COACHMAN
Dr. John William Coachman
The Coachman Family has over 168 years of tradition in Dentistry and is currently in the 6th generation of dentists. The origin of the Coachman family coincides with the beginning of Dentistry as a profession itself, in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1849, John Keyes Washington already graduated in Medicine from the Medical College of Ohio, United States, received his degree of Dental Surgeon from Ohio College of Dental Surgery, starting to contribute significantly to the development of scientific literature in dentistry. After the Civil War in the United States, from 1861 to 1865, when John served as an officer surgeon in the Army, the family decided to move to Brazil. They settled in Rio de Janeiro, where they began their activities in dentistry, which were greatly enriched with their important contributions, marked by the pursuit of accuracy and clinical excellence since then.
In 1874, John William Coachman received the “Dental Office” title from the Brazilian Imperial Government and, together with his brothers Charles Whiting Keyes and William Baldwin Keyes, he began what would become a tradition for the family in the country: to lead and increasingly improve this important field of Medicine. They excelled in the field, which resulted in serving Emperor Dom Pedro II, thus becoming close to the palace for many years.

Later, headed by John William and his brothers-in-law, the Coachman & Cia. the clinic, located at Rua Ouvidor, 130 in Rio de Janeiro, was consolidated in the country as a reference of commitment to quality. John William's sons continued the tradition and graduated in Dentistry. Hentz, one of his heirs, moved to São Paulo bringing with him the legacy of the Coachmans. The next generation did the same: graduated from the School of Dentistry at the University of São Paulo, Alfredo and Charles began to build the family’s admired career in the city.
The Coachmans have become known in the community for their accuracy, quality, and longevity of their work in gold inlays, with their own innovative formulations for the time. Also considered innovative in the 50s was the model of working as clinical staff, with their own lab and a property designed for this purpose, located outside the city center.
The fifth generation of the family is represented by Carlos, Robert, and Carlos Eduardo who also graduated from the University of São Paulo. In 1994, Robert establishes the Keyes-Coachman Institute of Cosmetic Dentistry and Oral Health, with a leading role in the introduction of modern cosmetic restorative dentistry in Brazil. Events, symposia, and workshops with international teaching staff promoted the integration between clinical and commercial academic sectors, allowing the introduction of these new concepts that have revolutionized restorative dentistry. Carlos was also devoted to spreading these new concepts. By conducting innovative workshops on main Brazilian congresses and using high technology, the brothers performed live procedures that were later projected on large screens for the audience, through intra and extraoral micro cameras. Carlos, who was also a pioneer in the use of Laser Beam and the application of anthroposophic Medicine knowledge in Dentistry cooperated, in 1999, with the founding of the Brazilian Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, and was appointed its 1st President, a position he held for two years.
Yet at the beginning of this new era, Dr. Robert conceived the project of the existing Well Clinic, a trans-disciplinary orofacial clinical center that includes the participation of his sons, Dr. Christian Coachman–an expert in cosmetic restorative dentistry, renowned international speaker, and recognized ceramic artist; Dr. Francis Gray Coachman–experienced surgeon and specialist in restorative techniques over implants; and Robert´s daughter-in-law, Dr. Tatiana Navarro de Macedo Coachman, right hand and specialist in Dentistry and Cosmetic Restorative Dentistry.
Focused on dentistry, but with strong concern with integration with all clinical and therapeutic areas, Well Clinic also has numerous other renowned professionals in virtually all specialties, taking upon itself the commitment of carrying on this remarkable tradition included in the 1994 Guinness Book of Records as the oldest family dedicated to dentistry worldwide.
At this new clinic, the Coachmans are organized around the goal of not only integrating several specialties of Dentistry but all of them to Medicine and its many supplementary areas. An approach of rescue and syn-hesis that can, again, join science, art, and all-time traditions on the eternal pursuit of full health. They also created the 1st Smile Design Center in the world and, consequently, DSD (Digital Smile Design), considered a conceptual protocol that offers awesome advantages to the patient and has become a world reference.
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Amongst the dentists who went to Brazil during the time after the American Civil War were John William Coachman (JWC), William B Keyes, and Charles Keyes. These two interlinked families are said to have founded a whole dynasty of Brazilian dental surgeons (reportedly about 120 to date!)JWC in particular was at one time a dentist to the Imperial Royal Family, living and working in Rio de Janeiro and up in Petropolis (the Emperor's summer residence) - he then later practices in São Paulo, where it is believed he became a Brazilian citizen.
JWC married Eula Hentz Keyes, the daughter of Dr. John Washington Keyes (JWK). She had a sister Jenny Rutledge Keyes, who kept diaries between 1867 and 1870, detailing her emigration and life in Brazil. They are preserved in the State of Alabama Department of Archives & History and some were published as "Our Life in Brazil" in the Alabama Historical Quarterly vol 28 No 3 & 4, 1966. I am not sure exactly when JWC first traveled to Brazil. In Betty Antunes de Oliveira's "Movimento de Passageiros Norte-Americanos no Porto do Rio de Janeiro 1865-1890", taken from Rio newspaper reports, the earliest specific mention of JWC is his arrival with his wife from New York on the ss SOUTH AMERICA on 19 Sep 1873 (although a "João Gomes Coachman" had sailed for Baltimore on 18 Feb 1872 on the AQUIDNECK -perhaps a misprint?). Thereafter he made visits to the US, sometimes with his family, in at least 1877, 1880, 1881, 1884, and 1886.
JWK, on the other hand, certainly arrived in Brazil with his family, including Jenny, in J Ballard Dunn's group of migrants in the MARMION on 12 May 1867. Ongoing research into the emigrant voyages of the 1860s may yet reveal more.JWC was an active Methodist, recorded as attending Annual Conferences of the Methodist Church in Brazil at least between 1887 and 1897. He died on 10 Jul 1917, though I do not know where. A few more bits and pieces: John Keyes Coachman [son of JWC?] born 1878, died 1940. Mollie Steagall Coachman [wife of James J Coachman] born 28 Aug 1885, died 8 Mar 1953. Both the above are buried in the British Cemetary, Gamboa, Rio de JaneiroJames J Coachman [son of JWC?] married Mollie Steagall on 26 Jun 1902. There are certainly lots of Coachmns around in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
If you search the online telephone directories at http://www.probusca.com.brhttp://www.probusca.com.br -put Coachman in the "Nome" box and check the "São Paulo" and "Telemar" boxes (but not "BrasilTelecom"), you will get their phone numbers and street addresses (without CEP/zipcodes). There's even a John William Coachman in São Paulo!
MILITARY:
Regiment: Batty B Milton Light Artillery Battery Florida
Date of Organization:5 Mar 1863
Muster Date:26 Apr 1865
Regiment State:Florida
Regiment Type:Light Artillery
Regiment Number: Batty B Milton
Battles: Fought on 20 Feb 1864 at Olustee, FL.
Fought on 28 Feb 1864 at Camp Finegan, FL.
Fought on 4 Mar 1865 at Natural Bridge, FL.
Fought on 6 Mar 1865 at Natural Bridge, FL.
Regiment History: MILTON ARTILLERY.
The Milton Light Artillery was raised in Apalachicola in 1861 by J. L. Dunham with Lieutenants Abell senior 1st, Bull junior 1st, Stephens senior 2nd, and Rambo junior 2nd; with six guns, three 12 lb. brass rifle pieces, and two 12 lb. Howitzers.
In the spring of 1862, the Battery was ordered to East Florida and camped near the Three Mile Branch, Jacksonville (Camp Finnegan). The company took part in the fight at St. Johns Bluff and the several engagements around Jacksonville.
In the summer of 1863, the Milton Light Artillery was divided. Captain Dunham kept four of the guns, Abell was made Captain and was given the other two guns and two more were furnished him, making another four-gun battery. Captain Dunham retained two of the Lieutenants, Bull and Rambo. Mortimer Bates was elected junior 2nd Lieutenant.
Only a few months passed when Lieutenant Bull was killed by one Pickett in Lake City; Bates then came in command of the left section of one Battery. George Hines succeeded in the position of junior 2nd Lieutenant.
The section Bates commanded took part in the fight at Darby's Hill (MeClenney). A part of the company took part in the battle of Olustee, Natural Bridge, and Bates' section did effective service on St. Johns, aiding in capturing the Columbine and doing much damage to the Ottawa and another steamer at Horse Landing on the St. Johns.
The Battery was a fine one and had it been in Virginia or in the Western Army would have made a name that the State would have been proud of; as it was both companies, A and B of the Milton Artillery, did splendid service and are entitled to as much credit as their more fortunate comrades who won honors at
the battlefront in the great contests of the war.
Source: Soldiers of Florida in the ... Civil War ... page 303



