A lot of the information in this database on James Willard Coleman and his descendents comes from his Grandson Cana Omer Coleman who currently owns the original homeplace of his Grandfather. The original homeplace is the site of the Family Cemetery and it was the responsibility of of Cana Omer's family to maintain it. He is still doing it at age 70. It is with great thanks that I acknowledge the contributions of this fine gentleman to my family tree.
ONE OF THE COLEMAN CLANS OF FAYETTE COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA.
(THESE TWO ARTICLES WERE PUBLISHED IN THE FAYETTE TRIBUNE SOMETIME) (IN THE EARLY TO MIDDLE 1970s)
There's history in the hollows hereabouts. Some came to mind when we buried Clifton H. Coleman in the ancestral graveyard on Lick Fork Branch of Mossy Creek in Fayette County, West Virginia. This is in the Dothan, West Virginia Area.
The Coleman's are interred on a sloping bench on a high mountain two and one half miles or more up Lick Fork Branch from the Coleman Lick Fork Church. This is apart of the original 546 acre track of land owned by James Willard Coleman Sr. and located near the original log house seat. It is one of the most inaccessible and remote burial grounds in West Virginia. There lies the progenitor of the Coleman's. Inscribed on his tombstone is "J. W. Coleman, born 26 February 1826 and died 18 April 1901. By his side rest his wife. Inscribed on the same stone is this; Nancy Coleman, born 10 April 1830 and died on 30 April 1877. Her maiden name was Nancy Jarrett and she was born at Morton in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
George N. Coleman, born 12 January 1888, says that the father of James Willard Coleman Sr. was Peter Willard Seth Coleman who he thinks came from New Jersey. The wife of P. W. Seth Coleman was Margaret Wilson. She was a sister to the paternal Grandfather of Woodrow Wilson, and the 29th President's Great-Aunt.
James Willard Coleman Sr. rode with the "Partisan Rangers", Confederate Guerillas, of Captain W. D. Thurmond during the Civil War. The town of Thurmond, West Virginia located on the banks of the New River is named after him.
One of the son's of James Willard Coleman Sr.," the Confederate Guerilla", was Rev James Willard Coleman Jr., a minister of the Brethren Church. He is buried in the church yard of the Lick Fork, Coleman, Church located at the mouth of Lick Fork Branch on Mossy Creek. Rev. Coleman's story is of interest as he was the father of 19 children.
Rev. James W. Coleman Jr. was born at Meadow Fork, in Fayette County on 25 November 1857. He migrated to a Mossy Creek section of land in 1874 and had 158 acres of land on Lick Fork and Mossy Creek. In 1882 he married E. Chloe Pegram. Five of their nineteen children died in infancy. He was a member of the Brethren Church for 53 years and ordained to the ministry in 1917. He was a circuit rider preacher and preached at Gatewood, Oak Hill, Danese, and Garden Grounds. He also in 1916 organized, deeded land too, and built the Mossy/Lick Fork Brethren Church. The dedication sermon was preached by the Rev. Arthur B. Duncan a Brethren Minister and Confederate Veteran, who died 17 January 1929.
After the death of the Rev. James W. Coleman Jr. on 2 June 1928, his son William E Coleman, went to the Church of God headquarters in Cleveland Tennessee, and agreed to allow that sect to hold services in this Brethren Church. That was about 1930 and the Church of God built a sizable congregation, while Brethren Church has about passed from the picture. However, the Brethren Church holds the title to the property and permits the Church of God to use the building. Nearby stands the ancient one-room schoolhouse that was built by George N. Pegram in about 1893. Pegram taught the first school in this frame structure, it was abandoned as a school in 1945. This consolidation of the school with Kingston and Dothan left the school house to be used by the Church for Sunday school and other Church Functions.
SECOND ARTICLE IN THE SAME PAPER AROUND 1974
On the head waters of Lick Fork Branch of Mossy Creek in Fayette County, West Virginia the Coleman Clan has been burying its dead for almost a century. It was recently discovered that Nancy (Jarrett) Coleman, the wife of J.W. Coleman Sr., "Confederate Veteran", was buried there in 1877.
Since then streams of Coleman's have been climbing the steep mountainside regularly to lay away their loved ones. George N. Coleman, a grandson of the old partisan ranger, James Willard Coleman Sr., who rode with Captain Thurmond in forays on Union Army Units and Northern Sympathizers in this area during the Civil War, strode with me as I copied inscriptions from weathered markers. He would tell me things about those buried. Some were victims of typhoid fever.
