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Bornyasz Unknown Pictures Bronson Brown Riesinger |
This is an exact reprint of the articles written in the
Portrait-Biographical Album of Ionia and Montcalm Counties, Michigan, 1891). The author is unknown.
It should be noted that there are discrepancies in some of the birth/death
dates. -------------------------David E. Coleman ------------------------- David E. Coleman, whose home farm in section 29, Orange Township, Ionia County, is the son of Beckett Coleman, a woolen manufacturer and farmer, who was born in Connecticut about 1805, and of Harriet Stratton Coleman, born in 1817, in New York. The parents of our subject were married in New York State and resided there until 1837,m when they removed to Huron County, Ohio, and in 1844 came to Michigan and settled on Section 26 of Orange Township. This farm when taken from the Government was all raw land, and the settlers had plenty of neighbors of a certain kind — bears, wolves, and deer, with Indians for variety. Mr. (Beckett) Coleman and his town sons built a log house with puncheon floor, and cleared their eighty acres of trees. They struggled successfully with the discouragements and trials of a pioneer life, and from their deep poverty have arisen to a comfortable competency and the possession of a pleasant home. Mr. Coleman lost his wife in 859, and afterward married Phoebe (Stratten) Coulson, dying in 1875. His second wife lived until 1878. There were no children by the second marriage. The first Mrs. Coleman was the mother of Eli A., David E., Louisa (Mrs Douglas), and Esther R. (Mrs. John Wells), all of whom are living. George, Williams, Hiram J., Lucy and Ruth are deceased. Hiram J. Enlisted in the Ninth Michigan Infantry and after a yea’s service in the late ware was taken prisoner and paroled. Returning home he went to Illinois and enlisted in the Sixth Illinois Cavalry. He was again taken prisoner and died in Andersonville. The parents of our subject were Free Will Baptists and the father was a Republican for years before his death. The subject, David, of this notice was born October 7, 1829, in Jefferson County, N.Y., where he received a common school education, and at fifteen years of age came to Michigan with his parents and helped his father on the farm until h reached his majority. He then began to work for himself, but staid at home until after his mother’s death. He first bought forty acres of raw land on section 26 but afterward purchased eighty acres on section 27, and traded off his original forty acres. He built a log house and began clearing off the land and had about forty acres cleared at the time of his marriage. This important event took place on December 23, 1860. His wife bore the maiden name of Philena N. Smith, and was a daughter of Ebenezer and Nancy (Merrifield) Smith, both of New York State. Mr. & Mrs. Smith had emigrated to Michigan in 1828, and were pioneers of Oakland County. When the Smith family first came to Michigan they settled upon what appeared to be an abandoned sugar camp of the Indians. In the spring they were startled by finding themselves surrounded with the Indians but they were able to compromise the mater and had no trouble with their savage neighbors. In 1844 they came to Ionia County, where they made their permanent home Mr. Smith was an officer in the Toledo War. He died in June 1862, at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife died in 1866, I her fifty-ninth year. They were the parents of eight children: Ebenezer F., Jr., and Williams T., deceased, George J., Milam G., Hannah J., deceased; Philena N. (Mrs David Coleman), Ozen M, and Mary E., (Mrs S.W. Rittenburgh). Three of these sons, Ebenezer F., Milam G. And Ozen M. Were soldiers in the Civil War. Ebenezer F. Served for nine months in the ninth Michigan Infantry, and coming home sick, died in 1862. The parents of these children were members of the Baptist Church and they took an active part in church and Sunday school. Mrs.Coleman was born July 9, 1839, in Oakland County, Michigan. After marriage she settled with her husband upon a farm on section 27 where they resided until 1887, when they removed to their present home. He had cleared off one hundred acres on the old farm, and how has forty acres of improved land on this new place. Mr. & Mrs. Coleman were the parents of two children; Eda, born June 21, 1869, is the wife of John A. Sullenbarger; they I’ve with our subject and are the parents of three children – Emma I., Carrie, and Orman. The second child, Archie, born October 7, 1874, died February 1, 1882. Mrs. Coleman is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church. Her husband takes an interest in politics and votes the Republican ticket, and is a member of the Patrons of Industry. Mr. Coleman has had excellent health and prosperity, except that in March, 1850 he broke his right thigh and was laid up for four months.
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