John Thomas Coleman

1859-1934 · Georgia

Born 1859, Georgia

Died 1934

Children include Dewey

John Thomas Coleman was born on 28 January 1859 in Georgia. On 8 May 1879 he married Sarah Charlotte Rowe in Meriwether County, and they farmed in the Rockalo militia district of Heard County, on the Alabama line south-west of Atlanta. The 1900 census listed him, forty-one, with his wife Sallie, forty-two, and nine children aged from twenty to three, and the 1910 census found them in the same district.

Between 1910 and 1920 he moved the family to Grady County, Oklahoma, where the 1920 census listed him at sixty with Sarah and five grown children, Henry, Era, Claudie, Harvey and Dewey, still at home. Sarah died in April 1923 and was buried back in Georgia, at Hopewell Cemetery near Ephesus in Heard County. He died at his home south of Chickasha on Thursday 1 November 1934, aged seventy-five years, ten months and three days. The Chickasha paper gave him three lines: funeral services at Chickasha on the Friday and burial in a cemetery north-west of town, which is Holcomb Cemetery.

Children

Dewey Coleman 1897-1957

Sources

Newspaper clipping, Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma, November 1934, as carried on Find a Grave memorial 171531966.

United States census 1900, Heard County, Georgia, ED 76, Militia District 987 (Rockalo), NARA T623 roll 204; FamilySearch ark 1:1:M3JW-LDH.

United States census 1920, Grady County, Oklahoma, ED 183; FamilySearch ark 1:1:MJMX-5SH.

United States censuses 1900 (ark 1:1:M3JW-LDH), 1910 and 1920 (ark 1:1:MJMX-5SH); death notice, Chickasha newspaper, November 1934 (clipping); Find a Grave memorials 171531966 and 33944285, citing Oklahoma pioneer papers for the marriage.

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