The Family of Joel Coykendall and Sally Lewis Coykendall

The Parents of Joel Coykendall

Emanuel Coykendall and Mary Struble Coykendall

The Parents of Sally Lewis

Joseph C. Lewis and Hannah Boyd Lewis

Coykendall Family Tree

Struble Family Tree

Lewis Family Tree

Boyd Family Tree

Marriages of Joel Coykendall

Marriage to Sally Lewis in 1821

Marriages of Sally Lewis

Marriage to Joel Coykendall in 1821

Biographical Sketch of Joel Coykendall

From the Naples Record, 14 July 1882

Joel Coykendall, the subject of this sketch, was born in the town of Wantage, Sussex county, State of New Jersey, on the 25th of Feb. 1798.

When but five years old he moved with his parents to Ovid, Seneca Co., N.Y., and the following year to what is now the town of Starkey, Yates Co., where he lived until the year 1830.

In 1821, Sept. 23rd, he married Sally Lewis, of the town of Starkey. In 1830 he moved to Canadice and settled on the farm where he now lives.

Mr. Coykendall lost his wife May 7, 1878, since which time his daughter, a widow lady, has kept house for him, and his farm is worked in shares.

Mr. Coykendall has had eight children, five girls and three boys, and has lost one boy and one girl. His son Jotham died in the war of the rebellion, and was brought to Canadice for interment. His youngest daughter has since died, so there are three of his family interred in the Canadice cemetery.

Uncle Joel, as he is familiarly called, is now in the 85th year of his age, and enjoys as good health as can be expected at his advanced age.

July 2nd, 1882.

Biographical Sketch of Joel and Sally Lewis Coykendall

From the “History of the Boyd Family and descendants”, by William P. Boyd

Sally Lewis was the child of Joseph C. and Hannah Lewis. She was born at Frederick, Sullivan County, N.Y., June 1, 1804. She became acquainted with and married Joel Coykendall at Starkey, Yates County, N.Y., September 23, 1821 and breathed her last at Canadice, Ontario County, N.Y., May 7, 1878.

Soon after her marriage, she and her husband, who was born February 26, 1798, moved to Canadice Corners, N.Y. Here they commenced their union by keeping a hotel in connection with a farm of nearly 200 acres, which they bought and carried on at the same time, which they followed up to the time of her death.

“Aunt Sally” as she was properly called, was known far and near as a very kind and generous woman, and her tables were always laden with the richest of foods. She was kind and generous to the poor and always befriending them, if they had means to pay or not. Her husband, though very tall and slim in statue, was in his younger day a very strong man. It is said he often went forth to the woodlands and cut his four or five cords of four-foot wood per day. He cleared the most of his lands here of forest when the country was one vast wilderness, while his wife conducted the duties of their hotel. He was very slow in anger, but when once aroused he was like a Sampson, and the bullies of those days gave him a wide birth.

The last few years Aunt Sally, who was a fleshy woman, was troubled with a couple of “Wens” upon her neck, which caused her much pain and without doubt was the cause of her death.

Their last resting place is in the cemetery one mile east, by the side of a little church, where her womanly form was so often seen at Sunday service.

Their children were: Levi, Leah, Hannah, Tilla R., Harvey, Mary Ann, Hiram J., Celina I.

The Obituary of Joel Coykendall

26 February 1798 - 18 October 1885

From the Ontario Messenger, 5 November 1885

“Uncle” Joel Coykendall died in Canadice, Oct. 18th. He was 87 years old, and had spent nearly 60 years of his life in this town.

He was a quiet, peaceable citizen, a good neighbor, and will be much missed by all who know him. A large circle of sons and daughters were present at the funeral. Two of them reside in Michigan, on son and two daughters in Canadice, one daughter near Rochester, and one at Mumford, N.Y. Rev R. T. Hancock, who had known the deceased over forty years, gave a touching eulogy of the dead.

The Obituary of Sally Lewis Coykendall

1 June 1804 - 7 May 1878

From the Livonia Gazette, 7 June 1878

Mrs. Sally M. Coykendall died May 7 at her home in Canadice, at the advanced age of nearly 80 years.

The funeral services were held on the 10th ult. at the homestead, and were conducted by the Rev. R. T. Hancock, at her request. A very large concourse of relatives, neighbors and acquaintances were present, thereby attesting their appreciation of the departed.

Mrs. Coykendall, or “Aunt Sally,” as she has been called for many years, was born in Bloomingburg, Sullivan Co., N.Y., June 1, 1804.

Her maiden name was Lewis. She was married to Joel Coykendall Sept. 23rd, 1821. Shortly after this they moved to the town of Canadice, where they continued to reside until the time of her decease.

When they settled in this town the surrounding country was comparatively new; and both being active and healthy and not afraid to work, they each did their full share in clearing off the timber and in cultivating the soil, until that which was once a wilderness was made to “bud and blossom as the rose.”

Full of ambition, they were ready to gain a livelihood by any honorable means, and “Aunt Sally,” being the leading spirit of the firm, they commenced keeping public house, or tavern, as they were called in those days, where man and beast could be accommodated. In this, as well as in every other enterprise in which she engaged, Aunt Sally was successful; for with her to will was to do, for whatever she undertook she usually accomplished. All who knew her will admit that she was a woman of decision and of persevering activity. She was also a woman of kind, tender-hearted sympathy for the sufferings of others, and was always ready to do her share in relieving the suffering of the needy, but she always detested that shiftlessness by which many bring themselves and families into want.

More than forty years ago she professed to become a Christian, and for the most of the time has had her standing in the M. E. Church. For a few years she was out of the Church, but during the later years of her life she walked again in fellowship, and though her health was such as to prevent her constant attendance upon the public means of grace, yet she lived a Christian at home; and whenever her ministers would call upon her (which she always esteemed a privilege) she took pleasure in talking over her experience and telling of the prospects of that better inheritance.

Upon one of these occasions, when the writer was conversing with her, she with much feeling made him promise, if living and able, to attend her funeral when it became necessary.

A short time before our dear sister departed she expressed a strong hope in the Savior, and said she was going home to dwell with Jesus, and exhorted her children and companion to meet her in heaven.

A Friend.

The Burial of Joel Coykendall

Canadice Corners Cemetery in Canadice NY

The Burial of Sally Lewis Coykendall

Canadice Corners Cemetery in Canadice NY

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