Eula Hertz Keyes, Coachman wearing a cameo of husband John William Coachman
John William Coachman
1845–1918
BIRTH 19 APR 1845 • Steam Mill, Decatur, Georgia, USA
DEATH 10 JUL 1918 • São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Son of James Joseph Coachman and Martha J Hankins
Married: 5 Jun 1872 • Mathews, Montgomery,
Alabama, USA
Eula Hentz Keyes
1853–1920
BIRTH 23 FEB 1853 • Montgomery, Alabama, USA
DEATH 30 JUL 1920 • Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Montgomery Advertiser
Montgomery, Alabama
Thur. Jun. 6 ,1872 Page 2
MARRIED:
COACHMAN-KEYES - At the 1st Ba[tist Church in this city, on the morning of June 5th, by Rev. J. O. Branch, of Macon, Georgia, assisted by Rev. D. W. Gwin of Montgomery, Dr. Jno. W. Coachman, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Eula H., daughter of J. W. Keyes, of this city
(EDITOR: Rev. J. O. Branch is the father-in-law of Eula's younger sister, Julia Louise Keyes.)
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Dr. John William Coachman
The Coachman Family has over 168 years of tradition in Dentistry and is currently in the 6th generation of dentists. The origin of the Coachman family coincides with the beginning of Dentistry as a profession itself, in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1849, John Keyes Washington already graduated in Medicine from the Medical College of Ohio, United States, received his degree in Dental Surgeon from Ohio College of Dental Surgery, starting to contribute significantly to the development of scientific literature in dentistry. After the Civil War in the United States, from 1861 to 1865, when John served as an officer surgeon in the Army, the family decided to move to Brazil. They settled in Rio de Janeiro, where they began their activities in dentistry, which were greatly enriched by their important contributions, marked by the pursuit of accuracy and clinical excellence since then.
In 1874, John William Coachman received the “Dental Office” title from the Brazilian Imperial Government and, together with his brothers Charles Whiting Keyes and William Baldwin Keyes, he began what would become a tradition for the family in the country: to lead and increasingly improve this important field of Medicine. They excelled in the field, which resulted in serving Emperor Dom Pedro II, thus becoming close to the palace for many years.
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Dr. John William Coachman's Obituary (Unsourced)
Dr. John William Coachman - Died July 10th at 4 A.M. at Hentz's home, Rua Pamplona 5, São Paulo. After a lingering illness of several weeks, Dr. Coachman died at the home of his son, Dr. Hentz Coachman, in São Paulo, on July 10, 1918. Funeral services were conducted by Reverend M. Dickie, Pastor of the Central Methodist Church of São Paulo.
Dr. Coachman was the pioneer American dentist of Brazil, having practiced his profession in Rio de Janeiro for 51 years. On May 27th of last year, the American dentists of Rio gave a banquet in honor of Dr. Coachman, at which many expressions appreciative of his personal, and professional character were made. He was regarded by all who knew him as a man of unimpeachable integrity, and generous philanthropic spirit. He was a member of the Methodist Church and proved the genuineness of his faith by a life rich in good works.
Dr. Coachman is survived by his aged and invalid wife, by four sons, Dr. J. J. Coachman, Dr. Keyes Coachman; both of Rio, Dr. Hentz Coachman of São Paulo, and Mr. Kendrick Coachman of Chicago, Ill.; three daughters, Mrs. J. Merritt Fordham, Mrs. M. Dickie, and Miss Eula Coachman of São Paulo.
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He was buried in the Araçá Cemetary but his remains are now in the Coachman grave in the Redentor Cemetery - São Paulo.
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Obituary - (Unsourced)
Mrs. Eula Hentz Keyes Coachman - Died July 30th, 1920 at 10:45 P.M. - Keyes' home is Petropolis
On Friday, July 30th, after a lingering illness of several months, Mrs. Coachman, widow of the late Dr. John W. Coachman, passed to her reward. Her husband, Dr. Coachman, was for years the most widely known American dentist in Brazil, being known as the father of American dentistry in this country.
In 1909, Mrs. Coachman suffered a stroke of paralysis from which she never fully recovered. For the last three months, she had been confined to her bed a patient and cheerful sufferer, quietly waiting for the summons home. Seven children survive their mother - Dr. J.J. Coachman, of Rio, Dr. Hentz Coachman and Mrs. M. Dickie of São Paulo, Dr. J. Keyes Coachman, Mrs. J. Merritt Fordham and Miss Eula Coachman of Petropolis, and Kendrick P. Coachman of Boston, Mass.
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Was buried in Petropolis but her remains are now in the Coachman grave in the Redentor Cemetery in São Paulo.
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John and Eula Keyes Coachman with family

