"The Colemans were Scotch-Irish and came to America from North Ireland, settling in Charleston, South Carolina in the early 1700's. You can be proud of your Coleman ancestors. They were all fine, upright, courageous, brilliant. They were greatly loved and honored." ... Laura Kolb Coleman Kingsbery, (1884-1971)
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Family of Peter Aaron Young, Jr. (1874-1940)
Military Service:
Born: 25 Aug 1874 Place: Waycross, Ware co., GA.
Died: 21 Aug 1940 Place: Fargo,Clinch co., GA.
Buried: Ramah church cemetery, Homerville,Clinch co.,GA.
Married: 18 Mar 1894,Homerville,Clinch co.,Georgia
Husband's father: Peter Aaron Young, Sr.
Husband's mother: Nancy Malinda Carver
Wife: Eliza Jane Carver
Born: 1875 Place: Ware county,Georgia
Died: 1906 Place: Clinch county, Georgia
Buried: Ramah church cemetery, Homerville, Georgia
Wife's father: James Jefferson Carver
Wife's mother: Anna Jane Parker
Children:
1. (M) Peter Lester Young
Military Service: US Army, WWI, France
Born: 5 Jan 1894 Place: Ware county, Georgia
Died: 10 Nov 1964 Place: Chattahoochee, Florida
Buried: New Hope Baptist Church cemetery,Jasper,FL.
Spouse: Mary Belle Register
Married: 1925, Homerville,Clinch co., GA.
2. (M) George Washington Young
Military Service: US Army, WWI
Born: 22 Dec 1896 Place: Clinch county,Georgia
Died: 14 May 1965 Place: Jasper, Hamilton co., FL.
Buried: New Hope Baptist Church cemetery,Jasper,FL.
Spouse: Lutie Smith
Married: 17 Dec 1922
3. (M) William Newton Young
Military Service:
Born: 11 Dec 1898 Place: Fargo, Clinch co.,GA
Died: 17 Sep 1959 Place: Fargo, Clinch co.,GA
Buried: Ramah church cemetery, Homerville,Clinch co., GA.
Spouse: Ottie Hinson
Married: Bef 1921
4. (M) Willis Young
Military Service:
Born: Abt 1899 Place:
Died: unknown Place:
Buried:
Spouse:
5. (F) Pearl Young
Born: 1905 Place: Clinch county, Georgia
Died: 27 Feb 1942 Place: Union county, Florida
Buried: Keen Cemetery, near Callahan, Florida
Spouse: William Morris Higginbotham
Married:
Friday, January 25, 2008
Family of Peter Lester Young (1894-1964)
Military Service: WWI, US Army, France
Born: 5 Jan 1894 Place: Ware county, Georgia
Died: 10 Nov 1964 Place: Chattahoochee, Florida
Buried: New Hope Baptist Church cemetery, Jasper,Hamilton county , Florida
Married: 1925, Homerville, Clinch county, Georgia
Husband's father: Peter Aaron Young, Jr.
Husband's mother: Eliza Jane Carver
Wife: Mary Belle Register
Born: 2 Oct 1900 Place: Homerville, Clinch co.,GA.
Died: 1945 Place: Jasper, Hamilton co., FL.
Buried: New Hope Baptist Church cemetery, Jasper, Hamilton county, Florida
Wife's father: Augustus Otis Register
Wife's mother: Margaret (Maggie) Cyrena Inman
Children:
1. (F) Merle Anita Young
Born: 10 Jan 1926 Place: Homerville, Clinch co.,GA
Died: 10 Nov 1986 Place: Picayune, MS
Buried: New Hope Baptist Church cemetery, Jasper,FL.
Spouse: Elwood Ransom Coleman
Military Service: US Army, WWII
Married: 2 Feb 1945, Homerville, Clinch county, GA.
2. (F) Sue Alice Young
Born: 4 Dec 1927 Place: Homerville, Clinch co.,GA
Died: Place:
Buried:
Spouse: Willard Fennell
Military Service: US Navy, WWII
Married: Bef 1944
3. (F) Helen Edith Young
Born: 31 Dec 1929 Place:Homerville, Clinch co.,GA
Died: 31 Oct 2006 Place: Jasper, Hamilton co.,FL.
