Person:John Coger (3)

Information on John Coger

John Coger was born in 1804, and lived in Franklin, Braxton, and Webster Counties, Western Virginia. He married a local girl named Sarah Sands, and they raised a large family. After the Civil War, he and his wife Sarah Jane Sands Coger, and several of his sons and their families, moved away from Virginia forever, moving first to Kansas, and later to Arkansas.

[Source: THE COGAR FAMILY, A Few Genealogical Notes Incorporating “ONE FAMILY’S EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY”, by Sarah Coger; http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/l/M-B-Wilson/FILE/0009page.html]