Children:
1. James Joseph Coachman
2. Hentz Keyes Coachman
3. Julia Louise Coachman
4. John Keyes Coachman
5. Linnie Wilkerson Coachman
6. Martha Coachman
7. Henry Allston Coachman
8. Wimberly "Wimby" William Coachman
9. Alice Hentz Coachman
10. Eula Helen Coachman
11. David Allston Coachman
12. Kendrick Powell Coachman
1.
James Joseph Coachman
1873-1950
BIRTH 30 APR 1873, Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
DEATH 24 JUN 1950, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Married 1st: 25 JUN 1902, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Mary Ellis “Mollie” Steagall
1886-1953
BIRTH 28 AUG 1885, Santa Barbara d'Oeste, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 8 MAR 1953, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Married 2nd: 4 JUL 1926, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Naida Verecoulon
Mollie Steagall was the grand-daughter of Confederados Henry Farrar Steagall and Delia Peck who had settled in the Americana colony headed by William Norris of Montgomery. Alabam, USA.
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Find A Grave
A dentist and US citizen, he came to Brazil from Montgomery, AL, USA. He was the son of John William Coachman, (1845-1918) of Georgia, USA. His wife was Mary Stengall [Mollie Steagall], per US consular form No. 210, 1916; children, Mildred, b 27 June 1903, and Joseph Edward, b 23 March 1907.
He died, aged 77 years, after an operation for cancer at Strangers' Hospital in Rio de Janeiro. He was survived by his wife, Naida Coachman, of Rio.
Information from emergency US passport application, Rio, 1918; Report of the Death of an American Citizen, American Foreign Service, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 26 September 1955.
Children:
1.
1. Mildred Ellis Coachman 1903-2003 BIRTH 26 JUN 1903, Atlanta, DeKalb,
Georgia, USA
Married: 5 Jun 1872 • Mathews,
Montgomery, Alabama, USA
DEATH 30 DEC 2003, Vassalboro,
Kennebec, Maine, USA
Married: 3 JUL 1929, Rio de Janeiro,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Clarence Henry Wiseley 1896-1958 BIRTH11 JUN 1896, Botkins, Shelby, Ohio, USA DEATH22 June 1958 Auglaize, Ohio, USA
Children:




1. Sally Fay Wiseley 1933- BIRTH 16 MAY 1933, Buenos Aires, Argentina DEATH Deceased
2.
Joseph Edward Coachman 1907-1974 BIRTH 23 MAR 1906, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DEATH 24 OCT 1974

2.
Hentz Keyes Coachman 1874-1934
BIRTH4 JUL 1874, Petrópolis, Petrópolis,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEATH 7 JUL 1934,São Paulo, São Paulo,
Brazil
Married: 5 Jun 1872 • Mathews, Montgomery,
Alabama, USA
Married: 17 APR 1897, Amparo, São Paulo,
Brazil
Eula Lucy Shalders 1875-1954 BIRTH 23 AUG 1875, João Pessoa, Paraíba,
Brazil
DEATH 14 JAN 1954, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Children:
1.
Laura Shalders Coachman
1898-1996
BIRTH 12 JUN 1898, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEATH30 AUG 1996, Winter Haven, Polk, Florida, USA
Married: 1 AUG 1926 Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania, USA
Charles Clare Richard Varty
1897-1979
BIRTH 8 DEC 1897 Michigan, USA
DEATH Burial, 1979 Winter Haven, Polk, Florida, USA
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The Morning Call
Allentown, Pennsylvania
27 Jul. 1926 Tue. Page 14
Easton Marriage License - Charles R. Varty, Deckerville, Michigan, and
Miss Laura Coachman, Sao Pauli, Brazil.
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The Morning Call
Allentown, Pennsylvania
3 Aug. 1926 Tue. Page 14
Sao Paulo, Brazil Couple Married at Easton
Miss. Laura Coachman, daughter of Dr. Henry Coachman of Sao Paulo,
Brazil and Charles Richard Varty, formerly of Michigan, now of Sao
Paulo, were married Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock by Reverend
John Mertz, pastor of the Brainerd Church, Easton.
They were attended by Mrs. William G. Leamon of New York City as matron of honor, and James L. Fagan of Sao Paulo as best man.
The wedding took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. E Stanley Bixler of First Terrace, College Hill, in the presence of a few intimate friends.
The guests from Easton, outside of Mr. and Mrs. Bixler's family were Miss Margaret Hay, Miss Anna Hay, and Miss Caroline Farquhar, who are close friends of the bride who had frequently visited the Bixlers during her eleven months residence in New York. Dr. Coachman formerly lived in Florida but had been a resident of Sao Paulo for many years.
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The Tampa Tribune
Tampa, Florida
26 Feb. 1964 Wed. Page 13
Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Varty are entertaining their daughter-in-law and son, Mrs. Robert J. Varty, and grandson at their home on Lake Winterset. The visitors from Buenos Aires, Argentina will remain in Winter Haven for two weeks.
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Childre:


1.
John Franklin Varty 1927-2014 Birth:23 May 1927 New York City, New York County,
New York, USA
Death:25 August 2014 Florida, USA Married: 17 December 1950, Sandusky, Sanilac,
Michigan, USA
Beverly Lowe Birth:23 May 1927 New York City, New York County,
New York, USA
Death:25 August 2014 Florida, USA
2.
Robert James Varty
1928-1986 –
BIRTH 24 OCT 1928 São Paulo,
São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 10 JUN 1986, Winter
Haven, Polk, Florida, USA
Married: 17 DEC 1954, Evansville,
Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA
Sue Carol Eakins
1931-2018
BIRTH 14 SEP 1931 Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA DEATH: 17 OCT, 2018 Fountain Hills, Maricopa, Arizona, USA
2.
Joyce Keyes Coachman
1900-1994 Married (1920) Divorced (1958)
Birth: 5 May 1900, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Death: 16 September 1994, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Married: 1 December 1920, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Divorced: 1958
Gilbert Jacob Huber Sr.
1891-1970
Birth: 9 December 1891, Cairo, Alexander, Illinois, USA
Death: 1 January 1970, Palm Springs, Riverside, California, USA
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The Desert Sun
Palm Springs, California
3 Jan. 1970 Sat. Page 3
Hubert Services Monday
Services for Gilbert J. Huber, internationally known in the publishing and advertising fields, will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Desert Chapel Mortuary. Huber, 78, died at 2 a.m. Thursday at Desert Hospital. He had retained a home at 47-325 Agate Court, El Dorado Country Club for the past nine years.
Huber had been in the publishing and advertising business in Brazil, Argentina, and Portugal. He was publisher of Listas Lapponicus Brasileiras SA in Brazil. He was a past member of the board of El Dorado.
Survivors are his widow, Ruth; and four sons. Gilberto and William of Brazil, Peter of New York, and Hentz of the Netherlands; one daughter, Joyce Verner of Brazil; thirty grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family had requested that any contributions be made to the Eisenhower Medical Center. …………………………………………………………………………………………………............................................
Children:
1.
David Huber
1922-1922
BIRTH 13 FEB 1922, São Paulo, Brazil DEATH 3 OCT 1922, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died young
2.
William Coachman Huber
1923- 2013
BIRTH 23 MAR 1923 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DEATH 25 DEC 2013, Louisville, Boulder, Colorado, USA
3. Gilbert Jacob Huber Jr.
1925-
4. Joyce Coachman Huber
1926-2018
BIRTH 6 NOV 1926, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil DEATH 28 APR 2018, Zürich, Switzerland Married
Werner Blumer
1914-1988
BIRTH 18 DEC 1914, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil DEATH 2 JAN 1988, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
5. James Coachman Huber
1927-1927
BIRTH 6 NOV 1926 or 1927, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil DEATH 7 JAN or NOV 1927, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Died young
6. Hentz Coachman Huber
1928-1996 Birth: 17 August 1928, Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA Death: 16 July 1996, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Married: 1952, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil
Delia Cenira Bueno NettoMarriage: Birth:19 March 1935, Jamestown, Saint Helena Island Death:31 December 2020, Davis, Yolo, California, USA
7. Peter Huber
1931-


