Individual Details
Dr. John Coleman M. D.
(June 6, 1788 - Abt February, 1859)
"Dr. John Coleman moved from Coleman's Mill, North Carolina to Alabama after he married the second time to Judith Wade." (Information about this branch of the Pickett/Terry family was taken from MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF ANSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA compiled by the Craighead-Dunlap Chapter DAR, Wadesboro, North Carolina, 1972, "Everett Sketches" by Capt. W. I. Everett, deceased, 1927, page 135; located in the Rockingham - Richmond County Library, Rockingham, North Carolina.) Additional information from the "Rockingham Post-Dispatch," Richmond Co, NC, 30 Nov 1949.
1850 Richland County, South Carolina census, Town of Columbia, Lunatic Asylum (now South Carolina State Hospital). John Coleman; date admitted: 1848; age 62; Occupation: Physician; Birthplace: Alabama; Other comments: Insane (categories in this column include "Insane" or "Epileptic"). Records of the South Carolina State Hospital (asylum) show that Dr. Coleman was admitted to the facility July 5, 1848, and discharged July 11, 1851.
Butler County, Alabama Probate records show guardianship for Dr. John Coleman continuing until 1855-1856. W. H. Crenshaw (Walter Henry) filed final estate administration papers on Dr. John Coleman in 1857-1858.
Dr. John's descendants in Butler County recalled Dr. John Coleman's tombstone being in the Coleman Cemetery near Manningham, where all the markers but one were destroyed many decades ago by a "storm" (probably a tornado) and then by vandalism.
1850 Richland County, South Carolina census, Town of Columbia, Lunatic Asylum (now South Carolina State Hospital). John Coleman; date admitted: 1848; age 62; Occupation: Physician; Birthplace: Alabama; Other comments: Insane (categories in this column include "Insane" or "Epileptic"). Records of the South Carolina State Hospital (asylum) show that Dr. Coleman was admitted to the facility July 5, 1848, and discharged July 11, 1851.
Butler County, Alabama Probate records show guardianship for Dr. John Coleman continuing until 1855-1856. W. H. Crenshaw (Walter Henry) filed final estate administration papers on Dr. John Coleman in 1857-1858.
Dr. John's descendants in Butler County recalled Dr. John Coleman's tombstone being in the Coleman Cemetery near Manningham, where all the markers but one were destroyed many decades ago by a "storm" (probably a tornado) and then by vandalism.
Events
| Birth | June 6, 1788 | North Carolina | |||
| Marriage | Abt, 1810 | Anson County, North Carolina - Nancy J. Leak | |||
| Marriage | Abt, 1817 | North Carolina - Judith Leak Wade | |||
| Death | Abt February, 1859 | Manningham, Butler County, Alabama | |||
| Burial | Coleman Cemetery, near Manningham, Butler County, Alabama |
Families
| Spouse | Nancy J. Leak (1792 - 1817) |
| Child | Louisa Ann Coleman (1811 - 1841) |
| Child | Walter Leak Coleman (1813 - 1879) |
| Child | Hannah Pickett Coleman (1815 - 1880) |
| Spouse | Judith Leak Wade (1794 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth Coleman (1818 - ) |
| Child | Nancy Coleman (1820 - ) |
| Child | Mary Coleman (1822 - ) |
| Child | Rachel Coleman (1824 - ) |
| Child | Emily Coleman (1826 - ) |
| Child | Dexter Coleman (1828 - ) |
| Child | Frances Coleman (1829 - ) |
| Child | James Coleman (1830 - ) |
| Child | Thomas Coleman (1831 - 1855) |
| Child | William Coleman (1832 - ) |
| Child | Francis Jones "Frank" Coleman (1835 - 1904) |
| Father | James Coleman (1729 - 1827) |
| Mother | Mourning Terry (1753 - 1820) |
| Sibling | Mary Coleman (1790 - ) |
| Sibling | James Terry Coleman (1792 - 1827) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Coleman (1794 - ) |
| Sibling | Mourning Terry Coleman (1795 - 1860) |
| Sibling | Nancy Ann Coleman (1797 - ) |
| Sibling | Thomas Coleman (1798 - 1827) |
| Sibling | Charlotte Coleman (1800 - 1862) |
| Sibling | William Coleman (1803 - 1843) |
| Sibling | Rachel Doris Coleman (1805 - 1860) |
| Sibling | Martha Pickett Coleman (1807 - 1880) |