Walter Lee Kauffman corresponded with Professor Melanchthon Coover over the years pertaining to details on the Coover family and the professor’s upcoming book. He was particularly interested in the reinternment of Dieterich Coover and his wife and secondarily his son, George Coover and his wife. George and his wife were the subjects of a rare elopement. That story can be seen at https://www.kauffmanancestry.com/elopement/. The Professor researched their reinternment. But more important was Dieterich Coover as he was seen as the head of the Coover family here in America. There are five letters germane to the reinternment of Dietrich (Kober) Coover and his son (John) George Coover and their wives.
In this first letter, Professor Coover discusses how he concludes that not only was John Coover’s father and mother, George and Elizabeth Coover reinterned, but also the ashes of his grandfather and grandmother, Dieterich and Catharine Coover were reinterned at the same time. He cites that likely John spend time with his father prior to his death and upon selling the family farm concluded that it would be best to reintern the family from that land to the cemetery located on Barbace Farm, owned by his wife Salome Keller Coover.
In this second letter, Professor Coover makes the case that it was John Coover, the tenth child of George Coover, who did so. He cites the fact that son’s George, Henry, and Michael died in 1846, 1846 and 1849 and while Jacob died in 1870, he chose to be buried in Shippensburg with his wife.
In this third letter, Professor Coover discusses the relationship between Ludwig Mohler and John Dieterich Kober arriving together on the same ship, Thistle in 1730. Elizabeth Mohler(-in) eloped with George Coover (described in the Post). He goes on to describe the Coover family, burial sites for Gideon and Jacob Coover at St John’s cemetery and other information.
In this fourth letter, Walter Lee Kauffman discusses his plans for Barbace and his purchase of a perpetual right of way to the cemetery.
In the last letter, Professor Coover send some pictures of the cemetery.
