later went to Montana, where they remained one year, he working in the mines.

Our subject was united in marriage in August 1853, to Margaret COFFMAN, the daughter of George and Jane COFFMAN, who were natives of East Tennessee, and had a family of eight children--George B., William P., Margaret, Lucinda, Elizabeth, Blackburn, Gideon, and Eva M. Mr. and Mrs. COFFMAN were first cousins, and were married in Hillstown, Mo., and from there went to Appanoose County, Iowa, where our subject worked on a farm for eight years. They then emigrated to Utah, remained one winter, then went to Montana, coming from there to Harrison County. The deceased, as well as his wife, were members of the Latter Day Saints Church.

Our subject and his wife are the parents of the following children--George W., born January 16, 1859; James A., June 19, 1861; Darthula (deceased), November 15, 1863; William P., July 13, 1866; Dora J., July 5, 1869; Alice E., April 22, 1872; Reuben W. (deceased), October 17, 1878; John (deceased), October 20, 1878.

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