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James Merrill Coleman Sr.

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James Merrill Coleman Sr.

Birth
Missouri, USA
Death
24 May 1913 (aged 86)
Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA
Burial
Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 42 Lot 7-10
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James Merrill Coleman was son of Absalom Coleman and Nancy Lillard Coleman, grandson of Private Spencer Coleman and Colonel William Lillard, Revolutionary War veterans. To the union of James Merrill and Mary Hughes Coleman were born:
Rachel R. - b ca 1854
Absalom Lillard - b ca 1856
Mary M. (Mollie?) - b ca 1858
Creighton Elizebeth - ca 1860
Nancy Adeline - b ca 1862
James Anna - b ca 1867
Ellen Missouri - b May 25, 1870.

Mary Hughes Coleman died in 1870, giving birth to Ellen Missouri. Ellen Missouri was raised until she was eleven by "Old Auntie" Coleman, a former slave who stayed with the family after the Civil War. Ellen Missouri married James Russell Palmer, Fort Worth, TX, whose daughter Gena Odessa married Thomas Jesse Kemp, Sweetwater, TX, son of Thomas Lafayette Kemp.

James Merrill's second wife was Susan L. Fairchild; the couple bore the following children:
Martin W. - b 1883
James M. Jr. - b 1885
William Austin - b 1886 d 1918
Chana Jane - b 1887
John Ivy? or Ira - b 1879
Thomas Lillard
Robert Fairchild
George Washington
Benjamin Harrison

James Austin and Susan L are buried in the same grave with James Merrill Coleman in Rose Hill Cemetery.
James Merrill Coleman was son of Absalom Coleman and Nancy Lillard Coleman, grandson of Private Spencer Coleman and Colonel William Lillard, Revolutionary War veterans. To the union of James Merrill and Mary Hughes Coleman were born:
Rachel R. - b ca 1854
Absalom Lillard - b ca 1856
Mary M. (Mollie?) - b ca 1858
Creighton Elizebeth - ca 1860
Nancy Adeline - b ca 1862
James Anna - b ca 1867
Ellen Missouri - b May 25, 1870.

Mary Hughes Coleman died in 1870, giving birth to Ellen Missouri. Ellen Missouri was raised until she was eleven by "Old Auntie" Coleman, a former slave who stayed with the family after the Civil War. Ellen Missouri married James Russell Palmer, Fort Worth, TX, whose daughter Gena Odessa married Thomas Jesse Kemp, Sweetwater, TX, son of Thomas Lafayette Kemp.

James Merrill's second wife was Susan L. Fairchild; the couple bore the following children:
Martin W. - b 1883
James M. Jr. - b 1885
William Austin - b 1886 d 1918
Chana Jane - b 1887
John Ivy? or Ira - b 1879
Thomas Lillard
Robert Fairchild
George Washington
Benjamin Harrison

James Austin and Susan L are buried in the same grave with James Merrill Coleman in Rose Hill Cemetery.

Bio by: Kurt Simmons Kemp

Gravesite Details

72665081 this is the memorial# for James Austin Coleman, brother to James Merrill

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