Buried: Evergreen cemetery, Jasper, Hamilton co.,FL.
Spouse: Charles William Goolsby
Military Service: US Navy, WWII
Married: Bef 1947
4. (M) Herschell Otis Young
Military Service: US Army
Born: 11 Jan 1932 Place: Homerville, Clinch co.,GA
Died: 20 Mar 1990 Place: Jasper,Hamilton co.,FL.
Buried: New Hope Baptist Church cemetery, Jasper,FL.
Spouse: Mavis Neilly
5. (M) Aaron Lester Young
Born: 23 Aug 1934 Place: Colon, Clinch co., GA
Died: 13 Jul 2001 Place: Jasper,Hamilton co.,FL
Buried: Evergreen cemetery, Jasper,Hamilton co.,FL.
Spouse: JoAnn McNeill
Married: Bef 1955
6. (M) William Earl Young
Born: 21 Oct 1936 Place: Homerville, Clinch co.,GA
Died: Place:
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Spouse: Peggy Cooper
Married: Bef 1965
7. (M) Norman Aldine Young
Military Service: US Army
Born: 8 Sep 1939 Place: Jasper,Hamilton co.,FL
Died: 9 Apr 1969 Place: Japan
Buried: Garden of Memories, Metairie, Louisiana
Spouse: Irma
Married: Bef 1966
8. (F) Mary Magdaline Young
Born: 19 Apr 1942 Place: Jasper,Hamilton co.,FL
Died: Place:
Buried:
Spouse: Eugene Naranjo
Married: Bef `1964
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Family of John Allen Coleman (1888-1966)
Born: 10 Oct 1888 Place: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Died: 23 Oct 1966 Place: New Orleans, LA.
Buried: Garden of Memories Cemetery,Metairie, LA.
Married: 25 Nov 1911, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Husband's father: William Forrest Coleman
Husband's mother: Yndalecia Paredes
Wife: Marie Antoinette Perez-Follin
Born: 1 Feb 1892 Place: San pedro Sula, Honduras
Died: 17 Oct 1984 Place: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Buried: Jardines Del Rec, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Wife's father: Jose Dolores Perez-Gomez
Wife's mother: Paulina Follin
Children:
1. (M) John Dean Coleman
Military Service: WWII, US Army Air Corps, Europe
Born: 7 Dec 1913 Place: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Died: 11 Nov 1981 Place: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Buried: (Old) Central City Cemetery, SPS, Honduras
Spouse: Helena Pooley
Married: Abt 1940
2. (M) Elwood Ransom Coleman
Military Service: WWII, US Army, Pacific
Born: 21 Apr 1921 Place: Le Ceiba, Honduras
Died: 26 May 1998 Place: New Orleans, LA.
Buried: Garden of Memories Cemetery, Metairie, LA.
Spouse: Merle Anita Young
Married: 2 Feb 1945, Homerville, GA.
3. (F) Ethel Marie Coleman
Born: 19 Oct 1923 Place: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Died: 8 Oct 1965 Place: New Orleans, LA.
Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, LA.
Spouse: Seiward (Steve) Buining
Military Service: WWII, US Merchant Marine
Married: Bef 1940, New Orleans, LA.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Confederados of Spanish Honduras
Having previously planted a Confederate colony in Mexico, Major Green Malcolm of McNairy’s Tennessee Cavalry now planed to set up a system of plantations, modeled after those in the Mississippi River Delta, along the rivers of the interior of Spanish Honduras. Organizing and setting out from Atlanta, Georgia in the Spring of 1867; his colony of thirty Confederate families, seventy in all, made their way to New Orleans where they booked passage to Spanish Honduras.
Despite their difficulties, upon arrival at Fortress Omoa, near Puerto Cortes, Major Malcolm led his colony of Southern refugees into the interior of Honduras where at Comayagua, Honduras he met with representatives of the Republic and presented a letter for President Medina of the Republic of Honduras explaining their reasons for emigration and an offer of services in exchange for citizenship, certain considerations and concessions.
