Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Zill Coleman

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Zill Coleman was born in 1819, in Hickman County, Tenn., and is a son of Enos 
and Mary (Harrington) Coleman. The father was an early settler in Hickman 
County, where he spent the greater part of his life engaged in farming. He was 
an educated man, and served some time as constable. The [p.1134] mother was born 
in North Carolina, and was nearly grown when she went to Tennessee, traveling 
there by wagon. She was the mother of ten children: John and Eliza (twins), 
Erzilla, Zill, E., Caledonia, Alexander and James (twins), Emeline and Caroline 
(twins). She and her husband died in Tennessee. The grandparents on both sides 
were natives of North Carolina, immigrated to Tennessee and died in the latter 
State. Mr. Coleman, our subject, grew to man hood in Tennessee, where he 
received a common-school education and worked upon the farm. After becoming 
fifteen he worked for wages three years, and when eighteen married Fannie Neal, 
who died in 1862, and was the mother of seven children, five now living: Enos, 
Young, Erzilla, Thomas and Sarah. Those deceased are Martha and McIlvina. Mr. 
Coleman was married a second time, to Mrs. Harriet (McCurdy) Lucas, daughter of 
Samuel and Rachel McCurdy, natives of Bedford County, Tenn. Mrs. Coleman was 
born in the same county, and when a young girl came to Arkansas. She is the 
mother of two children, Robert R. and Charles (deceased). By her first husband 
she also had two children, William F. and Samuel. Mr. Lucas died in California. 
Mr. Coleman came to Crawford County in 1841, and is now the largest tax payer in 
this section of the country, owning 1,040 acres of land, 200 acres being finely 
cultivated. He is a strong Republican. Two of his sons, Jasper and Young, served 
in the Confederate army, and Enos was a Union soldier. Having been a resident of 
this county so many years, Mr. Coleman enjoys the respect and esteem of the 
community, but although a public-spirited man has never wished to hold public 
office. He is a zealous worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which Mrs. 
Coleman also belongs. He belongs to the Farmers' Alliance.