One young man who saw military service in World War 11 was Cameron C. Coleman, USA Pvt. with the 338th Infantry. He was born 26 November 1908 and died 24 January 1946. He was killed in a tractor accident while working for George N. Coleman. After going through the war he had died tragically far off the beaten through fares of life and, because he had followed the Flag he was entitled to a soldiers burial and Marker.
George N. Coleman pointed to another grave and said, "He died of pneumonia". The tomb was of Wyatt Turner Coleman, the brother of Cameron C. Coleman. Nearby were other stones which read. William A. Coleman, born 23 December 1860, died 26 July 1927. His wife Ella (Mahoney) Coleman born 4 July 1867, died 16 March 1946. Another interred here has a marker which recites, Samuel Coleman, born 14 February 1855, died 23 December 1876, "He died young". There was another tombstone, it legend, Bertha B. Coleman, wife of W. H. Shreve, 1888-1918. "She was my sister" remarked George N. Coleman.
NOTE: By Cana Omer Coleman
This cemetery is located on the 73 plus acres left to my father by his father and part of the 546 acres bought by James Willard Coleman, Sr. when he came to Fayette County from Kanawha County after the Civil War. Coleman's and other kinfolks are still climbing this steep hillside to honor and sometimes bury their dead. There are names of COLEMAN relatives like SHREVE, SMITH, STOVER, ALIFF, KESSLER, MAXWELL, CANTERBURY, ASBURY and others. Al Cana Coleman, my father, the son of James Willard Coleman Sr. and Harriett Elizabeth (Aliff) Coleman along with my mother Ellen Gertrude (Smith) Coleman are buried in this Cemetery. There are also other close relatives buried here and also in the Coleman Church Yard Cemetery at the mouth of Lick Fork Branch on Mossy Creek.
Cana Omer Coleman
~
As he was married 4 times
He was 60 when he married Rose.
The other wife he had was Miram Hughart and she was the mother to one of his sons. Mason Anderson Coleman. Mason was born about 1869 and he also married Harriet Elzabeth Aliff. And yes she is the wife of his father. Mason and Harriet had 7 children together. If I have the story right she had 3 children by Mason and then divorced him and married his father. After she had 3 children with J.W. she remarried Mason and had 4 more children with him. Making the total of 7 children.
ONE OF THE COLEMAN CLANS OF FAYETTE COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA.
(THESE TWO ARTICLES WERE PUBLISHED IN THE FAYETTE TRIBUNE SOMETIME) (IN THE EARLY TO MIDDLE 1970s)
There's history in the hollows hereabouts. Some came to mind when we buried Clifton H. Coleman in the ancestral graveyard on Lick Fork Branch of Mossy Creek in Fayette County, West Virginia. This is in the Dothan, West Virginia Area.
The Coleman's are interred on a sloping bench on a high mountain two and one half miles or more up Lick Fork Branch from the Coleman Lick Fork Church. This is apart of the original 546 acre track of land owned by James Willard Coleman Sr. and located near the original log house seat. It is one of the most inaccessible and remote burial grounds in West Virginia. There lies the progenitor of the Coleman's. Inscribed on his tombstone is "J. W. Coleman, born 26 February 1826 and died 18 April 1901. By his side rest his wife. Inscribed on the same stone is this; Nancy Coleman, born 10 April 1830 and died on 30 April 1877. Her maiden name was Nancy Jarrett and she was born at Morton in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
George N. Coleman, born 12 January 1888, says that the father of James Willard Coleman Sr. was Peter Willard Seth Coleman who he thinks came from New Jersey. The wife of P. W. Seth Coleman was Margaret Wilson. She was a sister to the paternal Grandfather of Woodrow Wilson, and the 29th President's Great-Aunt.
James Willard Coleman Sr. rode with the "Partisan Rangers", Confederate Guerillas, of Captain W. D. Thurmond during the Civil War. The town of Thurmond, West Virginia located on the banks of the New River is named after him.
One of the son's of James Willard Coleman Sr.," the Confederate Guerilla", was Rev James Willard Coleman Jr., a minister of the Brethren Church. He is buried in the church yard of the Lick Fork, Coleman, Church located at the mouth of Lick Fork Branch on Mossy Creek. Rev. Coleman's story is of interest as he was the father of 19 children.
