This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nose, Lesher, Coffman, Beaver, McCartney Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TGw.2ACEB/126.1 Message Board Post: Margaret was a daughter of Jacob Lesher & Mary Ann (or Anna Marie perhaps) Coffman. Mary Ann probably never wrote her name as Coffman, but rather as Kaufmann although the spelling has been an item of contention in the family. (Those who went to (now) WV, to the Shenandoah Valley and probably to KY all seem to have preferred Coffman.) I have recently been given a marriage date for Jacob & Mary Ann in 1791 in Maryland. What is your source for the birth in PA? She had two sisters that married McCartney and lived near Michael Nose in Taylor Co., VA. There was also a sister that married a Beaver and lived in Barbour Co., VA. Mary Ann was living with a neighbor of the Noses and McCartneys in 1850, Taylor Co., VA. There is a claim for a brother Henry Lesher who married a Bennett and went to Roane Co., VA and also for a George Lesther "that went to Greenbrier Co. and was never heard of again." There was also a late marriage of a sister to Isaac B. Marsh. There was a sister who married a Smith, I believe. I believe there was a marriage of a sibling to a Walter(s), child of Simon Walter. Please take this with caution as I'm writing from memory, some over the last eight years and some from a half century ago. All the places given as VA changed to WV when the Civil War arrived.