Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 577
HENRY R. COLEMAN

Henry R. COLEMAN, a resident of LaGrange Township, is a native of Harrison County, born June 10, 1860. His parents moved to Cincinnati Township when he was fourteen years of age, and he remained there until 1883, when he came to LaGrange Township and purchased the farm he now lives upon, forty acres of which was improved, and forty acres wild land. Our subject commenced to work for himself when he was eighteen years old, working by the month on a farm, then renting land, afterward taking charge of his mother's she living with him.

Our subject was married in Harrison County, Iowa, March 5, 1889, to Miss Belle MCELDERRY, who lived in Pottawattamie County. Mr. and Mrs. COLEMAN are the parents of two children--an infant, deceased, and John A.

Mrs. Belle (MCELDERRY) COLEMAN was born in Jefferson County, Iowa, in 1862, and when twenty years old came to Harrison County, stopping in LaGrange Township two years, and then moved to Pottawattamie County, where she remained until the date of her marriage.

His father, Erastus COLEMAN, was born in Ohio, and remained there until the autumn of 1862, when he came to Harrison County, Iowa, with his family, consisting of his wife, one child, his mother and stepfather. He rented land of his stepfather until the Civil War broke out, when he enlisted in Company H, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, and was shot and killed at the battle of Atlanta. His wife the mother of our subject, Margaret (WOLF) COLEMAN, was born in Pennsylvania February 29, 1832, her parents removing to Ohio where she was yet a small girl, and remained three until the date of her marriage. They were the parents of five children, our subject being the third. Both our subject and his wife, as well as his father's people, were all identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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