My Ohio Cokonougher
ancestors hail back to Adams County, Ohio in the early 1800s. My Frost ancestors do the same, and they were
interconnected with the Cokonougher family!
Rodena
Cokonougher (b. 31 January 1858), the daughter of my great-great grandparents,
Adtson and Elizabeth Cokonougher, married Andrew Frost (b.1855), the son of
John and Mary Frost. The photos you see
here are pictures of them and their family.
Rodena's
brother, my great-grandfather, Zachariah Cokonougher (1853-1904), also married
a Frost descendant. He married Mary Elizabeth
Wisecup (1856-1934), who was the daughter of Phoeba (Frost) Wisecup (1830 - 1859)
and the grandaughter of Adams County, Ohio residents Jacob (1793-1870) and
Proba Frost (b. abt. 1794). Jacob and
Proba's farm was located then in what is now part of the Peebles, Ohio, city
limits.
The Frosts
seemed to be a colorful and rough family.
There are many stories in the local newspapers of the time, about Frost scrapes
with the law, and there is even a detailed and flowery account of one criminal trial in which two
Frost boys were tried and convicted of murder, and sent to prison. Evidently, Cokonoughers weren't the only
family with hard heads.