“GENTLEMEN: The undersigned respectfully submits to your consideration that on the 10th of April, after a passage of ten days, I arrived in the city of Omoa with seventy souls, emigrants to your beautiful land. These persons consist of men, women and children who are what might be termed the forerunners of perhaps thousands of the best citizens of the Southern States, of the United States. We wish to make this our home.
To find in this that which we have lost in our own native land, liberty.
To make this what our country was before it was destroyed by our enemies.
Our desire is to become citizens of the Republic at once, to be a part of your people, to claim your protection, to defend you with our lives from foreign invasion, and to do our whole duty to our adopted country.
In coming among you we would state that on account of our recent great misfortunes, many of us are greatly impoverished, and without going into further preliminary remarks, would give this as our reason for asking you to grant the following privileges and donations. ...With the highest consideration, I am gentlemen, your obedient servant.
(Signed)
G. MALCOLM.Comayagua, Honduras, C.A., May 3, 1867.”
The concessions listed below were requested by the Confederate colony and were included in Major Malcolm’s letter to the government of Honduras on May 3rd, 1867.
1st. A grant of land as indicated in the accompanying map.
2nd. A free port at Port Acabellos for three years, for the exclusive benefit of the colony.
3rd. The exclusive navigation of the rivers Chamilicon, Ulua, and their tributaries for ten years.
4th. The right to build roads through public or private lands for the benefit of the Colony and Government.
5th. The right to construct aqueducts and bring water through our and adjacent lands.
6th. The exemption from taxation for two years from the day of arrival.
7th. The privilege of enacting our own municipal regulations in conformity with the laws of the Republic.
8th. The privilege of organizing our city adjacent to San Pedro, separately from that town and naming it the city of Medina.
9th. The exclusive privilege of establishing manufactories for the manufacture of woolen and cotton goods in the Republic for ten years.
10th. The exclusive privilege of introducing for five years, wagons, buggies and carriages, the common sense sewing machine, washing machines of all descriptions with machines for making tin-ware.
11th. The privilege of distilling liquors from the productions of our farms. The privilege of planting and harvesting all seeds in our colony, and introducing the still known as the Log Still.
12th. The privilege of introducing for eight years the circular saw mill run by steam or water, planing machines and shingle machines.The above we acknowledge appears liberal and we would not have you think us asking too much, for we by these privileges and grants, desire and are determined as far as possible to use them to the improvement, development and welfare of thecountry as well as ourselves. ....G. Malcolm.
In reply to Major Malcolm’s letter on behalf of the Confederate colony, permission to settle in Honduras and the following privileges and concessions were granted by President Medina and his Honduran government.
(Extract of document translated in English.)
The President, in whom resides the supreme executive power of the Republic of Honduras.Whereas, Mr. Green Malcolm, a native of the United States, for himself and in behalf of the various families of his nationality has presented a petition, soliciting permission to settle in the territory of the Republic, with the privileges of citizens of Honduras, and subjecting themselves to the laws now in force or that may hereafter be enacted in this country, with which intent they ask certain privileges and concessions.Considering That the Republic is in need of industrious Immigrants to develop the natural resources which abound in our country, and at the Legislative Decree of 23d February of last year authorises the Government to protect this class of enterprises;Therefore, now makes and decrees the following concessions:
1st. It is permitted to the honest and industrious Immigrants from the United States, of the South of North America, who have already come or may hereafter come to this country, to establish, in the District of San Pedro, Department of Santa Barbara, acommunity which shall bear the title of City of Medina.
2d. Besides the common use which the Municipality of San Pedro has granted to said Immigrants in its public lands, under the conditions laid down in the Act presented by Mr. Malcolm, and which the Government has approved, they are also granted thenational lands contiguous to those of San Pedro towards the south, and included within the following boundaries; the Chamilicon and the base of the mountains of the south-west of the said village of San Pedro, a delineation of which will be opportunely made.
3d. Port Cortes shall be free during three years, in order that the settlers of the city of Medina may introduce everything necessary for their consumption, and for the establishment of houses, manufactories, machinery, etc.
4th. Navigation by steam or horse power of the rivers Chamilicon, Ulua and its tributaries, shall be the exclusive privilege of said Immigrants for a period of eight years.
5th. They are also granted the following exclusive privileges:
(1) For ten years, the establishment of machines for manufacturing cotton, woolen and other fibrous goods, and for refining sugar.
(2) For eight years, the establishment of steam or water power mills, for sawing and planing lumber, also wash machines.
(3) The introduction during five years , of wagons, buggies, carriages, the sewing machine known as the Common Sense Sewing Machine,the machine for making tin-ware and the still known as the Log Still,for the distillation of spirituous liquors, and the sale of the same, under the regulations relative to this branch
6th. They shall have the right of constructing roads over national lands, or lands of private persons, for the benefit of themselves and of the Government, and to construct aqueducts to conduct water for the irrigation of their lands.
7th. The settlers of the city of Medina, shall be exempt from military service and forced contributions during two years from their arrival.
8th. They shall have the right to elect for their government, and in conformity with the laws of the Republic, a municipal body; and may, in the meantime, and until they number 500 persons, be ruled by a Governor and a Judge of the Peace whom they shall elect from among themselves, those officers being subordinate, the former to the Governor of Santa Barbara, and the latter to the Judge in the First Instance of Omoa.
9th. They shall have the right to make their own rules and regulations for the internal government of the community, in conformity with the laws of the Republic, and shall submit these to the approbation of the Congress, or the Supreme Executive Power.
10th. The articles which said settlers may ship in the ports of the Republic shall be free from all export duty during a period of eight years.
These concessions shall in no manner operate to the prejudice of the projected Inter-Oceanic Railroad; for, whateverprivileges have been, or may hereafter be granted to the latter, shall be an exception to the present concessions. Let it be understood: that the privileges before mentioned relative to the establishment of machines, shall be confined to the departments of Santa Barbara, Gracies, and Comayagua; excepting for the machine for manufacturing cloths, which shall extend to the whole Republic. If within three years the number of persons within the city now to be founded does not ascend to five hundred at least, the privileges granted under this Act shall remain without effect; but, in such case the immigrants who may already be established shall have the right of property to suchportions of the land granted as shall be found under cultivation.Written in Comayagua, in the Government House, on the 8th dayof May, 1867.___J. Lopez, Ponseano Leiva.{seal} San Pedro, Jan. 29th, 1868.J. REYNAUD.
Soon after establishing their colony, it was decided to place the government of their local interests under the control of a council, in order to avoid the necessity of assembling the entire colony when any question of interest or expediency should arise likely to affect their welfare. At a public meeting, an election was held of the following representatives:
Major Malcolm as their presiding officer, L. G. Pirkle, H.H. Briers, George W. WaltersJ.H. Wade, and P. Goldsmith, Secy.
The above council stayed in office until February 18, 1868 and at that time a new council was elected of the following representatives:
Dr. G.P. Frierson, Presiding Officer, W.B. Tindle, Sr., D.P. Ferguson, L.G. PirkleG.A. Haralson, and A.J. Hill, Secry.
The group led by Major Greene Malcolm in 1867 was the first of approximately three waves of immigrants to follow. The first families of colony Medina included ex-Confederate soldiers and their families as well as Charles R. Follin, the American Consulate at Omoa who formed a close association with the colony and was considered as one of its members. Another who joined the colony was Wilhelm Bahr, a German born soldier of fortune who had the misfortune to have been serving in Emperor Maximilian's Army in Mexico and fled from that place after the regime's demise. There was also Captain Jose D. Perez of Santiago, Cuba, A Cuban Patriot, and the nephew of Generalissimo Maximo Gomez-Baez , Commander of the Cuban Liberation Army and an ally of Jose Marti. During my research, I have gathered the following names who were at one time members of Colony Medina:
Allen, Andrews, Barnes, Bahr, Beall, Becker, Briers, Caron, Coleman, Collier, Cunningham, Doubleday, Duffie, Ferguson, Follin, Frierson, Goldsmith, Grow, Haralson, Henderson, Hill, Higginbotham, HunterJohnes, Lubbe, Malcolm, McClellan, McCollum, Mitchell, Murphy, Pennington, Noren, Perez, Pierce, Pirkle, Porter, Schmidt, Skinner, Swett, Sylvester, Tanner, Thomas, Thompson, Tindle, Troy, Wade, Waller,Walters, Warren, Weinreich.
Major Malcolm would later be appointed Minister of Immigration by the government of the Republic of Honduras in order to facilitate their transition of new arrivals to the colony. The Confederados of Honduras or Southerners,as they called themselves, came from through out the Old South.
They established their colony adjacent to the town of San Pedro, (San Pedro Sula), and named it the city of Medina in honor of the President of the Republic. They were granted land upon which to build their farms, and given other considerations. They were granted permission to elect their own municipal council and establish regulations in conformity with the laws of the Republic for
their colony. Economic failure, disease, and other hardships took their toll andby 1870 many of these families left Honduras going their separate ways. Enough, however, stayed, became successful, and played an important role in the industrialization and modernization of the Republic. Eventually the city of Medina was absorbed by San Pedro Sula.
SOURCES:
(1) A Trip To British Honduras And To SAN PEDRO, REPUBLIC OF HONDURAS. By Charles Swett, New Orleans, 1868. Special collections, City Library, New Orleans, La.
(2) Biografia De San Pedro Sula: 1536-1954, by Rodolfo Pastor Fasquelle, San Pedro Sula, Honduras, c. 1989.
(3) Passenger Lists, US Customs, 1864-1870, Special Collections, Tulane University Library, New Orleans, La.
(4) Ship Departure Schedules, Advertisements in the New Orleans Times Picayune Newspaper,1866-1867. City Library, New Orleans, La.
(5) Letters of Laura Kolb (Coleman) Kingsbery, daughter of William Allen Coleman of the First Georgia Cavalry, a Confederate Veteran of The War Between The States from Carroll county, Georgia and an immigrant to Spanish, Honduras.
Family of William Forrest Coleman
Born: 17 Mar 1864 Place: Carrollton,GA.
Died: 10 Feb 1944 Place: Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Buried: (Old) Central City cemetery, SPS, Honduras
Married: Abt 1887, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Husband's father: William Allen Coleman
Husband's mother: Cynthia Florence Riggs
Wife: Yndalecia Paredes
Born: 1865 Place: Trinidad,Santa Barbara,Honduras
Died: 13 Apr 1900 Place: San Pedro Sula,Honduras
Buried:(Old) Central City cemetery, SPS, Honduras
Wife's father: Juan Angel Paredes
Wife's mother: Dominga Paz
Children:
1. (M) John Allen Coleman
Born: 10 Oct 1888 Place: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Died: 23 Oct 1966 Place: New Orleans, Louisiana
Buried:Garden of Memories cemetery, Metairie, LA.
Spouse: Marie Antoinette Perez-Follin
Married: 25 Nov 1911, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
2. (M) William Edgar Coleman
Born: 8 Dec 1890 Place: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Died: 13 Nov 1932 Place: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Description: Killed in the 1932 Honduran Revolution
Buried: (Old) Central City cemetery, SPS, Honduras
Spouse: Manuela Mana Madrid
Married: Bef 1912, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
3. (M) James Clarence Coleman
Born: 15 Dec 1892 Place: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Died: 15 Oct 1929 Place: New Orleans,Louisiana
Buried: Metairie cemetery, Metairie, Louisiana
Spouse: Theresa (Teresita) Mitchell
Married: Bef 1921,San Pedro Sula, Honduras
4. (F) Vera Coleman
Born: 15 Dec 1894 Place: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Died: 23 Sep 1971 Place: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Buried: (Old) Central City cemetery, SPS, Honduras
Spouse: Jesse Ivy Beall
Married: Bef 1915, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
5. (M) Arthur Bailey Coleman
Born: 25 Nov 1896 Place: Zapatar, Honduras
Died: 1927 Place: Carrollton, Georgia
Buried: Carrollton City Cemetery, Carrollton, GA.