Rev. James W. Coleman Jr. was born at Meadow Fork, in Fayette County on 25 November 1857. He migrated to a Mossy Creek section of land in 1874 and had 158 acres of land on Lick Fork and Mossy Creek. In 1882 he married E. Chloe Pegram. Five of their nineteen children died in infancy. He was a member of the Brethren Church for 53 years and ordained to the ministry in 1917. He was a circuit rider preacher and preached at Gatewood, Oak Hill, Danese, and Garden Grounds. He also in 1916 organized, deeded land too, and built the Mossy/Lick Fork Brethren Church. The dedication sermon was preached by the Rev. Arthur B. Duncan a Brethren Minister and Confederate Veteran, who died 17 January 1929.
After the death of the Rev. James W. Coleman Jr. on 2 June 1928, his son William E Coleman, went to the Church of God headquarters in Cleveland Tennessee, and agreed to allow that sect to hold services in this Brethren Church. That was about 1930 and the Church of God built a sizable congregation, while Brethren Church has about passed from the picture. However, the Brethren Church holds the title to the property and permits the Church of God to use the building. Nearby stands the ancient one-room schoolhouse that was built by George N. Pegram in about 1893. Pegram taught the first school in this frame structure, it was abandoned as a school in 1945. This consolidation of the school with Kingston and Dothan left the school house to be used by the Church for Sunday school and other Church Functions.
SECOND ARTICLE IN THE SAME PAPER AROUND 1974
On the head waters of Lick Fork Branch of Mossy Creek in Fayette County, West Virginia the Coleman Clan has been burying its dead for almost a century. It was recently discovered that Nancy (Jarrett) Coleman, the wife of J.W. Coleman Sr., "Confederate Veteran", was buried there in 1877.
Since then streams of Coleman's have been climbing the steep mountainside regularly to lay away their loved ones. George N. Coleman, a grandson of the old partisan ranger, James Willard Coleman Sr., who rode with Captain Thurmond in forays on Union Army Units and Northern Sympathizers in this area during the Civil War, strode with me as I copied inscriptions from weathered markers. He would tell me things about those buried. Some were victims of typhoid fever.
One young man who saw military service in World War 11 was Cameron C. Coleman, USA Pvt. with the 338th Infantry. He was born 26 November 1908 and died 24 January 1946. He was killed in a tractor accident while working for George N. Coleman. After going through the war he had died tragically far off the beaten through fares of life and, because he had followed the Flag he was entitled to a soldiers burial and Marker.
George N. Coleman pointed to another grave and said, "He died of pneumonia". The tomb was of Wyatt Turner Coleman, the brother of Cameron C. Coleman. Nearby were other stones which read. William A. Coleman, born 23 December 1860, died 26 July 1927. His wife Ella (Mahoney) Coleman born 4 July 1867, died 16 March 1946. Another interred here has a marker which recites, Samuel Coleman, born 14 February 1855, died 23 December 1876, "He died young". There was another tombstone, it legend, Bertha B. Coleman, wife of W. H. Shreve, 1888-1918. "She was my sister" remarked George N. Coleman.
NOTE: By Cana Omer Coleman
This cemetery is located on the 73 plus acres left to my father by his father and part of the 546 acres bought by James Willard Coleman, Sr. when he came to Fayette County from Kanawha County after the Civil War. Coleman's and other kinfolks are still climbing this steep hillside to honor and sometimes bury their dead. There are names of COLEMAN relatives like SHREVE, SMITH, STOVER, ALIFF, KESSLER, MAXWELL, CANTERBURY, ASBURY and others. Al Cana Coleman, my father, the son of James Willard Coleman Sr. and Harriett Elizabeth (Aliff) Coleman along with my mother Ellen Gertrude (Smith) Coleman are buried in this Cemetery. There are also other close relatives buried here and also in the Coleman Church Yard Cemetery at the mouth of Lick Fork Branch on Mossy Creek.
Cana Omer Coleman
~
As he was married 4 times
He was 60 when he married Rose.
The other wife he had was Miram Hughart and she was the mother to one of his sons. Mason Anderson Coleman. Mason was born about 1869 and he also married Harriet Elzabeth Aliff. And yes she is the wife of his father. Mason and Harriet had 7 children together. If I have the story right she had 3 children by Mason and then divorced him and married his father. After she had 3 children with J.W. she remarried Mason and had 4 more children with him. Making the total of 7 children.
A lot of the information in this database on James Willard Coleman and his descendents comes from his Grandson Cana Omer Coleman who currently owns the original homeplace of his Grandfather. The original homeplace is the site of the Family Cemetery and it was the responsibility of of Cana Omer's family to maintain it. He is still doing it at age 70. It is with great thanks that I acknowledge the contributions of this fine gentleman to my family tree.
