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This is to apologize for a e-mail sent last Wednesday to this and other lists
sent by my niece but written by me and I never intended it to be sent. Once
written, my anger was released and I thought better.
However, my niece can go from Lady to the word use for female dog in 4.2
seconds. I did not realize she had sent the message until the next morning.
That being say, some good things came form the e-mail.
1. After a discussion with AOL, I now get it for $7.00 less.
2. Many e mails were sent in agreement.
3. The lady who ripped me off has now listed my research as hers on her web
site, with the a Mulatto slave as the great grandfather of her husband. She
said she did the research herself.
4. She sent to me updated information about her family with birthdays and
maiden names of living people. Smart enough to ripped me off, dumb enough to
send that information to a total stranger.
On the downside after doing genealogical research for thirty-three years and
having two articles published in The American Genealogist, I will now quit
genealogy. I will leave it to the new breed of Internet Genealogists that have
no sense of right or wrong.
So no need to unsubscribe me for an apology, I will do that soon myself.
Thank You
Tonto Bernstein
Hello fellow Coleman researchers.
I have a bit of a puzzle that I am trying to figure out and I need your help.
My second great grandfather was John J. Coleman, born in Mecklenburg County,
Va. about 1825. He was the son of Benjamin Whitehead Coleman, the grandson
of James Coleman and the great grandson of Cluverius Coleman. James Coleman
died while his four children were young and Grandpa Cluverius became the
guardian. Benjamin married and had several children including John J. and he died in
1842. John J. married Nancy or Ann Burwell in Mecklenburg County in 1839.
They either divorce or she dies and John J. relocates to Fayette County, then
Virginia and is recorded buying LOTS of property in this county in 1842. He
then marries Isabella Carnefix, daughter of George W. Carnefix of Buckingham
County, Va. in 1849, They have 10 children. Fayette County. He becomes the
prosecuting attorney before the Civil War and is also appointed Colonel of the
Virginia Volunteer Forces in 1861 by Gov. John Letcher. After the war, he buys
more property and practices law in this county.
According to records that I found at our court house yesterday, John J. was
committed as a lunatic in the early part of 1869 and because there was no room
at the lunatic asylum, he was housed in the local jail until this Benjamin W.
Coleman paid a bond and took custody of him. I don't know what relation this
Benj. was, but I do know that the son that John J. and Isabella named Benjamin
was Jonathan Benjamin and he would have only been 14 at that time. John J.
died in Feb. 1870 and the cause of death was listed as a fever.
Here's where I need your help. Does anyone familiar with this line know of
another Benjamin W. Coleman that would have been an adult in 1869? Perhaps he
was his brother? John did not have any uncles named Coleman. His father only
had sisters.
Anita McClung
Fayette County, WV
Would anyone have information on JF 'Skeets' Coleman who was a test
experimental test pilot in the 1950's? Thanks.
Chip Langston
chiplangston(a)direcway.com