3.
John William Coachman
1902-1966
Birth:22 OCT 1902, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Death:17 DEC 1966, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Married: 7 JUN 1934
Alice Barreto
1906-1940 Birth: 1906
Death: 29 MAY 1940, Santos, São Paulo, Brazil







4.
Hentz Shalders Coachman
1904-1960
BIRTH 27 OCT 1904, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 22 NOV 1960
5.
Alfred( Alfredo) Shalders Coachman
1906-1979
BIRTH 10 AUG 1906,São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 26 APR 1979. São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Married: 6 APRpr 1931
Laura Troppmair
1902-
Birth:4 JUN 1902, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Death: Deceased
Children:
1.
Lucy Helena Coachman
1931--
BIRTH 31 DEC 1931, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil DEATH Deceased
2.
John William Coachman IV
1934-
BIRTH 10 MAR 1934 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil DEATH Deceased
6.
Alice Keyes Coachman
1908-
BIRTH 3 APR 1908, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 1 SEP 1999 Married: 4 JUN 1934, São Paulo, SãoPaulo, Brazil Ermete Vicente Ferro
BIRTH São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil DEATH Deceased
7.
Emily Evangeline Coachman
1910-1955
Birth: 16 February 1909, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Death: 15 February 1955, Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
Married 1st:16 DEC 1932, Bela Vista, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
James Crawford Hutchinson
BIRTH 1904, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH Deceased
Married 2nd: 1945
Ivan Theodore Rombauer
1909-1996
Birth: 21 June 1909, Petropolis, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Death: 1996, Sao Paulo, Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil
8.
Dr. Charles (Carlos) Shalders Coachman
1911-1991
BIRTH 26 JUN 1911, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil DEATH 8 MAR 1991, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Married: 1 July 1942, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Marjorie Sybil Gray
1923-
BIRTH 11 SEP 1923, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH Deceased
9. Eula Lucy “Lalu” Coachman
1917-
BIRTH 18 OCT 1916 or 10 OCT 1917, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH: Deceased Married: 3 JAN 1941, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
James Ashley Russell Jr.
1904-1974
BIRTH 16 MAR 1904, Connellsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA DEATH 18 JAN 1974, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

3. Julia Louise (Luiza) Coachman
1875-1954
Birth: 5 OCT 1875,Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Death: 1954, Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Married 1st: 27 NOV 1902, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Rev. Michael Dickie
1863-1939
BIRTH 16 OCT 1863 • Lisburn, Antrim, Northern Ireland
DEATH 14 JAN 1939 • São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Methodist Minister
Married 2nd:
William Bowman Lee
4.
John Keyes Coachman
1878-1940
BIRTH 4 JUL 1878, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEATH 31 MAR 1940, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Married: 20 July 1905
Janette Dunlop 1883-1944
BIRTH 22 SEP 1882 • Paris, France
DEATH JUN 1944 • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Children:
1.
Erik Dunlop Coachman
1908-1968
BIRTH 4 AUG 1908 • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
DEATH 22 MAY 1960 • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Married: 18 December 1942, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Maria Alina Perez Justo BIRTH: 15 January 1922. Antas, A Lama, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
2.
Oley Dunlop Coachman
1917-After 1947
BIRTH 30 September 1916 or 1917, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DEATH:

5.
Linnie Wilkerson Coachman
1879-1922
BIRTH 26 SEP 1879 • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEATH 23 SEP 1922 • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Married: 20 June 1895, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Jeremiah Merritt Fordham
1869-1945
Birth:1869, Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 30 May 1945, Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The Tribune
Scranton, Pennsylvania
17 Apr. 1888 Tue. Page 3
Mr. J. Merritt Fordham arrived home last evening from a Philadelphia Dental College at which he had been attending lectures during the winter. He has the honor of being one of the two young men who stood highest in the very large class.
Children:
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1.
Merritt Leon Fordham 1897-
BIRTH 3 JUL 1897 • Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEATH BEF. 1943 • ? (Probably before November 1943
as Stella remarried 1943)
Married: 3 MAR 1937, Montevideo, Uruguay
Stella Piegas Dias
1907-1999
BiIRTH 27 October 1907, Rivera, Uruguay DEATH 16 March 1999, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2.
Eulyn Coachman Fordham
1898-1994
BIRTH 13 DEC 1898 • Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEATH 15 NOV 1994 • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Married: 7 JUL 1923, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Francisco José Gonçalves Penna
1899-1990
BIRTH 1899, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DEATH:17 FEB 1990, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Children:

