Greene County AlArchives Biographies.....Coleman, Wiley 1819 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    WILEY COLEMAN, Attorney-at-law, was born near Goldsboro. N. C., in 1819, and
is a son of John and Rhoda (Cobb) Coleman, natives of the same State. The
Coleman family, of whom there is a great number, came originally from England.

    John Coleman came from North Carolina with his family, and first settled in
Bibb County, Ala., in 1819 From there he removed to Greene County, in 1821, and
here lived until his death. He was engaged here, as formerly, in planting; was a
good farmer, a good neighbor, and a member of the Baptist Church; owned many
slaves and was in many respects a successful man. He ranked among the best
people of his part of the State, and left a posterity that has always borne an
excellent name for all the better traits of human nature.

    Wiley Coleman was educated at Tuscaloosa and La Grange, this State. He
graduated in law at the University of Virginia, in the year 1842, and has
devoted most of his life to its practice in Eutaw. So far his life has flowed
along smoothly and harmoniously, with no more than the ordinary number of
exceptions. He was never married.

    He was in the Mexican War for a short time; has held few political offices,
being one of those philosophical natures that preferred the quiet satisfaction
of a tranquil life to the broils and heart-burnings that invariably fall to the
lot of aspirants for public favor.

    Mr. Coleman was made Judge of Greene County for one term, in 1846, and
represented the county in the Legislature two terms during the war. He was a
member of the State Constitutional Convention which formed a new Constitution
for the State, in 1875.

    Being now at the age when men cease, generally speaking, to be troubled with
the cares and excitement of life, he is, to use his own expression, taking his
ease in the quiet retirement of private life.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
COTTON BELT.


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