PART THREE

FAMILIES AND CHILDREN

171 172 Chapter 14

The Family Of Robert Coleman of Amelia County, Virginia (Approx. 1713 – Approx. 1783)

Robert Coleman, son of William Coleman, Jr. (born in 1680 and died in 1745 and identified as Senior in his will), was born in Amelia County, Virginia, and christened on 6 December 1713.

He died in approximately 1783 in Old District 98, Union, South Carolina. He lived in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and Mecklenburg County, Virginia, prior to moving to Union County, South Carolina, in the 1760's.

Robert’s first wife was Susanna Phillips, the daughter of Claude Phillips de Richebourg. Claude was a first generation member of the Huguenot Colony, Manakin Town, Virginia. They had two children, Lucy and Frances, both born in Amelia County, Virginia, in the 1730s. Susanna had died by 1739.

a. Lucy Coleman was born prior to 1740 in Amelia County, Virginia, and died in 1786 at Union County, South Carolina. She is buried at Moncks Corner Baptist Church Cemetery, South Carolina, with her husband who died in 1811. She married Thomas Draper, Sr., between 1754 and 1758 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. They had eleven children: James, Sarah, William, Anne, Thomas, Philip, Catherine, Daniel, Travis, William and Joshua.

b. Frances Coleman was born prior to 1740 in Amelia County, Virginia, and died of small pox as a Loyalist (Tory) refugee in Charleston, South Carolina. She married Zacharias Gibbs, son of John and Susanne Phillipe Gibbs, after the Coleman family had moved to what later became South Carolina. Zacharias was born in Virginia in approximately 1741, and entered military service for Britain as a Captain at Ninety-Six, South Carolina, in November, 1775.

Robert was married a second time in 1740, to Ann Hinton, daughter of Christopher and Margaret Jones Hinton. They first lived in Amelia County, Virginia. They had six children, Christopher, Abner, Philip, William, Faithful, and Mary.

c. Christopher Coleman. He was born in approximately 1741, and was named for his maternal grandfather, Christopher Hinton. He married Mary Marshall in approximately 1759, in Lunenburg County, Virginia.

He acquired 200 acres on Mill Creek of Pacolet River. This land was surveyed on 15 December 1766. Zachariah Bullock was the Surveyor, and Randolph Hames and Abner Coleman were chain bearers. He received a grant for this land from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, on 29 April 1768. When the North

173 Carolina boundary lines were changed in 1772, the grant became part of South Carolina’s Ninety Six District, and in 1785, a part of Union District.

Christopher Coleman built a house on his property and from it operated a tavern before and during the Revolutionary War. It was called Christie’s Tavern. An article on the Christopher Coleman in the Union County Heritage Book states, “It was said that he would turn no man away, even during the American Revolution. If the Tories were coming to rest and water their horses, the Whigs would scamper down a ramp built over the creek and hide in the woods.”

The tavern stood until the late 1990’s. The remains of the house and chimney can still be seen where it stood on Park Farm Road, in Jonesville, South Carolina.

Christie’s Tavern Photo by Nate Fulmer, Charleston, SC

The creek that comes down the side and in front of where the old house stood is still called Coleman’s Branch and flows into Mill Creek. It is approximately one mile from highway 18, after turning onto Robinson’s Farm Road.

Christopher Coleman served under Colonel Thomas Brandon before deserting to the British. He joined the British and he and his father were both named an outlaw in the proclamation of December 16, 1779. He served as a major with the South Carolina Royalists and was listed on half-pay at Savannah, Georgia, in 1780.

Some say Christopher Coleman died in 1784. d. Faithful Coleman, was born in 1743, and died in 1801.

She married Randolph Hames, son of William and Winifred Fann Hames. He was born on 22 January 1743. Faithful and Randolph had three children: John, Winifred (Susannah) and Nancy.

174 Faithful Coleman Hames died in 1801, in Union County, South Carolina. She left her son, John, a Negro girl now in his possession and half the value of negro Jude. She left her son-in-law, Green Burrough, half the value of Jude.

To her daughter, Winifred, she left a Negro girl, Edy, now in her possession. Her daughter, Nancy, received five Negro children. John and Nancy were executors of her estate.

Randolph served as a Patriot soldier under Col. Thomas Brandon before deserting to the British.

He was named as an “outlaw” in the proclamation of 16 December 1779 in the newspaper, South Carolina and American General Gazette of Charleston, South Carolina, along with forty other men including Robert Coleman and his son Christopher.

It is believed that Randolph fought in the battle of Kettle Creek after which he was marched from Augusta, Georgia, and imprisoned at Fort Ninety Six, South Carolina, where he received a sentence of execution and was hung as a Loyalist traitor to the Revolution. e. Abner Coleman was born around 1755, and died in 1825 in Gwinnett, Georgia. According to Land Deed Book L, page 107, 13 September 1811, Susannah Coleman is identified as the wife of Abner Coleman, Sr. She could not write since she signed the deed by a mark.

He was a Loyalist soldier and served from 14 June 1780, under Capt. Shadrack Lantrey and Maj. Daniel Plummer in the Fair Forest Militia. He was in the battle of Kings Mountain.

Abner evacuated Ninety Six with Lt. Col. John H. Cruger. He probably became a refugee in Charleston, South Carolina, and then returned to his house in South Carolina after the death of his sister, Frances.

Prior to 13 April 1782, he deserted to the Patriots. His Loyalist’s pay was issued to Mrs. Elizabeth Nixon, for her son, Thomas Nixon, who served in the same regiment.

Abner was a land owner per the following records:

Land Deed Book B, Page 109, Union County, South Carolina. 30 July 1786. Robert Coleman deed to Abner Coleman recites that Robert Coleman, late of said District, died intestate, the owner of six hundred acres of land, which said land fell by descent to Robert Coleman, son of Christopher Coleman, as the heir-at-law to said real estate. Sold to Abner Coleman one-half of the said six hundred acres on the North side of Mill's Creek.

175 Abner Coleman and his wife, Susannah (Ann), and his brother, William Coleman, sold land to Nathaniel Gordan in 1788. No records now exist indicating how the brothers received this land.

Land Deed Book L, page 107, 13 September 1811. Abner Coleman, Sr., conveyed to Hezekiah Coleman, all of Union District, 90 acres on the North side of Mill Creek, being a part of a tract granted to Robert Coleman, refers to Abner Coleman, Jr.'s spring. Susannah Coleman, wife of Abner Coleman, Sr., relinquished dower. She signed by her mark.

Hezekiah sold his land to Philip Coleman, son of William, on 26 December 1811. His cousin, Richard, witnessed the transaction. Hezekiah’s wife, Elizabeth Belue, relinquished her right of dower. They moved their family to Gwinnett County, Georgia.

Abner Coleman, Sr., sold 90 acres to Thomas Little on 25 December 1816. The land was on the north side of Mill Creek and was part of a tract granted to Robert Coleman (Sr.).

Abner moved his wife and the remainder of his family to Gwinnett, Georgia before 1820, to be near his son and died there in 1825. f. Philip Coleman, date of birth is unknown, died in 1785.

He fought with his neighbor, Capt. John Nuckolls, in the war against the Cherokee Indians on 9 February 1771. He was a sergeant. Fighting with him in this skirmish was his brother, William.

Philip Coleman witnessed a deed transaction between Joab Mitchell and Thomas Draper on 2 May 1776, before his brother, Christopher Coleman, Justice of the Peace.

Land Deed Book O, page 195, 24 November 1817. Philip Coleman conveyed land to Robert Coleman; Martha Coleman, wife of Philip Coleman, relinquished dower.

He served under Col. Thomas Brandon with the Patriots before deserting to the British. He was probably at the battle of Kettle Creek for he was accused of sedition and held in the Ninety Six, South Carolina, jail. From here he was taken to Orangeburg, South Carolina, for trial in 1779.

He then served as a Loyalist under Col. Daniel Plummer in the Fairforest Militia. He was under Ferguson from June to October 1780 and was in the battle of Kings Mountain. He became a refugee in Charleston, South Carolina, and returned to his house in upstate South Carolina after the death of his sister, Frances.

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Philip died in 1785, and John Haile, Adam Potter, and his brother, William Coleman, signed the administrative bond before John Thomas, Jr., Ordinary. g. William Coleman, was born in 1755 in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and died in 1808 in Union County, South Carolina.

He and his wife, Mary Randolph Coleman, were Loyalist refugees in Charleston, South Carolina, probably traveling with his mother and father. He was recommended on August 1780, by the commandant of Charles Town to be restored to the privileges of a British subject.

He signed an oath to the King on 28 August 1780. He possibly fought with the Patriots with his father and brothers, Philip and Christopher, but is not listed in the book, Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution, by Bobby Gilmer Moss. He may not have joined with the Loyalists until they moved to Charleston.

After the death of his sister, Frances, and his return to the upstate, he served as a Patriot soldier under Col. Thomas Brandon. William Coleman, Sr., may have been married twice and his son, William Coleman, Jr., was possibly a child by a first wife. This son also fought under Col. Brandon.

William and his wife, Mary, sold 197 acres of land to Nicholas Harris on 21-22 June 1787. In 1800, he owned 17 slaves.

On 2 November 1801, William Coleman gave eleven slaves to his son, Philip Coleman: Morgin, York, Dick, Moses, Mark, Ned, Wiley, Fillis, Anica, Peg and Hager. He also gave him some cattle, sheep, hogs, and household furniture. William White and Robert Gibson witnessed the transaction.

Philip Coleman, son of William, and his brother, Robert, were business partners in 1809 and 1810, and made loans to some of the farmers in their neighborhood.

William Coleman died in 1808. On 16 January 1811, part of his children purchased 121 acres from Robert Coleman, their brother. It was part of a tract of land on which he lived.

The children were: Patsy Coleman, Philip Coleman, Elizabeth Coleman, John Guyton (husband of Mary Coleman), Thomas Lantrip (husband of Rebecca Coleman), Ann Thompson, Francis Coleman and Charlotte Coleman.

177 h. Mary, birth date unknown, married William Meek, son of John and Elizabeth Mitchell Meek.

William was born in Ireland in 1750. His father died in Ireland in 1765, and his mother, Elizabeth, brought her six children to this country circa 1768.

William was a Loyalist soldier and was with Patrick Cunningham in the 1775 encounter at Ninety Six, South Carolina. He was in hiding until Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell arrived in Georgia. He attempted to join Campbell but was captured.

After being given security for his good behavior, and because of his youth, he was allowed to go back to his family. He remained there until Charleston fell to the British. Once again he joined Lieutenant Colonel Campbell and served in the militia until the evacuation of Charleston.

He served as a wagon master and was in that capacity under Lt. Col. John H. Cruger at the siege of Ninety Six, South Carolina. William Meek and Mary Coleman, his wife, became refugees in Charleston, South Carolina.

From there Mary emigrated to Rawdon, Nova Scotia with William Meek and lived until 1824. Their 250 acres of South Carolina land was confiscated. William Meek received a grant for 500 acres in Nova Scotia.

When Mary and William left South Carolina to move to Nova Scotia two sons and a daughter were left behind. The children were most likely left with William’s mother, Elizabeth, who lived with her son, John. John was a Patriot soldier and fought under General Francis Marion. The children of Mary and William Meek were also Patriots.

William sold 250 acres of his Nova Scotia land in October of 1792. Shortly thereafter he left to journey to Ireland along with Zacharias Gibbs and John Law. After leaving by boat, they were not heard from again.

Mary Coleman Meek, wife of William, lived on in Rawdon, Nova Scotia, and died there about 1824.

178 Chapter 15

Thomas Coleman of Craven County, North Carolina (born after 1700 – 1791)

This information regarding Thomas Coleman (born after 1700 – 1791) is presented as a starting point for future research of a part of the Coleman family not directly related to those in this book.

Some believe that he was the father of Peter Coleman, Jr., of Warren County who died in 1800 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The information found in Chapter 5 offers proof that this could not be correct based on the evidence.

Instead, Thomas Coleman (born after 1700 – 1791), was the father of Peter Coleman of Craven County who most likely died after 1825 in St. Stephans District, Alabama, where he bought land on 6 June 1825 along with his brothers Menan and Isaac Coleman.

Some genealogists also believe that Thomas William Coleman of Anson, North Carolina is the father of Thomas Coleman (born after 1700 – 1791). There is no evidence, however, that Benjamin, the documented brother of Thomas Coleman (born after 1700 – 1791), was a child of Thomas William Coleman. Therefore, Thomas William Coleman and Elizabeth may not be the parents of Thomas Coleman.

Some say Thomas was born in Anson County, North Carolina, about 1700 to Thomas William Coleman and Elizabeth and others say he was born in Craven County, North Carolina in 1744, parents unknown. Future research is needed for a final determination. Thomas married Mary Fitzpatrick in 1755 and had nine children. He passed away in June, 1791, in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina.

The will of Thomas Coleman, dated 21 December 1790, was filed in Craven County on 15 March 1791. The will names his wife Mary, sons Isaac, Peter, Menan, Benjamin and Abner, daughters Susannah Coleman Powell, Mary, and Sarah, plus his grandson Coleman Powell. Thomas names his brother Benjamin as executor. The will is on file as CR 028.901, Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Signature Of Thomas Coleman 21 December 1790

179 Thomas is listed in the North Carolina Early Census Index as being a resident of Craven County, North Carolina, in 1769.

Some of his children are found in Jefferson County, Georgia.

Mary Fitzpatrick (1720- 1791)

She was born about 1720 in Anson County, North Carolina, and died in 1791. Married Thomas Coleman and had nine children

1. Mary Coleman (1750- before 1824)

Mary was born in Craven County, North Carolina, to Mary Fitzpatrick and Thomas Coleman about 1750. Mary lived adjacent to her brother Benjamin according to the 1800 Census for Craven County. She died prior to 1824 according to the 24 December 1830 North Carolina Supreme Court case filed by Isaac Coleman vs. John Crumpler and Mary Crumpler, Lenoir County, North Carolina. The inclusion of both Sarah and Mary in this court case lends credence to the supposition of a simultaneous death. Mary signed her name by an “x”.

She left no will but Isaac Coleman was given administration of the estate.

2. Isaac Coleman (1760- )

Isaac was born in Craven County, North Carolina, to Mary Fitzpatrick and Thomas Coleman about 1760. He bought half interest in a slave owned by Peter Coleman of Craven County on 29 June 1793. Filed 24 December 1830 North Carolina Supreme Court case filed by Isaac Coleman vs. John Crumpler and Mary Crumpler, Lenoir County, North Carolina, concerning the estate of Mary Coleman (1750- before 1824) and Sarah Coleman (1760- before 1824).

Signature Of Isaac Coleman Probate Bond For His Sister Mary Coleman Craven County 11 March 1818

3. Sarah Coleman (1760- before 1824 )

Sarah was born in Craven County, North Carolina, to Mary Fitzpatrick and Thomas Coleman about 1760. Died prior to 1824 according to 24 December 1830 North Carolina Supreme Court case filed by Isaac Coleman vs. John

180 Crumpler and Mary Crumpler, Lenoir County, North Carolina. The inclusion of both Sarah and Mary in this court case lends credence to the supposition of a simultaneous death.

She left no will but Isaac Coleman was given administration of the estate.

4. Anna Coleman (1760- )

Anna was born in Craven County, North Carolina, to Mary Fitzpatrick and Thomas Coleman about 1760

5. Abner Coleman (a.1750- before 1797)

Abner was born in Craven County, North Carolina, to Mary Fitzpatrick and Thomas Coleman about 1750. His death determined by legatee court document in Pitt County 18 January 1797.

6. Benjamin Coleman (1760- 1813)

Benjamin was born in Craven County, North Carolina, to Mary Fitzpatrick and Thomas Coleman about 1750. He married Sucky Fish in Craven County, North Carolina, on 31 December 1799. Children include Abner Coleman, born on 8 November 1800 in Craven County, North Carolina, and died on 20 March 1878 in Hickman, Tennessee.

Signature Of Benjamin Coleman Probate Bond For His Father Thomas Coleman Craven County, May 15, 1791

7. Menan Coleman- male (1775- 1842)

Menan was born to Mary Fitzpatrick and Thomas Coleman in 1775. Married Argent Jackson from Craven County, North Carolina, in 1795. She died in Conecuh County, Alabama, in 1842. Children were James, Benjamin, Nancy, Jesse, Anna, and Argent. James was born in approximately 1805, Jefferson County, Georgia, and died on 08 August 1857 in Conecuh County, Alabama.

181 Menan bought land on 6 June 1825 in St. Stephans District Alabama. Menan's brothers Peter & Isaac also bought land in St. Stephans in 1825. Their brother Abner bought land in St. Stephans in 1835.

These St. Stephans District, Alabama, land records indicate that the Peter Coleman of Craven County is not the Peter of Warren County, since (1) Peter Coleman, Jr., of Warren County died in 1800, and (2) Peter’s son, Peter Coleman, III (1774 - 1854), never left Warren County. Thus, neither Peter Coleman from Warren County could have bought land in St. Stephans District Alabama, in 1825.

8. Susannah Coleman (1760- )

Susannah was born in Craven County, North Carolina, to Mary Fitzpatrick and Thomas Coleman about 1750. Married John Powell and had one son, Coleman Powell. Marriage to John Powell was confirmed by Pitt County Court document of 18 January 1797

9. Peter Coleman (born 1750- died after 1825)

Peter was born in Craven County, North Carolina, about 1750 to Thomas Coleman and Mary Fitzpatrick.

Peter Coleman Of Craven County Marriage Bond Between Benjamin Coleman Of Craven County And Sucky Fish In Craven County, NC On 31 December 1799

It is believed that Peter and his brother Benjamin lived in Craven County, North Carolina. Peter served as bondsman to his brother, Benjamin Coleman, who married Sucky Fish in Craven County, North Carolina, on 31 December 1799.

The Peter Coleman signature on the Benjamin Coleman marriage bond does not match either the multiple signatures of Peter Coleman, Jr., of Warren County (1740 – 1800) or that of Peter Coleman’s son Peter Coleman, III (1774 - 1854). This is additional evidence that the Peter Coleman of Pitt/Craven County, North Carolina, is not the Peter Coleman of Warren County, North Carolina.

182 Chapter 16

The Family of Levi Phillip Coleman (1824 - 1864)

Levi Phillip Coleman was born in Warren County, North Carolina, on 16 October 1824 to Ebenezer Coleman and Sally Perkinson. Levi Phillip married Virginia Ann White on 20 October 1848 and had seven children, six before the Civil War and one, Levi Phillip (Buck) Coleman II (born on 20 February 1864 – died on 29 May1933), during the war. Levi Phillip (Buck) Coleman was most likely conceived while Captain Coleman was on leave after the Siege of Little Washington.

Signature Of Levi Phillip Coleman

On 26 February 1862 he mustered into "G" Company 43rd North Carolina Infantry as a 1st Lieutenant and promoted to Captain 26 August 1962. He fought in nine major battles including Gettysburg. He was wounded 16 May 1864 at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, and was admitted on May 16th to General Hospital No. 4, Richmond, Virginia, treated and then released on May 30th to travel home to North Carolina.

General Hospital No. 4, Richmond, VA Site Of Captain Coleman’s Treatment Of Wounds Suffered At Drewry’s Bluff

He died of wounds on 8 June 1864 at his home in Merry Mount. Levi was buried in the back yard of his house. A memorial stands adjacent to his grave located near his restored, pre-civil-war house at 170 Drewry’s Bluff Rd, Warrenton, North Carolina, one mile south of the Virginia state line.

A grave marker dedication was held on 25 September 1999, at which Charlie Hawks, the great great grandson of Captain Coleman gave the invocation. Immediately following the rendition of Captain Coleman’s favorite hymn “Amazing Grace” by well-known

183 balladeer Stacy “Wade” Harris of Youngsville, North Carolina, a wind began to blow from the south and an apparition of an old Confederate soldier appeared walking up the hill from the lower pond on the old Coleman property. This apparition was visible to Phyllis Lehner, a cousin of Captain Coleman, who reported it to her father, Ronnie Perkinson. All the young children present had chills and their teeth began to chatter during this time.

Balladeer Stacy “Wade” Harris

The will of Levi P. Coleman, dated 6 June 1864, was filed in Warren County, North Carolina, on an unrecorded date. The will names his wife Virginia and his children as a group. The will is on file as CR 028.901, Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina. Also, the will can be found in Warren County Book 2, page 119. Levi was an educated man and could write well. His will, however, was signed with an “x”, due, perhaps, to his wounds.

