Young Eunice Coffinbarger lost father, then husband Lee Evans 10 years apart
A girl who grew up in Martinsburg a century ago lost her father when she was a teen, and then almost exactly ten years later, lost her husband. In a tragic coincidence, the husband ended up being the first of his three siblings to all die young.
Eunice Engle Coffinbarger, who grew up on Race Street in the 1920s and 1930s, was 16 when her father, a woolen mill worker, died of …
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