BIO:  Abram Coble, York County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis

Copyright 2005.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/york/
_______________________________________________ 

History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
_______________________________________________ 

Part II, Biographical Sketches, Newberry Township, Pg 150

ABRAM COBLE was born July 25, 1843, in York County, Penn., and is the fifth of 
eight children of Peter and Mary (Christ) Coble, deceased, of York County, Penn., 
and of Dutch descent.  The father was a shoe-maker by trade, but quitted that 
occupation and began farming, which he followed till his death.  Abram Coble was 
brought up a farmer, and followed that occupation until the fall if 1861, when he 
enlisted in Company H, Eighty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 
for three years, and participated in the engagements of Mine Run, Wilderness, 
Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Winchester and numerous others.  He was discharged as 
corporal at York in 1864.  In the fall of 1865 he began learning the blacksmith’s 
trade, and moved to York, Penn., where he worked nine years.  Thence he went to 
Fairview Township, where he remained three years, and then located in Yocumtown, 
Penn., where he is now doing a good business.  In 1867 he married Susan Hartman, 
daughter of Cornelius and Mary A. (Danner) Hartman, of German descent.  By this 
union they have three children:  John W., Mary A. and Carrie E.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Coble are members of the United Brethren Church.