Henry Gardiner Coggeshall

Henry Gardiner Coggeshall

Birth: February 08, 1789 Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, United States

Death: February 22, 1876

Mr. Coggeshall was a sea captain during President Buchanan's administration, and was a customhouse officer of the Port of Bristol, R. I.

Father: Jonathan James Coggeshall, b. 4 Dec, 1748, Middletown, Newport County, R. I. ; d. 26 Jul 1796 (47) Portsmouth, Newport County, R. I.

Mother: Sarah Wilcox, b. 1743 , Newport, Rhode Island; d. 29 Apr 1809 (65-66) Middletown, Newport, R. I.

Marriage 1) 2 Jul 1811, Bristol, Rhode Island

Spouse: Olive Simmons. b. 1791, Bristol, Rhode Island; d. 8 Jun 1818 (aged 26–27), Bristol, Rhode Island

Children:

• Henry Coggeshall, b. 9 Apr 1812, Bristol, R.I.; d. 25 Dec 1868 (aged 56) Bristol, R.I.; m. 1841, Sarah Ann Smith; m. 1851, Mary Taylor Cummings.
• Susan C. Coggeshall, b. 18 Aug 1814, Bristol, Rhode Island; d. 9 Jun 1899, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island; m. Abiel Childs Fish.

Marriage 2) 28 Jan 1819, Apponaug, Rhode Island

Spouse: Sarah C. Browning, b. 27 Jan 1797, North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island; d. 9 Aug 1835, Bristol, R.I.; dau. olf John Browning and Susannah Sweet.

Children, all born in Bristol, Rhode Island:

• Sarah Doly Coggeshall, b. 12 Jul 1819; d. 1843
• John Browning Coggeshall, b. 4 Mar 1821; d. 14 Oct 1822, Bristol, Rhode Island
• Catherine Coggeshall, b. 16 Oct 1822; d. Abt 1868, Sandoval, Marion, IL; m. Jared Lord
• James Coggeshall, b. 17 May 1824, d. 16 June 1909, Rhode Island; m. 23 Dec 1849, Delight Jan Horton; dau. of Levi Horton and Delight West.
• Daniel Wilcox Coggesshall, b. 5 Feb 1826; d. 12 Feb 1890; m. 27 Apr 1851, Mary Ann Horton; dau. of Levi Horton and Delight West.
• John Stockford Coggeshall, b. 25 Nov 1829; d. 30 May 1897, Providence, Providence, R. I. ; m. 19 Sep 1847, Mary Catherine Miller.
• Sophronia Browning Coggeshall, b. 13 Dec 1830; d. Abt 1831
• Rebecca Whitman Coggeshall,b. 7 June 1832; d. 17 Mar 1895, East Providence, Providence, R.I. ; m.23 Jul 1855, Edwin Clark Johnson.

Marriage 3) 13 Mar 1836, Bristol, Rhode Island

Spouse: Mrs Phebe Peckham Goff, (widow) b. abt 1795, Bristol, R.I. ; d. 19 Jan 1884, Bristol, R.I.

Sources:

Captain Henry Gardiner Coggeshall, Family Tree https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LYSL-LMS

Charles Pierce Coggeshall & Thellweel Russell Coggeshall, The Coggeshalls in America: Genealogy of the Descendants of John Coggeshall of Newport with Brief Notice of their English Antecedents (Boston, Massachusetts: C. E. Goodspeed & Company, 1930), p117.

Olive Simmons Coggeshall memorial - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126261867/olive-coggeshall