Isaac Kauffman (1741 - 1824)

Born 7 Feb 1741 in Millersville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Esther (Reiff) Kauffman — married 1762 in Lancaster Co., Pa.

Descendants

Died 24 Jun 1824 at age 83 in Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States

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Biography

Isaac Kauffman, later known as Coffman^[1] was born 7 Febuary 1741, and is identified in the 1940 Kauffman Genealogy as the son of Andreas Kauffman and Elizabeth Kneissley. He was an ordained Mennonite minister. In 1788, he and his family moved to Greenbrier County near Lewisburg in what is now West Virginia. He built a cabin which still stands (though additions and renovations have been made to the original structure.) ^[2][3]

He married Esther [LNU] ^[2] with whom he had children :

1. Dr Jacob M. Coffman ^[2]
2. Gertrude m. Jacob Hockman ^[2]
3. Michael ^[2]
4. Frances m. John Wenger ^[2]
5. Elizabeth m. Bishop Peter Burkholder ^[2]
6. Christina ^[2]
7. Christian ^[2]
8. John ^[2]

Isaac attempted to found the first Mennonite church in Greenbrier County. The congregation probably met in the homes of the members. ^[4] Unfortunately, a few decades after Isaac's death the Greenbrier church stopped meeting.

After Isaac Coffman's death in 1824, he was buried with his wife in Coffman Cemetery,^[5] only about three hundred yards from the cabin he built.^[6]

Research Notes

If Isaac was born in 1741, he would have been aged just 20 when the deed of release for his father's estate was signed in 1760.

Sources

1. ↑ Mountain Messenger mention of Rev. Isaac Coffman (second column)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9} Kauffman, Charles Fahs (1940). A genealogy and history of the Kauffman-Coffman families of North America, 1584 to 1937; including brief outlines of allied Swiss and Palatine families who were among the pioneer settlers in Lancaster and York counties of Pennsylvania from 1717 on; viz., Becker, Baer, Correll, Erisman, Fahs, Kuntz, Kneisley, Hershey, Hiestand, Meyers, Musselman, Neff, Martin, Ruby, Snavely, Shenk, Shirk, Sprenkle, Witmer, and others p.287. York, PA : Author. Viewed at https://archive.org/details/genealogyhistory00kauf/page/287/mode/1up?q=greenbriar (Identifier Ac)
3. ↑ Newspaper article on Isaac Kauffman's cabin (subscription site)
4. ↑ West Virginia Encyclopedia article on early Mennonites
5. ↑ Find a Grave memorial
6. ↑ Greenbrier County, WV Heritage 1997 on Google Books

See also :

• A genealogy and history of the Kauffman-Coffman families of North America 1584 to 1937 on Google Books
• http://mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net/uploads/SMH_Vol_13_No_3.pdf - defunct link

Acknowledgments

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