1.
Gilbert J Fordham Penna
1924-
BIRTH 24 DEC 1924, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DEATH Deceased
2.
Cid Fordham Penna
1926-
BIRTH 7 DEC 1926 DEATH 6 MAR 1989
3.
Chester Arthur Fordham
1902-1931
BIRTH 28 AUG 1902, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DEATH 9 JUN 1977,Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Married: 7 APR 1936, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Anne Bjorset
1905-
BIRTH 8 AUG 1905, Oslo, Norway
Death: Deceased
Children:
1.
Richard Fordham
1937-
BIRTH 29 July 1937
Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEATH Decesed
2.
Ingrid Fordham
1940-
BIRTH 21 April 1940, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEATHeath: Deceased
4.
Linnie Coachman Fordham
1905-1959
BIRTH 19 FEB 1905, Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEATH 22 JUL 1959, San Diego, San Diego, California, U.S.A
Married: 24 JUN 1938, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bert Love
1899-
Birth: 1 June 1899 Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, USA
Death: Deceased
(EDITOR: Linnie went to Brazil as a tourist. She suffered from epilepsy. She married Love Bert Love, but he disappeared – they had no children. from notes of Delia Bueno Netto)
5.
Ilona Coachman Fordham
1908-1994
BIRTH 25 OCT 1908, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
DEATH 15 NOV 1994. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Married: 28 May 1932, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jasper Alfred Lovell-Parker
1905-
BIRTH About 1905
DEATH Deceased
Children:
1.
Vivian Fordham Parker
1939-
BIRTH19 December 1939, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DEATH Deceased
2.
Cedrie Lovell-Parker
1944-1944
BIRTH 14 March 1944, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEATH 16 March 1944, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died young
6.
Martha Coachman
1880-1890
BIRTH Abt 1890, Sao Paulo, Brazil
DEATH about 1890
Died young
7.
Henry Allston Coachman
1882-1890
Birth:11 April 1883, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Death:11 June 1890, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died young
8.
Wimberly “Wimby” William Coachman
(1885-1905)
Birth:12 October 1885, Camilla, Mitchell, Georgia, USA
Death:31 July 1905, Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, USA
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Colorado Springs Gazette
Colorado Springs
1 Aug. Tue. 1905 Page 8
Death - Wimby W. Coachman age 20 years, died at 11:00 yesterday morning. He had been in this city only four months. Funeral services will be held from the residence this afternoon at 4 o’clock and interment will be at Evergreen. The Reverend James C. Rollins will officiate.
(Editor: Colorado Death record states that he died of tuberculosis)
9.
Alice Hentz Keyes Coachman
1887-1905
BIRTH 24 JUN 1887, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil - Sampson's Chácara
DEATH 31 DEC 1905, Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, USA
Died at age eighteen from tuberculosis
(EDITOR: From notes Delia Bueno Netto - Alice died at the home of her parents, on Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Reverend Mr. Wardlaw officiated at her funeral. - One day after school, on a hot day in Santa Teresa, in Rio, Alice fell asleep in a rocking chair. Her hip got swollen. The Doctor came immediately and said the hip was out of joint. She needed an operation. - All of Alice's siblings were very loving and caring with her, and they helped her with her books. - Alice's father got her a bike without a pedal. - Alice was William's favorite sister. Both of them died of Tuberculosis, only a few months apart from each other. - Alice had an accident at age 3, that injured her for life. Her brother William was 5 years old when that happened. -
Alice's brother William was only in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for 4 months when he died of Tuberculosis, at age 20, soon after she died. - Alice caught Tuberculosis in the Hospital, where she went to get a hip operation. When her brother William went to visit her, he caught Tuberculosis from her. - Alice was sitting in a chair under a staircase or ladder when William climbed it. He lost his balance and fell on Alice. Alice got seriously injured: One side was larger than the other. - Alice was buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, In Broadmoor, Colorado. - Alice died of Tuberculosis at age 18. - Alice moved to the United States at the age of 3. She arrived on 14 June 1890.
10.
Eula Helen Coachman
1889-1962 – Married (1934) Clifford Emery Ross (1883-1955).
BIRTH 6 FEB 1889, São Paulo, R. dos Bambus, 5 – Brazil
DEATH 20 MAY 1962, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Married: 6 FEB 1934, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Clifford Emery Ross
1882-1955
BIRTH 10 October 1883, San Jose, San Miguel, New Mexico, USA
DEATH 22 AUG 1955 of cerebral artio-sclerosis, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
She was a teacher at a school in Juiz de Fora, Minas Geras, Brazil. Clifford was associated with the English firm of St. John Del Rey Mining Company.
11.
David Allston Coachman
(1891-1892)
BIRTH 16 December 1891, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA DEATH 23 October 1892, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA
Died young
12.
Kendrick Powell Coachman
1895-1953
BIRTH 24 MAR 1895 • São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
DEATH 30 OCT 1953 • Schenectady, New York, USA
Married: 10 MAY 1924, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Grace Hubbard Lewis
1896-1976
Birth:24 MAR 1895, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Death:30 OCT 1953, Schenectady, Schenectady, New York, USA
Daughter of Robert Curtis and Helen N. Lewis
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Hartford Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
29 Apr. 1924 Page 17
Miss Grace H. Lewis of Number 89, Sigourney Street will leave the group Division of the Aetna Life Insurance Company tomorrow. On May 10 she will be married to Kendrick Powell Coachman of Rochester, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Coachman will live in Rochester.
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(EDITOR: Kendrick had Tuberculosis as a child and one leg was shorter than the other. - After his mother passed away he went to the US. 18 September 1920 New York, New York - age 25. He immediately moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. - He got married at age 29 in Hartford, Connecticut. At age 30 he lived in Rochester, New York. At age 35 he lived in Irondequoit, New York. - At age 40 he moved to Schenectady, New York, where he lived until age 58, when he died. - Kendrick also lived in Chicago, Illinois, and in Boston, Massachusetts.)
Children:

1.
Lawrence Keyes Coachman
1926-1993
BIRTH 26 April 1926, Rochester, Monroe, New York, USA DEATH 12 November 1993 of melanoma, Seattle, King, Washington, USA
Married 30 October 1953, Pleasantville, Chautauqua, New York, USA
Divorced: 1974
Nancy Bosworth Park
1930-1994
BIRTH 28 OCT 1930 • Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France
DEATH 1 OCT 1994 • Seattle, King, Washington, USA
Daughter of Malcolm Sewell Park and Dorathea Helen Taylor
Married 2nd
Marina Grigorevna Tarlinskya
BIRTH 10 MAY 1935, Russia
DEATH
Naturalized: 1 OCT 1985, Seattle, King, Washington, USA
Lawrence was a Professor of Education.
Children:
1.
Twin Boys Coachman
1958-1958
Died young
2.
Mary L. Coachman
1960-1961
Died young
3.
John Kendrick Coachman
1962-1979
BIRTH 4 Nov 1964, Seattle, King, Washington, USA
DEATH19 Apr 1979 of cerebellum herniation, Seattle, King, Washington, USA
Died at age 14

L-R Eula Hertz, nee' Keyes,Coachman, Capttain Johnston, Ellie Keyes, John William Coachman

Eula Hertz Keyes

Eula Hertz Keyes Coachman wearing a cameo of husband John William Coachman

John William Coachman
John and Eula Keyes Coachman with family


L-R James Joseph Coachman. (*James Joseph Coachman; Birth 30 Apr 1873 in Montgomery, Alabama Death 24 Jun 1950 in Brazil), John Keyes Coachman (*John Keyes Coachman; Birth 4 Jul 1878 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Death 1940) Kendrick Powel Coachman,(*Kendrick Powell Coachman; Birth 24 Mar 1895 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Death;1953) Hentz Keyes Coachman (*Hentz Keyes Coachman; Birth 4 July 1874 in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Death 7 July 1934 in São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil )

Coachman, Fordham and Keyes family members;
Seated: Leon Fordham, Eula Helen Coachman
Standing (l-r): Eulyn Fordham, Kendrick Powell Coachman, a Hentz cousin?, Carie Hentz, Eula Hentz Keyes (Coachman), John William Coachman
At Victoria Rd., Asheville - North Carolina

Hentz Keyes Coachman Family

COACHMAN PORTRAIT GALLARY

Gilbert Jacob Huber Sr.

Gilbert Jacob Huber Sr. - Top 2nd from right

James Joseph Coachman

Joseph Edward Coachman

John Franklin Varty

Delia Cenira. Bueno Netto

Robert James Varty

Joyce Keyes

Joseph Edward Coachman

Gilert Jacob Huber Sr.