Additional details on the will of Levi P. Coleman can be found in Appendix 12 of this book.

Capt. Levi P. Coleman 1862 Gravestone Of Capt. Levi P. Coleman Residence, Wise, N.C.

184 It is interesting to note that there was another Captain Coleman CSA stationed at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, during the battle of 16 May 1864. Captain Wiley G. Coleman, CSA, was commissioned an officer on 01 March 1862, in Brunswick County, Virginia to Neblett’s Heavy Artillery Battery. He was at the battle at Drewry’s Bluff in which Captain Levi P. Coleman, "G" Company 43rd North Carolina Infantry, was wounded.

Both Captain Wiley G. Coleman and Captain Levi P. Coleman would travel in 1864 to Warren County, North Carolina. In March of 1864 Captain Wiley G. Coleman would travel to Warren County to marry Joyce Ann Shearin, daughter of John Rodwell Shearin. After the war, they would live in Macon, Warren County, North Carolina.

On 30 May 1864 Captain Levi P. Coleman would travel to his home at Merry Mount to die a week later of wounds received at Drewry’s Bluff. It is unclear as to whether these two Captains of the Army of Northern Virginia knew one another.

170 Drewry’s Bluff Rd, Warrenton, NC Residence Of Capt. Levi P Coleman Ronnie Perkinson (Present Owner) 170 Drewry’s Bluff Rd Warrenton, NC ggGrandson Of Capt. Levi Coleman (1824 - 1864) Courtesy Of The Warren Record

185 Virginia Ann White (1832 - 1913)

Virginia was born on 20 September 1832 in Warren County, North Carolina, to Robert S. White and Sarah L Paschall. Virginia married Levi P. Coleman on 20 October 1848 and they had seven children. She passed away on 7 January 1913.

Signature Of Virginia Ann White Coleman

Virginia Ann White

Children of Levi Phillip Coleman (1824 - 1864) and Virginia Ann White (1832 - 1913)

1. Susan Ann Coleman (born on 19 June 1850 – died on 21 June 1868). Married Anthony William Smith on 12 December 1866. Susan and Anthony had a son, Henry Edward Smith, born on 5 June 1868 and died on 9 August 1868.

2. Sallie White Coleman, (born on 8 July 1852 – died on 5 October 1932). Married Page Ransom Perkinson (born in 1845) on 1 February 1872 and had nine children.

Page was the son of Jessie Perkinson who was the sister of Ebenezer Coleman’s (1792 – 1871) wife, Sally Perkinson. Sallie was a member of the Sharon-Wise Baptist Church. Buried Wise Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina, Cemetery is located approximately 1/2 mile East of Hwy 1 - 401 on Wise-Five Forks Rd on left and at intersection with Paschall Station Rd.

Sallie Coleman Perkinson Wise Cemetery, Wise, NC

186 3. Rozena (Rosa) Larviner Coleman (born on 21 February 1854 – died on 3 September 1936). Buried in an unmarked grave at the Coleman family cemetery, Wise, North Carolina.

Signature Of Rozena (Rosa) Larviner Coleman September, 1880

4. Mary Henry Coleman (born on 3 May 1856 – died on 28 July 1856)

5. Hugh Lee Coleman (born on 26 August 1857 – died on 14 August 1946 in Norlina, North Carolina)

Hugh Lee was a farmer and he married Martha “Mattie” Bain Walker on 18 December 1878. They had six children. After Mattie died in 1913, Hugh married Annie Virginia White on 15 February 1919 and had one child.

Mattie was born 23 September 1855 and died on 17 August 1913. Annie was born 5 September 1886 and died on 8 May 1935.

Hugh was buried in an unmarked grave at the Coleman family cemetery, between the graves of his two wives, Martha “Mattie” Bain Walker and Annie Virginia White. The cemetery is located to the side of his house on Paschall Station Road, 0.5 mile south of Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina. This house would later be the home of Leslie Phillip Coleman (born 19 May 1891 – died on 12 December 1955.

Additional details on Hugh Lee Coleman can be found in Chapter 17 of this book.

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Hugh Lee Coleman On Front Porch Of His House

Hugh Lee Coleman

Signature Of Hugh Lee Coleman September, 1880

House Of Hugh Lee Coleman, 2013

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Gravestone Gravestone Martha Bain Coleman Annie White Coleman Coleman Family Cemetery Coleman Family Cemetery

Hugh Lee Coleman Family Jerusalem Methodist Church Located On Coleman Farm, Approx. 1890

189 6. Sophrona Green Coleman (born on 19 May 1860 – died on 28 December 1891). Married Lucas Henderson Hawks on 27 November 1878 and had six children. She died 14 days after giving birth to her last child. Lived in Warren County, and was buried in an unmarked grave at the Coleman family cemetery, Wise, North Carolina, which is located to the side of the house of Hugh Lee Coleman on Paschall Station Road, 0.5 mile south of Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina.

The children of Sophrona Green Coleman and Lucas Henderson Hawks were:

x Howard Herman Hawks, born on 3 March 1880, Warren County. x Benjamin Horton Hawks, born on 15 July 1884, Warren County. x Tasker Taylor Hawks, born on 16 December 1886, Warren County. x Sterling Norman Hawks, born on 27 July 1889, Warren County. x Annie Mary Hawks, born on 14 December 1891, Warren County. x Stella Augusta Hawks, born on 27 January 1892, Warren County.

7. Levi Phillip (Buck) Coleman II (born on 20 February 1864 – died on 29 May 1933). Additional details on Levi can be found in Chapter 18 of this book.

Levi Phillip (Buck) Coleman was the only child of Captain Coleman born during the war and was thus most likely conceived while his father was on leave after the Siege of Little Washington.

Levi Phillip married Florence Pettus Rose on 22 April 1885 and had thirteen children. Florence was born on 22 April 1885, and died on 26 December 1911.

Both Levi Phillip and Florence are buried in the Coleman Family Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina, which is located adjacent to the Coleman family home (still standing in 2014), which is located on Paschall Station Road, 0.5 mile south of Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina.

Gravestone Levi Phillip (Buck) Coleman II And Florence Rose Coleman Coleman Family Cemetery, Wise, NC.

190 Chapter 17

The Family of Hugh Lee Coleman (1857 – 1946)

Hugh Lee Coleman (born on 26 August 1857 – died on 14 August 1946 in Norlina, North Carolina). He was a farmer, married Mattie Bain Walker on 18 December 1878 and had six children. He married Annie Virginia White on 15 February 1919 and had one child.

Hugh died due to bladder cancer. Hugh was buried in an unmarked grave between his two wives at the Coleman family cemetery which is located to the side of his house on Paschall Station Road, 0.5 mile south of Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina.

Mattie was born on 23 September 1855 and died on 17 August 1913. Annie was born on 5 September 1886 and died on 8 May 1935.

The children of Hugh Lee Coleman and Mattie Bain Walker were

1. Clement Clay Coleman (born on 26 November 1879 - died on 10 June 1946). Clement married Essie Shaw (born on 20 July 1878 – died on 8 June 1970) and had two children. Essie was appointed Postmistress of the Merry Mount Post Office on 19 April 1909. This Post Office would be renamed Paschall Post Office on 1 November 1929.

Clement and Essie’s two children, Kate Shaw Coleman and Robert Dandridge Coleman are both buried at Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina. Both children died at a relatively young age.

Clement Clay Coleman Kate Shaw Coleman, 1935

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Signature of Clement Clay Coleman, 1917

Gravestone Clement C. Coleman Essie S. Coleman Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery

Gravestone Kate Shaw Coleman Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery

Gravestone Robert Dandridge Coleman Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery

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Kate Shaw Coleman was born on 10 August 1912 and died on 20 June 1937. She was tragically killed at the age of 24 in an automobile accident in Warrenton at the intersection of North Carolina Highway 158 and North Main Street.

Robert Dandridge Coleman was born on 26 August 1916 and died on 16 November 1930. He was killed at the age of 14 in a tragic hunting accident on Hawtree Creek Rd, when his shotgun was accidentally discharged by his Irish Setter hunting dog. Robert was affectionately known as “Baby Robert” by his friends and family.

2. Herman Levi Coleman (born on 13 March 1881 – died on 10 April 1925). He is buried at the Coleman family cemetery which is located to the side of the Hugh Lee Coleman house on Paschall Station Road, 0.5 mile south of Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina.

Gravestone Herman Levi Coleman Coleman Family Cemetery

3. Hugh Cleveland Coleman (born on 1885 in Warren County, North Carolina – died on 11 November 1953 in South Hill, Virginia). Buried at Oakwood Cemetery, Section 103, South Hill, Virginia. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Moore on 24 August 1918.

Dr. Hugh “Click” Coleman was a well respected Doctor of Optometry who practiced in South Hill, Virginia. On 27 August 1951, John H. Kerr, a member of Congress from Warrenton, North Carolina, wrote in a letter, “ … very few men in Warren County, since I have lived here for more than fifty years, have been your equal in intellectual attainment and success in the world.”

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Wedding Invitation Mary and Hugh Coleman, 1918 Mary and Hugh Coleman

Hugh C. Coleman OD Mary Moore Coleman

Signature Of Dr. Hugh C. Coleman OD, 1917

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Gravestone Hugh Cleveland Coleman Oakwood Cemetery, South Hill, VA

Gravestone Mary Elizabeth Moore Coleman Oakwood Cemetery, South Hill, VA

Hugh and Mary had two children, John E. Coleman, born in 1922, and Hugh Lynwood Coleman, born in October 1924.

John E. Coleman OD

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1. John E. Coleman OD married Pauline Ora Carter Walden in February, 1951 and had three children:

x Frances Ellen Coleman, born in July, 1952. x John Douglas Coleman, born in November, 1955 x Elizabeth Merrill Coleman, born in August, 1959

Pauline was a widow with a daughter, Mary Ann Walden, when she married John Coleman.

2. Hugh Lynwood Coleman, born in October 1924, married in 1962 to Virginia Calkinan Holt, and had no children together. Virginia had three children from a previous marriage, and all were adopted by Hugh.

Hugh died on 25 September 2008, and was the retired General Manager of the former Holiday Inn Motel in South Hill.

x James Michael Coleman DDS of Richmond, Virginia. x Kay Coleman Gwaltney of Richmond, Virginia. x Anne Coleman Knopp of Staunton, Virginia.

Hugh Lynwood Coleman

Hugh Lynwood Coleman Signature 1953

196 4. Vashtie Coleman was born on 2 August 1887 in Warren County, North Carolina, and died on 24 July 1965 in Henderson, North Carolina. She married Hiram Perkinson, Jr., on 18 January 1911 and is buried at the Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina.

Vashtie and Hiram had two boys, Hugh Perkinson and Hiram Perkinson, III. Hiram Perkinson, III, is the father of Ronald Zane Perkinson, the present owner of the restored Captain Levi P. Coleman CSA house.

1903 1937 Vashtie Coleman

Gravestone Hiram Perkinson, Jr. Vashtie C. and Hiram Perkinson Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery

5. Leslie Phillip Coleman (born on 19 May 1891 – died on 12 December 1955). He is buried at the Coleman family cemetery which is located to the side of the Hugh Lee Coleman house on Paschall Station Road, 0.5 mile south of Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina.

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Signature Of Leslie P. Coleman, 1917

Leslie’s wife Maude Kenyon Fleming is also buried at the Coleman family cemetery, Wise, North Carolina. She was born on 27 April 1891 and died on 16 January 1965.

Gravestone Leslie Phillip Coleman, Coleman Family Cemetery

Gravestone Maude Kenyon Fleming Coleman Family Cemetery

198 The children of Leslie Phillip Coleman and Maude Kenyon Fleming were:

x Lee Coleman, born on 19 December 1920, died on 21 January 1921. x Harry Kenyon Coleman, born on 6 November 1919, died on 27 January 1979.

Harry is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, having retired as a Chief Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force with service in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.

As a young T/Sgt in 1953, he served on the Air Force ROTC staff of North Carolina State College in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Harry Kenyon Coleman, United States Air Force North Carolina State College 1953

6. Dell Sophronia Coleman was born on 9 June 1893 died on 20 May 1935. She is buried at the Coleman cemetery which is located to the side of the Hugh Lee Coleman house on Paschall Station Road, 0.5 mile south of Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina.

Dell’s husband John P. Neville, was born on 06 June 1892, and died on 24 February 1963, in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. Their child Viola B. Neville, was born on 25 May 1916 and died on 20 May 1935. Dell, John and Viola are all buried at the Coleman family Cemetery.

Dell Sophronia Coleman Neville and her daughter, Viola B. Neville, were in a car which was struck by Seaboard Air Line Train No. 4 on Monday, 20 May 1935 at 3:30 PM, and both were killed. The accident occurred at a private crossing across Paschall Station Road from the driveway leading to Capt. Levi P. Coleman’s old house.

199 Viola had been in a previous automobile accident and had just been discharged from the hospital two days before the fatal accident. Dr. T.J. Holt attended to Dell and Viola at the accident scene.

John Neville was an employee of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad and was in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the time of the accident. He did not re-marry after the death of his wife and daughter.

Additional details on this railroad accident can be found in Appendix 36.

Viola B. Nevill

Gravestone John P. Neville (date of death inscribed) Viola B. Neville and Dell Sophronia Coleman Neville Coleman Family Cemetery

The children of Hugh Lee Coleman and Annie Virginia White were:

7. Lucille Coleman, born on 18 April 1920.

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The Family of Levi Phillip (Buck) Coleman II (1864 – 1933 )

Levi Phillip (Buck) Coleman II (born on 20 February 1864 – died on 29 May 1933 ). He married Florence Pettus Rose on 22 April 1885 and had thirteen children. Florence was born on 27 August 1863, and died on 26 December 1911. Both Levi Phillip and Florence are buried in the Coleman Family Cemetery which is located to the side of the Hugh Lee Coleman house on Paschall Station Road, 0.5 mile south of Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina. The Hugh Lee Coleman house was later occupied by Levi and Florence Coleman.

Children of Levi Phillip (Buck) Coleman II (1864 –1933 ) and Florence Pettus Rose

1. Claude Glenn Coleman, born on 16 January 1886, died on 23 October 1959. He married Ruena Avent Alston and had three children:

x William Glenn Coleman, born on 2 August 1917. x Albert Lee Coleman, born on 30 July 1924, died 11 November 1995. x Richard Arrington Coleman, born on 6 May 1926.

Signature Of Claude Glen Coleman, 1917

Both Claude and Ruena are buried at Shady Grove Methodist Church Cemetery, Inez, Warren County, North Carolina.

2. Irving Alexander Coleman, born on 27 May 1887 and died in 1967.

3. Eugene Blair Coleman, born on 13 June 1891, died on 3 April 1948. Buried in the Coleman Family Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina.

Signature Of Eugene B. Coleman, 1917

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Gravestone Eugene Blair Coleman Coleman Family Cemetery

4. Albert Lee Coleman, born in June 1890, and died in 1918.

5. Carey Coleman, died when about one year old.

6. Lillian Pearl Coleman, born on 27 June 1892, and died in 1972.

7. Van Allen Coleman, born on 27 August 1894, and died on 4 May 1976. He married Lucy Ruth King in approximately 1916. Lucy was born on 9 November 1894 and died on 11 February 1975. Both are buried at Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina.

For a time, Van Allen worked as a carpenter for C.V. York in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Signature Of Van Allen Coleman, 1917

Van Allen and Lucy had one known child, Florence Bell Coleman, born on 17 March 1917 and died on 15 June 1918. She is buried in the Coleman Family Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina.

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Gravestone Gravestone Van Allen And Lucy Coleman Florence B Coleman Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery Coleman Family Cemetery

8. Virginia Ann Coleman, born on 23 April 1895, and died in 1978.

9. Dennis McCoy Coleman, born on March 1897 and died in 1967.

10. Willard Waverly Coleman, born on 20 February 1900, died on 7 March 1969. Buried at Sunset Garden Cemetery, Henderson, North Carolina. He married Sudie Clark and they lived in 1942 in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he worked as a carpenter with S. R. Lee Contractors. Later they lived on Hudgins Drive in Norlina. Willard and Sudie had the following children:

x John Willard Coleman, born on 28 May 1929, and died on 4 August 1929. John was buried in the Coleman Family Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina.

Gravestone John W. Coleman Coleman Family Cemetery

203 x Marvin H. Coleman, born on 31 July 1931. x William E. Coleman, born on 12 May 1936. x Barbara Jean Coleman, born on 29 August 1939. Married William Glenn Ayscue, who was born on 16 February 1939. They have two children, Ricky Glenn Asycue, born on 8 January 1961 and Gregory Scott Asycue, born on 2 April 1967. x Virginia Ann Coleman, born on 20 August 1941. x Mary Elizabeth Coleman, born on 13 February 1947, and died on 14 January 1949.

Signature Of Willard Waverly Coleman, 1942

11. Herbert Leon Coleman, born on 4 July 1901 and died in 1975.

12. John Levi Coleman, died young, date not known.

13. Lottie Rebecca Coleman, died young, date not known.

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The Family of Thomas Wilson Coleman (1867 - 1946)

Thomas Wilson Coleman was born in Warren County, North Carolina, on 14 January 1867 to William Richard Coleman and Lucy Ann Hicks. Thomas Wilson married Bessie Pauline Barnes and had four children.

The Children of Thomas Wilson Coleman, 1925

L to R: William Rose Coleman, Edward Wilson Coleman, Elizabeth Hicks Coleman Thomas Barnes Coleman

205 Bessie and Thomas’s four children were

1. Thomas Barnes Coleman, born on 26 August 1911 and died on 28 May 1999. He married Sallie Katherine Turner on 19 August 1938. She also died in 1999. They lived at 523 Beale St, Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Thomas worked at Nash Brick and Coal, 101 W. Grand St, Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He enlisted in the US Army on 27 July 1942. Thomas did not attend college. Both Thomas and Sallie are buried at Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Section 55, Row 9.

Thomas Barnes Coleman 1925

Gravestone Gravestone Thomas Barnes Coleman Sallie Turner Coleman Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, NC Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, NC

Signature Of Thomas Barnes Coleman, 1942

206 Thomas and Sally’s children were

a. Thomas Barnes Coleman, Jr., was born on 8 October 1939. Thomas married Virginia Meyers on 22 April 1963 and had three children. Virginia was the daughter of Samuel Meyer and Emma Proctor.

Thomas Barnes Coleman, Jr., 1960

They had three children.

ƒ Debra Lynn Coleman was born on 3 March 1963. She married Edward Brewer.

ƒ Virginia Ann Coleman born on 17 December 1968.

ƒ Tonya Elizabeth Coleman born on 22 February 1971.

b. Betsy Ann Coleman was born on 8 March 1941. Unmarried, no children. She worked in Wilson, North Carolina, as a school principal and lives at 2522 McNair St SW, Wilson, North Carolina.

c. Richard Turner Coleman was born on 26 October 1946. Richard married Sandra B. Moore on 13 May 1976 and had two children, Amanda Leigh Coleman, born on 24 June 1979, and Leslie Ann Coleman, birth date unknown.

2. William Rose Coleman, born on 19 January 1913 and died on 30 January 1997 at Nash General Hospital in Rocky Mount. He married Stella Virginia Herritage on 30 November 1940. She was born on 1 May 1915, and died on 13 April 2005. William Rose Coleman and Stella Coleman are buried at Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Section 55, Row 10.

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Signature Of William Rose Coleman 1942

1925 1934 1995 William Rose Coleman

Gravestone William Rose Coleman Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, NC

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Left to right (Adults) Elizabeth Coleman Pittman, Melissa Pittman Smyth, William Rose Coleman, Jr., V. G. Murray, Jane Coleman Murray, Ted Smyth, Dilly Coleman, Rick Hardison, Anne Pittman Hardison, Susan Elizabeth Pittman, David Wilson Coleman, Ginger Coleman, Stella Coleman, Bruce Cann, Sara Coleman Cann, William Rose Coleman

William graduated in 1930 from Rocky Mount High School and in 1934 from the University of North Carolina with a Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce. He was a Commander USNR during World War 2.

In 1950 he was President of Citizens Coal and Supply Company and was President and Secretary of Nash Brick Company at the time of his retirement in 1987. He lived at 324 Piedmont Ave, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

William was a Director of Peoples Bank and Trust in Rocky Mount for 47 years. His civic responsibilities included Chairman of the Rocky Mount School Board and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Braswell Memorial Library.

