When Elizabeth Coffin was born on 18 October 1807, in Montgomery, Virginia, United States, her father, William Greenbury Coffin, was 35 and her mother, Mary Duncan, was 30. She married Horace Strong Rawson on 9 October 1825, in Washington, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1850 and lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 21 April 1890, in Harrisville, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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Possible Related NamesSariah Rawson Owen, daughter of Horace Strong and Elizabeth Coffin Rawson, was born March 15, 1834, in Lafayette County, Missouri. Her twin brother, Oriah, died a few months after their birth. …
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