John Coil, a Virginian, came to Union Township about 1812 and, the 1914 history says, took up 1,200 acres of government land while James Madison was president, later giving each of his children 100 acres. He and his wife Mary House, born in 1789, raised sons who farmed across the county: Elias, born on Sugar Creek in 1814, whose heirs owned 1,000 acres in 1881; John, born in 1817, who farmed southwest of Jeffersonville; and Samuel, whose sons Jacob H. and Jasper L. Coil were working the family land on the Sabina pike in 1914. Elias's son Simon enlisted at nineteen in the 54th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was wounded at Shiloh, and died three weeks after coming home. The 1881 and 1914 histories place all three branches in the Methodist Protestant church, and Samuel's children who had died were buried in the Coil cemetery on the old Coil farm. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Fayette County history.
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John Coil and Mary (House) Coilborn 1789Most recent in our records
Jacob H. Coilborn 1853Tap a name to jump to that person.
Settled in Union Township about 1812
Farmer, Union Township
Elias Coil, deceased, was born in 1814, on Sugar Creek, in Union Township, and was married, September 20, 1839, to Mahala Rankin, daughter of Thomas Rankin, who was born February 18, 1818, in Jasper Township. Her mother was Barbara Foltz; her husband's mother Mary House, born November 15, 1789, and died February 17, 1866. They were both natives of Virginia.
The union was blessed by ten children: James, Simon, Mary, Susan, Samuel, Amos, Emily, Elizabeth J., Sarah, and Christina. Elizabeth J., James, and Sarah, are living; the others have passed to the other shore.
The family is connected with the Protestant Methodist Church, and attend services at the Sugar Creek Chapel. He was an exemplary Christian, and died in the faith very triumphantly, August 5, 1878. His wife and children follow in his footsteps.
His son Simon enlisted in Company A, 54th O. V. I., and was out nearly three years. He was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, and upon recovering returned to the field, but lost his health, and departed this life three weeks after his return home. He was but nineteen years of age when he went out, but was brave and patriotic, and deserves mention as being one of the many who gave up their lives that the country might live.
The heirs of our subject own one thousand acres of land, a portion of which is in Union Township. Mrs. Coil resides in a neat residence on the Palmer pike, four and a half miles from Washington. Mr. Coil was a Republican, and the family still indorse his sentiments.
Of the children, Mary, wife of Jacob Warner, is now deceased; James is married to Sallie M. Sanderson; Emily, wife of Thomas Garlinger, is also deceased; Sarah is now Mrs. Martin A. Plymire.
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Farmer near Jeffersonville
John Coil, farmer, Jeffersonville, born May 13, 1817, is a son of John and Mary (House) Coil. Was married, February 22, 1844, to Miss Mary Smith, daughter of Jeremiah Smith, of Paint Township, this county. Seven children are the result of this union: Samuel, Mary J., Levi, Cyrus, Erbin, John, and Smith. The three eldest are deceased.
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Farmers, Union Township
Farmer; son of Elias
James Coil, farmer, was born in Union Township, this county, December 1, 1840. "When about two years of age, his parents — Elias and Mahala Coil — came to this township, where the father died, in August, 1878, and the mother still lives. They had a family of ten children, three of whom are living.
James, the eldest, was married. May 31, 1866, to Miss Sallie M. Sanderson, who has borne him five children: Emily J., John, Elias, Sarah E., and Russie E.; all living save Ehas, Avho died January 27, 1876.
Mr. Coil has a farm of two hundred and forty-nine acres, where he lives, and sixty and one-fourth acres four miles east. He has bought seventy-one acres of this by his own industry and economy. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant Church. They are good neighbors and respected citizens.
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Farmer on the Sabina pike; son of Samuel
JACOB H. COIL.
The gentleman to a brief review of whose life the attention of the reader is directed is among the well known and representative citizens of Union township, Fayette county, Ohio. He has, by his enterprise and progressive methods, contributed in a material way to the advancement of his locality, and during the course of an honorable career has been fairly successful in his business enterprises, having been a man of energy, sound judgment and honesty of purpose and is thus well deserving of mention in this volume.
Jacob H. Coil was born on November 11, 1853, in this county on what was known as the old Coil farm, being the son of Samuel and Sarah (Fults) Coil, the former of whom was born also on the old Coil farm and was in his day one of the most prominent farmers of the county. When the subject was six weeks old. his parents moved to Union township to the farm, part of which the subject now owns and where he has ever since made his home. Mr. Coil owns about three hundred acres located on the Sabina pike and also owns one Inmdred acres of the old home place. Living with him is his brother, Jasper L. Coil, and together the two operate the business of the farm, in which enterprise they are quite successful. Samuel Coil, father of the immediate subject, was a son of John and Mary Coil, the former of whom was born in Virginia and came to Union township about the year 1812. lie was a man of great energy and enterprise and took out government land to the extent of twelve hundred acres, at the time James Madison was Presi-
Google dent of the United States. The land he thus obtained was in a primitive state and through his efforts almost all of it was placed in a state of cultivation. He was the father of the following children: Isaac, Elias, Amos, John, William, Abraham, Simon, Jane (who is still living at St. Mary, Ohio) and Samuel, father of the immediate subject. To each one of his children he gave one hundred acres of land in this county, thus starting them out in life, and it is an interesting fact that not one of the twelve failed, all having made good.
Samuel Coil started on his hundred-acre tract and later moved to the homestead in Union township, where he reared his family. He those as his life companion Sarah Fults, the daughter of Peter and Frances (Rankin) Fults. The former was a native of Pendleton county, Virginia, and came to this state when a young man. He first located in Ross county, near Chillicothe, later coming to Fayette county, where he passed the remainder of his life. He was the father of eight children, namely: Jacob, Simon, John, Jerry and Thomas, all deceased, Phoebe, Sarah (subject's mother) and Jane. The subject was the eldest of a family of six children, the others being Jesse, Mary, Ida and Alice, all deceased. Jasper L., hereinbefore mentioned, and Jacob H. are the only surviving members of the family. Those deceased are all buried in the Coil cemetery on the old Coil farm.
When a boy, Jacob H. Coil attended school in district No. 4. known familiarly at that time as "Pop Gun College," later attending Midland school, where he received the balance of his education. From his early youth he had assisted the father in the work about the homestead and when, in his twenty-first year, his father died he had received such careful training in agricultural work that he was able to take up the work where his father left off and assisted the mother in raising the balance of the family. The mother survived the father a number of years, having passed away only a few years ago. Mr. Coil has lived an active and well-rounded life. Politically, he gives his support to the Republican party and has always taken an active interest in politics. For six years he was a member of the school board and has always been ready and willing to do anything in his power to advance the welfare of the community along educational, social or moral lines. His religious affiliation is with the Methodist Protestant church, in the work of which organization he takes a commendable interest. While living a quiet and retired life, devoting himself primarily to his own interests, Mr. Coil has a keen appreciation of what constitutes good citizenship, being always ready to back up his theories with actual service if necessary. He is one of
the highly respected citizens of his community, having established a firm reputation for honesty of purpose in his dealings with his fellow men and by being the advocate of clean and wholesome principles in the home, society and politics.
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First wife of Joseph Hurless
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