Biography of Abraham F Coleman, Sebastian Co, AR

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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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Abraham F. Coleman, farmer and stock raiser of Sulphur Township, was born in
Rowan County, N. C.,  June 30, 1835, and is a son of James D. and Sarah E.
(Mann) Coleman, natives of North Carolina, where they  lived until 1860. They
then removed to Newton County, Mo., and during the war came to Benton County,
Ark.  They afterward located in Sebastian County, where the mother died on
January 9, 1884, and the father January 8, 1885. The grandfather, James
Coleman, was born in Virginia, and was of German and Irish descent. Our
subject is the oldest of a family of eight children, and during his youth his
early education was received at the  common schools of North Carolina. In 1855
he left home, and going to the Granby lead mines of Newton  County, Mo.,
remained there until the war. In 1862 he joined Company H, Second Kansas
Cavalry. He fought  in the battle at Saline, and operated in Missouri and
Arkansas until mustered out at Fort Gibson at the close of  the war. He then
went to Lawrence, Kas., and from there came to this county, where he has since
made his  home. In December, 1870, he married Lucy A., daughter of James and
Eliza Crockett, who came to Missouri  from Kentucky, where Mrs. Coleman was
born, and then immigrated to Arkansas in 1859, settling in Sebastian  County.
Mr. Crockett is now living in Chickasaw Nation; his wife died here. The union
of Mr. and Mrs.  Coleman has been blessed with six children, all but two now
living. Mr. Coleman owns 200 acres of land, forty  being bottom land. He has
improved and cultivated ninety acres, and is a self-made man. He settled upon
his farm when it was surrounded by a wilderness, inhabited by wild animals, and
when there were but five houses  between his farm and Fort Smith. Mr. Coleman
cast his first presidential vote for Buchanan in 1856. After the  war he was a
Republican until the Baxter trouble, when he again espoused Democratic
principles.