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Weird Experience

Started by Private User on Saturday, October 22, 2022

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Private User

10/22/2022 at 6:43 PM

I was watching a random YouTube video, When I saw a grave marker with my family surname (Coffin) on it!
A little research, and I found a distant cousin - William Coffin, the husband, his wife & mother-in-law and his two small children, the women and children all died Sept 16, 1875 when a hurricane struck Indianola, TX.

It's a weird world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2JfTPg4z6k (5:33)

Private User

10/22/2022 at 6:59 PM

http://www.indianolatx.com/CoffinAW_10.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34357335/addie-coffin

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29297589/lellias-coffin

Alex Moes C

10/22/2022 at 9:36 PM

Looks like William had a twin named Arthur:
https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10128-71981279/wm-coffin...

https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10127-24508065/william-c...

https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10126-12737008/william-c...

If the FAG profile is accurate then this is William with his second wife in the 1900 US census https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10131-57831277/wm-coffin...

Alex Moes C

10/22/2022 at 9:40 PM

2nd(?) marriage https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FX78-92D?from=lynx1UIV8...

Looks like he was actually born in Nantucket

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDZ-L77?from=lynx1UIV8...

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