History of Todd County, Kentucky, ed. J. H. Battle, 1884, F. A. Battey
Publishing Co., 1884, Page 359.         [Town of Guthrie]

W. W. COLEMAN was born November 17, 1821, in Mecklenburg County, Va. He
is a son of James B. and Sarah (Williams) Coleman.  The father was born
June 10, 1796, in the same county and State; he died December 10, 1883,
in his eighty-eighth year, in Houston County, Tenn.  The mother was born
in Amelia County, Va.; she died in 1879, aged seventy-nine, in Montgomery
County, Tenn.  Our subject was raised on his fathers farm; about 1843 he
came to Montgomery County, Tenn., where he remained till [sic] 1850, when
when he moved to Alabama and was engaged in merchandising till [sic] 1867.
He then removed to Christian County Ky., and sold goods at Garretsville
two and a half years.  In May, 1870, he came to Guthrie and was engaged in
merchandising two years, after which he came to his farm, and with the
exception of two years in selling goods, he has been engaged in
agricultural pursuits since.  Mr. Coleman was married in 1858 to Mrs.
Williams, of Alabama. This union was blessed with one son--James Percy--now
a resident of Arkansas, and a teacher at the Southern Collegiate Institute,
Franklin County, where he has been the past four years.  Second marriage to
Mrs. Mildred F. Carneal, a native of Todd County; she has one
daughter--Frances Howard--now Mrs. Hackney, also living on the farm.

Coleman Williams Carneal Hackney
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Christian-KY Mecklenburg-VA Houston-TN Amelia-VA Montgomery-TN AL AR

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