Spouse:
Married:
6. (F) Marie Coleman
Born: 2 Oct 1898 Place: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Died: 15 Nov 1988 Place: San Antonio, Texas
Buried: Miami Memorial Park Cemetery, Miami, FL.
Spouse: Wilhelm Adolph Bahr
Married: 8 Sep 1923, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Family of Henry Allen Coleman (1814-1890)
Occupation: Farmer
Military Service: 1836 Creek Indian War, Mexican War
Born: 28 Jan 1814 Place: Putnam co., GA.
Died: 27 Oct 1890 Place: Carroll co., GA.
Buried: Bethel Baptist Church cemetery ,Temple,Carroll co., GA.
Married: Abt 1832,DeKalb county, GA.
Husband's father: George Coleman (Colman)
Husband's mother: Nancy Burford (Bufford)
Wife: Sarah Ann Barnes
Born: 27 Aug 1807 Place: Lincoln co., GA.
Died: 4 Oct 1880 Place: Carroll co., GA.
Buried: Bethel Baptist Church cemetery ,Temple,Carroll co., GA.
Wife's father: James P. Barnes
Wife's mother: Sarah McKenzie
Children:
1. (M) James P. Coleman
Military Service: Company I, 7th Georgia State Troops
Born: Sep 1833 Place: Cobb co., GA.
Died: Aft 1910 Place:
Buried:
Spouse: Mary A. McClellan (McLelland)
Married: Bef. 1854,Georgia
2. (F) Nancy C. Coleman
Born: 1834 Place: Cobb co., GA.
Died: Aft 1900 Place: Lindale, Smith co., TX
Buried:
Spouse: Phillip Marion Whisenhunt, Jr.
Military Service: Company E, 1st Georgia Cavalry
Married: 11 Aug 1857, Carroll county, GA.
3. (F) Sarah Jane Coleman
Born: 1836 Place: Georgia
Died: Place:
Buried: Place:
Spouse: William G. McClellan (McLelland)
Military Service: Company H, 56th Georgia Infantry
Married: 24 Dec 1857, Carrollton, GA.
4. (M) William Allen Coleman
Military Service: Company E, 1st Georgia Cavalry
Born: 25 Sep 1838 Place: Powder Springs, Cobb county, GA.
Died: 30 Oct 1917 Place: Carrollton, GA.
Buried: Carrollton City cemetery, Carrollton, GA.
Spouse: (1st) Cynthia Florence Riggs, married 23 DEc 1858
(2nd) Clara Eliza Kolb, married 14 Jan 1879
(3rd) Mary (Mollie) Elin Daniel Bailey, married 16 Feb 1898
5. (M) John Henry Coleman
Military Service: Company E, 1st Georgia Cavalry
Born: 1 Jul 1840 Place: Cobb county,Georgia
Died: 21 Jan 1932 Place: Hoke's Bluff, Etowah county, Alabama
Buried: First Baptist Church cemetery,Hoke's Bluff,Etowah co.,AL.
Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth Pentecost
Married: 15 Nov 1870, Carrollton, GA.
6. (F) Rebecca Catherine Coleman
Born: 19 Nov 1843 Place: Cobb county,Georgia
Died: 28 Nov 1911 Place: Cullman, AL.
Buried: Cullman, AL.
Spouse: Zachery Taylor Adams
Military Service: Company D, 10th Georgia Cavalry
Married: 6 Sep 1864, Carroll county, Georgia
7. (F) Elizabeth A. Coleman
Born: 22 Feb 1844 Place: Cobb county,Georgia
Died: 15 Mar 1924 Place: Eastland county, Texas
Buried: Alameda cemetery, Eastland, Texas
Spouse: Nathaniel William Harper
Married: 2 May 1867, Haralson county, Georgia
8. (F) Mary F. Coleman
Born: 1845 Place: Cobb county,Georgia
Died: Place:
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9. (F) Eliza M. Coleman
Born: 1850 Place: Georgia
Died: Place:
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