John Case CODDINGTON ^{4627,4395,4628,4629}

  General Notes:

"...Across the corner to the west was a home & acreage owned by John [& Rebecca M.] CODDINGTON. He had three sons, Bert, William & Coral & two daughters, Edith & Margaret. He later remarried." (Memories, by Christine Leonard. Typist note from Karen Dickson: I have added genealogy notes with a [ ] around them.)
Several lines of evidence connect John Case Coddington to John Leonard Coddington and Lucinda Case. The first is his middle name, the same as his putative mother's surname. Second, John Leonard remarried in 1847, so Lucinda probably died in childbirth or soon thereafter. Third, although John Case appears in John Merlin's (his grandfather) household in the 1860 federal census, aged 12 (which fits), he could not have been the son of John Merlin and "Sally," as she would have been 59 at his birth. Although Christine Leonard's memories give his wife's name as Rebecca M., this is actually an interpolation by the typist, Karen Dickson, not a transcript of Christine's oral history. It appears that Ms. Dickson may have confused John Leonard, whose second wife was named Rebecca Ann (not Rebecca M.), with his son John Case, who did have three sons and two daughters, more or as named by Christine Leonard. ^144,4631

  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the census on 14 Sep 1860 in Hector, Schuyler Co., New York, USA. ²⁵⁰⁵

• He appeared on the census on 5 Jul 1870 in Hector, Schuyler Co., New York, USA. ⁴⁶²⁹ Personal estate $200.

• He worked as a farm laborer on 5 Jul 1870 in Hector, Schuyler Co., New York, USA. ⁴⁶²⁹

• He appeared on the census in 1880 in Hector, Schuyler Co., New York, USA. ⁴⁶³²

• He worked as a farmer in 1880 in Hector, Schuyler Co., New York, USA. ⁴⁶³²

John married Helen McCONNELL.⁴³⁹⁵ (Helen McCONNELL was born in 1850 in , , New York, USA,^{4629,4395,4632} died in 1901 ^4395,4627 and was buried in Laurel Hill Cmty, Odessa, Schuyler Co., New York ⁴⁶²⁷.)

John next married Lillian LOWE on 20 Jan 1904.⁴³⁹⁵