PoliticalGraveyard.com
The Political Graveyard: A Database of American History
Coberly family of Elkins, West Virginia

Note: This is just one of 1,325 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

This specific family group is a subset of the much larger Four Thousand Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset.

These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

  James Coberly (1863-1932) — of Elkins, Randolph County, W.Va. Born in Belington, Barbour County, W.Va., March 14, 1863. Democrat. Lawyer; justice of the peace; member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Randolph County, 1919-20. Died in Elkins, Randolph County, W.Va., March 2, 1932 (age 68 years, 354 days). Interment at St. Vincent's Catholic Cemetery, Kingsville, W.Va.
  Relatives: Son of Jane Mariah (Wilson) Coberly and Randolph Coberly; married, August 4, 1885, to Delphia B. Marstiller; married, July 23, 1902, to Mary A. Flanagan; first cousin once removed of Stark Lloyd Coberly and Levi Wade Coberly; second cousin of Lummie J. Earle.
  Political family: Coberly family of Elkins, West Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Stark Lloyd Coberly (1884-1960) — also known as Stark L. Coberly — of Parsons, Tucker County, W.Va. Born in West Virginia, March 28, 1884. Democrat. Tucker County Sheriff, 1940; chair of Tucker County Democratic Party, 1940-41. Died in Tucker County, W.Va., October 18, 1960 (age 76 years, 204 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of James George Coberly and Mary Ellen (Ryse) Coberly; married 1917 to Freda Emory Hovermale (first cousin twice removed of Silas Jefferson Hovermale; third cousin of Ralph Ben Hovermale); first cousin once removed of James Coberly; second cousin of Levi Wade Coberly; second cousin once removed of Lummie J. Earle.
  Political family: Coberly family of Elkins, West Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Levi Wade Coberly (1888-1977) — also known as L. Wade Coberly — of Elkins, Randolph County, W.Va. Born in Elkins, Randolph County, W.Va., January 29, 1888. Democrat. Mayor of Elkins, W.Va., 1934, 1947-48. Died in Elkins, Randolph County, W.Va., October 6, 1977 (age 89 years, 250 days). Interment at Maplewood Cemetery, Elkins, W.Va.
  Relatives: Son of Christopher Columbus Coberly and Alcinda Louisa (Gainer) Coberly; married, September 11, 1917, to Edna Blanche Pfau; first cousin once removed of James Coberly; second cousin of Stark Lloyd Coberly; second cousin once removed of Lummie J. Earle.
  Political family: Coberly family of Elkins, West Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872
The Political Graveyard

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.
 
  The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.  
  The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.  
  Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.  
  The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-3353.html.  
  Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.  
  If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.  
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
What is a "political graveyard"? See Political Dictionary; Urban Dictionary.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDLmi.com. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on February 17, 2025.