Richard Dennis "Denny" Coleman

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Richard Dennis Denny Coleman b abt 1826 d 9 Jan 1864 killed in action, Turman's Ferry; Civil War, Co H, 39th KY Regiment, Mtd Inf; shot through the heart; s/o Stephen H Coleman and Sarah Rankin. Richard Dennis Denny Coleman m. 18 Feb 1847 to Nancy King b abt 1829 d 1 Sept 1864 MN; d/o Lewis King and Mary Polly Phillips. Children of Richard Dennis Denny Coleman and Nancy King;

1. Mary Jane Coleman b 9 Apr 1849 Tazewell Co VA d 18 Jul 1897 Meeker Co MN of tuberculosis; buried St anastasia Cemetery, Hutchinson, McLeod Co MN; m. 4 May 1865 McLeod Co MN to Thomas Fallon. 

2. Lewis Coleman b 22 Apr 1850 Tazewell Co VA d 17 Jul 1913 Dassell Meeker Co MN; buried Dassell Cemetery, Meeker Co MN; m. (divorced) (1) to Lucinda Hardy. Lewis Coleman m. 25 Dec 1882 Dassel, Meeker Co MN to (2) Mary Scalf. 

3. Joseph Luna Coleman b 10 Jul 1851 Tazewell Co VA d Feb 1926 Monovia, LA Co CA; buried Live Oak Cemetery, Monrovia, Los Angeles Co CA 

4. Anthony Wayne Coleman b 25 Mar 1853 Tazewell Co VA (See Notes Below; m. 4 Apr 1878 to Lydia McKinney; d/o John McKinney and Lydia Hicks. Children of Anthony Wayne Coleman and Lydia McKinney; i. Lydia Coleman b 6 Jan 1879 ii. Joseph Coleman b 29 Aug 1880 iii. James Coleman b 13 Sept 1882 iv. Jane Coleman b 5 May 1884 v. Theresa Coleman b 7 Jul 1886 

5. Priscilla Pricey Coleman b 15 Dec 1854 Tazewell Co VA d 7 May 1875 McLeod Co MN in childbirth; buried family cemetery on McNellis Farm; m. 27 Sept 1873 McLeod Co MN to James O'Fallon. 

6. Elender Ellen Coleman b 10 Apr 1856 Tazewell Co VA d 5 Jun 1915 Chico, Butte Co CA; buried Chico Cemetery, Chico, Butte Co CA; m. 3 Apr 1879 (divorced) William Grant. 

7. Cosby Coleman b 4 Sep 1859 Buchanan Co VA d 21 Sept 1868 McLeod Co MN as a child of nine; buried McNellis Farm family cemetery. The family cemetery on McNellis Farm was plowed under. 

8. Nancy Caroline Carrie Coleman b 18 Feb 1861 Buchanan Co VA d 23 Mar 1947 Arlington, Tarrant Co TX; m. Tarrant Co TX (divorced 1902) to Andrew Jackson Rogers. 

Buchanan County was Confederate, and it is likely that Denny served with the "Home Guard", along with his father-in-law, Lewis King.. The family story is that he was captured, managed to escape by disguising himself and made his way back home. He arrived safely, to find the Confederates had wiped him out. Disgusted, he and many of his friends and kin rode into Kentucky and joined the 39th Regiment, Mounted Infantry on Nov. 25th, 1862. Lt. Richard D. Coleman, of Company H, was killed in action Jan. 9th, 1864, shot through the heart at Turman's Ferry. To find more information on his Regiment and the other family members who served: (Link no longer works) http://geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/7616 

Denny had his family remove to Louisa KY near the Regimental Headquarters for safety, with the instructions to head north if anything happened to him. The family, destitute, went to McLeod Co., MN, where Lewis King, his father-in-law, homesteaded a farm now known as the "McNellis Farm". Nancy and her mother died on the farm before the year was out, Nancy King Coleman on 01 Sep 1864 and "Polly" Philips King on 10 July 1864. 

This page of information was published in the "Illustrated Album of Biography of Meeker and McLeod Co." published by Alden, Ogle & Co., Chicago IL 1888. The information about our family was submitted by AW.... 

"Anthony Wayne Coleman is one of the leading farmers of the town of Collinwood, and lives on section 31, where he has a fine farm of 180 acres. He is a native of Buchanan county, Va., and is the son of Richard and Nancy (King) Coleman, natives of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively. His father was a merchant in the village of Grundy; and owned a large stock farm, besides. When the war broke out he joined the "Home Guards", and while absent from home on duty was taken prisoner by the Federals. By disguising himself he managed to escape, but found that the Confederates had cleaned him out of everything in his absence. Disgusted, he returned and enlisted in the federal army, and was afterward killed in battle. The family, being left destitute, removed to Louisa, Ky., where they lived until 1864, at which time the family came to Minnesota. At that time the family consisted of Mrs. Coleman and eight children -- Lewis, Joseph, Anthony, Mary Jane, Pricy, Ellen, Crosby (Cosby), and Carrie. 

They settled in Hutchinson, McLeod county, where the mother died two years later, and the children were scattered. Anthony worked around from place to place until he was about eighteen years old, at which time he commenced attending school, spending two years in the district schools, one year in the Hutchinson High School and the last term in the State Normal. He then came to Collinwood, and for eleven years taught a portion of each year. In 1877 he purchased the farm where he now lives, and has made it his home ever since. He was married April 4, 1878 to Miss Lydia McKinney, daughter of John and Lydia (Hicks) McKinney. By this union they have five children -- Lydia, born January 6, 1879; Joseph, born August 29, 1880; James, born September 13, 1882; Jane, born May 5, 1884; and Theresa, born July 7, 1886. 

A note or two here: Nancy (King) Coleman and her mother, Polly (Philips) King actually both died within months of arriving in McLeod Co, MN, Polly on July 10, 1864 and Nancy on Sep. 01, 1864. "Crosby" is a typo, the child's name was Cosby.