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- On November 4, 1850 at Calumet County, Sophia (Sampson) married John R.
Coyhis (sometimes listed as John B. Coyhis), b. 1824-1825 at Brothertown, New York, d. April 20, 1865 at Petersburg, Virginia.
John was the son of Brothertown Indians John Coyhis and Martha Dick
Coyhis, both of Narragansett ancestry. John's mother, Martha, and Benjamin
Brown witnessed the marriage of Sophia and John.
Sophia's first union was with George Baldwin in what was called an Indian style marriage, requiring neither civil nor religious sanction.
Sophia went to her marriage with a child named Hannah, the issue of her
union with George Baldwin, a descendent of the Brothertown Indian Peters
family.
She also went to the marriage with the west 1/2 of Lot 84 which had
been assigned to her. John had a child Zachariah Coyhis, from his previous
union with Nancy Welch. John was assigned the east 1/2 of Lot 219 on the
Brothertown reservation. The marriage of Sophia and John was brief, ending with Sophia's death during childbirth, after only six years of marriage. John and Sophia had three children - Martha, Rufus, and Mary.
After Sophia's death, John and his children lived in the Calumet County home of his parents, on the property next to the Clark Sampson farm. John died while serving in the military during the Civil War. Before he enlisted, he drew up guardianship papers for his children. On June 8, 1865 his brother, Benjamin Coyhis, became the guardian of his minor children.
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1824 - 1865 (41 years)