"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 447-448.
Used by permission.  [Ohio]

DEACON ELISHA H. COLEMAN:  This outstanding Christian and Deacon was 
the father of Dr. J. S. Coleman, outstanding Baptist leader of the 
State of Kentucky and particularly of the Green River country in the 
last half of the Nineteenth Century.  He was born on the Beaver Dam 
Fork of Muddy Creek, where the town of Beaver Dam now stands, on 
January 5, 1805.  He departed this life on August 7, 1893, in his 
eighty-eighth year.  He was the eldest son of Henry Coleman, the 
youngest son of Martin Coleman, who emigrated from Germany to America 
about the year 1759, which was about seventeen years before 
Independence was declared.
	The first home that Martin Coleman found was in the 
fortification called "Barrett's Fort," near where the town of 
Hartford now stands.  Here Henry Coleman, who was the father of E. H. 
Coleman was born and remained with his parents until he was three 
years old, when the savages which then infested the country, were 
driven out.  The elder Coleman then settled on a small tributary of 
Muddy Creek to which he gave the name of "Beaver Dam," for the reason 
that the beavers, which were then numerous, built large dams across 
this stream.  Here Henry Coleman, father of E. H. Coleman was reared 
from three years old up, and continued to be a citizen of the same 
spot until his death in 1850 at the age of seventy-six years.  In his 
early manhood he married Delilah Hocker and became the father of 
twenty-three children, Elisha H. being the eldest son, who also being 
born there continued to reside upon the same original tract of land 
until a few years before his death.
	At the age of twenty-two Mr. Coleman married Miss Susannah H. 
Maddox.  In the year 1827 she became the mother of Rev. James Smith 
Coleman, D.D.  Mr. Coleman enjoyed but few, and they the most 
imperfect, facilities for an education, but by close application and 
study he attained those qualities which enabled him to discharge the 
duties of a plain business man.  He served in many local offices of 
responsibility always evincing the most sterling integrity and 
accuracy in his transactions.
	In February, 1838, he united with the Pond Run Baptist Church 
and was baptized by Elder Alfred Taylor, whose praise at that time 
was in all the Churches of that section.  In June, 1838, he united by 
letter with the Beaver Dam Baptist Church and continued to hold his 
membership there until his death.  He was both an active and faithful 
member of his Church and supported liberally her every work.  He was 
ordained to the deaconship in 1846, in which office he served the 
Church in great faithfulness during all the days of his activity.  
After an illness of one week he finally departed this life to enjoy 
the endless life promised by the Lord to those that love Him.  Elisha 
H. Coleman was a faithful attendant of the annual sessions of the 
Gasper River and Daviess County Associations for over fifty years.  
He was a sound and true Baptist yet as humble as a child and 
courteous to all who differed with him.

Coleman Hocker Maddox Taylor
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Germany Daviess


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