Send e-mail to: woody.coleman@yahoo.comWelcome to my Coleman-Young family history and genealogy. This tree contains research of the family of Elwood R. Coleman, Sr. of LaCeiba, Honduras, his wife Merle Anita Young of Homerville, Clinch county, Georgia and their kin. This research is a continual work in progress. Updates and corrections occur as new information and discoveries arise. To submit new information, updates or corrections; please send email to Woody Coleman at : woody.coleman@yahoo.com The Coleman Family Our Coleman family is of Scot-Irish descent and came to America from northern Ireland in the early 1700's. Until recently, it has been believed that the ancestral home was in South Carolina but recent information indicates North Carolina. In any case my Coleman family migrated to Georgia and they appear in the early records of Putnam county, Georgia. Henry Allen Coleman, my third great grandfather, was born there in 1814 to George and Nancy (Burford) Coleman. My research indicates that they were probably married in Greene county, Georgia though I have not yet found a record of it. George Coleman appears to have died by 1819 because in that year, Nancy remarried to William Allen of Putnam county, GA. The Allen family according to our family oral history were cousins. William Allen died around the year 1825. That was the year that he initiated his Last Will and Testament naming his wife Nancy, her son Henry Allen Coleman and Sally Allen Coleman as beneficieries. The relationship of Sally Allen Coleman was not mentioned in William Allen's WILL but I believe her to be Henry's sister. After the death of William Allen in Putnam co., GA. He and his mother moved to DeKalb co., GA. where they became members of the household of Phillip H. Burford. There are some family histories published that claim Henry A. Coleman as the son of Sarah Burford, daughter of Phillip H. Burford, who married Nancy but this incorrect. A visit to the Bethel Baptist Church cemetery near the town of Temple, in Carroll county, Georgia clearly disproves the claim. There is buried Nancy Bufford,(the spelling changed after 1860)," mother of H.A. Colman," appearing on the gravestone inscription, and also next to Henry's grave is the grave of Sarah Ann, wife of Henry Allen Coleman. From this evidence, there can be no doubt that Henry was the the son of Nancy Burford and that he was the husband of Sarah Ann Barnes, daughter of James P. Barnes who in 1830 was a neighbor of Phillip H. Burford. With regard to the relationship of Henry's mother, in this case, Nancy, to Phillip H. Burford, it is very unlikely that she could be his daughter since she was born in 1782. Phillip's and Nancy's birth years indicate that they more than likely to be brother and sister.
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