Henry Cosner, Jr. is my 4th great grandfather through my father’s paternal lineage.

He was born circa 1828 in Virginia as calculated by his age on the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 Federal Census:

The 1840 Census lists Henry (age 12) as residing in Hardy, Virginia.

When Henry was 25, his dad – Henry Cosner, Sr. (b. 1789) – died on March 16, 1853 in Lewis County, West Virginia. A year later, on September 18, 1854, Henry welcomed daughter Serena Jane Cosner (my grandmother).

Henry Cosner, Jr died at age 52 in 1880. He is buried in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia.