Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, McLean Co.

EPHRAIM A. COFFMAN, McLean County, was born February 3, 1835, in 
Muhlenburgh [sic] County (now McLean), and is the fourth of seven 
children born to Benjamin and Elizabeth (Gosset) Coffman, natives of 
Botetourt County, Va., and of German origin.  Benjamin Coffman's 
father was also Benjamin Coffman, and a native of Virginia.  He 
immigrated to Muhlenburg [sic], now McLean, County, in 1804, where he 
purchased and entered 1,000 acres of land; he brought his relatives 
with him from Virginia.  The mother of our subject was a daughter of 
Daniel Gosset.  Ephraim A. was reared on a farm, and lived with his 
parents until twenty-one; attended the subscription schools, and when 
of age, engaged as a salesman in a dry goods store at Scaramento for 
five years.  At the beginning of the war he engaged in farming, which 
he has continued to the present time; he was also engaged in the leaf 
tobacco trade for eight years.  In 1875 he was elected to represent 
his county in the legislature.  His [sic] is the owner of 110 acres 
of good land near Sacramento.  Mr. Coffman belongs to one of the 
influential families in Muhlenburgh and McLean Counties; had four 
brothers in the Confederate army.  He was married May 27, 1857, to 
Susan Henry, of Logan County, a daughter of Robert and Nancy 
(Marshall) Henry, both of Virginia.  Mr. Coffman has had born to 
him eight children: Kent W., Everett E., Robert B., William C., 
Mattie J., Joseph F., Vara E. and John M.  Mr. and Mrs. Coffman are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; he has been a 
leading member of the Masonic fraternity for twenty-eight years; was 
master of his lodge at Sacramento for eleven years.

Coffman Gosset Henry Marshall
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Muhlenberg-KY VA Logan-KY

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