J. M. COLEY, M. D., 
                          Welsh  P. 0.
                        Calcasieu Parish


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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 141.

Contributed by Margaret Moore                         


J.M. Coley is a native of Louisiana, born in 1831. HiS father, 
John Coley, a native of France, was a farmer and carpenter. He
married Cynthia Perry, of Newton county, Georgia. They are the 
parents of seven children. six of whom are living: C.C., W. S., 
Martha J. (wife of John Hendreck), Mary E. (wife of B. Hubard),
Cynthia A. (wife of John Simpson), and J. M. (subject of
this sketch). Mrs. Coley died in Oxford, Georgia, in 1840. John 
Coley married again, and to this union have been born four 
children: Thomas, George and Frances (twins), and Samuel. Mr. 
Coley lost his life in a storm in 1853. His widow survived him 
until 1881.
Our subject received his education in the common and high
schools of Oxford, Georgia. He began the study of medicine in 
1854, attending lectures at the Philadelphia Medical College and
graduated in the class of I857.  
Immetliately thereafter he began to practise in Randolph county,
Ala. Soon after he emigrated to Texas, where he remained until
1859, when he came to Louisiana and located in the parish of
Calcasieu, where he has since remained. He was married in
1851 to Miss Amy Dennis, a native of Georgia. To them has
been born one son--John W. In 1860 he again married, selecting as
his wife Mrs. Eran Hay. Nine children have been born to
them, six of whom are now living: Isabella, Alcide,
Onezer, Tebitha, Triphena and Cylithia. In 1862 our subject
enlisted in the Confederate service, joining Company E,
Daly'S battallion of cavalry. He served until the close of
the war. He was only in one serious engagement, the battle
of Vermilion, but was in a number of skirmishes. After the
war be returned to Calcasicu parish and engaged in farming
and the practice of medicine. He has a farm of two hundred acres 
of fine land, a small portion of which he cultivates. He 
devotes considerable attention to fruit raising. Dr. Coley
is a member of the I. O. O. F., Chapel Hill Lodge, No. 117. He
has always been prominent in the order, and has served his
lodge as vice grand secretary and warden. He has a large
professional business, it host of friends, and is one of the
prominent men of his community.