He was an active member of the Church of the Good Shepherd.

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Residence Of William Rose Coleman 324 Piedmont Ave, Rocky Mount, NC.

Stella was the daughter of George Calvin Herritage and Ethel Elizabeth McDaniel of Trenton, North Carolina. Stella graduated from Trenton High School and Stratford College before moving to Rocky Mount. Stella lived in Richmond Virginia, during the later years of her life.

Her lifetime activities included the Rocky Mount Junior Guild, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the choir and Episcopal Church Women of the Church of the Good Shepherd. Her extensive genealogical research resulted in the publication of “William Herritage of Eastern North Carolina and His Descendants”. Her Coleman related research notes were used by the author in the writing of this book.

Stella died on 13 April 2005 in Richmond, Virginia, and she is buried at Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Section 55, Row 10.

Gravestone Stella Herritage Coleman Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, NC

210 William and Stella’s two children were

a. William Rose Coleman, Jr., born on 19 August 1944 and died on 9 January 1985. Lived in Rocky Mount and Lobelville, Tennessee. He married Evelyn Jeanette Smith on 18 March 1968 and was divorced with no children. William Rose Coleman, Jr., is buried at Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Section 55, Row 10.

Gravestone William Rose Coleman, Jr. Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, NC

b. Sara Herritage Coleman Cann born on 5 July 1953 and married Bruce Cameron Cann of Richmond on 15 March 1986. Bruce was born on 12 December 1954. Their children are :

ƒ William Coleman Cann, born on 21 March 1989. ƒ Bruce Cameron Cann, Jr., born on 28 February 1991. ƒ Sara Lawrence Cann, born on 5 November 1992.

3. Edward Wilson Coleman was born on 13 December 1916 and died on 17 February 1992 at Duke Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. He married Evelyn Hall Dillon (Dilly) on 19 October 1946. Dilly was born on 28 December 1922, the daughter of Robert Holmes Dillon and Thanie Adeline Hall.

Edward attended Wake Forest College and Clemson University. He enlisted in the US Army on 13 June 1941 and reached the rank of Capitan during World War II.

Edward and Evelyn lived at 600 Rose St, Rocky Mount, and then later at 700 Evergreen Road also in Rocky Mount. He worked at Nash Brick Company, retiring in 1987.

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Edward Wilson Coleman 1925 Residence Of Edward Wilson Coleman 700 Evergreen Rd, Rocky Mount, NC

Edward Wilson Coleman is buried at Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Section 55, Row 10.

Gravestone Edward Wilson Coleman Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, NC

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Signature Of Edward Wilson Coleman, 1942

Edward and Evelyn’s three children were

a. Dillon Holmes Coleman born on 9 February 1951 and married Tama Ardolino on 13 January 2007. He lived in London, England and now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

212 b. David Wilson Coleman born on 11 September 1954. David married Eugenia (Ginger) Leigh Arnold on 28 November 1981. Ginger was born on 17 August 1955, the daughter of Jacob Lee Arnold and Norma Jean Barnes. They live in Rocky Mount.

The children of David and Ginger are:

ƒ Nancy Leigh Coleman, born on 25 April 1984, married David Edward Milbourn on 22 May 2010. David was born on 24 September 1984.

ƒ Elizabeth (Beth) Arnold Coleman, born on 27 September 1986.

ƒ William Wilson Coleman, born on 12 February 1988.

c. Jane Hall Coleman born 20 March 1957 and married V.G. Murray, date unknown. They live in Raleigh and have two children. Coleman Gardner Murray was born in 1989 and Caroline Dillon Murray was born in 1991.

4. Elizabeth Hicks Coleman was born on 9 July 1921 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and died on 28 February 1994 also in Rocky Mount. She graduated from Baptist University (Meredith College), Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1943 with an A.B. in Sociology.

Otelia and James M.P. Coleman, Sr., were unable to attend the graduation ceremonies for Elizabeth.

1943 Telegram to Elizabeth Coleman from Otelia and James M.P. Coleman, Sr.

She married Kenneth Worth Pittman on 3 June 1950 and had three children. They lived at 826 Tarboro Street, Rocky Mount. North Carolina, and she worked at Nash Brick Company.

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. Elizabeth Hicks Coleman 1925 Elizabeth Hicks Coleman 1942

Residence Of Elizabeth Hicks Coleman Pittman 826 Tarboro Street, Rocky Mount. NC

Elizabeth Hicks Coleman Pittman is buried at Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Section 55, Row 9.

Gravestone Elizabeth Hicks Coleman Pittman Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, NC

214 Elizabeth and Kenneth’s three children were :

a. Anne Coleman Pittman was born on 9 June 1951 and died on 21 December 2012. Married Richard Everett Hardison on 27 April 1974, and had two children.

ƒ Andrew Worth Hardison born on 16 February 1979. Married Ashley Caroline Gainey on 15 October 2005. Lived in Raleigh, North Carolina.

ƒ Susan Fielden Hardison born on 4 June 1982. Married Paul Ryan Thomsen on 19 April 2008.

b. Susan Elizabeth Pittman was born 4 April 1953. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

c. Melissa Hill Pittman was born on 29 September 1954. Married Theodore Blackburn Smyth on 28 April 1984 and had three children. They live in Raleigh, North Carolina.

ƒ Elizabeth Horton Smyth, born on 23 June 1985. Married Timothy Paul Bramley on 1 December 2012.

ƒ Anne Rogers Smyth, born on 29 March 1987.

ƒ Margaret Blackburn Smyth, born on 5 April 1989.

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The Family of Lewis Levi Coleman (1869 - 1921)

Lewis Levi Coleman was born on 6 May 1869 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia to William Richard Coleman and Lucy Ann Hicks. Lewis Levi married Annie Crichton Oliver from Mecklenburg County, Virginia and had three children. He passed away on 27 October 1921. Both Lewis and Annie are buried in the Wise Cemetery. Cemetery is located approximately 1/2 mile East of Hwy 1 - 401 on Wise-Five Forks Rd on left and at intersection with Paschall Station Rd.

Children of Lewis Levi Coleman (1869 - 1921) and Annie Crichton Oliver

1. A.M. Coleman, born on 6 March 1905 in Warren County, North Carolina, died on 3 May 1907, and is buried in the Wise Cemetery. Cemetery is located approximately 1/2 mile East of Hwy 1 - 401 on Wise-Five Forks Rd on left and at intersection with Paschall Station Rd.

Gravestone A.M. Coleman Wise Cemetery

2. Lewis Oliver Coleman born in Warren County, North Carolina, in 1908 and died in 1971 at Ronceverte, West Virginia. Married Katherine Slaughter and had no children. Married Lois Vaughn and had one child, Shirley Ann Coleman, who was born in 1937. Shirley Ann married Thomas L Shelton in 1959 and had two children, Sandra Shelton and Michael Lee Shelton.

3. Bettie Ann Coleman was born in Warren County, North Carolina, between 1908 and 1909.

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The Family of Ann Mary Coleman (1872-1945)

Ann Mary Coleman was born on 10 March 1872 to William Richard Coleman and Lucie Ann Hicks. Ann Mary married Fred Wiggins on 21 December 1898 and had four children. She passed away on 20 March 1945.

Ann’s brother William Richard Coleman, III, was very fond of her and left her one third of his estate when he died in 1929. In addition, William Richard Coleman, III, left his nephew Wilbur Wiggins his gun, and named him the administrator of his estate.

Children of Ann Mary Coleman (1872-1945) and Fred Wiggins :

1. Gilbert Thomas Wiggins, born on 16 October 1889 and died on 11 April 1975. 2. Wilbur Wilton Wiggins, born on 24 February 1903 and died on 11 March 1974. 3. Evelyn Gertrude Wiggins, born on 7 May 1906. 4. Henry Benjamin Wiggins, born on 15 January 1909.

Children of Henry Benjamin Wiggins, born on 15 January 1909 and Cornelia Hardy :

a. Henry Benjamin Wiggins, Jr., born on 4 April 1947.

Children of Henry Benjamin Wiggins, Jr., born on 4 April 1947, and Karen Lancaster, born on 14 February 1949.

It should be noted that Karen’s mother, Lucille Paschall, is a descendant of Clement Patterson Paschall of Warren County, North Carolina. This is the same Paschall family of which Annie Hester Paschall Coleman (1864 – 1935) was a member.

ƒ Stacy Leigh Wiggins, born in 1973.

ƒ Henry Benjamin Wiggins, III, born in 1975.

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The Family of Sallie R. Coleman (1874-1951)

Sallie R. Coleman was born on 1 September 1874 to William Richard Coleman and Lucie Ann Hicks. Sallie married William Powell and had four children. She passed away on 14 October 1951.

Children of Sallie R. Coleman (1874-1951) and William Powell

1. Otis Hicks Powell was born on 26 June 1909 and died on 10 January 1972 at Warren General Hospital in Norlina, North Carolina. He is buried at the Wise Cemetery which is located approximately 1/2 mile east of Hwy 1 - 401 on Wise- Five Forks Rd on left and at intersection with Paschall Station Rd.

Gravestone Otis Hicks Powell Wise Cemetery

He married Nell Morton Perkinson (born in 1907). Nell was the daughter of Helen Hortense Perkinson. Helen Hortense Perkinson was one of the nine children of Sally White Coleman (born on 8 July 1852 – died on 5 October 1932).

Children of Otis Hicks Powell and Nell Morton Perkinson:

a. Eleanor Morton Powell (1936 - )

Eleanor Powell was born on 8 May 1936 in Wise, North Carolina, and married Howard Macon Mustian, Jr., on 3 August 1958. Howard was born on 23 December 1935 in Warren County. Both grew up in the Wise, North Carolina area, and went to the same high school where they were sweethearts. After marrying they moved to Crewe, Virginia, where Howard later became County School Superintendent. Eleanor and Howard later became owners of the William R. Coleman property and restored the main house and outbuildings.

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They have one son, Joseph Powell Mustian, born 13 February 1969 in Richmond, Virginia.

Eleanor Powell 2012 Howard Mustian 2012

2. Lucy Powell was born on 20 October 1905 and died on 25 January 1980. She first married Robert White and had one daughter, Evelyn, born on 23 December 1926. Lucy later married John Handoe and had two children, Harry born on 20 June 1943 and Frank, born on 20 October 1944. She is buried in Wise Cemetery which is located approximately 1/2 mile east of Hwy 1 - 401 on Wise-Five Forks Rd on left and at intersection with Paschall Station Rd.

3. Delma Caswell Powell was born on 26 December 1906 and died on 16 November 1961. She is buried in Wise Cemetery which is located approximately 1/2 mile east of Hwy 1 - 401 on Wise-Five Forks Rd on left and at intersection with Paschall Station Rd.

4. Elizabeth Powell Kinsley was born on 18 September 1911 and died on 8 October 1978. She married Lewis Kinsley. She is buried in Wise Cemetery which is located approximately 1/2 mile east of Hwy 1 - 401 on Wise-Five Forks Rd on left and at intersection with Paschall Station Rd.

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The Family of Robert Hill Michael Paschall (1838 – 1904)

Robert Hill Michael Paschall was born on 17 December 1838, and died on 13 December 1904. His first wife, Melissa A Twisdale was born on 17 November 1838, and died on 14 May 1902. They married in 29 May 1860. After Melissa’s death, Robert married Hester Eaton Perkinson on 11 December 1904. Hester was born 9 August 1858, and died on 5 July 1934.

Robert enlisted as a Private in the 12th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, “B” Company, on 26 April 1861, at Granville County. He was promoted to Sergeant on 28 February 1862.

His service record includes :

x Wounded on 27 May 1862, Hanover Court House, Virginia, Battle of Peake’s Crossing. x Battle of Fredericksburg, December 11-15, 1862. x Battle of Chancellorsville, April 30 – May 6, 1863. x Wounded on 1 July 1863, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Severe wounds of leg and elbow at Oak Ridge. Thirty-four percent of the Regiment were lost on that day. x Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, May 8 – 21, 1864. x Battle of Cold Harbor, May 31 – June 12, 1864. x Battle of Monocacy, 9 July 1864. x Wounded on 19 October 1864, Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia. x Siege of Petersburg. x Battle of Appomattox Court House and Surrender

At the Battle of Appomattox Court House, the 12th North Carolina Infantry Regiment made it's last charge. The 12th North Carolina successfully carried the position against a line of dismounted Federal Cavalrymen. Robert surrendered on 9 April 1865 at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. The Regiment surrendered 8 officers and 139 men of which 76 were armed.

After the war Robert was first a merchant in Townsville, North Carolina, after which he moved 15 miles to Merry Mount, North Carolina. He was appointed Postmaster of Merry Mount on 12 July 1878, and was Justice of the Peace in 1901. In 1897 he served as acting sheriff during the illness of J.B.W. Jones.

Signature Of Robert Hill Michael Paschall, 1901

223 Robert is buried at Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina, with his wife Melissa.

Gravestone Gravestone Robert Hill Michael Paschall Melissa A Paschall Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery

R.H.M. Paschall House and Farm, “Merry Oaks”, Aerial View, 1939

The Paschall children grew up in a wood country home with a wide front porch set with rocking chairs and with a double door entrance flanked by narrow glass side panels. This house was located just south of the Virginia state line in a grove of oak trees that still survive.

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From L to R Robert Hill Michael Paschall, Annie Hester Paschall, Melissa T Paschall, Virginia H Paschall at their home “Merry Oaks”, 1872.

The nine children of Robert Hill Michael Paschall and Melissa A Twisdale were:

1. Edward A. Paschall, was born on 19 November 1861 in Warren County, North Carolina. He died in 1900 in Jefferson, Alabama. Edward and his wife Catherine E. Paschall were married in May,1886 and had four daughters, Gussie, Watlie, Lena B., and Lilean L. and one son, Sam A. Paschall, all born in North Carolina.

2. Anna “Annie” Hester Paschall, was born on 18 June 1864 in Warren County, North Carolina. She died on 15 February 1935 in Burlington, North Carolina. Anna married Charles E. Coleman on 17 December 1884 in Warren County, North Carolina.

While early census and her marriage records identify her as “Anna”, she was known as “Annie” by her friends. Annie Hester married Charles E Coleman and had eight children. She is buried with her husband at Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wise, North Carolina.

The probate records of Annie Hester Paschall Coleman (1864 - 1935), dated 1 July 1936, can be found in Appendix 18 of this book.

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Gravestone Annie Hester Paschall Coleman Jerusalem United Methodist Church Cemetery

3. James Michael Paschall, was born on 29 July 1866 in Warren County, North Carolina. He died on 12 March 1890 in Roanoke, Virginia. The Roanoke Daily Times stated on 14 March 1890, “The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. J. E. Bushell, of St. Mark's church. Mr. Paschall was a promising young man of twenty-three, and came to this city from North Carolina. He leaves a brother, Mr. J. R. Paschall, who is in business here.”

Roanoke Daily Times, 14 March 1890

Three generations of Colemans were named after James Michael Paschall, i.e., James Michael Paschall Coleman, Sr., Jr., and III. The first, James Michael Paschall Coleman, Sr., was born on 28 March 1890, just sixteen days after the untimely death of Annie’s brother, James Michael Paschall.

4. Marie Etta Paschall, was born on 9 May 1868 and died on 23 January 1869. This information is omitted in many Paschall family studies.

5. William Wilson Paschall, was born on 11 January 1870 in Warren County, North Carolina. Known as “Willie”. He died after 1920.

6. John Robert Paschall, known as “Bob”, was born on 10 January 1872 in Granville County, North Carolina. Bob married Florence Perkinson on 27 February 1893. He died on 7 February 1956 in Warrenton, North Carolina, from injuries received seven weeks prior to his death when he was struck by an

226 automobile. Earlier in life John Robert went to Richmond with his brother Lee Paschall to expand Wise Granite Company.

Signature Of John Robert Paschall, 1901

Signature Of John Robert Paschall, 1917

7. Virginia Hargrove Paschall, was born on 26 April 1874 in Warren County, North Carolina. She died on 24 June 1960 in Warren County, North Carolina. Virginia married Lewis E Hicks on 18 December 1895. Virginia was known as “Jenny” to those that knew her. Lewis was confined to a wheelchair in latter life, and operated a saw mill in the Wise, North Carolina, area.

8. Wallace Taylor Paschall, was born on 15 December 1877 in Warren County, North Carolina. He died on 7 October 1955 in Moore County, North Carolina. Wallace married Lorena Phipps on 20 December 1899. Lorena was born on 4 March 1881 in Vance County, North Carolina. She died on 17 June 1934 in Warren County, North Carolina.

Wallace T. Paschall Signature 1917

The name of the community Merry Mount was changed on 1 November 1929 to Paschall in honor of Wallace Paschall who had a significant farming operation in the area.

Wallace is well remembered by his niece, Nancy Vernon. Nancy fondly recalls the riding horses Wallace kept in his stable to the left of the house and the black Concord and green/yellow scuppernong grape arbor in the right hand portion of

227 his back yard. In addition, it was always exciting when Nancy and her mother were given a ham from Wallace’s smokehouse which was behind the main house and watermelons from their garden.

Wallace Paschall Farm Complex, 1939

Residence of Wallace T. Paschall, Paschall, NC, 2014

9. Lee Paschall, was born on 5 December 1878 in Warren County, North Carolina. He died on 17 December 1958. Lee married Edith Turner. Edith was born in 1879 in West Virginia. She died on 19 June 1971. Lee went to Richmond with his brother John Robert Paschall to expand Wise Granite Company.

228 Signature Of Lee Paschall, 1942

10. Mary Jones Paschall, was born on 3 August 1880 in Warren County, North Carolina. She died on 17 January 1966 in Vance County, North Carolina. Her nickname is remembered as being “Bay”. Mary married Eddie Perkinson on 25 December 1898.

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Lee Paschall (1878 – 1958) of Warren County, North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia

The Colemans of the early and middle 1900s were to gain a loyal and family-loving benefactor with the marriage of Annie Hester Paschall (1864 – 1935) to Charles E. Coleman (1860 –1922). Many Coleman children would have their lives influenced by the largesse of Annie Paschall’s brother, Lee Paschall, who was born in Warren County, North Carolina, on 5 December 1878.

Lee Paschall 1956

Lee Paschall 1925 Lee Paschall 1956

Lee married Edith Turner on 28 June 1906. She was born on 10 October 1877 in West Virginia, and she died on 19 June 1971.

Lee and Edith had a child, Anna Lee Paschall, who was born on 10 August 1908, and died on 13 February 1967. Anna Lee graduated from the Collegiate School For Girls located at 1619 Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia. Anna was named in honor of her Aunt, Anna Hester Paschall Coleman.

Anna Lee Paschall Bell and John Gordon Bell had a son, John Paschall Bell, born on 7 April 1942, died on 27 December 1996 in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. He was buried at Hillside Cemetery, 1401 Woodland Ave Scotch Plains, New Jersey. The descendants of John Paschall Bell live in the Richmond, Virginia, area.

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Anna Lee Paschall 1925 Photograph courtesy Julia A. Williams Study and Archive Center, Collegiate School, Richmond, Virginia

Lee died on 17 December 1958 the night after being discharged from the hospital following a heart attack which occurred on December 5th. Lee, followed by Anna and later, Edith were all buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.

Lee Paschall’s will was probated at a value of $ 1,400,000 by the Richmond, Virginia, Circuit Court. Lee’s daughter Anna Paschall Bell and the Central National Bank of Richmond were named as Executors.

Family members Edith Paschall, Anna Paschall Bell, and John Paschall Bell, as well as Lee’s still living sisters, Virginia Paschall Hicks and Mary Paschall Perkinson were named in the will. Two corporate secretaries, Anne Barlow Gray of Wise Contracting and Clara D. Hitchens of Richmond Hotels were also named, as well as a number of worthy organizations:

x Crippled Children’s Hospital, Richmond x Virginia Home for the Incurables, Richmond x Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia x Sheltering Arms Hospital, Richmond, Virginia x Jerusalem Methodist Church, Wise, North Carolina x Shriners Hospitals, Greenville, South Carolina

Additional details concerning the will of Lee Paschall Coleman (1878 – 1958), dated 1 May 1956, can be found in Appendix 19 of this book.

The Paschalls lived at 2716 Monument Ave, Richmond, Virginia, which was designed by Richmond architect M. E. Wright and constructed in 1925 by Paschall’s Wise Granite

232 and Construction Company using a brick exterior. Prior to 1925 they lived at 2228 Park Avenue, the Hotel Richmond, and 2510 Monument Avenue in Richmond.

When Lee wanted to relax away from Richmond he would retire to his fishing camp located on the high bluff overlooking the northeast shore of Wests Lake, Old Church, Hanover County, Virginia.

This lake was a joy to fish, especially with a fly rod. Two flat bottom wooden skiffs, moored in a tin sided boat house, were available for use. The boat house was located just west of the camp house. Many notables were guests of Lee Paschall at the lake, including Samuel T. Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

James M.P. Coleman, III, the author of this book, first visited this lake in 1947 as a one year old baby and returned many times over the years to fish and camp. During a visit in 2014 it was determined by the author that the Paschall camp house and boat house were no longer present, having been supplanted by modern, residential structures.

When not working or relaxing Lee found time to serve on many professional organizations such as The Builders' Exchange Association of Virginia, President, 1928 – 1931, and the Associated General Contractors of America, Treasurer, 1921-1922.

View From Lee Paschall’s Fishing Camp

In 1931, the Presidency of The Builders' Exchange Association of Virginia would pass to John W. Russell of Doyle and Russell Inc., a general contractor also located in Richmond. Paschall and Russell would be competitors for the next twenty-seven years. During the war years they would, however, join forces between 1941 and 1943 to build the Pentagon in Washington, District of Columbia, and Camp Lee, Virginia, in 1941.

Lee’s funeral in 1958 was held across the street from his house at the First Baptist Church where he attended, but was not a member. Lee was a member of the Jerusalem Methodist Church in Wise, North Carolina.

The funeral was attended by James Michael Paschall Coleman, III, the author of this book, who remembers the church sanctuary as being filled to capacity. The sermon was preached by the church’s senior pastor Dr. Theodore F. Adams.

233 From 1936 to 1968, Dr. Adams served as senior pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church, and was much beloved and respected in Richmond. In 1955 Dr. Adams was named the first Virginia Baptist to serve as the president of the Baptist World Alliance.

Lee Paschall was both personally and professionally well known to Dr. Adams, having built the church’s expansion in the 1940’s and also having helped bring Billy Graham to Richmond in 1956. Lee’s company, Wise Contracting Company, had also built the elevated stage from which Dr. Graham preached at Richmond’s City Stadium.

An example of the joint activities of Lee Paschall and Theodore Adams is shown by their attendance at the funeral of Willis Fleming, then from the Western Branch-West Norfolk area of Portsmouth, Virginia. Willis was born into a former slave family on April 25, 1865, in Manson, Warren County, North Carolina. He worked primarily as a farm laborer in Nutbush from the 1870s through the 1880s. He then moved to Portsmouth, and was employed by the Virginia Smelting Company. Lee Paschall and Theodore Adams were pallbearers at his funeral.

Residence Of Lee Paschall, 2716 Monument Ave, Richmond, VA

Gravestone Gravestone Lee Paschall, Forest Lawn Cemetery Edith Paschall, Forest Lawn Cemetery

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Gravestone Anna Lee Paschall, Forest Lawn Cemetery

The history of Wise Contracting Company is part and parcel to understanding the history of the Coleman family of Warren County since four descendants of Annie Coleman would be employed by Lee Paschall’s Wise Contracting Company. In addition, the company would establish a granite quarry outside of Wise, North Carolina, which impacted the local economy and building designs across the Warren County area.

DeArcie Paul Coleman in 1917, James Michael Paschall Coleman in 1917, James Michael Paschall Coleman, Jr., during 1946-1961, and James Michael Paschall Coleman, III, during the summer of 1963 would all work for Wise Contracting Company.

In addition to this direct employment, Lee Paschall arranged for the employment of both James Michael Paschall Coleman and DeArcie Paul Coleman at Virginia Engineering Company in Newport News through the business association of Lee with Lloyd Noland, Jr., of Newport News, who was Chairman of both the Board of the Virginia Engineering Company and Richmond Hotels, Inc.

DeArcie Paul Coleman would later work for Noland Company, a large plumbing supply company which furnished materials for many of Wise Contracting Company’s projects. Lloyd Noland, Jr., of Newport News was also President of this Company.

Before starting in the construction business Lee Paschall moved away from the family farm in 1895, at the age of 16 and began working as a salesman in a general store. Two years later in 1897, he joined the engineering corps of the Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad and helped lay tracks for a short period of time from Richmond to Norlina for one dollar per day.

During the summer of 1897, Lee went to work cutting timber for his brother J.R. Paschall. After a summer in the woods, Lee went to Warrenton Male Academy under the leadership of noted educator John Graham.

Then, with an offer of 2 dollars per day, Lee went to work building the Roanoke River bridge, a short distance from his home in Merry Mount. Soon he was with the Western Maryland Railroad as a construction engineer. While working in West Virginia, Lee met Edith Turner.

235 He then joined the Virginian Railroad as Resident Engineer in the Roanoke office. In 1905 Lee returned to Wise, North Carolina, and joined his brothers and their recently formed Wise Granite Company. Lee and Edith Turner married in 1906.

Wise Granite Company, Wise Granite and Construction Company, Wise Contracting Company

Wise Granite and Construction Company Letterhead, 1914

Wise Granite Company was incorporated in 1903. The owners of this company were Lee Paschall (1878 - 1958), John Robert Paschall (1872-1956), Wallace T. Paschall, and their father Robert Hill Michael Paschall (1838 - 1904). John Robert ran the company until 1907, at which time Lee Paschall purchased half interest in the company.

The Paschalls and Colemans lived in the area of Warren County called Merry Mount. Merry Mount was populated with many families that lived on a large farm owned by Wallace Paschall. Those families raised crops of tobacco and cotton and paid half of their earnings to Mr. Paschall. In 1929, Merry Mount’s name was changed to Paschall, in honor of Wallace Paschall.

The brothers continued quarry operations in Wise, North Carolina, but began construction work, first in Warren County, North Carolina, and later in Richmond, Virginia.

Lee supervised the 1908 construction of the Sharon-Wise Baptist Church’s new home in Wise, North Carolina, which was constructed with granite. Granite for the new church was from the Wise Granite Company’s quarry located east of the F.L. Hicks Mill.

Sharon-Wise Baptist Church, Wise, NC

236 Other granite, noncommercial structures, built in the 1908-1909 period by Lee Paschall and the Wise Granite Company, include the Richmond residence of his brother John R. Paschall and their business partner, Thomas Gresham. These two structures are located across the street from one another on Seminary Avenue in Richmond.

The first documented business relationship between John R. “Bob” Paschall and his business partner, Thomas Gresham was in 1905 with the Hawtree Lumber Company, Inc. of Richmond, Virginia.

Another example of a granite residence is the 1911 Mecklenburg County, Virginia, home of John R. Paschall, built just across the Virginia border from Merry Mount, North Carolina, on 1,600 acres of land. The house can easily be seen from the north end of Paschall Station Road in Warren County. This home was part of the Granite Hall Farms Corporation, of which “Bob” Paschall was President. This business venture would become insolvent in 1920.

Residence Of John Robert Paschall Residence Of Thomas Gresham 3500 Seminary Ave 3501 Seminary Ave Richmond, VA. Richmond, VA.

Residence Of John Robert Paschall Gate Marker, Granite Hall Granite Hall, Mecklenburg County, VA

237 Thomas Gresham, Sr., born on 28 April 1867, in Chesterfield County, Virginia, the son of Major William Abner Gresham, CSA. Thomas was Vice President of Westmoreland Lumber Company and in 1912 became the President of Wise Granite Company when the company moved to Richmond.

He was graduated from Richmond College and then for several years assistant manager of Gresham's eating house in Charlotte, North Carolina, but afterward went to Washington and took courses at the Columbia University Law School from which he graduated with high honors. Mr. Gresham however, did not stick to law, and in 1894 was in charge of the Seaboard Air Line eating house in Monroe, North Carolina.

In 1900 Thomas ran a hotel in Chester, South Carolina, and then he moved to Norlina, North Carolina, where he and his brother built the Norlina Hotel located directly south of the Seaboard Air Line Railway and the Raleigh-Gaston Railroad tracks at the point that it formed the Ridgeway Junction in Norlina. The land was leased from Seaboard Railway for thirty years at five dollars per year.

This hotel, constructed of wood, would later be dismantled and reconstructed with a brick exterior at its present location by a subsequent owner.

After construction was completed, Thomas would stay in Norlina to manage the hotel until his later move with the Paschall brothers, John Robert and Lee, to Richmond.

Thomas Gresham, Sr., 1923

This construction and hotel management experience of Thomas Gresham, Sr., would play a role in his successful business relationship with Lee Paschall of Wise Granite and Construction Company and Richmond Hotels, Inc. He also came from a respected Virginia family with roots in Richmond, all of which were important for business success and undoubtedly was a factor in the decision to move to Richmond rather than Raleigh.

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Hotel Norlina, Norlina, NC (After Its Dismantling and Relocation in the Early 1930’s to US Hwy 1)

Thomas’ wife, Lelia E. Gluyas was from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The Gresham’s oldest son, Clarence, was born 9 October 1895, in Monroe, North Carolina, and was killed in 1910 at Norlina, North Carolina, in a railroad accident at the age of fourteen. The youngest son, Thomas Haskins Gresham, Jr., was born on 30 June 1898 while Thomas and Lelia were in Chester, South Carolina.

This places Thomas Gresham, Sr., in Warren County during the ten year period between 1900 and 1910 during which he establish the relationship with the Paschall brothers prior to their business relationship and later move to Richmond in 1912.

Based on the record, Thomas Gresham, Sr., was a major financial backer to Wise Granite and Construction Company. Undoubtedly this wealth was accumulated by his successful dealings with the Seaboard Air Line Railway in Chester, South Carolina, and Charlotte, Monroe, and Norlina, North Carolina.

Thomas Gresham, Sr., died in Kingsport, Tennessee in July, 1945. Lelia Gresham, his wife, died in Charlotte, North Carolina on 22 October 1960. Their son, Thomas H. Gresham, Jr., was associated with Wise Granite and Construction in the early days and was later in the hotel business in Richmond.

When Thomas H. Gresham, Jr., died in 1955 in Richmond, he was President of Capitol Hotels, Inc. The Capitol Hotel was located at 8th and Grace, across the street from the Paschall Building, which was built in 1925.

Focusing back to the early years of Wise Granite, business must have been good. In October of 1912 it was reported in the The Granite Cutters’ Journal that “business continues to be good” and “Mr. Paschall gave us the raise we asked for”. Also, in

239 August of 1913, both Thomas Gresham, Sr., and John R. Paschall and their families travelled together to Europe.

In 1914, Lee Paschall bought John R. Paschall’s interest, and reorganized the company as a Virginia Corporation named the Wise Granite and Construction Company. Thomas Gresham, Sr., was President of Wise Granite and Construction Company and Lee Paschall was Vice President and Treasurer. Walter Parry Wright was Secretary.

The Company was located at 1001 East Main, Room 921 and then Room 1005 in Richmond. During this time period Lee Paschall lived at 2228 Park Avenue in Richmond. This was a very modest house as compared to the Seminary Avenue homes of his business partners.

By 1919 Gresham had moved from his Seminary Avenue home to his new home at 2330 Monument Avenue and John R. Paschall had used the proceeds of the sale of his interest in the Wise Granite and Construction Company to move on to other endeavors.

John R. Paschall was then partnered with Thomas Gresham, Sr., in the ownership of Hamilton Ridge Lumber Corporation of Richmond. John was Treasurer of Hamilton Ridge and Thomas Gresham was President.

The Hamilton Ridge Lumber Corporation was a Virginia corporation operating a sawmill and lumber plant in South Carolina. This company provided employment for DeArcie Paul Coleman (1891 - 1976) at its Estill, South Carolina, facility during the 1916-1917 period.

In addition, John R. Paschall was President of Wingo, Ellett and Crump Shoe Company of Richmond; was a Director along with Thomas Gresham, Sr., at Fidelity Loan and Savings Company of Richmond, was a Director of Union Securities and Reality Corporation of Richmond, of which Thomas Gresham was President; was associated with Hilton-Dodge Lumber Company of Savannah, Georgia, and was a Director of the Fireman’s Mutual Aid Association of Richmond.

John Paschall’s association with Gresham began to decline with the Granite Hall Farms Corporation default of May 1, 1920, on bonds owned by the Virginia Trust Company. Gresham purchased the Granite Hall Farms Corporation property and was a witness in a suit by the Virginia Trust Company against John R. Paschall.

A further decline in the Gresham - John Paschall business relationship occurred three years after the Granite Hall Farms Corporation default. Hamilton Ridge Lumber Corporation was determined to be bankrupt in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia on June 1, 1923.

An additional indicator of financial problems for J.R. Paschall was the sale at auction of the Paschall farmland at Paschall Station which was in Merry Mount. This land was part of the original R.H.M. Paschall estate.

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Auction of Paschall Farmland Richmond Times Dispatch, 24 January 1919

Based on the farmland description, it is believed that this land was acquired, mostly intact, by Wallace Paschall. Wallace Paschall would be listed in the 1920 Census as living on the Old St Tammany Road. This road is known today as the Paschall Station Road.

See Chapter 23 for additional details of the Wallace Paschall farm property.

John Paschall was no longer living in Richmond in 1921 having moved back to Warren County, North Carolina. He continued in the real estate and timber business when he returned to Warren County. In addition, he operated a store in Wise, J.R. Paschall Company, at which H. Evans Coleman worked His wife operated the “Carolina Tourist Home” located on the U.S. Highway 1, just south of Wise, North Carolina.

John Paschall died on 7 February 1956 in Warrenton, North Carolina, from injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile, fracturing his pelvis, seven weeks prior to his death.

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J.R. Paschall’s Carolina Tourist Home, U.S. Hwy 1 South Of Wise, NC Exterior

J.R. Paschall’s Carolina Tourist Home, U.S. Hwy 1 South Of Wise, NC Interior of Front Parlor

The period during which the United States was active in World War I found the Wise Granite and Construction Company actively involved in Construction work for the Navy.

Most notable was the cantonment construction for the Navy at the old Jamestown Exposition location at Sewell’s Point. Following this original assignment the Company worked between 1917 to 1919 constructing facilities in the Norfolk area. They were released in 1919 for non-government projects.

Marcellus E. Wright Announcement Richmond Times Dispatch, 15 January 1919

242 The period of the 1920s and 1930s brought many opportunities for noted architect Marcellus E. Wright, Sr., and Wise Granite and Construction Company to work together transforming the Virginia skyline. It should be noted that it was announced on 15 January 1919 that Marcellus Wright become associated with the firm and “has charge of our Designing and Engineering Department”.

Richmond Hotels, Inc., would commission Mr. Wright to design the William Byrd Hotel in 1925, the John Marshall Hotel in 1929 and The Chamberlin-Vanderbilt Hotel which opened in 1928. These three hotels were also built by Wise Granite and Construction Company.

Marcellus E. Wright, Sr., was also responsible for the design of a number of other significant Richmond buildings which were built by the Wise Granite and Construction Company including the Johnston Willis Sanitarium, the ACCA Temple Mosque at Monroe Park, a residence for Lee Paschall at 2716 Monument Avenue and the Westmoreland Club renovation.

Mr. Paschall was a member of the Westmoreland Club, which was conveniently located a block up Grace Street from the Wise office. The club, named after the home county of Robert E. Lee, was formed in the 1880’s at the Lyons-Stanard house at 601 East Grace Street.

Westmoreland Club, 1920 601 East Grace Street, Richmond, VA

In 1934 Wise Granite and Construction Company relocated to 122 N 8th Street, Room 202. This building, fronting on East Grace Street was built by Wise in 1925 for their future office building. This was a corner building, which was built next to three story Victorian style homes common to East Grace Street in the 1920s.

At that time of this relocation Wise Contracting Company took over from and supplanted Wise Granite and Construction Company. Lee Paschall was the new company’s Manager. Wise Granite and Construction Company, continued for a few years also at 122 N 8th Street, Room 202 in Richmond.

243 Later in 1937 Lee was named President and A.W. Noble was Vice President. They continued to be located at 122 N 8th Street, Room 202. Al Nobles was a trusted manager who Lee brought into Wise Contracting Company from Richmond Hotels, Inc.

They continued at this address until they moved in 1947 around the corner to 719 E. Grace Street. Their new address was in the same building that was built in 1925 by Wise Granite and Construction for Lee Paschall.

Now they had grown large enough to occupy the entire building utilizing the more prestigious Grace Street entrance. Walbru’s Coffee Shoppe had previously used the 719 E. Grace Street storefront.

During World War II Wise Contracting Company was one of the three principle contractors which built the Pentagon in Washington, DC. It was estimated by Lee Paschall in a 1951 interview with the Commonwealth Magazine that the company was “involved with $ 200,000,000 worth of construction, and at one time had 40,000 men on its payroll” during the war years.

After the war years the company’s net revenue averaged $ 10,000,000 per year according to Paschall in a 1954 interview with William Bien of Richmond’s Time Dispatch.

The 122 N. 8th Street Entrance Of Wise Granite And Construction Company Is Shown Above Arrow, Behind The Street Lamp. This Entire Building Was Owned By Lee Paschall And Was Known As The Paschall Building.

View Shown Is Toward The South Down The Hill On North 8th Street From Grace St. This Building Has Been Demolished And Replaced By An Expansion Of The Bell Telephone Company Building. The Narrow Building, 118 North 8th Street, South Of The Paschall Building, Still Stands Today.

244 Following the war James M. Coleman, Jr., a great nephew of Lee Paschall, joined the firm. James had been a Resident Engineer at the Radford Ordnance Works and Camp Pickett, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in five years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

This young, thirty year old Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers with two engineering degrees from North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering of the University of North Carolina, a Professional Engineer License, and contacts throughout the state was to help with the expected post war building boom, and after a suitable period, was likely to be made an officer of the company.

The firm also recruited purchasing agent Ray Wallace, Sr., who had worked with James at the Radford Ordnance Works and was a trusted associate. Jim Coleman had the first office to the left beyond the reception area, and Ray Wallace, Sr., was located at the first desk to the right beyond the reception area.

Since Ray Wallace, Sr., was located at the first desk, he was occasionally asked by Lee Paschall as to the time of employee’s arrival at the office. James Coleman would avoid detection by arriving on time but would then immediately leave for the barbershop at 8th and Broad Street for a shave and a facial. He would then return to work fully awake and alert.

(L to R) Ray Wallace, Sr., and James M. Coleman, Jr., Approximately 1953 At Leon and Eddie's In New York City

Walter Parry Wright would continue to make his mark as both a corporate officer and Estimator with the company. One company observer related that as a bid deadline approached and the pressure to produce an accurate cost estimate increased, Parry would disappear for a few days, then reappear, somewhat worse for wear, but ready to finish the estimate.

The same observer also related that in the afternoons James M. Coleman, Jr., would retire to the Downtown Club to socialize and conduct informal business. This private club was located in the basement of the nearby Hotel Rueger, which would become the Hotel Raleigh in 1952.

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Hotel Rueger, And The Downtown Club, Richmond, VA

The club was popular with Richmond business leaders due to its ability to serve liquor and its proximity to downtown Richmond and the State Capitol building, just across the street.

The uncle of Mary Barrow Coleman ( 1918-2003 ), Judge Beverly Hunter Barrow (1898 – 1970) was also a member of this club and utilized it when he made trips into Richmond from Dinwiddie County.

Barrow family friend, George Erick Bell, MD of Wilson, North Carolina, who delivered James Michael Paschall Coleman, III (1946 - ), and who was present at the marriage of Mary Barrow and James Coleman ( 1918 - 2003 ) was also a visitor to the club.

Conducting business over drinks at the Downtown Club was tolerated but not approved by the conservative Lee Paschall. While such was common in Officer Clubs during World War II, this practice in civilian, post-World-War-II, Richmond was frowned upon by Mr. Paschall.

Among the Company’s notable projects were :

Municipal and Governmental Buildings and Schools

x Anderson College Buildings, Anderson, South Carolina. x Bettie Davis Wood Hall, University of Richmond, Richmond. x Boiler Plant, Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia. x City Auditorium, Savannah, Georgia. x Courthouse and Jail, Charleston, West Virginia. x Federal Office Building, N. Eighth Street, Richmond. x Glenwood Grade School, Charleston, West Virginia. x Guard Barracks, Lambert's Point, Norfolk, Virginia. x Harwood Mill Water Development, Newport News, Virginia. x John B Cary Elementary School, 3021 Maplewood Avenue, Richmond.

246 x Labor Camp, Portsmouth, Virginia. x Mine Storage Building, Pensacola, Florida. x Richard E. Byrd Flying Field Terminal Building, Richmond. x Springfield School, 608 North 26th Street, Richmond. x The Blues (First Virginia Regiment) Armory, Seventh Street, Richmond. x The Pentagon, Washington, District of Columbia. x Torpedo Storage Houses and Magazines, Pensacola, Florida. x Training Camp, Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia.

Apartments

x Chastleton Apartments, Washington, District of Columbia. x Prestwould Apartments, 612 W. Franklin Street, Richmond. x William Byrd Terrace Apartments, Ashland and Elm Street, Richmond.

Churches

x Lutheran Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina. x Sharon-Wise Baptist Church, Wise, North Carolina.

Hotels

x George Washington Hotel, Winchester, Virginia. x Hicks Hotel, Savannah, Georgia. x Hotel William Byrd, 2501 W. Broad Street, Richmond. x John Marshall Hotel, Corner Fifth and Franklin Streets, Richmond. x Malbourne Hotel, Durham, North Carolina. x Murphy Hotel Alterations, Richmond. x Robert E. Lee Hotel, Lexington, Virginia. x The Chamberlin-Vanderbilt Hotel, Old Point Comfort, Virginia.

Hospitals and Medical Buildings

x Columbia Medical Building, Washington, District of Columbia. x Doctor’s Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia. x Johnston Willis Sanitarium, 2900 Kensington Avenue, Richmond. x M.C.V. Clinic Building, Richmond. x Medical Arts Building, Baltimore, Maryland. x Medical Arts Building, Norfolk, Virginia. x Medical Arts Building, Scranton, Pennsylvania. x Medical Arts Building, Wilmington, Delaware. x Riverside Hospital, Newport News, Virginia. x St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 617 W. Grace Street, Richmond. x Washington Medical Building, Washington, District of Columbia.

247 Private Residences

x Granite Hall, Bracey, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. x James M.P. Coleman, Jr., 13 Westham Parkway, Richmond. x John R. Paschall, 3500 Seminary Avenue, Richmond. x Lee Paschall, 2716 Monument Avenue, Richmond. x Thomas Gresham, 3501 Seminary Avenue, Richmond.

Private Organizations

x ACCA Temple, The Mosque, NW Corner Main & Laurel Street, Richmond. x Westmoreland Club (renovation), 601 E. Grace Street, Richmond.

Businesses and Factories

x American Building, 400 - 401 E. Grace Street, Richmond. x Curles' Neck Dairy Building, Adams and Marshall Streets, Richmond. x Export Leaf Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. x F. W. Graves & Company, Williamston, North Carolina. x Factory for American Tobacco Company, 2600 - 2618 E. Cary Street, Richmond. x Factory for Larus Brothers, 2114 - 2116 - 2118 W. Cary Street, Richmond. x Factory for Southern Biscuit Works, 930 North Mulberry Street, Richmond. x Factory for Standard Paper Mfg. Company, E. End Decatur Street, Richmond. x Farmville Development Company, Farmville, North Carolina. x Imperial Tobacco Company. Oxford, North Carolina. x Methodist Episcopal Publishing Company, 419 E. Grace Street, Richmond. x Peck Manufacturing Cotton Mills, Warrenton, North Carolina. x Reynolds Metals Building, W. Broad Street, Richmond. x Sears Roebuck & Company, W. Broad Street, Richmond. x Smith Storage Warehouse, Washington, District of Columbia. x Wise Granite and Construction Company, 719 E. Grace Street, Richmond.

While not mentioned in the above list, Wise Contracting Company was heavily involved in the construction of the Warrenton Training Center which was established on June 1, 1951, in Fauquier County, Virginia. This facility of underground bunkers was built to support continuity of government in the event of a nuclear attack on Washington, D.C.

In addition, this facility was utilized by U.S. government agencies as a communications facility and a communications training school. The United States Army managed the center.

Former Lieutenant Colonel James Coleman of Wise Contracting Company travelled frequently to this army controlled facility while it was being constructed during period after World War II. Also involved was Ray Wallace, Sr., who had worked with James at the Radford Ordnance Works during the war. Ray Wallace, Jr., as a young boy,

248 accompanied his father on one of these trips and vividly recalls the heavily armed U.S. Army security personnel at the facility.

This facility is still in use as of 2014. Many aspects of its current use are secret.

Lee Paschall With The Staff Of Wise Contracting Company And Richmond Hotels Inc. At The Hotel John Marshall Dining Room, Circa 1955 Right Row (Left To Right): Ray Wallace, Sr. (Purchasing Agent), Anne Barlowe Gray (Secretary-Treasurer), Dell Brown, Unknown, Lee Paschall (President) Left Row (Left To Right): Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Phyllis Wright (Sister Of W. Parry Wright-Estimator)

Subsequent to Lee Paschall’s death in 1958 a meeting of the Company’s stockholders was held to determine who the new President would be. James Coleman and Walter Parry Wright held minority positions as company Vice Presidents, and Edith Paschall held the majority of shares. Norvon S. Clark of Tennessee was elected President of the company.

Edith Paschall later leased the Paschall Building at 719 E. Grace St to a loan company and then sold the building. The Wise Contracting Company office location was changed to 2007 Brook Road in Richmond.

In 1965 John Paschall Bell, Lee Paschall’s grandson, was made a Vice President in order to re-establish the Paschall name at the company.

By 1969 the company presidency had been passed to Eugene C. Smith, a veteran of Wise Contracting Company. A veteran of the 1920’s, W. Parry Wright was Vice President along with C.C. Young. By 1975 Buford A. Wood had taken over the company presidency.

With net revenue declining due to increased competition from younger and more aggressive contractors, Wise was absorbed into J. Kennon Perrin Construction Company of Richmond. By 1980 J. Kennon Perrin was President.

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W. Parry Wright-Estimator and Vice President, And His Wife Lillian

Wise Contracting Company 2007 Brook Road, Richmond, VA

250 Richmond Hotels Inc.

In addition to his involvement with Wise Granite and Construction Company, Lee Paschall formed a company in 1920, Hotel Richmond Realty Corporation (later known as Richmond Hotels. Incorporated), to purchase and operate hotel properties in Richmond.

This diversification would allow for the investment of excess funds generated by the construction company and would also utilize the previous experience of business partner Thomas Gresham, who had managed the Hotel Norlina in Warren County. Thomas Gresham was President, and Lee Paschall was Vice President.

Lee Paschall was named President in 1934 and Lloyd U. Noland was Chairman of the Board.

Noland was President of Noland Company, a large plumbing supply company which furnished materials for many of Wise Contracting Company’s projects. He was also Chairman of the Board of the Virginia Engineering Company.

At this time Richmond Hotels Inc. owned and operated the William Byrd Hotel, Hotel Richmond, King Carter Hotel and the Hotel John Marshall in Richmond and the Chamberlin Hotel at Old Point Comfort, Virginia.

Lee Paschall in his 1954 interview with William Bien of Richmond’s Time Dispatch, related that Richmond Hotels Inc. had 1,200 employees, housed 500,000 persons per year and processed 600,000 pieces of laundry every month.

Following Lee Paschall’s death in 1958, John S. Lanahan, a 1941 graduate of Duke University, was appointed president of Richmond Hotels, Inc. Following his graduation from Duke, Mr. Lanahan attended the Harvard Business School and then became associated with Booz, Allen and Hamilton, a nationally known management consultant firm. Mr. Lanahan left Richmond Hotels, Inc. in 1969 to join Flagler Systems Inc., a hotel chain whose flagship was the Breakers in Palm Beach.

As the focus of Richmond moved westward into the suburbs, and the travelling public became enamored with more modern motor hotels such as the Executive Motor Hotel, then located at 5215 W. Broad Street, the glory days of Richmond Hotels Inc. would soon wane. All of his hotels were to close. They would later to be refurbished for use as office buildings or condominiums. Their basic structures, most constructed by Wise Contracting Company, were deemed worthy of reuse.

Perhaps it was the best of times in 1958 for Lee Paschall to pass to a better life, at the top of his game in both the construction and hotel business in Richmond. His death was a loss to Richmond, and especially to the Coleman family members who were close to him.

251 The Hotel Richmond (1920)

This eight story hotel had been built in 1904 on the site of the old St. Claire Hotel, built in 1870. John Kevan Peebles of Peebles & Ferguson Architects of Norfolk, Virginia, was the Architect for the second phase design in 1912 which added two floors and a roof garden. He was later to be the architect of the wings of Virginia's State Capitol on Capitol Square.

As the largest hotel immediately adjacent to Richmond's Capitol Square, the hotel had a central place in the political history of the city. For decades, Room 370 was the home to the Harry Flood Byrd political machine.

Beginning in 1933, the hotel's mezzanine housed WRVA, Richmond's 5,000 watt AM radio station, which was increased to 50,000 watts in 1939.

In 1966 the Commonwealth of Virginia purchased Hotel Richmond for use as a state office building named the “Ninth Street Office Building”. This building is currently being refurbished by the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Hotel Richmond, Richmond Times Dispatch, 19 August 1921

252 William Byrd Hotel (1925)

The 1925 construction of the high-rise William Byrd Hotel on West Broad Street, at a location 27 blocks west of the central business district is significant for a number of reasons.

Most importantly, the William Byrd Hotel was built in response to the successful operation of the Broad Street Station that began to receive passenger train service on January 6, 1919. Locating a high-rise building directly across Broad Street from the station was an opportunity to make a visual and architectural statement about location and to create a new commercial anchor for the City.

Marcellus E. Wright, Sr., was the project’s architect, and construction was by the Wise Granite and Construction Company.

The William Byrd Hotel located at 2501 West Broad Street, at the comer of Broad Street and Davis Avenue, was formally opened at 5 pm on Thursday, October 1, 1925.

Broad Street Station (background) and William Byrd Hotel (foreground)

In 1971 Amtrak assumed rail operations and rail passenger service was moved to the Staples Mill Rd Station on 15 November 1975. The closing of the Broad Street Station was the beginning of the end for the hotel’s commercial viability. The hotel closed in the 1980’s. The building has been refurbished into private condominiums.

The Chamberlin-Vanderbilt Hotel (1928)

On 14 September 1922, the United States government leased to Richmond Hotels, Inc. waterfront land at Old Point Comfort, adjacent to Fort Monroe for a fifty-year period. Construction of the 294 room Chamberlin Hotel, designed by noted Virginia architect Marcellus E. Wright, Sr., began in 1927 and was completed on 7 April 1928 by the Wise Granite and Construction Company.

253 It officially opened the following year as the Chamberlin-Vanderbilt Hotel; the Vanderbilt family, through its hotel company, had provided some financial backing for the hotel’s construction.

With the onset of the Depression in the 1929 the Chamberlin-Vanderbilt Hotel passed through several owners. In 1930, the hotel’s name changed to the Chamberlin Hotel after Vanderbilt’s family interest was bought out.

In 1942, the Navy Department took over the Chamberlin to house officers and their families. The two decorative cupolas were taken down at this time to prevent enemy pilots from using them as sights to bomb the fort. They were replaced by anti-aircraft batteries.

In 1947, Richmond Hotels, Inc. (now a subsidiary of Noland Company) re-acquired the Chamberlin Hotel from the Navy and successfully operated the hotel.

In 2002 the hotel closed and was then re-born as retirement condominiums in 2008, following a 54 million dollar renovation.

Hotel John Marshall (1929)

The construction of this $2 million, 16 story, 400 room hotel began in 1928. The building’s construction first required demolishing the beautiful and well-kept 1844 James Dunlop House at 101 N. Fifth St.

Marcellus E. Wright, Sr., was the project’s architect, and construction was by the Wise Granite and Construction Company.

The prominent team that developed the hotel included Thomas Gresham and Lee Paschall of Wise Granite and Construction Company.

The hotel’s grand opening occurred on 30 October 1929, the day following the Wall Street crash.

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Hotel John Marshall Grand Opening Brochure 1929

At its height in the 1940s, the Hotel John Marshall employed 400 people who tended to the needs of 650 guests and assisted the hotel’s kitchens in feeding 1,500 people a day.

The hotel closed in the summer of 1988 but reopened in 2011 as a new mixed-use facility offering apartments, street-level retail, a catering kitchen, and two restored ballrooms.

Murphy Hotel and Hotel King Carter (1939)

Richmond Hotels, Inc. purchased the eleven story old Murphy’s Hotel in 1939. It was renamed Hotel King Carter in 1949. John Kevan Peebles of Peebles & Ferguson Architects of Norfolk, Virginia, was the Architect for the hotel’s 1913 construction.

The Hotel Richmond and the Hotel King Carter were then connected via an elevated pedestrian bridge. Many of those in Richmond at that time remember this elevated pedestrian walkway connecting the second floors of two parts of the hotel. This bridge was dismantled in 1942.

The combined Hotel Richmond and the Hotel King Carter had 420 transient rooms and 60 permanent or apartment-like rooms.

In 1969 the Commonwealth of Virginia purchased Hotel King Carter for use as a state office building named the “8th Street Office Building”. In 2007 the building was demolished to make way for the new Federal Court Building.

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Murphy’s Hotel, Richmond Times Dispatch, 13 March 1913

The Cavalier Hotel

Some believe that the Cavalier Hotel, constructed in 1926-1927 at the north end of Virginia Beach, was owned and operated by Richmond Hotels Inc. This was not the case.

The original President of the Jefferson Cavalier Hotel Corporation was Samuel L. Solver and the Chairman of the Board was Richard D. Cooke.

After the Navy returned the hotel to civilian use following World War II the properties were divided into two groups and transferred to the Cavalier Hotel Corporation and the Northwest Development Corporation. Sidney Banks was President of the Cavalier Hotel Corporation which held the hotel, the beach club, inn, lodge, and garage. The country club was held by the Northwest Development Corporation. Richmond Hotels, Inc. was not directly involved in this management structure.

Records indicate, however, that the hotel was financed by 1,800 Norfolk investors, the railroads, and east coast passenger shipping lines. Lee Paschall and Lloyd U. Noland (The Chairman of Richmond Hotels, Inc.) were likely to have been individual investors in this venture.

256 Mary Lib Walker Taylor of Norlina remembers visiting the Cavalier Hotel and that Lee Paschall was involved with the hotel in some way. The author shares Mary Lib’s experience in 1956.

Thus, it is indeed likely that Lee Paschall was an investor in this hotel or perhaps was a member of the board of directors. It should also be noted that the hotel president, Sidney Banks, was a member of the Hotel Committee of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce of which Lee Paschall was the Chairman.

Cavalier Hotel Virginia Beach

257 The Properties of Richmond Hotels Inc.

Hotel King Carter - Richmond Hotel William Byrd – Richmond

Hotel Chamberlin, Old Point Comfort, VA

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Hotel Richmond – Richmond

Hotel John Marshall - Richmond

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260 Chapter 25

The Family of DeArcie Paul Coleman (1891 - 1976)

DeArcie Paul Coleman, known as “Pete”, was born on 15 June 1891 in Warren County, North Carolina, to Charles E. Coleman and Annie Hester Paschall Coleman. Pete married Pearl Frances Johnston on 4 October 1917. Pete and Pearl had one child, Richard Alester Coleman (1920-1942).

Richard Alester Coleman was born on 6 May 1920 in Savannah, Georgia. He graduated from McKinley Technical High School of Washington, District of Columbia, in 1936 at the age of 16 and attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute at Worcester, Massachusetts on an academic scholarship. Richard graduated in 1940 as the school’s top graduate, majoring in civil engineering. After graduation he studied naval architecture under Professor George Owen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Richard Alester Coleman 1922

Richard married (Taimi) Elizabeth Swan on 23 May 1941, in South Hill, Virginia. Elizabeth (known as Tiny) was born on 5 September 1920 in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of John Matthew Swan (Matti Aleksinpoika Joutsen) and Edla Maria Aaltonen. Her brother was Einar Aaron Swan, noted composer of "When Your Lover Has Gone" a 1931 composition featured in the James Cagney film “Blonde Crazy”.

Richard died on 16 December 1942, 18 months after his marriage, due to an infection following an appendectomy. At that time he was working as an Engineer for the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock, Newport News, Virginia.

261 Following Richard’s death, Charles F. Bailey, then Engineering Director of the shipyard, said, “He came to be one of the outstanding younger men in the Engineering Department. The Institute has lost one of her brilliant and fine young graduates.”

Additional details on the death of Richard Coleman can be found in Appendix 35 of this book.

Richard was buried at Peninsula Memorial Park, Newport News, Virginia.

Richard and Elizabeth’s son, Richard Alester Coleman, Jr., was born on July 8, 1943, six months after his father’s death.

Before Richard was born, Elizabeth Swan Coleman moved to Worcester, Massachusetts where she grew up, to be near her relatives. While she was in Worcester she re- connected with and then married a friend from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Clayton H. Allen.

Taimi died on 11 August 2002 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She had moved to Santa Fe to be near her daughter Beth Allen, who was also living in Santa Fe.

Richard Alester Coleman 1940 Gravestone Richard Alester Coleman Peninsula Memorial Park

Richard Alester Coleman, Jr., was born on July 8, 1943 in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Following the marriage of (Taimi) Elizabeth Swan Coleman to Clayton H. Allen, Richard was adopted by Clayton H. Allen and afterwards, took the name of Richard Coleman Allen.

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Elizabeth Coleman Allen c.1976

Richard’s adoptive father, Clayton Allen, was born on 2 June 1918 in Whitinsville, Massachusetts, a son of Charles and Edith (Peck) Allen.

In 1940 Clayton Allen received his Associate in Physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Clayton was a classmate of Richard Alester Coleman, Sr., and they knew each other at school. In addition, Clayton was also acquainted with Taimi Swan.

In 1942 Clayton received his Master of Science in Physics and Mathematics and in 1950 his PhD in Physics and Mathematics from Penn State University.

From 1942 to 1945 Clayton worked as an acoustical communications researcher at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, and from 1945 to 1950 he was a graduate associate at Penn State University.

Clayton worked from 1950 to 1954 at Corning Glass Works in Corning, NY where he headed a physics group working in the field of ultrasonic research.

From 1954 to 1975 Clayton worked as a consultant on noise control for Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 1975 he founded the Clayton H. Allen Corporation, a consulting firm for acoustics, vibration, and noise control design and development. He developed and patented several inventions used today throughout the country for noise abatement.

Richard was still in high school in Wellesley, Massachusetts, when he worked at Clayton’s company, Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN). While there Richard was mentored by several world class computer experts, Ed Fredkin and others from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then turned loose on the first PDP-1 (Model 1 Serial #1) of the Digital Equipment Company.

263 Fredkin invented and designed the first modern interrupt system, which Digital called "Sequence Break". He went on to become a contributor in the field of artificial intelligence

Richard worked there for several summers and had full access to many of these experts, who took him “under their wing”. There were two early PDP-1 machines, one at MIT and the other at BBN. The PDP-1, (Programmed Data Processor-1) was the first computer produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. While the students at MIT had to schedule time on the MIT PDP-1, Richard could use the Bolt Beranek and Newman PDP-1 for sometimes up to 12 hours a day.

With Fredkin and the others to guide him, he became quite proficient at programming. Richard had already built a computer at home from scratch with 400 telephone relays.

After high school, he spent one semester at Coe College in Iowa and then came back to Boston without a degree but a lot of experience with digital circuitry and software. Richard then embarked on a career designing hardware and software for marine seismic oil exploration. His systems are on several dozen medium sized (330 feet) ships sailing the various oceans.

Richard Coleman Allen is currently living at 13523 Knottinghill Dr., Sugar Land, Texas.

Richard married Elizabeth (Bibby) Ramsey on 11 December 1964 in Texas. They had three sons and a daughter.

 (L to R) Richard Coleman Allen, Elizabeth (Bibby) Ramsey Allen, Peter Coleman Allen, William (Will) Hamilton Allen, David Charles Allen

Children of Elizabeth and Richard are:

i. Kathryn Elizabeth Allen was born on 5 November 1965 and died on 9 June 1968 in Chappel Hill, Texas.

ii. William Hamilton Allen was born in 1967 and is a computer system manager at a large hospital in the Houston area.

264 iii. Peter Coleman Allen was born in 1970 and attended Texas Tech University. His wife Kristie, whom he had met in high school, attended Texas Tech University at the same time. They have two children:

ƒ Lauren Renee Allen was born in 1999.

ƒ Joseph Coleman Allen was born in 2002. iv. David Charles Allen was born in 1972 and works for Inmarsat, a marine communications satellite company. He and his wife have two children:

ƒ Kate Allen was born in 2005.

ƒ Jenna Allen was born in 2008.

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266 Chapter 26

The Family of Rodney Lee Coleman (1893 - 1967)

Rodney Lee Coleman was born in Warren County, North Carolina, on Thursday, 23 February 1893 to Charles E. Coleman and Annie Hester Paschall. He married Mary Pauline Coble on 23 October 1926 in Burlington, Alamance County, North Carolina and had three children. He passed away 19 January 1967 in Burlington, North Carolina.

Children of Rodney Lee Coleman (1893 - 1967) and Mary Pauline Coble (1896-1991)

1. Rodney Lee Coleman, Jr., was born on Saturday, 10 September 1927 to Rodney and Pauline in Burlington, North Carolina, and graduated in 1950 from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Textiles and again in 1951 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Textile Chemistry. He worked as a plant manager in three different Cone Mills dying plants.

Rodney was known as an excellent amateur golfer and played many yearly matches with his friend Gene Sarazen, the winner of 39 PGA championships.

Rodney Lee Coleman, Jr, 1948 Joan Pickett Mills, 1951

Rodney Lee Coleman, Jr., died on 27 January 2005 in Burlington, North Carolina. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Chesapeake Bay.

He married Joan Pickett Mills on 1 August 1953 in Laurinburg, North Carolina. Joan was born on 3 June 1929 in Mooresville, North Carolina, the daughter of Lapsley Barron Mills and Elizabeth Pickett Mills, both from Madison, North Carolina.

Joan graduated from Salem College in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and was a classmate of Rodney’s sister, Anne Welker Coleman (1929-2012) at Salem College.

267 Joan was known as a talented decorator and needle work artist. Rodney and Joan had two children.

Children of Rodney Lee Coleman, Jr. (1927-2005) and Joan Pickett Mills (1929- ) a. Rodney Lee Coleman, III, born on 17 April 1954, Greensboro, North Carolina. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering followed by an Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelors in Accounting degree from the University of Maryland. He married Leslie Paddock of Riverside, California, on 28 June 1986. They live in Annapolis, Maryland.

Children of Rodney Lee Coleman, III, and Leslie Paddock:

x Ian MacRae Coleman, born on 28 September 1987 in Silver Springs, Maryland.

x Skyler Elizabeth Coleman, born on 13 June 1990 in Silver Spring, Maryland. b. Elizabeth “Libba” MacRae Coleman was born on 17 June 1955, in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated in 1978 from Sweet Briar College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Married on 29 September 1991 to Samuel A. Blackwell of Fayetteville, North Carolina.

2. Anne Welker Coleman (1929-2012)

Anne was born to Rodney and Pauline on 5 July 1929 in Burlington, North Carolina, and died on 21 January 2012 in Burlington. Anne graduated from Salem College in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

She married Thomas Duncan “Dick” Cooper, Jr., on 16 June 1951. Dick was an attorney and North Carolina Superior Court Judge, having graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1950 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Law. Anne and Dick are buried at Pine Hill Cemetery, Burlington, North Carolina.

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Anne Welker Coleman, 1951

Gravestone Gravestone Anne Welker Coleman Thomas Duncan Cooper Pine Hill Cemetery, Burlington, North Carolina

The three children of Anne Welker Coleman (1929-2012) and Thomas Duncan Cooper, Jr.: a. Thomas Duncan Cooper, III, born on 28 January 1953, Burlington, North Carolina. and died on 10 January 2004. He attended Guilford College. He never married. Thomas is buried at Pine Hill Cemetery, Burlington, North Carolina.

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Gravestone Thomas Duncan Cooper, III Pine Hill Cemetery, Burlington, North Carolina b. Anne Cameron Cooper, born on 21 October 1955, Burlington, North Carolina, graduated from North Carolina State University in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She married Robert Allan Weston II on 24 May 1974 in Burlington, North Carolina. Bob graduated from North Carolina State University in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management. He subsequently earned an Master of Business Administration degree from Elon University in 2003. Bob and Cameron have two children:

x Laura Jane Weston, born on 10 December 1979, was married on 22 June 2002 to David Franklin Murray who was born on 28 July 1978. Frank and Laura, both Park scholars, graduated from North Carolina State University in 2001. Laura earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. Frank earned a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology. Laura went on to earn a PhD in Molecular Biophysics from Duke University in 2007. They have one child, Joy Annemarie Murray, born on 26 December 2015.

x Robert Allan Weston, III, born on 3 December 1981. Graduate of North Carolina State University. Not married. c. Jane MacRae Cooper, born on 11 June 1958, Burlington, North Carolina, is a graduate of Elon College, where she played varsity basketball. She married David Winston Colson on 5 August 1989 in Charlotte, North Carolina. David graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in Electrical Engineering. They have three children:

x Daniel Richard Colson, born on 17 June 1992, graduated from UNC- Charlotte in 2014 with a degree in Computer Science. x Michael Andrew Colson, born on 12 June 1995. x Karen Elizabeth Colson, born on 2 June 1997.

270 3. Thomas Coble Coleman ( 1934- )

Tom was born on Friday, 30 November 1934 in Greensboro, North Carolina, to Rodney and Pauline, and married Millie Frances Fary, born on Thursday, 8 July 1937 in Portsmouth, Virginia. Millie is the daughter of Ernest Franklin Fary of Portsmouth and Ruth Murden Fary of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The wedding was on 10 September 1960 in the Chapel of St Mary’s College, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Tom graduated in 1960 from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Ceramic Engineering and in 1962 from the University of Virginia with a Master of Business Administration degree.

Millie graduated from St, Mary’s Junior College in 1958 and from Salem College in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Tom and Millie live in Franklinton, North Carolina.

c. 1954 2012 Thomas Coble Coleman

Millie Frances Fary, 1960

271 The three children of Thomas Coble Coleman (1934- ) and Millie Frances Fary (1937 - ):

a. Thomas Mark Coleman, born on Tuesday, December 14, 1965, Raleigh, Rex Hospital (Wake County), North Carolina.

Mark is a graduate of University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering. He married Carolyn (Carrie) Rebecca Hill on 4 May 2002 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She was born on August 1, 1974, Augusta, Georgia. She is the daughter of Robert Hill, M.D., and Jana Hill of Augusta, Georgia. Graduate of Converse College, 1996.

The two children of Thomas Mark Coleman and Carolyn (Carrie) Rebecca Hill Coleman:

x Eleanor Livingston Coleman, born on 24 March 2005, Spartanburg, South Carolina.

x Thomas Mark Coleman, Jr., born on 15 November 2007, Spartanburg, South Carolina.

b. Hunter MacRae Coleman, born on Monday, December 11, 1967, Raleigh, Rex Hospital (Wake County), North Carolina.

Hunter is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. He was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, an engineering honors fraternity, and graduated with high honors.

He married Karen Virginia Walker on 23 July 2011. She was born on 12 December 1969 in Rochester, New York. She is the daughter of Allan Russell Walker, M.D., and Elaine Kendrick Walker. Elaine’s father (Edward) was from Merry Oaks, North Carolina, near Moncure, north of Sanford.

Karen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College and a Master of Science degree in Forestry from the University of Minnesota.

Hunter and Karen have no children. They reside in Helena, Montana. c. Cameron Melissa Coleman, was born on Tuesday, 16 June 1970, at Scotland Memorial Hospital, Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina.

Melissa graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French Education. She married William Todd Simmons, who was born on 4 November 1968. He is the son

272 of John Walton Simmons, MD, and Patsy Tinsley Simmons of Spartanburg, South Carolina.

John and Patsy are both natives of Georgia.

Todd earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

Their residence has been in Spartanburg, South Carolina since the 1965-1970 period.

Melissa and Todd have three children:

x William Clayton Simmons, born on 13 March 2001. x Anna MacRae Simmons, born on 27 April 2004. x Cameron Cordrey Simmons, born on 31 March 2009.

273 274 Chapter 27

The Family of Lucy Ann Coleman (1896 - 1989)

Lucy Ann Coleman was born on 16 January 1896 in Warren County, North Carolina, to Charles E. Coleman and Anna Hester Paschall and died on 23 September 1989, Orange County, California. She was living at 2209 Barbara Dr, Santa Rosa Valley, California, 93012.

Lucy attended the State Normal and Industrial School which became North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro and then attended the Grady Hospital School of Nursing in Atlanta where she was living in 1918. Lucy Ann married Robert Vernon Cates, and had two children.

The two children of Lucy Ann Coleman (1896 - 1989) and Robert Vernon Cates:

1. Robert Vernon Cates, Jr., born on 10 May 1923, in Denmark, South Carolina.

Attended North Carolina State University in 1943. Robert fought in World War II and required hospitalization in the States due to frostbite. Robert Vernon Cates, Jr., married Betsy Brown Glenn on 20 August 1949 and had two children.

Robert Vernon Cates, Jr., 1943

Children of Robert Vernon Cates, Jr. (1923), and Betsy Brown Glenn

ƒ Elizabeth Coleman Cates, born on 8 October 1951 in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and lived in Jefferson County, Alabama. Elizabeth earned a PhD and practices clinical psychology in Jonesborough, Tennessee.

ƒ Glenn Coleman Cates, born on 20 September 1954, York County, South Carolina. He died on 22 December 2011.

275 2. Eleanor Coleman Cates, born on 25 April 1925 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Eleanor first married Chad Johnson and they had two children, Suzanne and David. After a divorce from Chad Johnson, Eleanor married Frederick Robert Moran and had no additional children. David died as a young adult. Fred Moran predeceased Eleanor.

Eleanor lived during the 1990 – 2000 period at 4335 Forrest Oakes Drive, Thousand Oaks, California.

276 Chapter 28

The Family of Eleanor Morton Coleman (1898 - 1945)

Eleanor Morton Coleman was born on 6 September 1898 in Warren County, North Carolina, to Charles E. Coleman and Annie Hester Paschall. Eleanor Morton married Edward Eden Loyd on 4 October 1917. Eleanor died on 12 August 1945. Their only child, Nancy Melissa, was born on 8 January 1926.

Nancy Malissa Loyd was born on 8 January 1926 to Eleanor Morton Coleman (1898 - 1945) and Edward Eden Loyd (1894-1927).

Nancy graduated from the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina Greensboro in 1946 and married Charles R. Vernon of Morganton, North Carolina, on 5 August 1950 and was divorced ten years later in 1960.

Charles Vernon, MD was the son of James William Vernon, MD and Sarah Taylor. Nancy has three children and she lived for fifty years at 1404 Mason Farm Road in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, before moving to Carolina Meadows in Chapel Hill.

Nancy Malissa Loyd, 1946

The three children of Nancy Malissa Loyd (1926-x) and Charles R Vernon MD are:

a. Eleanor Ann Vernon, born on 3 October 1951, and is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University with a Masters in Landscape Architecture. Ellie is married to Richard Altman, an architect. They live in Chestertown. Maryland, on the eastern shore and have no children. She was the Executive Director of Atkins Arboretum.

277 b. James William Vernon, born on 29 December 1952. Co-owner of Aventine Cabinets in Chapel Hill. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Environmental Science from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1997. James lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He and his late wife, Page Humphrey Vernon have two sons, Amos and Ben.

James W. Vernon And His Uncle D.P. “Pete” Coleman 1953

x Benjamin Vernon is a 2006 magna cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in International/Global Studies and is a gradate of the Law School at the University of Colorado.

x Amos Vernon is a 2008 Phi Beta Kappa graduate in Peace and Conflict Studies from USC – Berkeley and is currently working as a comedy writer in Los Angeles. He married Alison Brooks of Beaufort, North Carolina, on 12 September 2015. c. Catharine Coleman Vernon, born on 16 December 1956. She attended Tulane University and graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She also earned an Master of Business Administration degree from George Washington University. Catherine is employed by a consulting firm managing IT functions. She has one adopted daughter, Allison, who was born in August 2000 in China. They live in Arlington, Virginia.

278 Chapter 29

The Family of Margaret Eleanor Coleman ( 1918-1977 )

Margaret Eleanor Coleman was born on 18 February 1918 in Norfolk, Virginia to James Michael Paschall Coleman and Otelia Lee Duke. She graduated St. Mary’s College in 1936 as a classmate of her future sister-in-law Mary Barrow Coleman. She also graduated from Sweet Briar College in 1938.

Margaret lived at 7405 Hampton Blvd, Norfolk, Virginia, with her parents until her marriage in 1943 and worked as a secretary at the Norfolk Navy Base during the war.

She married Lt (jg) Charles LaHue Ford, III, on 30 June 1943 in Norfolk, Virginia, and had two children. Lt Ford was serving on CVE-100, Bougainville, a Casablanca class escort carrier, in June of 1945.

The two sons of Margaret and Charles Ford are:

1. Charles LaHue Ford, IV, born on 29 November 1957. He married Lauren Gottlieb. They have one son:

ƒ Charles LaHue Ford, V, born on 27 May 1991.

1. James Coleman Ford, born on 29 September 1959. He married Kandy Causey. They have two sons:

ƒ Coleman Causey Ford ƒ James Cade Ford

279 280 Chapter 30

The Grandparents of Mary Barrow Coleman (1918 - 2003)

Mary Barrow’s father was John Knox Barrow (1890-1969). John was born on 24 August 1890 at Barrow’s Store, an unincorporated area in Brunswick County, Virginia.

He was the son of Byron Hunter Barrow and Mary Rebecca Chambers Barrow. Byron was born on 15 May 1861, and died on 22 August 1924. Mary Rebecca Chambers Barrow was born on 27 August 1857, and died on 29 May 1917. They were the paternal grandparents of Mary Barrow Coleman.

Byron and Mary Rebecca married in 1885. Byron was appointed Postmaster on 8 October 1888, Meridian, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. Both are buried at the Rocky Run United Methodist Church Cemetery in DeWitt, Virginia.

Byron Hunter Barrow, 1893 Mary Rebecca Chambers Barrow, 1893

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Gravestone Gravestone Byron Hunter Barrow Mary Rebecca Chambers Barrow Rocky Run United Methodist Church Cemetery, DeWitt, VA

Mary Barrow’s mother was Irma Lillian Gupton (1885 - 1977). Lillian was born on 30 October 1885 in Louisburg, Franklin County, North Carolina,

Lillian was the daughter of Theophilus G. Gupton and Anna Ruth Bartholomew. Theophilus G. Gupton was born on 22 March 1853 in Franklin County, North Carolina, and died on 7 October 1930 in Little River Township, Wake County, North Carolina. They were the maternal grandparents of Mary Barrow Coleman.

Anna Ruth Bartholomew was born on 31 October 1860 in Franklin County, North Carolina, and died on 17 September 1926 in Little River Township, Wake County, North Carolina. Anna and Theophilus lived on Ferrell Road, Wakefield, North Carolina. The house is no longer standing.

Theophilus G. Gupton Anna Ruth Bartholomew 1895 1895

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Theophilus G. Gupton Anna Ruth Bartholomew 1920 1920

Theophilus G. Gupton Anna Ruth Bartholomew Annie Rue Gupton

Ferrell Rd, Wakefield, NC - 1914

Theophilus and Anna are buried in Wakefield Cemetery, Zebulon North Carolina. To reach the cemetery, turn off of Hwy 96 on to Pearces Road (SR 2055). Approximately 0.8 miles on the left will be a dirt path with the cemetery about 100 yards up the dirt path. This cemetery is very close to their old home on Ferrell Road.

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Gravestone Gravestone Theophilus G. Gupton Anna Ruth Bartholomew Wakefield Cemetery, Zebulon NC

Theophilus G. Gupton’s uncle was Peyton W Gupton of Franklin County, North Carolina. Peyton was born in 1832 in Franklin, Franklin County, North Carolina.

Peyton was a source of pride in the Gupton family. His service in the War Between the States is cited in the United Daughters of the Confederacy membership application of both Lillian Gupton Barrow (1885 - 1977) and Margaret Bruce Barrow (1912-1998).

Peyton enlisted on 24 March 1862 in Lenoir County, North Carolina, as a Corporal and was mustered into Company K of the 12th North Carolina Infantry. He was wounded (amputated fingers) at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on 12 May 1864 and was discharged as a Sergeant due to his injuries on 30 November 1864.

284 Chapter 31

The Uncles and Aunts of Mary Barrow Coleman (1918 - 2003)

The Uncles and Aunts of Mary Barrow Coleman on her father’s (Barrow) side were:

1. Beverly Hunter Barrow born on 18 April 1898, died on 9 November 1970. Buried at Blanford Cemetery, Petersburg, Virginia. He married Hattie Maddux Cato, born on 23 June 1901, Emporia, Virginia, and died on 23 March 1990. They had one child, Beverly Cato Barrow.

Beverly earned his law degree in 1921 from Washington and Lee University, practiced law in Dinwiddie County Virginia and was later elected to the county’s Circuit Court judgeship. The cost of his college education was paid by his brother John Knox Barrow. John had not been able to attend college for economic reasons, but later had financial success in the timber business.

Beverly Hunter Barrow, 1921 Beverly Hunter Barrow, 1950

Signature Beverly Hunter Barrow 1939 Guest Book

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Signature Hattie Maddux Barrow 1939 Guest Book

Gravestone Beverly Hunter Barrow Hattie Maddux Barrow Blanford Cemetery, Petersburg, VA

2. Ragland Bruce Barrow born on 22 March 1887, died on 5 June 1934. Ragland married Nannie L. Barrow with no children and then Minnie Hawthorne with two children, Ragland Bruce Barrow, Jr., and Bruce Edward Barrow. He worked as an insurance agent at the time of his death. Ragland Bruce Barrow is buried at the Rocky Run United Methodist Church Cemetery in DeWitt, Virginia.

Ragland Bruce Barrow

Gravestone, Ragland Bruce Barrow Rocky Run United Methodist Church Cemetery

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Signature Of Ragland Bruce Barrow, 1917

3. Otis Farrar Barrow, born on 2 January 1889, died on February 1972. She married James Taylor Cross and is buried at the Rocky Run United Methodist Church Cemetery in DeWitt, Virginia. James was a farmer. They had no children.

Gravestone Otis Farrar Barrow Rocky Run United Methodist Church Cemetery

The Uncles and Aunts of Mary Barrow Coleman on her mother’s (Gupton) side were:

1. Eula Pearl Gupton was born on 29 October 1888 in Louisburg, North Carolina, and died on 30 December 1969 in Zebulon, North Carolina. Eula Pearl was married 7 April 1912 to Starkey Henry Hoyle. He was born on 26 October 1878, and died on 8 February 1936. Both Starkey and Eula are buried at Wakefield Cemetery, Zebulon, North Carolina. To reach the cemetery, turn off of Hwy 96 on to Pearces Road (SR 2055). Approximately 0.8 miles on the left will be a dirt path with the cemetery about 100 yards up the dirt path.

Gravestone Gravestone Starkey Henry Hoyle Eula Pearl Gupton Wakefield Cemetery, Zebulon, NC

287 2. Zelma Carrester “Onie” Gupton. Zelma was born on 17 April 1880 in Franklin County, North Carolina, and died on 17 July 1915 in Little River Township, North Carolina. Zelma was married on December 1900 to John Broughton. He was born on 20 September 1875, and died on 7 September 1966. Buried Wakefield Cemetery, Zebulon, North Carolina. To reach the cemetery, turn off of Hwy 96 on to Pearces Road (SR 2055). Approximately 0.8 miles on the left will be a dirt path with the cemetery about 100 yards up the dirt path.

Zelma Carrester “Onie” Gupton

Gravestone Zelma Carrester “Onie” Gupton Wakefield Cemetery, Zebulon, NC

3. Annie Rue Gupton was born on 22 February 1900 in Little River Township, Wake County, North Carolina, and died on 7 February 1949 in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. Annie Rue was married in 1926 to Fred Allen Mangum. He was born on 1 November 1901, and died on 17 May 1978. Buried Wakefield Cemetery, Zebulon, North Carolina. To reach the cemetery, turn off of Hwy 96 on to Pearces Road (SR 2055). Approximately 0.8 miles on the left will be a dirt path with the cemetery about 100 yards up the dirt path.

288 Annie Rue Gupton Ferrell Rd, Wakefield, NC - 1914

Gravestone Annie Rue Gupton Wakefield Cemetery, Zebulon, NC

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The Parents of Mary Barrow Coleman (1918 - 2003)

John Knox Barrow (1890-1969), father of Mary Barrow Coleman. John was born on 24 August 1890 at Barrow’s Store, an unincorporated area in Brunswick County, Virginia.

He was the son of Byron Hunter Barrow and Mary Rebecca Chambers. Byron was born on 15 May 1861, and died on 22 August 1924. Mary Rebecca Chambers was born on 27 August 1857, and died on 29 May 1917.

John’s father was a Postmaster and the family had a live-in servant at their house at Barrow’s Store, Virginia. Family sources revealed that John left school after the eighth grade in order to work. He moved to the Wakefield and Zebulon area of Wake County, North Carolina at some point prior to 1909.

After being married in 1909 to Lillian Gupton of nearby Wakefield, they lived in a boarding house on Vance Street in Zebulon, North Carolina, and he worked as a Superintendent at a saw mill.

He quickly bettered himself by continuing in the lumber business with his own company and by the acquisition of saw timber by buying the land, cutting the timber, and then arranging for tenant farmers to cultivate the land.

His first permanent saw mill was located in Youngsville, North Carolina. Previously there had been a number of portable rough cut mills in operation. This facility was still in operation as Barrow Manufacturing Company in 1948.

Soon he was known as one of the largest landowners in Wake County. He would buy timberland in Wake and Johnston County, and after cutting, would clear the land for tenant farming. Oral history is that 12 to 15 farms were accumulated.

He employed a trusted Farm Manager beginning in the 1930’s, Eugene Bailey, to oversee his farm properties. Eugene lived in the Farm Manager’s House located on the Barrow farm just past the Johnston County line on the west side of North Carolina Highway 96, in O’Neal’s Township. He drove one of the few International Harvester pick up trucks in the area.

Sadirous Eugene Bailey, born on 16 January 1903, and died 21 April 1993. At 5’7” he may have been small in statue, but he was well respected.

291 After establishing himself, John and Lillian built a house at 131 Sycamore St in Zebulon, North Carolina, and began to raise a family of three girls and one boy.

(L to R) Dorothy Zelma Barrow (1915 – 2014), Mary Rebecca Barrow (1918 - 2003), Margaret Bruce Barrow (1912 - 1998), John Knox Barrow, Jr. (1913 - 1981). Photograph Taken In 1923 At 131 Sycamore St. in Zebulon

John Knox was a respected businessman and later served as mayor of Zebulon, North Carolina, from 1923 to 1925.

In 1942 John built a larger house at 310 Gannon Ave, Zebulon, North Carolina, where a growing number of grandchildren would come to visit. While visiting, the grandchildren would be entertained by the family’s butler, chef and chauffeur, Walter Perry. Walter was beloved by all the grandchildren due to his sunny disposition and friendly nature. When working in the kitchen Walter’s favorite garb was a white apron and tall chef’s hat.

Walter Perry 310 Gannon Ave, Zebulon, North Carolina

292 A few years after the April 21, 1956, marriage of E.C. Daniels, Jr. and Margaret Truman, the daughter of the 33rd President of the United States, Harry Truman visited Zebulon and attended a reception in his honor at the residence of John and Lillian Barrow on Gannon Avenue. Walter Perry would have been part of the preparation for this reception.

Later, John built a modern saw mill in Ahoskie, North Carolina, and named it Barrow Manufacturing Company, and later, Barrow Forest Products Company to handle the production and marketing of pine bark mulch. This saw mill was producing 12,600,000 board feet of lumber annually by 1965, with net revenues of $ 1,100,000 per year.

John Knox was president, and his wife Lillian Gupton Barrow was Vice President. Their son John Knox Barrow, Jr., was named Secretary/Treasurer after a suitable time period subsequent to graduating from college.

A third company was formed, Barrow Land and Timber Company, to manage the saw mill’s land and timber resources.

These companies were acquired in 1966 by Georgia Pacific Corporation. At that time the assets included 6,000 acres of land and timber cutting rights, plus 5,000,000 board feet of lumber, all valued in excess of $ 1,000,000. In November of 1966 the acquisition was completed in exchange for 25,000 shares of Georgia Pacific stock at $ 1,200,000.

Had the company not been acquired in 1966 by Georgia Pacific Corporation it is likely that Hunter Spencer Barrow (1945-2008) would have eventually become the facility Manager. Spencer’s undergraduate major, business administration, was chosen for that possibility.

Barrow Manufacturing Company, Company Letterhead, 1955

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Barrow Manufacturing Company, Mobile Equipment, 1955

Barrow Manufacturing Company, Finished Lumber Storage, 1955

John K. Barrow died on 8 January 1969 in Duke Hospital, Durham, North Carolina, and is buried at Maplewood Cemetery, Wilson, North Carolina.

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1908 1923 John Knox Barrow, Sr.

1930 1958 John Knox Barrow, Sr.

Signature Of John K Barrow, Sr., 1917

Gravestone John K. Barrow, Sr. Maplewood Cemetery, Wilson, NC

295 Irma Lillian Gupton (1885 - 1977)

Irma Lillian Gupton (1885 - 1977), mother of Mary Barrow Coleman, was born on 30 October 1885 in Louisburg, Franklin County, North Carolina, to Theophilus G. Gupton and Anna Ruth Bartholomew.

Soon after marrying John Knox Barrow (1890-1969) in 1909 she began to raise a family of three girls and one boy. All four children were college educated, a benefit that John and Lillian were determined to provide, since they themselves were not so educated.

Lillian died on 11 January 1977, at Rex Hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina, following surgery for a broken hip suffered in a fall at her house in Zebulon.

She is buried at Maplewood Cemetery, Wilson, North Carolina, with her husband John and later, her two daughters, Margaret Bruce and Mary Rebecca.

1910 1930 1945 Lillian Gupton Barrow (1885 - 1977)

Signature Of Lillian Gupton Barrow Gravestone Lillian Gupton Barrow Maplewood Cemetery, Wilson, NC

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Residence Of Lillian and John Knox Barrow Until 1942 131 Sycamore St, Zebulon, NC

Residence Of Lillian And John Knox Barrow 1942 Until 1977 310 Gannon Ave, Zebulon, NC

Residence Of Lillian And John Knox Barrow In Construction, 1942 During Construction

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Residence Of Lillian And John Knox Barrow 1942 Until 1977 310 Gannon Ave, Zebulon, NC, Aerial Photo, 1955

298 Chapter 33

The Siblings of Mary Barrow Coleman (1918 - 2003)

1. John Knox Barrow, Jr. (1913-1981), the brother of Mary Barrow Coleman (1918 - 2003), was born in Zebulon, North Carolina, on 13 November 1913. While growing up he lived first at 131 Sycamore St, Zebulon, North Carolina. Living on the next block was his father’s friend and fellow mayor of Zebulon, E. Clifton Daniels, Sr.

E.C. was the local druggist, and his son, E.C. Daniels, Jr., became a boyhood friend of John Knox Barrow, Jr. After graduating from Wakelon School, located between Zebulon and Wakefield, E.C. went first to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to be followed by John one year later. Both joined the same fraternity, Phi Delta Theta.

In his Senior year, John also became a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was an alternate in his District to become a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. John graduated in 1934 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.

After graduation John joined his father in the timber business and lived in Zebulon during that time.

John was married on 12 April, 1940 to Marjorie Claire Whitaker (1913 – 2010) of Asheboro, North Carolina, who was working for Carolina Power and Light in Raleigh. She was born on 2 October 1913, and daughter of Lonnie Lafayette Whitaker and Clara Marie Spencer of Asheboro, North Carolina. She was a graduate of Women's College in Greensboro with a degree in business administration.

After marriage John and Marjorie first lived at 131 Sycamore Street and then 310 Gannon Avenue in Zebulon. Both John Barrow, Jr., and his father routinely travelled to their sawmill in Youngsville, North Carolina, in order to manage its operations.

The Barrows then began construction of a sawmill in Ahoskie, North Carolina.

During the summer John and Marjorie often visited Marjorie’s parents at the Whitaker summer home, named Hidden Waters, in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. This late 1890’s house was located directly across the St. John’s River gorge from the Mayview Manor Hotel.

This house was a favorite late summer destination for many members of the Barrow family.

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Blowing Rock Charity Horse Show

A late summer visit to the Blowing Rock Charity Horse Show was a much anticipated event by the author. The grown ups would attend the Horse Show Saturday breakfast and Boots and Saddles Ball on Saturday night at the grand Mayview Manor Hotel.

After it became apparent that Barrow Manufacturing Company in Ahoskie, North Carolina, would need a full time Manager, John moved to a modest house at 808 South St, Ahoskie, North Carolina, and assumed those duties.

Residence Of John Knox Barrow, Jr.

On April 21, 1956, he was called upon by his college roommate, E.C. Daniels, Jr., to be the best man in his wedding to Margaret Truman, the daughter of the 33rd President of the United States.

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(L To R) J.K. Barrow, Jr., EC Daniel, Jr., Margaret Truman, 1956

On October 13, 1961, John K. Barrow filed a patent application entitled, Apparatus For Producing A Fertilizing Mixture, ser. no. 144,999 6 claims. (til. 23259.1)

“This invention relates to a process and apparatus for treating a solid nutrient carrier such as tree bark with plant nutrients and in particular relates to a continuous process for mixing predetermined proportions of prepared tree bark with plant nutrients in both liquid and solid form. This application is therefore a continuation of my prior co-pending application no. 95575, filed March 14, 1961.”

The output from this process was years ahead of the market demand and was not profitable due to a low sales volume. This may have played a part in the sale of the company five years later to Georgia Pacific Corporation.

After the acquisition of Barrow Manufacturing Company in 1966 by Georgia Pacific Corporation, John took the job of General Manager.

It soon became apparent to Georgia Pacific Corporation that John’s talents were needed at the corporate level. He was transferred to Augusta, Georgia, first as General Manager, Operations- Southern Division, and then later as Vice President, Southern Operations.

John and Marjorie moved to 3052 Walton Way, Augusta, Georgia from Ahoskie, North Carolina.

While living in Augusta, John and Marjorie were active members of Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church, and the Augusta Country Club. In addition, Marjorie was an active member of the Sand Hills Garden Club, the Colonial Dames and was often a flower show judge.

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Residence Of John Knox Barrow, Jr. 3052 Walton Way, Augusta, GA

John died on 9 April 1981 in Augusta, Georgia, a short three years after retiring from Georgia Pacific Corporation. Marjorie died on September 12, 2010 in Raleigh, North Carolina, after a long illness. Both are buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina.

1927 1933 John Knox Barrow, Jr.

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1956 1959 John Knox Barrow, Jr.

Three Generations – October 1952 (L To R) John Knox Barrow, III, John Knox Barrow, Jr., John Knox Barrow, Sr.

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1934 1944 Marjorie Whitaker Barrow

Gravestone Gravestone John Knox Barrow. Jr. Marjorie Whitaker Barrow Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NC.

Signature Of John Knox Barrow, Jr., 1942

304 2. Margaret Bruce Barrow (1912-1998), the oldest sister of Mary Barrow Coleman (1918 - 2003), was born in Zebulon, North Carolina, on 19 February 1912. She grew up in the family home at 131 Sycamore St, Zebulon, North Carolina.

After graduating from Wakelon School, located between Zebulon and Wakefield, Margaret attended and graduated from Randolph Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia. After graduation she lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, and worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation during World War II.

After World War II Margaret briefly attended graduate school and then returned home to 310 Gannon Ave, Zebulon, North Carolina where she lived with her parents. She never married.

Mary Barrow Coleman ( 1918-2003 ) lived with Margaret, after moving to Zebulon from Raleigh, until 1987, at which time Margaret moved to Guardian Care Nursing Home.

Guardian Care was located just down the road at 509 W Gannon Ave, in Zebulon. She died on 29 April 1998 in Zebulon, North Carolina, and is buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Wilson, North Carolina.

Margaret Bruce Barrow 1937 Margaret Bruce Barrow 1955

Signature Of Margaret Bruce Barrow Gravestone 1939 Margaret Bruce Barrow

305 3. Dorothy Zelma Barrow (1915 – 2014), the second oldest sister of Mary Barrow Coleman (1918 - 2003), was born in Zebulon, North Carolina, on 29 August 1915. She grew up in the family home at 131 Sycamore St, Zebulon, North Carolina.

1933 1939 1955 Dorothy Zelma Barrow

While growing up in Zebulon, Mary Barrow used to follow Dorothy, her bigger sister, around town. They even went together to Camp Yonahlossee in Blowing Rock, North Carolina.

After graduating from Wakelon School, located between Zebulon and Wakefield, Dorothy attended Greensboro College and then graduated from Duke University in 1935. She joined Alpha Delta Pi, Omicron Chapter while at Duke and helped her little sister, Mary, join also.

After college, Dorothy taught public school in Zebulon, Farmville, and Fremont before meeting her lifelong mate in 1938. Dorothy was immediately attracted to this new young man to town that she met at the soda fountain of Zebulon Drug Company where he worked. Kenneth Durwood Kennedy was born on 24 September 1913.

After they were married on 21 October 1939, Kenneth served in the South Carolina Home Guard while working for Carolina Power and Light in Cheraw and Florence, South Carolina. He also worked in the defense industry at Norfolk Navy Shipyards and Fairchild Aircraft Company in Burlington, North Carolina, in order to do his part for the war effort.

Following World War II in 1945, Dorothy and Kenneth settled in Wilson, North Carolina, where Kenneth began Electric Supply Company. It was sort of a meager existence for about five years and then the economy started to improve. K. D., as he was

306 known, had seen a need for electrical supply distribution in Eastern North Carolina with all the upcoming post-war development that would likely be happening.

Kenneth Durwood Kennedy 1939 1963

Kenneth Durwood Kennedy Signature

They lived at 117 Ripley Rd, Wilson, North Carolina. Kenneth died on September 8, 2007 at 93 years, and he is buried at Maplewood Cemetery, Wilson, North Carolina. Dorothy died on Friday morning, April 11, 2014, in Wilson, North Carolina. The author visited her at Christmas, 2013, and she recollected events of her childhood while she was growing up in Zebulon, North Carolina. Many of these recollections are included in this book.

Dorothy has been described as a “true lady” by those who knew her well. She could also be defined as one who put others first, before herself, showing her great respect for everyone. She was a soothing tonic to all with her positive smile and her never-ceasing affection.

307 Residence Of Kenneth and Dorothy Kennedy 117 Ripley Rd, Wilson, NC

308 Chapter 34

The Nieces and Nephews of Mary Barrow Coleman (1918 - 2003)

Children of John Knox Barrow, Jr. (1913-1981), and Marjorie Whitaker Barrow (1913 - 2010)

1. John Knox Barrow, III (1941-2011), was born on 19 August, 1941, in Raleigh, North Carolina. John and Marjorie were living on Gannon Avenue in Zebulon at that time. Later, he was to grow up in Ahoskie, North Carolina, after the family moved there.

1953 1956 John Knox Barrow, III

1959 1963 John Knox Barrow, III

309 After graduation from Ahoskie High School in 1959, John went to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and graduated in 1963 with a degree in Business Administration. He also graduated in 1970 from the Wharton Graduate School of Business with a Master of Business Administration degree.

Following a career in marketing, which included the brand management of General Mills’ Slim Jim, John became active as a financial advisor in the New York and New Jersey area.

Other companies that John worked for include :

ƒ Wells Fargo Advisors, Florham Park, New Jersey, 2003-2011. ƒ Prudential Securities Incorporated, New York, New York, 1989-2003. ƒ Thomson Mckinnon Securities Inc., New York, New York, 1984-1989.

John married Elisabeth Jeanne Gabrielle Potier de la Morandiere of Charleston, South Carolina, on 29 January 1966 and they had two children, John K. Barrow, IV, and a daughter, Marjorie Claire Ashley Barrow. John and Gabrielle divorced in March of 1989.

John K. Barrow, IV, was born on 22 March 1970 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Marjorie Claire Ashley Barrow was born on 16 January 1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ashley died on 27 July 1979 in Denville, New Jersey, following a swimming accident.

John later married Carol King. They had no children together. They were living at 35 Fieldstone Dr, Basking Ridge, New Jersey at the time of John’s death on 8 September 2011. John and Carol were members of Millington Baptist Church in Basking Ridge.

310 2. Hunter Spencer Barrow (1945-2008) was born on 16 April, 1945 while John and Marjorie lived on Gannon Avenue in Zebulon. Later, he was to grow up in Ahoskie, North Carolina, after the family moved there.

Spencer graduated from Ahoskie High School in 1963 and was an All American high school football player.

1951 1953 Hunter Spencer Barrow

Spencer in 1963 was the first Barrow-related family member to play in the East-West All-Star Game which features players who have just graduated from high school – the best from the Eastern half of North Carolina against the best from the West. The game played in the 11,000 seat Jamieson Stadium at Greensboro Senior High School (now Grimsley High School).

He would be followed in 1968 by Lee Barrow Coleman, who also played in the game. Lee would say later that being as good a player as his cousin Spencer was his goal as a player.

Spencer was highly recruited and received a football scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He suffered a career-ending injury in his freshman year at UNC Chapel Hill.

He would marry his hometown sweetheart, Linda Belch, on 25 August 1964, while at the University of North Carolina. Linda and Spencer would have three sons, Hunter Christopher Barrow, Byron Spencer Barrow of Atlanta, Georgia, and Samuel Lane Barrow of Raleigh, North Carolina. Spencer and Linda would later divorce.

He focused on academics and graduated in June of 1967 from the University of North

311 Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He went on to earn his Juris Doctor degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law in 1970.

Upon his graduation from law school he was honored with a clerkship with the Supreme Court of North Carolina and served from 1970 to 1971 as a Law Clerk to Justice Carlisle W. Higgins.

From 1971 until his death he engaged in the private practice of law in Raleigh.

Hunter Spencer Barrow, 2006 Portrait By Pam Shank

Spencer had remarkable rapport with persons from all walks and facets of life. Though he was brilliant in his ability to cross examine prosecution witnesses, including police officers, law enforcement officers invariably called him their friend. He was their friend, though frequently, their adversary

Spencer was an outstanding trial lawyer and a wise counselor. His sound judgment helped many of his clients in stormy business waters. In trial work he was a strong advocate who had that essential talent to know when to go full speed ahead, and when to fold. He used to laugh with the awareness that “any fool can bluster through a case with a not guilty plea”, but it takes a lawyer to know “when to fold”.

As a trial lawyer, Spencer was always thoroughly prepared. This fact was the key to his remarkable success. He was able to obtain what seemed to be more than his share of not guilty verdicts from jurors and favorable plea bargains (and dismissals) from the prosecutor’s office. There was no mystery about this. Hard work and thorough preparation were the keys.

312 Robert McMillan, an associate and friend of Spencer reminisced, “years ago his three boys wanted to go duck and goose hunting on the eastern shore. It was all the rage among boys from ten to fifteen. Spencer pointed out to them that it was too expensive. They implored him with pleas of being willing to give up Christmas if he would only take them hunting.”

He did. With three days of cold, chill, windy, icy nothingness behind them they headed home. The gloom was finally broken somewhere down the road with this question: “Daddy, is that all the Santa Claus we’re going to get this year ?” Robert then said, “I have it from a good source that each got two tangerines and four Brazil nuts (unbroken).”

He served as a member of the Board of Directors of Gateway Bank and Trust. He formerly served as President of Prevent Blindness North Carolina and as a member of the North Carolina delegation to the national organization of Prevent Blindness. He was also a member of numerous other civic and social organizations in Raleigh, North Carolina.

After his divorce with Linda, Spencer would later marry Lynn (Cande) Sneddon and live at 2602 Kittrell Dr., Raleigh, North Carolina. He would die at home on 1 November, 2008, and was buried next to his parents at Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh.

Residence Of Hunter Spencer Barrow 2602 Kittrell Dr., Raleigh, NC

Gravestone Hunter Spencer Barrow Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NC

313 Children of Dorothy Zelma Barrow (1915 - 2014) and Kenneth Durwood Kennedy (1913-2007)

3. Kenneth Durwood Kennedy, Jr., was born on 16 February 1942 to Dorothy Zelma Barrow (1918-) and Kenneth Durwood Kennedy (1913-2007) in Cheraw, South Carolina, while Kenneth Durwood Kennedy was working for Carolina Power and Light.

Proud Grandparents, Aunt And Uncle Visiting The New Kennedy Baby At The Cheraw, SC, House.

(L To R) Lillian Gupton Barrow (1885 – 1977), John Knox Barrow, Jr. (1913-1981), John Knox Barrow (1890-1969), And Mary Barrow Coleman (1918 - 2003). Photo Taken 1942.

K.D., as he was known, grew up in Wilson, North Carolina, after the age of four. As all kids in the neighborhood did at his age, he played and learned how to swim at the Wilson Recreation Park on the opposite side of Ripley Road from where he lived. Later, while in high school, he would eat hamburgers at The Creamery with his cousin, James Michael Paschall Coleman, III (1946 - ), during visits from Richmond.

1955 1962 Kenneth Durwood Kennedy. Jr.

314 K.D. would go on to graduate from R.L. Fike High School in 1960 where he was a member of the National Honor Society and played varsity Golf.

Graduation from Duke University would occur in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and was followed in 1965 with a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University.

He would marry on 21 August 1965 the R.L. Fike High School’s 1962 Homecoming Queen and girl voted “Most Popular”, Sara Lynn Riley, of Wilson, North Carolina. Sara Lynn was also a member of the National Honor Society as well as a varsity cheerleader. She graduated from Meredith College in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education.

Sara Lynn Riley Sara Lynn and Kenneth 1962 1963 1965

K.D. grew up in the family business, Electric Supply Company, and worked there on the weekends and in the summer. After college, he went into the army for six years after working at a telephone company for about a year. After the army K.D. went to work full time at Electric Supply.

Although K.D. always wanted to understand how things worked, especially the human psyche, he wasn’t educated in psychology, the arts, or creative writing.

Being introduced into the arts by Sara Lynn, he began to “open a new window” for himself and his family about twenty-five years ago. Soon thereafter, he began acting, singing, writing, fundraising, and sharing his business and technical acumen with the Raleigh arts community.

This passion became a family affair as his children, Katherine, Lauren, and Michael have become, to differing degrees, professional performers in musical recording and theater. His oldest son, Ken, due to his lack of artistic fervor, thinks possibly that he was adopted.

Kenneth Kennedy, Jr. has been an important influence on Raleigh, particularly downtown, chairing and serving on Boards almost too numerous to mention (BTI Performing Arts Center Planning and Development, North Carolina Theatre, North

315 Carolina Ethics Commission, City of Raleigh Convention Center Committee, BB&T, North Carolina Alternative Energy Corporation, and North Carolina Beautiful.

He’s the co-founder and executive producer of “Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy” theatre series (which performs in the K.D. Kennedy Theatre in the Performing Arts complex).

The Kennedys make their home at 1525 Carr Street, Raleigh, North Carolina. This house was built by James A. Davidson for Howard White, President of the H. W. Lumber Company of Raleigh. Mr. White was the first Secretary-Treasurer of the North Carolina Pine Association when it was formed in 1914.

John Knox Barrow (1890 - 1969), grandfather of Kenneth Durwood Kennedy. Jr.. was a charter member of the North Carolina Pine Association and a business associate of Mr. White. It is quite likely that John Barrow was a frequent visitor to 1525 Carr Street in the 1920’s and 1930’s.

Residence Of Kenneth Durwood Kennedy, Jr. 1525 Carr St, Raleigh, NC

Children of K D. Kennedy and Sara Lynn Riley:

a. Kenneth D. Kennedy, III, was born on 31 May 1969 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Lives at 3215 Sussex Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife Meg Morgan McCants. Kenneth and Meg have one child, Connor McCants Kennedy.

b. Katherine Riley Kennedy was born on 25 June 1971 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Lives at 1002 Cowper Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina, with her significant other Joseph Garliss. Previously married to Brendon Joseph Kelly (1996 – 2002) and Ben Stimpson (2003 – 2006). Children are Fiona Kennedy Kelly, Aidan Daniel Kelly,

316 Gavin Joseph Kelly, Henry Knox Gladstone Garliss, Scarlett Forbes Garliss and Oscar Fellows Garliss. c. Sara Lauren Kennedy was born on 3 September 1973 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Lives at 1000 Banbury Road in Raleigh, North Carolina. Previously married to Bruce Alan Campbell (1999 – 2014). Lauren and Alan have one child Riley Rose Campbell. d. Michael W. Kennedy was born on 5 June 1978 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Not married.

317 4. Susan Barrow Kennedy was born on 19 May 1949 to Dorothy Zelma Barrow (1918 - 2014) and Kenneth Durwood Kennedy (1913 - 2007) in Wilson, North Carolina.

Susan graduated from R.L. Fike High School in 1967, and from Meredith College in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and then from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Masters degree.

1951 1971 Susan Barrow Kennedy

She married John Henry Smith, III, of Philadelphia, PA and Goochland, Virginia, on 3 October 1981.

Susan and her husband Jack lived in Goochland, Virginia, on their farm for over twenty- five years. Jack died in late 2012. Jack was an outstanding citizen of Richmond and was instrumental in several church congregations being formed and facilities established.

Jack and Susan had one son, Dustin Walker Smith, who is a businessman in Richmond, Virginia. Dustin Smith is married to Christy Philips Smith, and they have one young son, Ethan Walker Smith, who was born in January of 2013.

K.D. Kennedy related, “My sister Susan is a caring sister and a fine person. She has not one bone of selfishness in her. She is giving and always ready to help her family or friends whenever they ask her to do so. She watched my mother and adapted a lot of Dorothy’s goodness, care, and concern for others.”

318 Chapter 35

DNA Review

DNA research is based on the 46 chromosomes that every human being has. The gender- determining chromosomes are X from the mother and either X or Y from the father. If X from the father, the child is female and if Y from the father the child is male. The Y- chromosome can be traced from father to son to son and on down the male line.

Information stored in the Y chromosome passes virtually unchanged from father-to-son for centuries. Based on the number of genetic markers shared on the Y chromosome with another person, an estimate can be made as to how many generations in the past the common paternal ancestor lived. This is called Time to the Most Recent Common Ancestor

DNA tests of the type submitted by the author indicate a 95% chance that the common ancestor is within 23 generations.

A yDNA analysis of a sample submitted by the author indicates a direct paternal relationship (66 of 67 markers) with Charles P. Coleman of Halifax County, North Carolina, who was a known descendant of Robert Coleman who was born before approximately 1622, bought land in 1652 in Charles City County, Virginia, and died in 1688 in Virginia. The DNA sample tied to Charles P. Coleman was submitted to Family Tree DNA as Kit Number 101164 by Charles Adrian Coleman.

Robert Coleman of Charles City County, Virginia, was the brother of William Coleman who was born by 1639, and arrived in Virginia by 1655. Robert was also the brother of Nicholas and Thomas Coleman who were identified from genealogical documentation by Mississippi Governor James P. Coleman.

Thus, the antecedent of the author, Robert Coleman, of Charles City County, Virginia, has been identified by genealogical documentation and confirmed by yDNA analysis.

The same yDNA analysis of a sample submitted by the author also indicates a direct paternal relationship (66 of 67 markers) with Charles S. Coleman of Fairfield County, South Carolina, who was a known descendant of Robert Coleman I of Nansemond County, Virginia, born in approximately 1650 and died in approximately 1700. The DNA sample tied to Charles S. Coleman was submitted to Family Tree DNA as Kit Number 62192 by Phillip Vance Coleman of California.

Robert Coleman I of Nansemond County, Virginia, is by yDNA definition a descendant of an antecedent of Robert Coleman of Charles City County, Virginia. The specific antecedent, however, is unknown at this time.

The previously discussed genealogical relationships are detailed as follows:

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Antecedents And Descendants of the Author

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Author’s Notes to Researchers

General Background

When the documentation of early Virginia Coleman families is examined, it becomes evident that there are four independent and geographically separated Coleman families in Virginia at the same time, all headed by an individual named Robert Coleman. These four families were:

x Robert Coleman of Nansemond County x Robert Coleman of Isle of Wight County x Robert Coleman of Charles City County x Robert Coleman of Mobjack Bay, Gloucester County

An understanding of these four families is critical in understanding the history of these separate, but potentially related families.

Sherrianne Coleman Nicol, author of the 1998 book, The Coleman Family of Mobjack Bay Virginia, has summarized the four Robert Coleman families of early Virginia as follows:

1. Nansemond County, Virginia

Robert Coleman, first recorded in Nansemond County in 1684, had two sons, William and Robert. They died in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, in 1751 and 1761 respectively.

For more on this line, refer to the e-book, Descendants of Robert Coleman of Nansemond County Virginia, 1684-1930, by Wesley D. Coleman of Friendswood, Texas.

It has been determined by the DNA analysis of the author that the Nansemond County Coleman family and the Charles City County Coleman family (a portion of which settled in Warren County and Halifax County, North Carolina, have a common male antecedent.

The details of this DNA analysis can be found in Chapter 35, DNA Review, of this book.

The common antecedent of Robert Coleman I of Nansemond County and Robert Coleman of Charles City County is not yet known, and is therefore a prime area for additional research. It is suspected, however, that since the two Roberts share the same Christian name, their common antecedent goes back another two generations.

321 2. Isle of Wight County, Virginia

Robert Coleman of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, did not leave any male descendants. Sherrianne Coleman Nicol, author of The Coleman Family of Mobjack Bay Virginia notes that Robert Coleman of Isle of Wight County, Virginia transported a headright named Robert Coleman and thereby received land 29 September 1667 in exchange for the cost of transportation. The official record is Virginia Patent Book 6, Page 181. "On 29 Sep 1667, Robert of Isle of Wight was granted 634 acres in Isle of Wight Co. - 300 purchased from Ambrose Bennet and 334 for transporting seven persons, including a Robert Coleman. The headright Robert Coleman is most likely the Nansemond County Robert Coleman. Nansemond and Isle of Wight bordered each other

By paying for the transportation, Robert Coleman of Isle of Wight County, Virginia gained the services of Robert Coleman as an indentured servant. Sherrianne Coleman Nicol speculates this indentured servant could have been later known as Robert Coleman, I of Nansemond County, Virginia, discussed above.

Since Robert Coleman of Isle of Wight County left no male descendants, he can be eliminated from further discussion in this book.

3. Charles City County, Virginia

Robert Coleman was recorded as buying land in Charles City County, Virginia, in 1652. For more on this line, refer to the book, Robert Coleman from Virginia to Texas, 1652- 1965, by former Mississippi Governor James P. Coleman, now deceased.

This book, The Coleman Family of Warren County, North Carolina, by James M.P. Coleman, III, adds further insights to Governor Coleman’s work by following a descendant, Peter Coleman Jr., of Amelia County, Virginia, into Warren County, North Carolina.

It has been determined by the DNA analysis of the author and genealogical research that the Charles City County Coleman family, the Halifax County, North Carolina Coleman family and the Warren County North Carolina Coleman family have a common male antecedent, Robert Coleman of Charles City County. The details of this DNA analysis can be found in Chapter 35, DNA Review, of this book.

If it can be proven that Robert Coleman of Charles City County, Virginia had the three additional brothers named by Governor Coleman as William, Thomas and Nicholas, it would help determine the relationship between the Coleman families of Nansemond County, Isle of Wight County, Charles City County, and Gloucester County, Virginia.

Governor Coleman states in his book, “Over a period of approximately thirteen years, the writer has thoroughly studied every record he could find in Virginia, North Carolina, and

322 South Carolina on all Coleman family lines. He is convinced that all four of the Robert Colemans heretofore mentioned were most likely connected”.

He goes on to say,” The documentary proof necessary to prove this beyond a reasonable doubt can no longer be unearthed, if indeed it ever existed. Yet, an exhaustive study of the surrounding circumstances and family lines shows that, except as to Robert of Isle of Wight who left no descendants by the name of Coleman, all three of the others had descendants through many generations of the same given name, repeated over and over from generation to generation, such as Robert, John, Francis, William, Thomas, Stephen, Charles, and many others which could be cited”.

It is suggested by the author that this logic be examined in more detail by future researchers.

4. Mobjack Bay, Gloucester County, Virginia

Robert Coleman of Mobjack Bay, Gloucester County, Virginia, was first recorded in 1638 in Upper Norfolk County, Virginia. He was listed as a headright of Thomas Symons on a list from Upper Norfolk County on 2 Mar 1638.

Coleman probably arrived in York County, Virginia before 1645. Settlers throughout the Virginia colony had crowded into York in anticipation of the eventual opening of Indian lands to the north. Neither Gloucester nor Lancaster counties were open for white settlement until 1649.

Robert Coleman was among the early colonists in Gloucester County, which was opened for white settlement on 1 September 1649.

For more on this Coleman line, refer to the book, The Coleman Family of Mobjack Bay Virginia by Sherrianne Coleman Nicol, now deceased.

Sherrianne Nicol suggests that those interested in pursuing the ancestry of Robert Coleman of Mobjack Bay, should start with the Edward Colman of Suffolk, England whose will was proved in 1596.

Edward Colman of Suffolk, England, has a will recorded in Brent-Eleigh Parish, which reads as follows,

“Edward Colman of Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, clothier, 27 October 1596, proved 23 November 1598. The tenement with yards and gardens belonging, and now or late in the tenure of William Kendall, called Cobbe’s I give to the poor people and the children of the parish. Mr. Lovell our minister and Mr. Knewstubbe and Mr. Sandes. To Francis Thornedike my grandchild twenty pounds at his full age of one and twenty upon condition that my son in law Francis Thorndike and his wife Alice my daughter shall, upon sufficient request, release unto my son William Colman all their right & c. in a tenement called Sheppardes wherein my cousin Charles Ray now dwells and other land.

323 My grandchild Robert Colman son unto William Colman. Edward Colman my grandchild son to my son Samuel. My eldest son William. My manor called Abbott’s Hall in Brent Leigh. His eldest son John Colman. My manor called the Badleys in Great Waldingfield. Freehold lands bought of John Kendall. Robert Colman the second son of my son William. My tenement in Pentlowe called Ropers. Copyhold land holden of the manor of Foxheard, in the tenure of George Clerke of Pentlowe. Other lands. Son Samuel. Son William executor. Signed and sealed 1 November 1596."

Additional Areas For Future Research

The author suggests four additional areas for future genealogical research.

Area One for Additional Future Research

The first suggested area is the final determination of the British father of Robert Coleman as discussed in Chapter 1. Richard Coleman (born in 1593 Suffolk, England, died in 1650) is generally accepted by genealogists to be the father of four sons named William, Robert, Thomas and Nicholas Coleman, who immigrated to Virginia.

The author has not, however, uncovered documents which prove this connection between Richard and the four sons, William, Robert, Thomas and Nicholas Coleman.

Judge James P. Coleman in his book, The Robert Coleman Family from Virginia To Texas 1652 – 1965, identifies the four brothers who immigrated to Virginia as William, Robert, Thomas and Nicholas. The Honorable James P. Coleman was elected Governor of Mississippi in 1955 and is a well-respected genealogist.

As previously mentioned Governor Coleman states in his book, “The author has found many printed references, from many sources of family traditions that Thomas Coleman, William Coleman, and Nicholas Coleman came to Virginia "together" and were brothers. It is understood that Nicholas Coleman later migrated to Pennsylvania. It is altogether reasonable to suppose that they came to join Robert Coleman, Sr., who was there by 1652, and equally reasonable to suppose that all four were brothers”.

While the DNA analysis presented in this book confirms only one of the four brothers (Robert) the author defers to the judgment of Governor Coleman on the relationship of Thomas, William and Nicholas. Their presence in Virginia has been confirmed by Charles City County Court Orders 1655-1658.

The final documentation that Richard Coleman (born in 1593 Suffolk, England, died in 1650) is the father of William, Robert, Thomas and Nicholas of Charles City County, Virginia, remains to be accomplished.

324 Area Two for Additional Future Research

The older William Coleman detailed in Chapter 3 of this book was probably born in the 1630s, given that he first appears in Virginia in 1656. Some genealogists believe that he was born in Wales, England, and that he was one of four brothers that came to Virginia. The location of his birth in Wales has not been proven and thus, requires further research.

His date of death is not known. The author concludes that he most likely died by 1720 given a life expectancy of eighty years.

Little is known of him, except that he settled in 1656 on the south side of the James River, in Charles City County, which became Prince George County in 1703, per Order Book, page 50.

The next mention after 1656 of William Coleman in the court documents was in 1704 at which time William Coleman is shown in the Prince George County 1704 quit rent roll, where Robert Coleman’s son, William Coleman, Jr., also appears for the first time.

The author believes that additional research is needed to further document the 48 year period between 1656 and 1704 for additional references on William Coleman and to further differentiate the documentation between Robert Coleman’s brother and Robert Coleman’s son, both named William.

Area Three for Additional Future Research

The third area of suggested future research can be found also in Chapter 1 and relates to the discovery of the common antecedent of the Nansemond County Coleman family and the Charles City County Coleman family. The existence of a common ancestor was discovered by the author of this book through the results of his DNA analysis.

For more on the Nansemond County Coleman family, refer to the e-book, Descendants of Robert Coleman of Nansemond County Virginia, 1684-1930, by Wesley D. Coleman of Friendswood, Texas.

It has been determined by the DNA analysis of the author that the Nansemond County Coleman family and the Charles City County Coleman family (a portion of which settled in Warren County and Halifax County, North Carolina, have a common male (father) antecedent. The common antecedent is, however, not yet known and is therefore, a prime area for additional research.

The details of this DNA analysis can be found in Chapter 35, DNA Review, of this book.

It is suspected, however, that since the two Roberts share the same Christian name, their common antecedent goes back another two generations.

325 Area Four for Additional Future Research

The fourth area of suggested future research can be found in Chapter 5, concerning the marriage(s) of Peter Coleman. Jr. (1740 – 1800).

The will of Peter Coleman, Jr., dated 12 May 1800, was filed in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, on 17 May 1800. The will names his wife Sarah. The will is on file as CR 028.901, Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Additional details on the will of Peter Coleman, Jr., can be found in Appendix 4 of this book.

The will does not give Sarah’s last name. It could be possible to conclude, however, that due to (1) the large number of Thompson’s involved in the probate of Peter’s will; (2) the name of Peter’s youngest son being Thompson Jonas Coleman, (3) Peter Coleman’s first cousin John Coleman witnessed a deed on 29 August 1758 for Thomas Bell of Surry County, Virginia, the husband of Mary Thompson, daughter of Samuel Thompson and Sarah Edwards - Mary Thompson was the sister of Peter Coleman’s then future wife, Sarah, and (4) Sarah being an often given name to Thompson daughters, that the last name of Peter’s wife was Thompson.

If Sarah Thompson was the wife of Peter Coleman, Jr., it should be noted that the record indicates that in December 1781 Sarah had not yet married Peter Coleman, Jr., since Sarah’s mother referred, in her will of 12 December 1781, to her daughter as, “Sarah, relict of the late Jacob Williams”.

Thus, it is likely that Sarah Thompson Coleman was not married to Peter unit after 1781.

Based on the estimated marriage date to Sarah Thompson being after 1781 and the 1791 census data, it appears that some of Peter’s children were born prior to 1775, perhaps to a previous wife of Peter Coleman. No record, however, substantiates this belief.

While the above facts build a circumstantial case, a marriage bond between Peter Coleman, Jr., and Sarah Thompson has not been found. There is no record of it either in the Amelia County, Virginia, records or the Warren County, North Carolina records.

There is, however, an undated Marriage Bond on file in the courthouse concerning another woman. Salley Jones of Warren County is shown as the bride, Jesse Bell is recorded as a co-signer and M. Duke Johnson Clerk of Court as Witness. Jesse Bell is thought to be born in 1772 and thus, could not have signed the marriage bond before 1790. Jesse was married on 4 December 1798. Jesse’s signatures on both marriage bonds match. Marma Duke Johnson signed the bond as Clerk of Court, Warren County, North Carolina. Marma Duke became Clerk of Court on July 21, 1779, and served until 1812.

326 Since the name “Sarah” and “Salley” are often used interchangeably it is possible that Salley Jones is the “Sarah” named in Peter’s will.

Further investigation into the marriage(s) of Peter Coleman, Jr. (1740 – 1800) is also a suggested area for future research.

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