Eula Hentz Keyes Age 15

John Keyes Coachman

Hentz Coachman Huber

Charles Clare Varty

Mollie Steagall

Laura Shalders

Stella Dias

Clarence Henry Wiseley

Eula Hentz Keyes

Kendrick Powell Coachman

Hentz Huber

Gilbert Jacob Huber Sr.

Sue Carol Eakins

Lucy Lalu Coachman

Joyce Keyes

Mildred Ellis Wiseley

John William Coachman

James Joseph Coachamn

Hentz Keyes Coachman
SOME COACHMAN FAMILY HISTORY
Foreword
In 1964, while I was living with an aunt and uncle, I had the opportunity to visit the old cemetery in Matagorda, Texas. I wanted to find the graves of my great-grandparents, Peter Duffy and Maggie Vogg. Peter’s was easy to find. The monument was one of the largest and was located very close to the center of the cemetery. But Maggie’s was much harder to find. I finally found it out towards the edge of the cemetery. The monument was a very small sandstone arch that had been broken and was very difficult to read. The contrast between the two monuments, one of the young mother who had died in childbirth at the age of 22 and the other of her husband who had lived a full and reasonably prosperous life struck me and made me want to know more about these people and all of the others that had shaped me and my family.
Family history has been a passion for me ever since. I have not worked on it continuously but have picked up a fact here and a story there every so often. Now, with the wealth of information available on the internet and the speed with which stories can be shared I have become almost overwhelmed. I have learned so much that I felt I needed to try to share what I have learned. Where ever possible, I have tried to give a sense of who these people were because they were real people. Some were poor, some were rich. Some were in the top echelons of society, some were tradesmen. But the one thing that I have learned that has come down through the generations to our own generation is a deep sense of family.
This is very much a work in progress. I intend to add additional biographies and source materials as I have time. Please contact me with any comments, corrections, or additions at suzym@cox.net.
Finally I would like to thank a few of the researchers who have been kind enough to share their information with me. I am sure I will forget someone but I would like to thank Helen Smith, Carol Vass, Roger Alexander, Katherine Sharpe, Dodie Bradley, Martha Mordecai, Judy Trolinger, Ural Donohoe, Jeannette Davison, Fred Spross, Peggy West, Bobbie Hinman, Pauline Laughlin and David Hedgpeth.
A family tree that relates to these biographies can be found here at Ancestry.com.
Sonya Suzann Beckenbach Manderson
25 December 2008
Updated 12 December 2010
Alexander Coachman
Alexander Coachman was probably born in England and died in January of 1671 in Barbados, West Indies. He married Elizabeth Arrundell, the daughter of Robert Arrundell and his wife, Francis.
Barbados was founded by the English when, on February 17th, 1627, Captain Henry Powell landed with a party of 80 English settlers and 10 slaves. We don’t know when Alexander Coachman arrived but we know he was there and an adult by 12 October 1659 when Elizabeth Fitzjames, age 33, gave the following deposition in court: "on 12 April last past she had heard of a certain gentleman, a lawyer who lately arrived in this place and who lodged in the house of Alexander Coachman, by name John Jerome. She went there desiring his advice. Jerome said he had known said Coachman from a child. Coachman and his wife had been so good to him that if he died he left everything to them as he was very sick. He himself was now a widower and had settled his business in England."
Alexander Coachman was probably a planter of some substance. Barbados, in many respects, was England's first experimental tropical agricultural export colony. Contemporary opinion in the late seventeenth century acclaimed it the 'richest spote of ground in the worlde.' Private English capital financed the settlement in 1627 and market conditions for its first commercial crop, tobacco, enabled the accumulation of quick profits which were later utilized to finance the shift to sugar production in the 1650s. Within twenty years, during which Alexander Coachman built his fortune, the economic phenomenon known as the Sugar Revolution transformed the face of Barbados forever. Tropical luxuriance gave way to a carefully controlled garden-like appearance of the entire island, as almost complete deforestation occurred. Not only was nature subjected to man's tight control but profound demographic and economic changes created a whole new society. Sugar demanded labor and people poured into Barbados in increasingly large numbers, quickly making the island not only the most populated of England's overseas colonies, but also one of the most densely populated places in the world. Initially whites from Britain were brought in to supply labor, either as indentured servants or prisoners but later slaves from Africa became more economical to import and Barbados quickly acquired the largest population of any of the English colonies in the Americas. In many respects, Barbados became the springboard for English colonization in the Americas, playing a leading role in the settlement of Jamaica and the Carolinas, and sending a constant flow of settlers to other areas throughout the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Alexander Coachman made his will on 31 December 1670. He must have been sick and known he was about to die because the will was filed with the St. Michaels Parish Court in Barbados on 12 January 1671. In his will, he mentions his sisters, Anne Smith and Alice Coachman, and his father-in-law Robert Arrundell. He left the majority of his estate to his only son, Tilney. Tilney was to receive his inheritance when he turned 18.
The only child of Alexander Coachman and Elizabeth Arrundell was:
1. Tilney Coachman, was born about 1660 in Barbados, West Indies, and died 13 Feb 1716 in Berkeley, South Carolina.
Tilney Coachman
Tilney Coachman was born about 1660 in Barbados, West Indies, and died on 13 February 1716 in Berkeley County, South Carolina. He married Alice Moore on 01 Jul 1689 in St Michael’s Parish, Barbados, West Indies.
There is some dispute with regard to Tilney’s wife’s family name. Some researchers show her as Alice Moore and others show her as Alice Yeamans. It is my belief that she was Alice Moore, the sister of Governor James Moore, and that she was also, in some way, related to Sir John Yeamans. The records in Barbados show that Tilney Coachman married Mrs. Alice Yeamans which would mean that Tilney was not her first husband and that the unknown first husband was a member of the Yeamans family who, apparently, died young. Additionally, in his will, James Moore of Berkeley County, South Carolina made the following bequest: “for love and affection to my brother-in-law, Tilney Coachman of the same county, gentleman, and Alice, his wife, or the survivor of them, a plantation of 500 acres of land, then in possession of said Tilney Coachman, being in Berkeley, lying near Moore's plantation called "Wassamissah" to go after the death of the survivor to James Coachman, the eldest son, or in case of his not surviving to the next son, John Coachman."
Sir John Yeamans, one of 13 children of John Yeamans, a brewer, was born in 1610 in Bristol, England, and was one of the early settlers to prosper in Barbados. He married his second wife in very despicable circumstances. He either poisoned or shot her husband, Col. Benjamin Berringer, and, by marrying the widow, acquired their estate in 1650. Nineteen years later, in 1669, he established a Proprietorship colony at Charles Town, Carolina, where he imported 200 slaves and introduced slavery to North America. He imported the slaves to grab the largest plantation since an additional 100 acres was granted for each slave. He became the third Governor of Carolina only because he did not arrive with the original settlers. He arrived several months later and established his plantation but died in 1674. Sir John’s brother, Robert (right), was the Sheriff, Mayor (in 1669), and Chief Magistrate of Bristol, England as well as a ship owner and a merchant who also had early involvement in the Caribbean trade.
James Moore, Alice Coachman’s brother, seems to have emigrated from
England to Barbados and then appears in South Carolina by February 15,
1675, when he acted as attorney for Margaret, Lady Yeamans, the administrator of Sir John Yeamans’ estate. At about this same time he married Margaret Berringer, the posthumous daughter of Colonel Benjamin Berringer, and step-daughter of Sir John Yeamans. Moore used every opportunity to increase his fortune. Although a large planter by the standards of his day, he remained active in mercantile pursuits. Besides the fur trade, he dealt with pirates, engaged in the illegal Indian slave trade, and was the part-owner of two merchant vessels (pirate ships?). On September 11, 1700, he was elected by the Grand Council to succeed Joseph Blake, deceased, as Governor. At this time North and South Carolina were separated as colonies making James Moore the first Governor of South Carolina. He served until March of 1703. James Moore had several land grants at Wassamassaw and Goose Creek and evidently resided there. He died of “distemper” (believed to have been yellow fever) in 1706.
Additionally, James Moore's official seal bore the swan and arms of the Moore family of Devonshire, England. Devonshire is in relatively close proximity to Bristol, the home of the Yeamans family which makes it quite possible that the two families may have known each other. Although I have no proof, it would seem a logical scenario that Alice Moore may have married into the Yeamans family in England before leaving with her unknown first husband for Barbados.
We don’t know exactly when Tilney and Alice Coachman arrived in South Carolina but they were there by 1704 when Tilney received warrants for 500 acres apiece for land at Moppopin Creek and at Savana Spring. Additionally, James Moore mentions in his will of 1705 that Tilney and Alice were already living on the plantation that he bequest to them. How involved Tilney was with the affairs of James Moore is unknown but it is reasonable to assume that they were close.
Tilney Coachman was dead by 13 Feb. 1717 when John Newton and Benjamin Schinking appeared in court as administrators of his estate. The date of Alice’s death is unknown.
Children of Tilney Coachman and Alice Moore were:
1. Willoughby Coachman was born in 1695 in Barbados, West Indies.
2. Margaret Coachman was born in about 1697 in Barbados, West Indies, and died in South Carolina. She married Abraham Sanders.
3. James Coachman was born in about 1699 in Barbados, West Indies. He married Rebeckah Ann Goodbee in 1742 and inherited the land grant near Goose Creek mentioned in James Moore’s will.
4. John Coachman was born in 1700 in Barbados, West Indies, and died on 19 Dec 1749 in Craven County, South Carolina. .
5. Benjamin Coachman was born before 1705 in Barbados, West Indies, and died 04 May 1779 in St James Parish, Goose Creek, Berkeley County, South Carolina. He married Sarah Smith, daughter of George Smith and Elizabeth Allen. She died on 29 August 1784. They had at least three children, Benjamin, Jr., Nancy, and Sarah. He was a planter in the Parish of St. James, Goose Creek which elected him to the Twenty-second (1757-1760) and Thirty-second (1773) Royal Assemblies. As one of the subscribers to the Ludlum Fund to establish a school for the poor of the parish, he contributed 100 pounds for each of three years (1745-1747). He was a captain in the militia during the Revolution and a wealthy man. In the months following his death, his estate lent the state of South Carolina 180,000 pounds.

John Coachman
John Coachman was born in 1700 in Barbados, West Indies, and died between 19 Dec 1749 and 11 March 1750 in Craven County, South Carolina. About 1729 he married Mary Drake, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Drake. She was born about 1712 in South Carolina and died before 1749.
Research seems to indicate that the Drakes also arrived in South Carolina via Barbados and proceeded to become quite wealthy. John Coachman received 2,000 acres of land from the Drake family when he and Mary married. John Joseph Simons, when writing his family history in the 1850s, suggested that Mary descended from the same Drake family as Sir Francis Drake but, so far, that has not been proven.
John Coachman was an indigo planter and plantation owner. The "War of Jenkins Ear" (1739-1742), a war between England and the French, Portuguese and Spanish traders left England without a source of royal blue indigo dye. As the indigo plant grew wild all along the coastal plains, it was a natural transition for the lowland around Georgetown to be used for cultivating indigo. Indigo is the rarest of dyes because blue is the most difficult color to produce in a dye. Georgetown County indigo came in three colors: fine copper, purple and fine flora. Trade was brisk and created fortunes that rivaled the wealth of the royalty of Europe. John Coachman and other planters in the Georgetown District became members of an aristocratic society of plantation owners that brings up all the stereotypical images of huge mansions, broad lawns and slaves in the fields.

indigo Plantation
John Coachman died sometime early in 1750 and left the following will:
THIS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me, John Coachman of Craven County, South Carolina, Gentleman. I first will that all my just debts be fully satisfied and paid. Item: I give devise and bequeath all my whole estate real and personal to my two sons William and James Coachman to them and their heirs forever but one negro boy named Abram I give and Bequeath to my brother Benjamin Coachman to him and his heirs forever and one negro girl named Flora I give the use of to my sister Margaret Sanders during her life and at her death to be divided between my sons William and James Coachman and one horse named Newborn I give and bequeath to my friend Thomas Waities, and Lastly, I nominate and appoint my brother Benjamin Coachman and my two sons William & James Coachman Executors Of this my Last Will and Testament in witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this nineteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred & forty-nine.
This will was proved before Paul Trapier, Esq by virtue of a dedimus directed to him on the 11 day of March 1750.
Children of John Coachman and Mary Drake were:
1. William Coachman was born in about 1727 in South Carolina and died in 1791. He married Elizabeth Moore. She also died in 1791 in Charleston, South Carolina.
2. Benjamin Coachman was born about 1730 in South Carolina but died young before his father’s will of 1749.
3. James Coachman was born in 1732 in South Carolina and died in 1789 in Georgetown, South Carolina.
James Coachman
James Coachman was born in 1732 in South Carolina and died in 1789 in Georgetown, South Carolina. He married Hannah Poole in February of 1762. She was the daughter of William Poole and Hannah De Marboeuf. She died in 1769 in South Carolina.
James Coachman, like his father, was a plantation owner in the Georgetown District of South Carolina. By the latter part of the 18th century, great quantities of indigo were being produced in India and the East Indies, glutting the market. As the price fell, Georgetown planters began turning to rice cultivation, which was in worldwide demand. The rice fields were carved out of tidal swamps along coastal rivers by slaves brought to South Carolina from the West Indies and West Africa. With primitive tools, the slaves cleared the low-lying land of huge cypress and gum trees and built canals, dikes, and trunks (small floodgates) that allowed the flooding and draining of fields with the high and low tides. From the 18th century to the Civil War, slaves planted, tended, and harvested the crops that made plantation owners wealthy, including James Coachman.
James was also a land speculator which only added to his wealth. Along with his brother William, James bought and sold numerous tracts of land in the mid-eighteenth century in Georgetown County. Among these tracts of land was Mansfield Plantation which, today, is a popular tourist destination and bed and breakfast, and Beneventum Plantation. The home at Beneventum is on the National Historic Register but the land has been subdivided into private home sites.

