Adtson & Elizabeth Cokonougher Marriage 1848

          The parents Zachariah Cokonougher (1853-1904) and John Elwood Cokonougher  (1850 - 1906), as well as ancestors for most of the "Cokonougher" families in Ohio and Michigan, were Adtson Elsworth Cokonougher and Elizabeth (Shoemaker) Cokonougher. 
          Their marriage was recorded in Volume II of the Marriage Records of Adams County, Ohio.  The record says that Addison Cohinour was married on February 3, 1848 by Rev. Shin to Elizabeth Shoemaker. 
          A news article in the 10 February 1848 Adams County, West Union, Ohio newspaper The Democrat reads and confirms the marriage record in it's list of recent marriages, as follows, "On the 3rd inst., by Rev. A.T. Shinn, Mr. Addison Cohinour to Miss Elizabeth Shoemaker, all of this county."
          Was the spelling of the name as "Cohinour" the original spelling, or was it merely a mis-spelling?  I have found so many different spellings and mis-spellings of the name, going all the way back to the 1500s, that it is impossible to say.  Later census records confirm that this Addison Cohinour is the same person as Adtson Elsworth Cokonougher.                                                   
          My grandfather, John Henry Cokonougher, told me that an old family legend claimed that the original two Cokonoughers to come to Ohio were cousins whose intentions to get married were forbidden by their families. The disappointed couple eloped and ran off from their home state into the state of Ohio, changed their name so that they wouldn't be found for a while, and got married.  My grandfather could not confirm the accuracy of this legend since it was just a story that had been handed down to him. 

John Elwood Cokonougher bio & photo abt. 1900.

John Elwood Cokonougher was . . .

born 14 July 1850 to Adtson and Elizabeth (Shoemaker) Cokonougher.  He lived in Adams County, Ohio, where he married Mary Alice Purtee in 1873.  They had four children:  Icie Cokonougher, Jerry Cokonougher b. abt. 1878, Etta Mae Cokonougher b. 20 Feb. 1883, and Harley Elwood Cokonougher b.10 July 1886.  John moved to Ross County, Ohio in the 1870s, to Paulding County, Ohio, in the early 1900s, and then to Montgomery County, Kansas and possibly Michigan.  He remarried to Luella Etta Case after the death of his first wife, and had two additional children by her:  Forest Herman Cokonougher b. 15 Sept. 1896, and Goldie Faye Cokonougher b. 12 Sept. 1893.  John died 27 Sept. 1906 in Montgomery County, Kansas.  John was the brother of Sarah A. Cokonougher b. 17 Nov. 1848, Zachriah Cokonougher b. 2 Apr. 1853, Mary Elizabeth Cokonougher b. 18 March 1855, Rodena Cokonougher b. 31 Jan. 1858, William N. Cokonougher b. 16 Feb. 1862, and Lieddy Cokonougher b. 22 Sept. 1863. 
           Most of this information came from the family Bible of Mary Elizabeth (Wisecup) Cokonougher, oral history told to me by my father Howard Wm. Cokonougher, and research by Ena (Cokonougher) Mulford.  The picture of John E. Cokonougher was gifted to me by Ena (Cokonougher) Mulford.  More about John Cokonougher and the Cokonougher family can be found in the book "The Genealogy Of The Family Of Ralph William Cokonougher" by Ralph W. Cokonougher, available on Amazon.com.

Zachariah Cokonougher 1870s photo

           This picture of  Zachariah Cokonougher was likely taken in the early 1870s.  It is copied from a tin type photo.
           Zachariah was born 2 April 1853 in Ohio to Addison and Elizabeth (Shoemaker) Cokonougher.  He married Mary Elizabeth Wisecup in Adams County, Ohio on 29 August 1873.  they had eight children:  William Sylvester Cokonougher, born 12 June 1874; Provy Myrtle Cokonougher, born 12 January 1877; Addison Elsworth Cokonougher, born 22 February 1880, Joseph Elwood Cokonougher, born 22 February 1880; John Henry Cokonougher, born 6 July 1883; Charles S. Cokonougher, born 20 September 1886; Anna Mae Cokonougher, born 17 September 1892; and Harvey Jay Cokonougher, born 23 June 1896.  Zachariah and Mary moved to Ross County, Ohio after they were married, where, except for a short time in Paulding County, Ohio, they lived the remainder of their lives.  Zachariah died of cancer on 14 September 1904.       
          More about Zachariah can be learned in the book "The Genealogy Of The Family Of Ralph William Cokonougher" by Ralph W. Cokonougher, available for purchase on Amazon.com.      

Cokonougher (sic) guild house - 1529.

A guild house in the Middle Ages was . . . .

 

. . . .  similar to a cross between today's labor union headquarters and a family owned business headquarters.  You had to be a member of the guild to work a job in the profession that the guild represented.  Usually, a particular family controlled the guild, and the jobs were handed down from generation to generation.  This particular Knochenhauer Amthaus (sic Cokonougher guild house) was rebuilt from scratch from the original plans in the last century and is now a major tourist attraction, and a restaurant, in the town of Hildeshem, Germany.  You can find out more about it by doing a google search online.  It is a good example of what the Cokonougher ancestors in the "old country" were capable of.