Daniel Coe

Daniel Coe, b. Washington Co., Pa., 3 March 1801, d. Milford, Ohio, 17 Jan. 1851 m. Jefferson Co., Ohio, 11 April 1822

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He was a farmer and carpenter and resided at Canonsburg, Peters Twp., Washington Co., Pa., until 1834 when he sold his farm there to William Park for $3601 and removed to Milford Center, Ohio where he passed the remainder of his life. He held the office of elder in the Presbyterian church and was a man of energetic character.

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Daniel COE was born on 3 Mar 1801 in Washington County, Pennsylvania. He died on 17 Jan 1851 in Milford, Ohio. Daniel COE and Mary GLADDEN were married on 11 Apr 1822 in Jefferson County, Ohio. 59. Mary GLADDEN was born on 18 Jan 1804 in Jefferson County, Ohio. She died on 28 Apr 1893 in Milford Center, Ohio. Daniel COE and Mary GLADDEN had the following children: 29 i. Sarah COE. Source: http://genealogy.about.com/od/presidents/p/george_bush_fou.htm

Daniel Coe, a native of Pennsylvania, married Mary Gladden, and in the spring of 1833 emigrated to Ohio; settled in this township on the place where his son, Philip, now lives, and here resided till his death. Their children were Philip, who married Elizabeth Woodworth; she died, and he married Louisa S. Smith; he resides on the old home place, where he has lived since eleven years of age, a period of forty-nine years, and where he has a beautiful home; Joseph married Mary Clark, and now resides in Springfield, Mass.; Moses, married Martha Boal, both are deceased; Hannah married K. L. Wood, is deceased; Sarah married John W. Robinson; Elizabeth married Dr. Swain of Milford Center; he died, and she married L. H. Smith; she now resides with her mother, at Marysville; Mary married R. R. Henderson, and now resides at Minneapolis, Minn.; Jane died unmarried; William died in infancy; Olive G. married W. Simmons Johnson, is now deceased; Martha married Leonidas Piper, is now deceased, and Isabel died in childhood. Mr. Coe was a man of character and esteemed for his many good qualities; was a worthy member of the Presbyterian Church, and a Ruling Elder in the same for many years. Source: http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Union/Untp9.htm

When Daniel Coe settled on Darby Creek near Milford Center, OH, in 1834, little did he realize that one day his great-great-great-grandson would be a candidate for president of the United States.

George W. Bush’s roots run deep in Union County and he has many relatives in and around the Marysville and Milford Center areas. He traces his local connections back to one of the early settlers of the county, Daniel Coe.

Coe was a well respected farmer who lived near Milford Center on the present Darby Coe Road. His farm was about a mile north of town. He is credited with building one of Union County’s first grist mills, which he began on Darby Creek in 1836. He was a staunch Presbyterian and served as elder in the church until his death in 1851.

Coe's widow Mary (Gladden) Coe moved into Marysville in 1854, leaving the care of the farm to their son Phillip. The Coe family lived by the “plain living - high thinking” philosophy that helped make the county what it is today.

Daniel Coe was born in Washington County, PA, on March 3, 1801. His father Moses Coe was an Ensign during the Revolution. The family immigrated from Boxford, England, April 10, 1634, when his great-great-great-grandfather Robert Coe boarded the ship “Francis” at Epswich Harbor, County Suffolk, and sailed for Watertown, Massachusetts.

Robert Coe was a Puritan and came to America seeking religious freedom. He could trace his English family back some nine generations to Sir John Coe, an English Knight who was a captain in the “White Company,” subject of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel of the same name. Sir John was knighted by King Edward III in 1365 for his valor at the Battle of San Gallo, Italy, May 1, 1364.

Barbara Bush is the great-granddaughter of Daniel and Mary Coe’s daughter Sarah. In 1855 Sarah Coe married John W. Robinson, a Marysville area farmer. Barbara’s grandfather Judge James E. Robinson of Union County served on the Ohio Supreme Court from January 1919 until December 1924. Judge Robinson married Lula Flickinger in Marion County, May 31, 1893.

“I was in Marysville back in the ‘60s,” Barbara said recently “and a man came up to me and told me he knew my grandfather Robinson.”

Her mother Pauline Robinson met her father at Miami University while attending school at Oxford, Ohio. Marvin Pierce was quite a man about campus at Miami. He lettered in football and baseball while working his way through school and achieving Phi Beta Kappa academic status. In 1968 he was honored as Miami’s first “M Man” for being the all around Miami man while on campus. He was later president of McCall’s Publishing Company at Rye, New York, where Barbara was born.

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