L. R. Coleman, a resident and merchant of Glimp, Tenn., was born March 20,
1844, in Haywood County, and is the son of John A. and Susan (Pettus) Coleman.
The father was born in Virginia in 1813, and came to Haywood County, Tenn., in
1836, remaining there until 1857, when he moved to Lauderdale County and
located at Fulton, and in 1872 moved to Arkansas, where he died in 1878. The
mother was also a native of Virginia, but died in Haywood County, in 1856. Our
subject was of Irish descent. He remained on the farm with his father until
twenty-one years of age, when he married and commenced farming for himself,
continuing until 1873, when he commenced merchandising at Fulton, continuing
four years; then was a merchant at Henning, Tenn., for six years, and in 1883
moved to Glimp, where he is still a successful merchant, and, in connection
with his business, is running a large saw-mill. Mr. Coleman was a magistrate
in the Third District for awhile, and after moving to the Tenth District, was
elected, in 1885, magistrate. In 1866 he married Fannie Pettus, and they have
had eight children, viz.: Mattie, Vennie, Hewett, Cecil, Ida, Susie, Lester
and Lettie; the last two are twins. Mr. Coleman is a substantial citizen and a
self-made man, and has accumulated his property by his own untiring energy and
judicious management. He served three years and a half in the Confederate
Army, in the Seventy Tennessee Cavalry. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge at
Fulton, Lodge No. 359, and of the K. of H., at Henning. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman
are active members of the Missionary Baptist Church. He is politically a
Democrat, and a man of influence and fine social standing.

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN