Person:Felicity Coffman (1)

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Felicity Coffman
d.Aft 1880
  • HHenry M. PriceAbt 1830 - 1863
  • WFelicity Coffman1828 - Aft 1880
m. 1849
  1. James P. PriceAbt 1850 - Aft 1900
  2. Andrew Boone 'Buck' Price1852 - 1943
  3. Harvey PriceAbt 1856 - Aft 1880
m. 1873
Facts and Events
Name Felicity Coffman
Gender Female
Birth? 1828 Nicholas Co., Kentucky
Marriage 1849 Nicholas Co., Kentuckyto Henry M. Price
Marriage 1873 Boone Co., Indianato Elzor Clark Shankland
Death? Aft 1880

According to a WorldConnect databases, Felicity was the daughter of Phillip Coffman and Almeda Mary 'Polly' Shulse. Felicity married Henry M. Price in 1849 in Nicholas Co., and had 7 children: James P., 1850 KY; Andrew Boone 'Buck', 1852-1943; Barbara A. (1855- bef 1876) m. Peter Byroads; Harvey 'Harry' 1857 IN; and Eliza Alice 1860- m. Oliver Large. Henry Price died in 1863. She married 'Elizer Clark Shankland' in 1873 in Boone Co. {"Laffoon Homepage" by Charles Edwin Laffoon, updated Feb 2007, WorldConnect, <wc.rootsweb.com>, 23 Aug 2007}

 An extinct database also showed child Henrietta 1862. {"Guthrie-Cowgill-McCord- Tudor...", WorldConnect, <wc.rootsweb.com>, no longer available}
 According to a query on the Coffman Mailing list, "Henry drowned while unloading a cargo boat on the Mississippi River during the Civil War in 1863." {1 Jan 2000, <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/COFFMAN/2000-01/0946780516>}
 In the 1870 census for Lebanon, Center township, Boone Co., Indiana, Felicity Price is age 38 from Kentucky; with James P. 19 KY 'works in woolen mill'; And. B.17 KY, '(?) laborer'; Barb A. 15 KY; Hary H. 14 IN; and Eliza A. 10 IN. Clark Shankland is is 37, born Kentucky, working in a 'flouring mill'.{p.5}
 'Felicity Price' is listed as Elzor's second wife in Shankland Family History.
 In the 1880 census for Thorntown, Boone Co., Indiana, Harvey Price is 24 born Indiana (parents Kentucky), 'day laborer'; with mother Falicity Price 53 KY (father Virginia, mother Ohio), widow; brother-in-law Oliver Large 24 IN (parents Ohio); sister Alice 20 IN (parents KY), niece Falicity Byrood 6 IN (parents KY); and niece Mary Large 8 months IN. {Page 58B}
 I have not found Felicity, nor any of her children except Andrew after 1880.