Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 636-637 [McCracken]

     DR. JOHN ROBERT COLEMAN, of Paducah, Kentucky, was born in
Henry county, Tennessee, August 22, 1860, a son of Robert Spillsby
Coleman, M. D., and Fannie (Williams) Coleman, both natives of
Tennessee and both descended from English ancestry.  The Colemans
originally came from North Carolina, while the Williams family for
years resided in Tennessee.  Robert Spillsby Coleman received his
medical education in the University of Tennessee, at Nashville, and
until 1872 was engaged in the practice of medicine in Tennessee.  In
that year he came to Kentucky and located in Murray, where he
remained until 1886, removing thence to Princeton, where he has
since continued his residence, all the while giving his time to the
active practice of his profession.  During the Civil war he was a
physician in the Confederate army, under General Forrest.
     The son of a physician, John R. Coleman early gave his
attention to the study of medicine and adopted his father's
profession.  He is the oldest of ta family of five, three sons and
two daughters.  In his youth he received a common and high school
education in the towns in which they lived, he being twelve years
old at the time the family removed to Kentucky and settled in
Murray.  After studying medicine in his father's office he entered
the University of Louisville, where he completed his medical course
and graduated with honors, February 28, 1883.  From the time of his
graduation until 1900 he practiced at Murray, and for the past three
years has been in Paducah.  Dr. Coleman is a member of the
Southwestern Kentucky Medical Association, of which he is an
ex-president; of the Kentucky State Medical Society; the American
Medical Association; the West Tennessee Medical and Surgical
Association; and the McCracken County Medical Society, of which he
is president.  He is a Knight Templar Mason and a member and
president of the board of education of the city of Paducah.
     Of Dr. Coleman's home life we record that in 1885 he married
Miss Jessie McElrath, of Murray, and they have two daughters, Misses
Rella and Fannie.

Coleman Williams Forrest McElrath
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Henry-TN NC Caldwell-KY

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