ONE OF THE COLEMAN CLANS OF FAYETTE COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA.
(THESE TWO ARTICLES WERE PUBLISHED IN THE FAYETTE TRIBUNE SOMETIME) (IN THE EARLY TO MIDDLE 1970s)
There's history in the hollows hereabouts. Some came to mind when we buried Clifton H. Coleman in the ancestral graveyard on Lick Fork Branch of Mossy Creek in Fayette County, West Virginia. This is in the Dothan, West Virginia Area.
The Coleman's are interred on a sloping bench on a high mountain two and one half miles or more up Lick Fork Branch from the Coleman Lick Fork Church. This is apart of the original 546 acre track of land owned by James Willard Coleman Sr. and located near the original log house seat. It is one of the most inaccessible and remote burial grounds in West Virginia. There lies the progenitor of the Coleman's. Inscribed on his tombstone is "J. W. Coleman, born 26 February 1826 and died 18 April 1901. By his side rest his wife. Inscribed on the same stone is this; Nancy Coleman, born 10 April 1830 and died on 30 April 1877. Her maiden name was Nancy Jarrett and she was born at Morton in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
George N. Coleman, born 12 January 1888, says that the father of James Willard Coleman Sr. was Peter Willard Seth Coleman who he thinks came from New Jersey. The wife of P. W. Seth Coleman was Margaret Wilson. She was a sister to the paternal Grandfather of Woodrow Wilson, and the 29th President's Great-Aunt.
James Willard Coleman Sr. rode with the "Partisan Rangers", Confederate Guerillas, of Captain W. D. Thurmond during the Civil War. The town of Thurmond, West Virginia located on the banks of the New River is named after him.
One of the son's of James Willard Coleman Sr.," the Confederate Guerilla", was Rev James Willard Coleman Jr., a minister of the Brethren Church. He is buried in the church yard of the Lick Fork, Coleman, Church located at the mouth of Lick Fork Branch on Mossy Creek. Rev. Coleman's story is of interest as he was the father of 19 children.
Rev. James W. Coleman Jr. was born at Meadow Fork, in Fayette County on 25 November 1857. He migrated to a Mossy Creek section of land in 1874 and had 158 acres of land on Lick Fork and Mossy Creek. In 1882 he married E. Chloe Pegram. Five of their nineteen children died in infancy. He was a member of the Brethren Church for 53 years and ordained to the ministry in 1917. He was a circuit rider preacher and preached at Gatewood, Oak Hill, Danese, and Garden Grounds. He also in 1916 organized, deeded land too, and built the Mossy/Lick Fork Brethren Church. The dedication sermon was preached by the Rev. Arthur B. Duncan a Brethren Minister and Confederate Veteran, who died 17 January 1929.
After the death of the Rev. James W. Coleman Jr. on 2 June 1928, his son William E Coleman, went to the Church of God headquarters in Cleveland Tennessee, and agreed to allow that sect to hold services in this Brethren Church. That was about 1930 and the Church of God built a sizable congregation, while Brethren Church has about passed from the picture. However, the Brethren Church holds the title to the property and permits the Church of God to use the building. Nearby stands the ancient one-room schoolhouse that was built by George N. Pegram in about 1893. Pegram taught the first school in this frame structure, it was abandoned as a school in 1945. This consolidation of the school with Kingston and Dothan left the school house to be used by the Church for Sunday school and other Church Functions.
SECOND ARTICLE IN THE SAME PAPER AROUND 1974
On the head waters of Lick Fork Branch of Mossy Creek in Fayette County, West Virginia the Coleman Clan has been burying its dead for almost a century. It was recently discovered that Nancy (Jarrett) Coleman, the wife of J.W. Coleman Sr., "Confederate Veteran", was buried there in 1877.
Since then streams of Coleman's have been climbing the steep mountainside regularly to lay away their loved ones. George N. Coleman, a grandson of the old partisan ranger, James Willard Coleman Sr., who rode with Captain Thurmond in forays on Union Army Units and Northern Sympathizers in this area during the Civil War, strode with me as I copied inscriptions from weathered markers. He would tell me things about those buried. Some were victims of typhoid fever.
One young man who saw military service in World War 11 was Cameron C. Coleman, USA Pvt. with the 338th Infantry. He was born 26 November 1908 and died 24 January 1946. He was killed in a tractor accident while working for George N. Coleman. After going through the war he had died tragically far off the beaten through fares of life and, because he had followed the Flag he was entitled to a soldiers burial and Marker.
George N. Coleman pointed to another grave and said, "He died of pneumonia". The tomb was of Wyatt Turner Coleman, the brother of Cameron C. Coleman. Nearby were other stones which read. William A. Coleman, born 23 December 1860, died 26 July 1927. His wife Ella (Mahoney) Coleman born 4 July 1867, died 16 March 1946. Another interred here has a marker which recites, Samuel Coleman, born 14 February 1855, died 23 December 1876, "He died young". There was another tombstone, it legend, Bertha B. Coleman, wife of W. H. Shreve, 1888-1918. "She was my sister" remarked George N. Coleman.
NOTE: By Cana Omer Coleman
This cemetery is located on the 73 plus acres left to my father by his father and part of the 546 acres bought by James Willard Coleman, Sr. when he came to Fayette County from Kanawha County after the Civil War. Coleman's and other kinfolks are still climbing this steep hillside to honor and sometimes bury their dead. There are names of COLEMAN relatives like SHREVE, SMITH, STOVER, ALIFF, KESSLER, MAXWELL, CANTERBURY, ASBURY and others. Al Cana Coleman, my father, the son of James Willard Coleman Sr. and Harriett Elizabeth (Aliff) Coleman along with my mother Ellen Gertrude (Smith) Coleman are buried in this Cemetery. There are also other close relatives buried here and also in the Coleman Church Yard Cemetery at the mouth of Lick Fork Branch on Mossy Creek.
Cana Omer Coleman
~
As he was married 4 times
He was 60 when he married Rose.
The other wife he had was Miram Hughart and she was the mother to one of his sons. Mason Anderson Coleman. Mason was born about 1869 and he also married Harriet Elzabeth Aliff. And yes she is the wife of his father. Mason and Harriet had 7 children together. If I have the story right she had 3 children by Mason and then divorced him and married his father. After she had 3 children with J.W. she remarried Mason and had 4 more children with him. Making the total of 7 children.
ONE OF THE COLEMAN CLANS OF FAYETTE COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA.
(THESE TWO ARTICLES WERE PUBLISHED IN THE FAYETTE TRIBUNE SOMETIME) (IN THE EARLY TO MIDDLE 1970s)
There's history in the hollows hereabouts. Some came to mind when we buried Clifton H. Coleman in the ancestral graveyard on Lick Fork Branch of Mossy Creek in Fayette County, West Virginia. This is in the Dothan, West Virginia Area.
The Coleman's are interred on a sloping bench on a high mountain two and one half miles or more up Lick Fork Branch from the Coleman Lick Fork Church. This is apart of the original 546 acre track of land owned by James Willard Coleman Sr. and located near the original log house seat. It is one of the most inaccessible and remote burial grounds in West Virginia. There lies the progenitor of the Coleman's. Inscribed on his tombstone is "J. W. Coleman, born 26 February 1826 and died 18 April 1901. By his side rest his wife. Inscribed on the same stone is this; Nancy Coleman, born 10 April 1830 and died on 30 April 1877. Her maiden name was Nancy Jarrett and she was born at Morton in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
George N. Coleman, born 12 January 1888, says that the father of James Willard Coleman Sr. was Peter Willard Seth Coleman who he thinks came from New Jersey. The wife of P. W. Seth Coleman was Margaret Wilson. She was a sister to the paternal Grandfather of Woodrow Wilson, and the 29th President's Great-Aunt.
James Willard Coleman Sr. rode with the "Partisan Rangers", Confederate Guerillas, of Captain W. D. Thurmond during the Civil War. The town of Thurmond, West Virginia located on the banks of the New River is named after him.
One of the son's of James Willard Coleman Sr.," the Confederate Guerilla", was Rev James Willard Coleman Jr., a minister of the Brethren Church. He is buried in the church yard of the Lick Fork, Coleman, Church located at the mouth of Lick Fork Branch on Mossy Creek. Rev. Coleman's story is of interest as he was the father of 19 children.
Rev. James W. Coleman Jr. was born at Meadow Fork, in Fayette County on 25 November 1857. He migrated to a Mossy Creek section of land in 1874 and had 158 acres of land on Lick Fork and Mossy Creek. In 1882 he married E. Chloe Pegram. Five of their nineteen children died in infancy. He was a member of the Brethren Church for 53 years and ordained to the ministry in 1917. He was a circuit rider preacher and preached at Gatewood, Oak Hill, Danese, and Garden Grounds. He also in 1916 organized, deeded land too, and built the Mossy/Lick Fork Brethren Church. The dedication sermon was preached by the Rev. Arthur B. Duncan a Brethren Minister and Confederate Veteran, who died 17 January 1929.