Beneventum
Like another of our ancestors, Shadrach Simons, James Coachman was a member of Marion’s Brigade in the Revolution. Although James Coachman held the rank of Captain, Marion’s men actually had no official status. They were purely volunteers. When they came into the field, South Carolina and, particularly, Georgetown was overrun by the British. Of their own will they took up arms to fight the invaders and it was impossible to preserve any more discipline and regularity among them than their patriotism and the dangers of the moment imposed on them. Fighting without pay, clothing, or provisions furnished by a government, compelled to care for their families as well as to provide for their own wants, they were likely to go home at planting or harvest time, or
whenever family needs became acute, or simply when the going got too dreary. Therefore, brigade strength fluctuated from as few as twenty or thirty men to as many as several hundred, and Marion had to plan his operations accordingly. Despite their irregularities and occasional lapses, when Marion came to disband his men in December 1782, he could say with complete sincerity, “The general returns his warmest thanks to the officers and men who with unwavering patience and fortitude have undergone the greatest fatigues and hardships and with a spirit and bravery which must ever reflect the highest honor on them. No citizens in the world have ever done more than they have.”
James Coachman left the following will that is dated 22 April 1789:
I JAMES COACHMAN being in my sound mind and memory doth make this my last will and Testament in manner & form following.
I give devise and bequeath to my son JOSEPH COACHMAN and to his heirs forever a certain part of five hundred acres of land that was granted to one GREGORY to begin at a lightwood stake upon the upper line of the said five hundred acres fixed by myself and to run south through the said tract and continue the same course through part of another five hundred acres of land granted to me binding east and south on the lands granted to GREGORY till it strikes the lower bounds in the Gapway.
Also that other part of the five hundred acres granted to me which the line above mentioned will divide in part and does bind east and south on the divided land granted to GREGORY. Also another tract of land of five hundred acres granted to me binding east on the last mentioned land. Also another tract of land granted to one ELLERY in the Great Bay be the same more or less all which lands I give and devise to my son JOSEPH COACHMAN and his heirs forever with the following mentioned Negro slaves to wit: CUFFY, SKILLING, CLORAH, ROSE, SAM, MATHIAS, DOLL & PEGGY.
I give devise and bequeath to my son JOHN COACHMAN and to his heirs forever two tracts of land joining each other upon Pee Dee River on which I now live on containing eight hundred and twenty-one acres.
Also that divided part of GREGORY tract by the line mentioned above and known by the name of CONYERS old field and is the west part of the live that divides the land given above. Also the other part of that land granted to me wherever that line may divide it on the lower bounds in the Gapway.
All which lands I give and devise to my son JOHN COACHMAN and his heirs forever with the following mentioned Negro slaves to wit: ANDREW, LONDON, JUDY, his wife, PHILLIS, CAIN, ABLE and JANUARY. I leave the use of DINAH, CHARLOTTE, JACK, PHILLIS and MELIAH as shall be mentioned hereafter for the uses and purposes thereof to my daughter HANNAH POSTELL.
I leave the use of BESS, SCIPIO, FANNY, MOLLY, CLOE, JENNY as shall be mentioned hereafter for the uses and purposes thereof to my daughter ANN WATIES COACHMAN. The remainder of my Negroes not mentioned with all kind of stocks of cattle, sheep, hogs & horses, mares & colts, I leave to be equally divided in four parts, one fourth part I give & bequeath to my son JOSEPH COACHMAN, one fourth part I give and bequeath to my son JOHN COACHMAN, one fourth part the use of which I leave with the others named before to my daughter HANNAH POSTELL during her natural life and at her death if there be no living issue of her body that may arrive to the age of eighteen years to whom I mean it shall descend in failure of which then my will is it shall be the property forever of ANN WATIES COACHMAN or the issue of her body, one fourth part the use of which I leave with the others named before to my daughter ANN WATIES COACHMAN during her natural life and at her death if there be no living issue of her body that may arrive to the age of eighteen years to whom I mean it shall descend, in failure of which then my will is it shall be the property forever of HANNAH POSTELL or the issue of her body.
I also leave my household furniture to my daughter ANN WATIES COACHMAN that may be in my dwelling at the time of my decease. What is in my Counting House in the Garden,
I give to my sons JOSEPH and JOHN COACHMAN with boats and canoes.
I also leave a tract of land upon Pee Dee River containing five hundred acres joining south on lands given to JOHN COACHMAN in this my will to be sold by my executors to pay any debts and if not sold for that purpose.
I then give and devise the land to my daughters and the heirs of their body forever. The said land is known by PALMER'S OLD FIELD and it is my will that there shall be no division of any part of my estate before all my just debts be paid, and it is also my will that if there be any law suits, controversy & disputes amongst my children about this my last Will and Testament to alter or change the equity or appointment of it herein explained, then the one who so offending shall pay to the others the full sum of five hundred pounds, but upon a true obedience and performing of it in peace, love and unity amongst themselves, then they stand invested with all the benefits arising from Will and to all deeds under my hand to them for the uses and purposes meant or intended therein.
I leave an aged Negro man by the name of WILLY to reside with either of my sons he thinks proper to be well ____ fed and clothed and I do disannul, revoke and make void all other wills and acknowledge this to be my last Will and Testament and I do nominate and appoint my two sons JOSEPH COACHMAN, JOHN COACHMAN and JEHU POSTELL executors to this my Last Will and Testament in witness I have here set my hand and seal this twenty-second day of April one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine and the word (set) in the twenty ninth line in the second page I have interlined it that it may appear more plain and clear.
Signed: JAMES COACHMAN
Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us: DOROTHY SINGLETON,
JOHN SINGLETON, JAMES BELIN
Children of James Coachman and Hannah Poole were:
1. Joseph Coachman was born in 1761 in Georgetown, South Carolina, and died 06 Jan 1814 also in Georgetown District, South Carolina.
2. John Coachman was born Apr 1769 in Georgetown District, South Carolina. He died 03 Oct 1835 and is buried in the Coachman Cemetery in Georgetown. He married five times. The order of his marriages is not exactly known but his wives were: (1) Mary Green; (2) Sarah Tyler; (3) Charlotte Ann Allston; (4) Lydia Towner and (5) Hannah Green (sister of Mary Green). His children were Elijah, Francis, Benjamin Allston, Lydia Glen, and James Joseph.
3. Hannah Coachman died 07 Oct 1821. She married first John G. Postell by whom she had two children, James and William. After the death of her first husband on 25 December 1797, she married (2) William Capers on 15 May 1803. He was born on 13 Oct 1758. William Capers and Hannah Coachman had three children, LeGrand, Benjamin, and Richard.
4. Ann Waties Coachman.
5. William Coachman died before 1789.