When Martha "Mattie" Ann Coffman was born on 25 December 1848, in Botetourt, Virginia, United States, her father, John F. Coffman, was 45 and her mother, Judith Virginia Woodson, was 21. She married William Bourbon Wills on 25 February 1875, in Botetourt, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She lived in Virginia, United States in 1870 and Amsterdam, Botetourt, Virginia, United States for about 30 years. She died on 23 December 1933, in Troutsville, Botetourt, Virginia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Daleville Cemetery, Amsterdam, Botetourt, Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kaufmann or of its variants Kaufman , Koffmann (see Koffman ), Kofmann, and Kofman .
Americanized form of Dutch Kofman or of its cognate Koffeman, the second form characteristic of the former island of Urk.
History: As a name of Swiss German origin, originally spelled Kaufmann (see 1 above), the surname Coffman is also found among the American Mennonites; the change of their already Americanized name Kauffman to Coffman occured in Page County, VA, in the 18th century.
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