When Anderson Miller Coffin was born on 15 November 1843, in Westland, Blue River Township, Hancock, Indiana, United States, his father, Nathan Dixon Coffin, was 24 and his mother, Mary Hannah Wheeler, was 25. He married Mary C. Hunt on 19 December 1866, in Boone, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Blue River Township, Hancock, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 18 April 1868, at the age of 24, and was buried in Westland, Blue River Township, Hancock, Indiana, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1845: Hancock, Indiana, United States
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English (southwestern England, of Norman origin) and French: nickname from Middle English cofin, coffin, Old French cof(f)in (from Late Latin cophinus, Greek kophinos) ‘container, basket; coffer, chest (for keeping treasures, documents, armour, etc.)’. Early bearers of this as a hereditary surname were of knightly rank. Old French cofin was synonymous with coffer, and it may be that Cofin was used to denote a keeper of the (royal) coffer, attested in Anglo-Latin cofferarius. Compare Coffer . The modern English word coffin is a specialized development of this term, not attested until the 16th century.
History: Tristram Coffin came from Brixham, Devon, to Haverhill, MA, before 1647. An important line of his descendants is associated with Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
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