Benjamin Coburn Sr., with his wife, sons, daughters and grandchildren, emigrated from New York State to Lyndon in 1837. The family, besides Mr. and Mrs. Coburn, consisted of
Charles R. Coburn. wife and four children
Benjamin Coburn, Jr., wife and several children;
James Coburn, wife and two children;
John Coburn, wife and four children; Mrs. Stephen Jeffers, and
Mrs. Elisha Hubbard.
Mrs. Benjamin Coburn, Sr., died July 31, 1837, shortly after the arrival of the family at their Western home, and was the first person buried in the Lyndon cemetery.
Mr. Coburn died about twenty-eight years ago at an advanced age, and rests by the side of the wife of his youth.
James Coburn resided at the homestead surrounded by an interesting family, until July 25, 1862, when he fell dead while making a stack of hay;
his son, George L., continued to reside upon the homestead until 1875, when he sold the farm, and now a resident of Chicago.
Mary J., daughter of James Coburn, married Jehiel B. Smith, she is now a resident of Lyndon.
Mrs. James Coburn, died in Lyndon September 2, 1877. John Coburn had four children, and has been living in California for the past twenty-five years; he keeps a hotel and ranch in the mining regions of a narrow valley of the Sierra Nevada mountains; he has one son in California, and one is dead; one daughter, Mrs. Addison Farrington, lives in Morrison, and another, Mrs. J. C. Teats, lives in Sterling. Benjamin Coburn, Jr., went to California, and died there in 1877. Charles R. Coburn has eight children; he lived in Fenton, and died about eight eight years ago.
Bent & Wilson History 1877
