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This monument is located on Front St. in Marietta, Ohio, under the Washington St. bridge. It reads: "ERECTED BY THE NEW CENTURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO RECORD THE NAMES AND COMMEMORATE THE LANDING, NEAR THIS SPOT OF THE PIONEER FAMILIES OF THE OHIO COMPANY, AUGUST NINETEENTH 1788. THEIR HOMES WERE ESTABALISHED IN CAMPUS MARTIUS."
Asa and Mary Coburn, Ichabod and Minerva Nye, Andrew Webster also their children. The small inset picture is the other side of the monument, Benjamin and Huldah Tupper, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Cushing, Nathan and Elizabeth Goodale.
Asa and Mary Coburn are my 6th G Grandparents. Andrew Webster is the widow of Sybil Coburn. Sybil is the dau. of Asa and Mary, and sister to Susanna Coburn, who married William Bond Mason. Sybil died before 1788 in Massachusetts, before Asa and his family migrated to Marietta. Andrew later married Sally Brown in 1794.
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