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William Allen Coleman was born 25 Sep 1838 in Powder Springs, Cobb co., GA., 
son of Henry Allen Coleman and Sarah Ann Barnes.  He married first to Cynthia 
Florence Riggs, daughter of John and Jane Florence (McKenzie) Riggs. From this 
marriage there issued John W. Coleman and William Forrest Coleman. 
William Allen Coleman served with Company E, 1st Georgia Cavalry during the War 
Between The States.

!BIOGRAPHY:416,MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA; Vol. 1;Southern Historical Society:
W.A. COLEMAN, farmer and banker, Carrollton, Carroll Co., Ga., son of Henry
A. and Sarah Ann (Barnes) Coleman, was born in 1838. His paternal grandparent,
George Coleman, was a native of South Carolina, and came from that state to
Georgia early in this century. His father was born in Putnam county, Ga., in
1814, was reared a farmer, and was a soldier in the Indian war of 1836. For
many years he was a bailiff, and also a major of militia in Cobb county,Ga.,
when to be a major was something of a distinction locally. He was a prominent
member of the Missionary Baptist church. His maternal grandparents, James and
Sarah (McKenzie) Barnes, were among the early settlers of Lincoln county, Ga.
Mr. Coleman was reared on a farm in DeKalb county, and what little education he
received was at the old-time log school so many times described elsewhere in
this volume, and in obtaining it had to go three or four miles barefooted. In
October, 1861, he enlisted in Company E (Capt. Sharpe), First Georgia cavalry,
and continued in the service untill April 26, 1865.  He was in many hard-fought
battles, notably Chickamauga, Resaca, Kennesaw and Marietta---all the way to
Atlanta and Savannah.  He was on the skirmish line when Stoneman surrendered,
and although he was neither wounded nor captured during the war, he narrowly
escaped both.  A spirit of enterprise and adventure took him to Honduras,
Central America, in 1868, when he carried with him the necessary machinery and
implements  to engage extensively in saw-milling, fruit growing and
cane-culture.  He sawed the first lumber ever sawed and baled the first cotton
ever baled for shipment in that country.  His extensive manufacturing,
agriculture and property interests in Honduras are now in charge of his son,
William F., who resides there.  From that source he derives a very large
income, in addition to that from a large, well-improved farm in Carroll county,
for, in addition to successfully managing enterprises so large and so remote,
he prides himself on being one of the best farmers in this county.  His success
in everything he has undertaken has been phenomenal.  He changed his residence
from his farm to Carrollton, where he has an elegant home , so as to educate
his children.  He is one of the directors of the Carrollton bank.  Mr. Coleman
was married in 1858 to Miss Cynthia Riggs---born in Butts county,
Ga.---daughter of John and Jane (Florence) Riggs, early settlers.  Mr. Riggs
was born in South Carolina, ran away from home and came to Georgia when sixteen
years of age, and afterward became a Baptist minister of note.  This wife died
in 1877, leaving one child, William F., now in Honduras.  In January, 1879, Mr.
Coleman married Miss Clara, daughter of Valentine and Eliza (Gant) Kolb, a
family of wealth, and among the first settlers of Meriwether county, Ga.  By
this marriage two children have been born to him---Laura and James.  Mrs.
Coleman is a member of the Missionary Baptist church and Mr. Coleman is a
master Mason.  (End)
Post Script:
1st MARRIAGE: Married 23 Dec 1858 to Cynthia F. Riggs of Butts county, Ga.,
d/o Rev John and Jane(Florence)Riggs of South Carolina, in Carroll co. Ga.
CHILDREN:
John W. Coleman, b. 1859   d. Abt 1896
William Forrest Coleman, b.17 Mar 1864  m.Yndalecia Paredes  d.10 Feb 1944

2nd MARRIAGE: Married, 14 Feb 1879, to Clara E. Kolb of Cobb county, d/o
Valentine and Eliza (Gant) Kolb , in Cobb county, Ga.
CHILDREN:
Carlos Coleman, b. 25 Sep 1881  d. 8 Jun 1884
Laura Kolb Coleman, b. 29 Feb 1884  m. Edwin Cleveland Kingsbery

James Henry Coleman, b. Abt 1887
3rd MARRIAGE: Married, 16 Feb 1898, to Mollie Bailey of Carroll county, in
Carrollton, Carroll county, Ga.
CHILDREN: (none)


Additional Comments:
William Allen Coleman is buried in the Carrollton City Cemetery along with 2d 
wife Clara Kolb, 3rd wife Molly Baily, and grandson Arthur B. Coleman of San 
Pedro Sula, Honduras. 
First wife Cynthia F. (Riggs) Coleman, H.A. Coleman, Sarah A. (Barnes) Coleman, 
and grandmother: Nancy (Bufford also Burford) Coleman, wife of George Coleman, 
are buried at the Bethel Baptist Church cemetery near Temple in Carroll county.

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