Rev. Elisha Coleman

1789 - 1860  (71 years)

• Name	Elisha Coleman  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Title	Rev.
  Birth	2 Apr 1789	Burke, Georgia, USA   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Minister  [2]
  Religion	Baptist  [2]
  Residence	1860	District 53, Emanuel, Georgia, USA   [4]
  	Age: 71
  Death	30 Oct 1860	Emanuel, Georgia, USA   [2, 3]
  Burial	Elisha Coleman Cemetery #2, Swainsboro, Emanuel, Georgia, USA   [3, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I2993	tng Genealogy

  
  

  Father	Jonathan Coleman,   b. 9 Oct 1750, Virginia, USA d. 13 Jan 1825, Burke, Georgia, USA (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Millicent Pittman,   b. 3 Feb 1766   d. 30 Dec 1838, Burke, Georgia, USA (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1784	Burke, Georgia, USA   [2]
  Family ID	F1311	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lucretia Whitfield,   b. 1791, Burke, Georgia, USA d. Aug 1828, Burke, Georgia, USA (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	1807	Burke, Georgia, USA   [2]
  Children	1. Sarah Coleman,   b. 28 Dec 1808   d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. John Coleman,   b. 12 Oct 1810, Burke, Georgia, USA d. 1879, Emanuel, Georgia, USA (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Mary Coleman,   b. 30 Jan 1813   d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Jane Coleman,   b. 23 Jan 1815   d. UNKNOWN  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 5. Cynthia Coleman,   b. 16 Sep 1816, Georgia, USA d. 8 Jan 1896, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. William Coleman,   b. 2 Aug 1819, Burke, Georgia, USA d. 7 Nov 1898, Emanuel, Georgia, USA (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 7. Elias Coleman,   b. 18 Sep 1821, Burke, Georgia, USA d. 13 Dec 1897, Emanuel, Georgia, USA (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 8. Elisha S Coleman,   b. 5 Feb 1824, Burke, Georgia, USA d. 22 Jun 1864, Petersburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA (Age 40 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 9. Eliza Coleman,   b. 3 Feb 1826   d. 10 Aug 1894 (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. Welcome Lafayette Coleman,   b. 10 Aug 1828   d. 10 Aug 1828 (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1309	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Lucretia Scott,   b. 27 Nov 1797, Georgia, USA d. 22 Jul 1878, Summertown, Emanuel, Georgia, USA (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	1829	Burke, Georgia, USA   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Alfred Coleman,   b. 10 Nov 1830, Burke, Georgia, USA d. 25 Aug 1881, Emanuel, Georgia, USA (Age 50 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 2. Jeremiah Thaddeus Coleman,   b. 12 May 1833, Burke, Georgia, USA d. 10 Aug 1909, Emanuel, Georgia, USA (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 3. Lucretia Virginia Coleman,   b. 25 Apr 1835, Emanuel, Georgia, USA d. 9 Mar 1892, Emanuel, Georgia, USA (Age 56 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 4. James Emmett Coleman,   b. 18 Apr 1838, Emanuel, Georgia, USA d. 3 Oct 1912, Emanuel, Georgia, USA (Age 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1310	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 2 Apr 1789 - Burke, Georgia, USA Marriage - 1807 - Burke, Georgia, USA Marriage - 1829 - Burke, Georgia, USA Residence - Age: 71 - 1860 - District 53, Emanuel, Georgia, USA Death - 30 Oct 1860 - Emanuel, Georgia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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• Notes

  [CynthiaColeman.ged] Elisha was a man of many talents - man of the cloth, farmer, carpenter, and craftsman. His first wife died in 1828 after bearing ten children. At any time, being left with ten children is a tremendous burden - in those early frontier days it was a terrible crisis. Farming left no time for baby-sitting, even if older children are around to help. In 1829, me married Mary Lucretia, who had at least three children by her first marriage. Their relationship appears to have been a stormy one. Elisha repeatedly puts notices in newspapers that he will no longer honor any debts incurred by her as she has left his bed and board, but then they get back together, and in at least one case, have another child. Mary Lucretia appears to have been quite outspoken, not quite the norm of the time. From FindAGrave: Private 8th Brigade, 1st Division Burke County, Georgia Militia. Rev. Elisha Coleman, son of Jonathan Coleman and Milly Pittman, was born on 2 Apr 1789 in Burke County, Georgia. He died on 30 Oct 1860 in Emanuel County, Georgia From The Christian Index Feb. 13, 1861. Rev. Elisha Coleman Died at the residence of his son, in Emanuel County, Ga., on the 30th October, 1860, Rev. Elisha Coleman in the 72nd year of his age. He was born in Burke County and united himself to the Baptist Church at Bark Camp in Dec. 1832, remained a consistent member (unreadable text), moved to Emanuel County, and joined Old Canoochee Church, and was set apart to the ministry in June 1841, and some few years afterwards constituted and built Haw Hamoc (Hawhammock) Church, and remained as the watch-care of the same until his death. The church has lost her brightest light, and the county one of its best citizens, ever ready to lend the helping hand to the needy and distressed. His theme was to hear and expound the Scriptures. Be it therefore resolved by the church in conference, that his obituary be spread over the minutes of the conference, and sent to the Christian Index with the request to publish the same, and family be presentd with a copy of the same.

  
  

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  [S46] Arthur Clinton Coleman, Arthur Clinton Coleman, (Name: Lee Printing, Inc.;). [S101] CynthiaColeman.ged. Date of Import: 19 Mar 2005 [S541] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78638364/elisha-coleman. Record for Rev Elisha Coleman https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=52079314&indiv=try https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=52079314&indiv=try [S354] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;). Year: 1860; Census Place: District 53, Emanuel, Georgia; Roll: M653_120; Page: 907; Image: 368; Family History Library Film: 803120 http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=11055191&indiv=try [ View Federal Census Document] http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=11055191&indiv=try [S142] Gravestone. [ View gravestone photograph] [S77] Moses M Coleman, Jr, Cemeteries of Emanuel County Georgia, (Name: Vesco, Inc 1998;), Page 77.