Mary Ann was issued a Pension # 4449 on February 26, 1847 as a Revolutionary War Widow. She was a well-educated German woman and practiced as a physician for many years in Scott and Jackson Counties, Indiana. She had quite a local reputation as a doctor. This medical story is strictly a family story that has been passed down and may or may not be true.

After Samuel joined the war Mary Ann and the children moved from Virginia to George's Township in Fayette Co., Pennsylvania. Mary Ann signed an affidavit in 1842 in Scott Co. Indiana say she had been present at the wedding of Levi Bridgewater and Patience Stillwell in 1783 in Fayette Co. Pennsylvania. This was for Patience to get a widow's pension from Levi's service in the war. Rev. W. Sommers a Presbyterian Minister married Mary Ann and Samuel.

Mary Ann's niece Kizzah, her brother Christopher Coffman's (Kaughman) daughter and her husband Eliza Borin were both massacred in the Pigeon Roost Defeat in Scott County, Indiana.

Coffman is spelled "Coughman" throughout the Bridgewater Family History, owed by Mae Bridgewater Walker.