After the death of the Rev. James W. Coleman Jr. on 2 June 1928, his son William E Coleman, went to the Church of God headquarters in Cleveland Tennessee, and agreed to allow that sect to hold services in this Brethren Church. That was about 1930 and the Church of God built a sizable congregation, while Brethren Church has about passed from the picture. However, the Brethren Church holds the title to the property and permits the Church of God to use the building. Nearby stands the ancient one-room schoolhouse that was built by George N. Pegram in about 1893. Pegram taught the first school in this frame structure, it was abandoned as a school in 1945. This consolidation of the school with Kingston and Dothan left the school house to be used by the Church for Sunday school and other Church Functions.
SECOND ARTICLE IN THE SAME PAPER AROUND 1974
On the head waters of Lick Fork Branch of Mossy Creek in Fayette County, West Virginia the Coleman Clan has been burying its dead for almost a century. It was recently discovered that Nancy (Jarrett) Coleman, the wife of J.W. Coleman Sr., "Confederate Veteran", was buried there in 1877.
Since then streams of Coleman's have been climbing the steep mountainside regularly to lay away their loved ones. George N. Coleman, a grandson of the old partisan ranger, James Willard Coleman Sr., who rode with Captain Thurmond in forays on Union Army Units and Northern Sympathizers in this area during the Civil War, strode with me as I copied inscriptions from weathered markers. He would tell me things about those buried. Some were victims of typhoid fever.
One young man who saw military service in World War 11 was Cameron C. Coleman, USA Pvt. with the 338th Infantry. He was born 26 November 1908 and died 24 January 1946. He was killed in a tractor accident while working for George N. Coleman. After going through the war he had died tragically far off the beaten through fares of life and, because he had followed the Flag he was entitled to a soldiers burial and Marker.
George N. Coleman pointed to another grave and said, "He died of pneumonia". The tomb was of Wyatt Turner Coleman, the brother of Cameron C. Coleman. Nearby were other stones which read. William A. Coleman, born 23 December 1860, died 26 July 1927. His wife Ella (Mahoney) Coleman born 4 July 1867, died 16 March 1946. Another interred here has a marker which recites, Samuel Coleman, born 14 February 1855, died 23 December 1876, "He died young". There was another tombstone, it legend, Bertha B. Coleman, wife of W. H. Shreve, 1888-1918. "She was my sister" remarked George N. Coleman.
NOTE: By Cana Omer Coleman
This cemetery is located on the 73 plus acres left to my father by his father and part of the 546 acres bought by James Willard Coleman, Sr. when he came to Fayette County from Kanawha County after the Civil War. Coleman's and other kinfolks are still climbing this steep hillside to honor and sometimes bury their dead. There are names of COLEMAN relatives like SHREVE, SMITH, STOVER, ALIFF, KESSLER, MAXWELL, CANTERBURY, ASBURY and others. Al Cana Coleman, my father, the son of James Willard Coleman Sr. and Harriett Elizabeth (Aliff) Coleman along with my mother Ellen Gertrude (Smith) Coleman are buried in this Cemetery. There are also other close relatives buried here and also in the Coleman Church Yard Cemetery at the mouth of Lick Fork Branch on Mossy Creek.
Cana Omer Coleman
~
As he was married 4 times
He was 60 when he married Rose.
The other wife he had was Miram Hughart and she was the mother to one of his sons. Mason Anderson Coleman. Mason was born about 1869 and he also married Harriet Elzabeth Aliff. And yes she is the wife of his father. Mason and Harriet had 7 children together. If I have the story right she had 3 children by Mason and then divorced him and married his father. After she had 3 children with J.W. she remarried Mason and had 4 more children with him. Making the total of 7 children.
Family Members
Children
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Jeanette Bertha Coleman Adkins
1847–1922
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Samuel Coleman
1855–1876
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Rev James Willard Coleman Jr
1857–1928
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William A. Coleman
1860–1927
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Mason Anderson Coleman
1867–1937
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Nancy Elizabeth Coleman Canterbury
1867–1940
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John Roy Coleman
1890–1960
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Gracie May Coleman Wriston
1897–1922
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Elsie Maud Coleman Stover
1898–1936
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