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Bornyasz Family Tree |
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Bornyasz Unknown Pictures Bronson Brown Riesinger |
This is an exact reprint of an article written in a historical publication about
Ionia County, Michigan -- reprint found in family archives, original paper
and date unknown. The author is unknown.
It should be noted that may be discrepancies in some of the birth/death
dates. By history, I can date it to after 1879 and before 1886 -------------------------Eli A. and Hannah J. Coleman ------------------------- Mr. Coleman's father, Becket Coleman, was a native of Connecticut, and a farmer by occupation. He was married to Harriet Stratton, a native of the State of New York, and for a number of years resided in Jefferson County, in the later state, finally removing to Ohio. In the spring of 1844 they came to Michigan and settled on section 26 in the township of Orange, Ionia Co., where Mrs. Coleman died in June, 1858, and Mr. Coleman in May, 1874. Eli A. Coleman, son of the above couple, was born Sept. 20, 1827, in Jefferson Co., N.Y., being the oldest in a family of nine children. He was quite young when his parents settled in Ohio, and but seventeen years of age when they removed to Michigan. He assisted his father in the care of the homestead until he became of age, when he entered the employ of Hopkins & Co., of Ottawa County, and worked at lumbering for three years. In the spring of 1851 he purchased eighty acres of land in Orange township, which composes a part of his present farm. It was what is familiarly known as 'wild land' and he set about the task of clearing and improving it. On the 2nd of December, 1855, he was married to Miss Hannah J. Smith, daughter of E.F. Smith, Sr., and Nancy Smith. She was born in Oakland County, Michigan June 25, 1837 and was the fifth in a family of eight children. He father was a native of New York, and her mother (Nancy Merryfield Smith) of Massachusetts. They were numbered among the pioneers of Oakland County but removed to Orange township, Ionia Co., when the daughter was but seven years old. Both died in the township named Mr. Smith in June, 1862 and his wife in December 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman are the parents of two children, Ella S., born Nov 6, 1861, now Mrs. Edmund Harwood, living at home, and Ida A., born July 15, 1863 and died at the age of six months. Mr. Coleman and his wife began their wedded life on the farm upon which they now reside. It has been enlarged from eight acres of woodland to three hundred and twenty acres, all improved and under a fine state of cultivation except forty acres. In place of the humble log cabin is seen a much more pretentious dwelling. Mr. Coleman is an admirer of t fine stock, and is the owner of some excellent cattle and sheep. In 1863 his patriotism asserted itself, and he enlisted n the First Regiment Michigan Engineers and Mechanics. He served twenty-three months, and returned to his home in 1863. In politics he is a Republican, and he and his wife are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which they united in 1865. Mr. Coleman has held several important township offices, highway commissioner, drain commissioner, etc.
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