{"id":3164,"date":"2022-01-10T14:39:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:39:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:39:31","slug":"coleman-l-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/coleman-l-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Coleman, L. R."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>L. R. Coleman<\/strong>, a resident and merchant of Glimp, Tenn., was born March 20,<br \/>\n1844, in Haywood County, and is the son of John A. and Susan (Pettus) Coleman.<br \/>\nThe father was born in Virginia in 1813, and came to Haywood County, Tenn., in<br \/>\n1836, remaining there until 1857, when he moved to Lauderdale County and<br \/>\nlocated at Fulton, and in 1872 moved to Arkansas, where he died in 1878. The<br \/>\nmother was also a native of Virginia, but died in Haywood County, in 1856. Our<br \/>\nsubject was of Irish descent. He remained on the farm with his father until<br \/>\ntwenty-one years of age, when he married and commenced farming for himself,<br \/>\ncontinuing until 1873, when he commenced merchandising at Fulton, continuing<br \/>\nfour years; then was a merchant at Henning, Tenn., for six years, and in 1883<br \/>\nmoved to Glimp, where he is still a successful merchant, and, in connection<br \/>\nwith his business, is running a large saw-mill. Mr. Coleman was a magistrate<br \/>\nin the Third District for awhile, and after moving to the Tenth District, was<br \/>\nelected, in 1885, magistrate. In 1866 he married Fannie Pettus, and they have<br \/>\nhad eight children, viz.: Mattie, Vennie, Hewett, Cecil, Ida, Susie, Lester<br \/>\nand Lettie; the last two are twins. Mr. Coleman is a substantial citizen and a<br \/>\nself-made man, and has accumulated his property by his own untiring energy and<br \/>\njudicious management. He served three years and a half in the Confederate<br \/>\nArmy, in the Seventy Tennessee Cavalry. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge at<br \/>\nFulton, Lodge No. 359, and of the K. of H., at Henning. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman<br \/>\nare active members of the Missionary Baptist Church. He is politically a<br \/>\nDemocrat, and a man of influence and fine social standing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/coleman-l-r\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-coleman"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}