Elizabeth P. "Lizzie" Pender was born in 1843 in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, 3rd of 12 known children (7 boys / 5 girls) born to wealthy planter, J.J.B. (Joseph John Benjamin) Pender and Elizabeth Priscilla Mason of Edgecombe County, NC.
Her father was son of Solomon Pender, an early settler in Tarboro, and with a large plantation with slave labor in Edgecombe County. Her father built the now historic, Greek Revival "Pender-Porter" House in the 1840's at 904 Trade Street, later sold to wealthy J. J. Porter in 1854.
In about 1866, 23-year old Lizzie married 29-year old war veteran and merchant, Joseph Bryant Coffield of Martin County, son of Archable & Priscilla Coffield, well-to-do planters in Williamston.
Joseph Coffield had served as Quartermaster Sgt with the 15th NC Infantry Regiment, then promoted to 2nd Lt. in Co. H, of the 1st NC Infantry during the Civil War. Lieutenant Coffield was captured at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 12, 1864, and later imprisoned at Ft. Delaware. On August 20, 1864, a chosen group of 600 Confederate officers left Fort Delaware as prisoners of war, bound for the Union Army base at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Their purpose -- to be placed in a stockade in front of the Union batteries at the siege of Charleston and held as human shields. By an act of God, or the skill of Confederate gunners, no prisoners were hurt or killed by the incoming shells. The only casualties to shells were from the Union soldier guards who shot at the prisoners. These Confederate POWs were given the title the "Immortal 600". After the battle, these prisoners were shipped them to Fort Pulaski outside of Savannah, where they spent the winter of 1864 under terrible conditions. From there they went to Hilton Head, and then, in March, they were sent to City Point, Virginia, their numbers by then having declined to 290. The Lincoln administration was so shocked by their treatment that the survivors were sent back to Fort Delaware to be "fattened" before their release in July 1865, three months after the war's end.
The couple would have 7 known children in Tarboro, with only 5 surviving past 1900: Annie M. (ca. 1867), Whitmel Lewis (ca. 1869), Mary Pender (1874, married Thomas Crudup), Albert (ca. 1877), Martha L. (ca. 1880), Elizabeth Taylor (1883), and Henry I. Coffield (1887).
Around 1880, the family had moved to a farm in Martin County where they remained until their deaths. Elizabeth Pender Coffield passed in 1915 at age 66. Joseph passed two years later at age 80.
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August-2015
Carolyn McVicker, Edgecombe Co researcher, has provided the following:
Father's name was Joseph John Batts Pender, and not Benjamin. Batts was the maiden name of his mother: Mary Batts
Her father was son of Solomon Pender, an early settler in Tarboro, and with a large plantation with slave labor in Edgecombe County. Her father built the now historic, Greek Revival "Pender-Porter" House in the 1840's at 904 Trade Street, later sold to wealthy J. J. Porter in 1854.
In about 1866, 23-year old Lizzie married 29-year old war veteran and merchant, Joseph Bryant Coffield of Martin County, son of Archable & Priscilla Coffield, well-to-do planters in Williamston.
Joseph Coffield had served as Quartermaster Sgt with the 15th NC Infantry Regiment, then promoted to 2nd Lt. in Co. H, of the 1st NC Infantry during the Civil War. Lieutenant Coffield was captured at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 12, 1864, and later imprisoned at Ft. Delaware. On August 20, 1864, a chosen group of 600 Confederate officers left Fort Delaware as prisoners of war, bound for the Union Army base at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Their purpose -- to be placed in a stockade in front of the Union batteries at the siege of Charleston and held as human shields. By an act of God, or the skill of Confederate gunners, no prisoners were hurt or killed by the incoming shells. The only casualties to shells were from the Union soldier guards who shot at the prisoners. These Confederate POWs were given the title the "Immortal 600". After the battle, these prisoners were shipped them to Fort Pulaski outside of Savannah, where they spent the winter of 1864 under terrible conditions. From there they went to Hilton Head, and then, in March, they were sent to City Point, Virginia, their numbers by then having declined to 290. The Lincoln administration was so shocked by their treatment that the survivors were sent back to Fort Delaware to be "fattened" before their release in July 1865, three months after the war's end.
The couple would have 7 known children in Tarboro, with only 5 surviving past 1900: Annie M. (ca. 1867), Whitmel Lewis (ca. 1869), Mary Pender (1874, married Thomas Crudup), Albert (ca. 1877), Martha L. (ca. 1880), Elizabeth Taylor (1883), and Henry I. Coffield (1887).
Around 1880, the family had moved to a farm in Martin County where they remained until their deaths. Elizabeth Pender Coffield passed in 1915 at age 66. Joseph passed two years later at age 80.
