Emily M. Thornhill

In the record Generation 6 — earliest known

1. S82David Emily "Dee" Coffman — Page County, Virginia birth register, 8 August 1857. Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records 1853–1896, FamilySearch ARK 1:1:6K1Q-DYSJ, with the same original entry indexed twice more — Virginia, Births and Christenings 1584–1917, ARK 1:1:XT4Y-1S9, and Virginia, Vital Records 1715–1912, ARK 1:1:XSVY-N9PV. Retrieved 15 September 2026. The child is entered as David E. Kaufman; the parents as David C. and Emily M. The register indexes this family as KAUFMAN while every census writes COFFMAN — that spelling split is the whole reason the wall stood, because a search on Coffman against Page County returns nothing but Shenandoah drift. ⚠️ The three indexings disagree on the year: 1857 in the Bureau register, 1858 in the christenings collection. The page follows 1857, which the stated age of 80 on his 1938 death record and the family typescript both support. The register gives the parents by given name and middle initial only; "Thornhill" is not in this record and comes from the censuses and her gravestone.
2. S83David C. Coffman and Emily M. Thornhill Coffman — gravestones, Page County, Virginia. Two chalked headstones photographed 12 August 2015 and held in the Coffman family tree shared with Earl by his uncle David; read here from the full-resolution images, 16 September 2026. OUR FATHER / DAVID C. COFFMAN / BORN Dec. 13, 1812 / DIED Jan. 25, 1883 / Aged 70 yrs. 1 mo. 12 ds. and OUR MOTHER / EMILY M. COFFMAN / wife of DAVID C. COFFMAN / BORN April 7, 1820 / DIED July 21, 1868 / Aged 48 yrs. 3 mos. Both stones close to the day on their own arithmetic, so the dates are corroborated by the monuments themselves and not only by a tree. Emily's carries the phrase "wife of David C. Coffman" — a contemporary physical object tying the couple together, independent of any index. Her death in July 1868 is also why Dee, born 1857, carries his mother's given name as his own middle name: she died when he was ten.
3. S334Virginia marriage record — David C. Coffman and Emily M. Thornhill, 30 May 1843, Rappahannock County. Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages (Ancestry collection 60214, records 3071678 and 3071679).
4. S335Page County, Virginia death register, 1868 — Emily M. Coffman. FamilySearch 1:1:6ZG8-J469. Emily M. Coffman, spouse David C. Coffman; parents Wm. and Mary Thornhill.
5. S8291850 U.S. Federal Census — David C. Coffman household, District 49, Page Co., Virginia, p. 318. Ancestry collection 8054, record 16052296 (image 4206389_00207); enumerated 6 September 1850, dwelling 686. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed David C. Coffman, 37, farmer, $4,500; Emily, 30; Susan M., 6; William S., 3; Ann B., 1; Jane C., ½; William Thornhill, 63, farmer; Susan Coffman, 69, $3,500. No relationship column. William Thornhill's age fits the father of Emily named in her 1868 death register (S335); Susan Coffman's fits the Susanna Coffman of the 1799 bond (S104), but the page does not say who she is.
6. S8301860 U.S. Federal Census — David C. Coffman household, District 3, Page Co., Virginia (P.O. Luray), p. 811 (125). Ancestry collection 7667, record 34367278 (image 4298864_00249); enumerated 14 August 1860. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Continuing David C. Coffman's household: Emily M. Coffman, 40; Susan M., 16; William S., 13; Anna B., 11; Jane C., 10; David E., 2; William Thornhill, 73, “Gentleman”; Rachael Thornhill, 47, $3,000 personal; Jane Tobian, 50; and William Hoffmayer [?], 8. No relationship column. It shows William Thornhill alive on 14 August 1860, so a death in 1860 cannot be assumed.
7. S959Virginia certificate of death no. 2280 — Sue M. France, Luray, Page County, 3 January 1923. Ancestry record 750178977. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Sue M. France, of Broad Street, Luray, white, widow of Robert Lee France, housewife; born 3 May 1844 in Page County; died 3 January 1923 at Luray, aged 78 years 8 months, of pneumonia. Father David C. Coffman, born Page County; mother, maiden name Emily Thornhill, born Rappahannock County. Informant Miss Virgie Chapman, of Luray. Buried at Chicago, Illinois. Sue was born eleven months after David C. Coffman and Emily Thornhill married (S334), and she is the Susan M. France named first among the five children in his will. Rappahannock County was formed from Culpeper in 1833, so a birth in 1820 in that district is Culpeper at the time; the informant was not a named relative. The physician's signature is not legible enough to read. Collection: Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912–2014.