Spalding-Henry-Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....David Harper Coleman January 17 1977
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The Houston Chronicle, Houston, Texas, January 19, 1977
COLEMAN
DAVID H. COLEMAN, 47, of Houston, died Monday, January 17, 1977. Houston 
resident for 13 years. Assistant District Manager for Scott Paper Co.  Member 
of Westbury Baptist Church. Survivors: Wife, Mrs. Doris H. Coleman, Houston; 
mother, Mrs. Ruby Starr Coleman, Griffin, Ga.; sons, David Harper Coleman Jr., 
Dallas; Donald Walter Coleman, Dana Timothy Coleman, Daryl Kevin Coleman, 
Daniel Scott Coleman, all of Houston; daughter-in-law, Mrs. Barbara Coleman, 
Dallas; sister, Mrs. Mary Edna McLean of The Netherlands.  Funeral services 1 
p.m. Thursday at the Westbury Baptist Church, 10425 Hillcroft with Dr. Milton 
Cunningham officiating.  Burial in Memorial Oaks Cemetery.  Geo. H. Lewis & 
Sons, 2530 Sage Road at Westheimer, 621-6500.

Additional Comments:
David Harper Coleman, Sr. was born in Henry County, Georgia on October 27, 
1929 to Walter Coleman and Ruby Florence Starr Coleman.  David grew up in the 
Birdie community of northwestern Spalding County, near the confluence of 
Spalding, Fayette, Clayton and Henry Counties.  During his childhood, nearly 
all of his family were associated with the County Line Methodist Church in 
Birdie.  David attended primary schooling in Vaughan, Spalding County.  
Secondary education was attended at Spalding County Schools.  David served 
with the U.S. Army Air Corps from about 1946 to 1949, before returning to 
Griffin.  Upon returning to Griffin, he worked for Griffin Sales and Service.  
While in Griffin, David met and later married Doris Rebecca Harris of La 
Grange, who is a direct descendant of the Harris families of Pike, Lamar and 
Spalding Counties, as well as the Jones family of Pike/Lamar county.  Shortly 
after joining Scott Paper Company, David and Doris left Griffin for the first 
of many company transfers that would eventually land them in Houston, Texas 
about 12 years later.  
Walter Coleman (12/8/1905-7/15/1963) of Spalding Co., Georgia was the son of 
Walter Flem Coleman (1869-1933) and Mary Elizabeth Hammond (1870-1948), both 
lifelong residents of Spalding County.  Walter Flem Coleman was the son of 
John M.C. Coleman and Sarah Wingfield Ogletree, both of Spalding County.  Mary 
Elizabeth Hammond was the daughter of Charles Milas Hammond and Roseller 
Amanada Crawley, both of Spalding County (Rosie Crawley coming from the 
Crawley family of Pike County, Georgia).
David Coleman's mother, Ruby Starr (born 1911, still lives in Griffin as of 
2003), is the daughter of William Madison Starr (1880-1944) and Edna Jones 
(1886-1957), both of the Hampton area of Henry County, Georgia.  William 
Madison Starr was the son of Milton B. Starr (b. 1856 Fayette Co., d. 1910 
Henry Co.) and Beulah Elizabeth Moore (1862-1933), of Henry County.  Milton B. 
Starr was the son of Hilliard M. Starr (1814-1877), the one-time owner of the 
now famous Starr's Mill.
Edna Jones was the daughter of William Harrison Jones (1843-1923) and Mary 
Elizabeth Cooper (1847-1930).  William Harrison Jones was at one time the 
pastor of the Berea Christian Church in Hampton, Henry County.
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