Ancestors

Jonathan Coogle

Marion County WV
Father: Benjamin Coogle
Mother: Dorcas Coogle
Children include Elizabeth

Jonathan Coogle, son of Benjamin and Dorcas Coogle, married Eleanor Holt in Monongalia County on 3 April 1823, and was still being named as a father on his daughter Elizabeth's marriage return in 1858.

When he died is not known. The state's death index gives a Jonathan Coogle dying in Marion County on 2 July 1879, aged seventy eight, but it joins two lines of the register. Line 22 reads Jonathan Coogle, died 6 August 1879, of heart disease, aged fifty four years seven months and one day. The date 2 July and the age seventy eight are on line 23, against Emeal Cunningham, who died by suicide.

The man on line 22 cannot be him. A man born in January 1825 does not marry in April 1823, and does not have an eighteen year old daughter keeping house for her grandfather in 1850. So there was a second Jonathan Coogle in Marion County, a generation younger, and his line names his parents as Benj. and Dorcas Coogle as well.

His descent from Benjamin and Dorcas rests on Benjamin's own codicil of 1851, which calls Jonathan's daughter Dorothy his granddaughter, and that is a document Benjamin signed himself.

Sources

West Virginia, Marriages, 1854-1932, Arnett Glascock and Elizabeth Coogle, Marion County, 6 May 1858, record book C page 13. West Virginia, Marriages, 1780-1970, Jonathan Coogle and Eleanor Holt, Monongalia County, 1823. Marion County register of deaths 1879, page 58, line 22, Jonathan Coogle, died 6 August 1879 aged 54, a younger man of the name. West Virginia, Deaths, 1804-1999, J. Coleman Glasscock, Marion County, 11 May 1937, no. 7613.
Marion County, West Virginia, Wills 1842-1903, codicil of Benjamin Coogle, dated 23 September 1851, witnessed by W. T. Willey and G. R. C. Allen, proved November term 1861, J. A. Vanzandt clerk.
Virginia, Monongalia County, Marriages, ministers' returns transcribed, pages 34 and 35, Jonathan Coogle and Eleanor Holt, 3 April 1823, solemnized by Jacob Foreman. West Virginia State Archives, Vital Research Records, film 840910 image 22.
West Virginia Vital Research Records, Marion County register of deaths 1879, film 834815, image 333, page 58, lines 21 to 23.

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