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August-2015
Carolyn McVicker, Edgecombe Co researcher, has provided the following:
Father's name was Joseph John Batts Pender, and not Benjamin. Batts was the maiden name of his mother: Mary Batts
Elizabeth P. "Lizzie" Pender was born in 1843 in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, 3rd of 12 known children (7 boys / 5 girls) born to wealthy planter, J.J.B. (Joseph John Benjamin) Pender and Elizabeth Priscilla Mason of Edgecombe County, NC.
Her father was son of Solomon Pender, an early settler in Tarboro, and with a large plantation with slave labor in Edgecombe County. Her father built the now historic, Greek Revival "Pender-Porter" House in the 1840's at 904 Trade Street, later sold to wealthy J. J. Porter in 1854.
In about 1866, 23-year old Lizzie married 29-year old war veteran and merchant, Joseph Bryant Coffield of Martin County, son of Archable & Priscilla Coffield, well-to-do planters in Williamston.
Joseph Coffield had served as Quartermaster Sgt with the 15th NC Infantry Regiment, then promoted to 2nd Lt. in Co. H, of the 1st NC Infantry during the Civil War. Lieutenant Coffield was captured at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 12, 1864, and later imprisoned at Ft. Delaware. On August 20, 1864, a chosen group of 600 Confederate officers left Fort Delaware as prisoners of war, bound for the Union Army base at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Their purpose -- to be placed in a stockade in front of the Union batteries at the siege of Charleston and held as human shields. By an act of God, or the skill of Confederate gunners, no prisoners were hurt or killed by the incoming shells. The only casualties to shells were from the Union soldier guards who shot at the prisoners. These Confederate POWs were given the title the "Immortal 600". After the battle, these prisoners were shipped them to Fort Pulaski outside of Savannah, where they spent the winter of 1864 under terrible conditions. From there they went to Hilton Head, and then, in March, they were sent to City Point, Virginia, their numbers by then having declined to 290. The Lincoln administration was so shocked by their treatment that the survivors were sent back to Fort Delaware to be "fattened" before their release in July 1865, three months after the war's end.
The couple would have 7 known children in Tarboro, with only 5 surviving past 1900: Annie M. (ca. 1867), Whitmel Lewis (ca. 1869), Mary Pender (1874, married Thomas Crudup), Albert (ca. 1877), Martha L. (ca. 1880), Elizabeth Taylor (1883), and Henry I. Coffield (1887).
Around 1880, the family had moved to a farm in Martin County where they remained until their deaths. Elizabeth Pender Coffield passed in 1915 at age 66. Joseph passed two years later at age 80.
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August-2015
Carolyn McVicker, Edgecombe Co researcher, has provided the following:
Father's name was Joseph John Batts Pender, and not Benjamin. Batts was the maiden name of his mother: Mary Batts
Her father was son of Solomon Pender, an early settler in Tarboro, and with a large plantation with slave labor in Edgecombe County. Her father built the now historic, Greek Revival "Pender-Porter" House in the 1840's at 904 Trade Street, later sold to wealthy J. J. Porter in 1854.
In about 1866, 23-year old Lizzie married 29-year old war veteran and merchant, Joseph Bryant Coffield of Martin County, son of Archable & Priscilla Coffield, well-to-do planters in Williamston.
Joseph Coffield had served as Quartermaster Sgt with the 15th NC Infantry Regiment, then promoted to 2nd Lt. in Co. H, of the 1st NC Infantry during the Civil War. Lieutenant Coffield was captured at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 12, 1864, and later imprisoned at Ft. Delaware. On August 20, 1864, a chosen group of 600 Confederate officers left Fort Delaware as prisoners of war, bound for the Union Army base at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Their purpose -- to be placed in a stockade in front of the Union batteries at the siege of Charleston and held as human shields. By an act of God, or the skill of Confederate gunners, no prisoners were hurt or killed by the incoming shells. The only casualties to shells were from the Union soldier guards who shot at the prisoners. These Confederate POWs were given the title the "Immortal 600". After the battle, these prisoners were shipped them to Fort Pulaski outside of Savannah, where they spent the winter of 1864 under terrible conditions. From there they went to Hilton Head, and then, in March, they were sent to City Point, Virginia, their numbers by then having declined to 290. The Lincoln administration was so shocked by their treatment that the survivors were sent back to Fort Delaware to be "fattened" before their release in July 1865, three months after the war's end.
The couple would have 7 known children in Tarboro, with only 5 surviving past 1900: Annie M. (ca. 1867), Whitmel Lewis (ca. 1869), Mary Pender (1874, married Thomas Crudup), Albert (ca. 1877), Martha L. (ca. 1880), Elizabeth Taylor (1883), and Henry I. Coffield (1887).
Around 1880, the family had moved to a farm in Martin County where they remained until their deaths. Elizabeth Pender Coffield passed in 1915 at age 66. Joseph passed two years later at age 80.
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August-2015
Carolyn McVicker, Edgecombe Co researcher, has provided the following:
Father's name was Joseph John Batts Pender, and not Benjamin. Batts was the maiden name of his mother: Mary Batts
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