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I have just transcribed a 1904 letter from Arkansas to South Carolina that
contains the names of Coleman, Porter and Feaster folks who had moved from
Fairfield County, SC to Princeton, Arkansas.
Below is the original letter and below that is my guess as to who's who. I
could use some help in filling in the blanks of some of these folks I am
unable to identify.
Sadly, I do not have the photo referred to in the letter.
The matriarch of this family was:
Harriet (Hattie) Coleman Feaster, 1846-1920; born in Ridgeway, SC, died in
Arkansas.
First husband was Henry Jonathan (Foot) Coleman Jr., 1830-1874. Their
children were: Franklin Preston Coleman, Charles Porter Feaster Coleman,
David Roe Coleman, Jacob David Coleman, Mary Emily Coleman (Parham) and
Henry Jonathan Coleman.
Hattie's 2nd husband was Capt. David Roe/Row Feaster, 1832-1910; their
children were Charles McCants Feaster, Virgil Clayton Feaster, Susan Amanda
Feaster (might have been the letter writer), Margaret Fry Feaster, Roger
William Feaster and Hattie Josephine Feaster.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Glenna Kinard
(am also sending this to the Mobley list because of the Mobley/Feaster and
Coleman connections.)
~~~~~
Envelope: to Mr. R. W. Porter
Dundee, South Carolina
January 4, 1904
(arrived Dundee stamped January 7, 1904)
Princeton, Arkansas
December 4, 1904 (should be January 4)
Dear Uncle Rod,
I have just fixed up a picture to send you. It is a group of the
people, our relatives, who were here Christmas day. Some more came after
that, though. We certainly had (a) crowd and a fuss. They commenced coming
in Christmas Eve and the last one left this morning. I will not hesitate to
say that I very glad they are going, although I enjoyed their being here.
Did you spend a pleasant Christmas. I hope so.
Look at Mother's picture doesn't she look young, though, to be so old?
She looks just as young as her picture, too.
I suppose that I had better proceed to give you some idea as to the
individuals in this mob. Beginning with the first row at the left, Horace,
Lizzie and Lilian Coleman (David's wife and children); Edie and Jim Coleman
(Presses' wife and one child); Cousin Ophelia Simons; Pa and mother; Foote
Coleman (Max's son) sitting on the horse in front of Pa; Dora and Gladden
Coleman (Max' wife and baby), Lewis and Victoria(?)? Coleman.
Second row beginning on the left, John Coleman (Press' other boy),
Griffin Coleman; Robert Coleman; Elva Coleman, Lena Coleman (whose husband
Woodward Coleman was killed not long ago); Nancy Coleman; Hattie; Max; Dave
Coleman and I.
Those behind: David Coleman; Brother Clayton; Press (with beard); then
the other with the beard is Jake; Charles just part of his face showing and
Mag, and Roger, your namesake.
Can you get anything from this?
I must write to Auntie so that I can get these things off in the mail,
so good bye.
Your loving niece,
Sue
This picture is a Christmas present.
~~~~~
Below explains the who's who in the letter; some of the folks I can't
identify and would appreciate someone who is studying this line to help me
with the id's.
Envelope: Mr. R. W. Porter (Roger William Porter, brother of Hattie Porter
Coleman Feaster)
Dundee, South Carolina (near Blaney/Elgin, Kershaw County, South Carolina,
no longer in existence)
January 4, 1904
(arrived Dundee stamped January 7, 1904)
Princeton, Arkansas
December 4, 1904 (should be January 4)
Dear Uncle Rod, (Roger Porter)
Look at Mother's (Hattie Porter Coleman Feaster) picture doesn't she
look young, though, to be so old? She looks just as young as her picture,
too.
Beginning with the first row at the left, Horace, Lizzie and Lilian
Coleman (David's wife and children) (I'm guessing this might be David Roe
Coleman by Hattie's first husband Henry Jonathan "Foot" Coleman; does anyone
know who is wife was?);
Edie and Jim Coleman (Presses' wife and one child) (Press is Franklin
Preston Coleman);
Cousin Ophelia Simons (don't know who she is);
Pa (Capt. David Roe/Row Feaster) and mother (Hattie Porter Coleman Feaster);
Foote Coleman (Max's son) (Max is Charles Porter Feaster Coleman; don't know
why they called him Max) sitting on the horse in front of Pa;
Dora and Gladden Coleman (Max' wife and baby) (Max is Charles Porter Feaster
Coleman),
Lewis and Victoria(?) (don't know who these two are and can't read the name
of the female) Coleman.
Second row beginning on the left, John Coleman (Press' other boy);
Griffin Coleman (who is this?);
Robert Coleman (who is this?);
Elva Coleman (who is this?),
Lena Coleman (whose husband Woodward Coleman was killed not long ago) (who
is Woodward?);
Nancy Coleman (who is this?);
Hattie (who is this? Hattie Josephine Feaster?)
Max (Charles Porter Feaster Coleman;)
Dave Coleman (who is this?);
and I (maybe Susan Amanda Feaster?)
Those behind David Coleman :
Brother Clayton (who is this? a preacher maybe?);
Press (with beard) (Press is Franklin Preston Coleman);
then the other with the beard is Jake (probably Jacob David Coleman);
Charles (who is this? maybe Charles McCants Feaster?) just part of his face
showing
and Mag (who is this? maybe Margaret Fry Feaster);
and Roger (Roger William Feaster), your namesake (Roger William Porter)
I must write to Auntie (probably Avaline Amanda Porter Robinson, sister
to Hattie Porter Coleman Feaster and Roger W. Porter) so that I can get
these things off in the mail, so good bye.
Your loving niece,
Sue (maybe Susan Amanda Feaster?)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Researching:
(1) Cobb, Gill, Harrison, Higgins, Fetner, Scott, Martin, McCants,
Porter, Rawlinson;
(2) Baxter, Bryant, Dillard, Eaves, Hampton, Lee, McDade, Tolleson,
Wells
(3) Dismukes, Hubbard, Latta (Branch 28), Jenkins, Kinard, Long/Lang,
Mauldin, Patton, Thaxton, Vickers, Wilkins, Wise
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I have just been given a copy of the following letter.
Who's who:
writer, Charles M. Feaster, son of Harriet Elizabeth ("Hattie") Porter
Coleman Feaster.
Hattie was originally from Ridgeway, Fairfield County, SC; b. 1846, she died
in 1920 in Arkansas. Her son Charles McCants Feaster (the writer of the
letter) was the son of her 2nd husband, Capt. David Roe/Row Feaster. (Her
first husband was Henry Jonathan "Foot" Coleman.)
The letter was written to Hattie's sister (Chs.' aunt) Avaline Amanda
Porter Robinson (wife of William Samuel Robinson); all of Fairfield County,
SC.
According to my records, the writer was married twice: Mary Sue Lea and Mary
Lou Nutt.
I am sending also sending this to the Mobley list because of the connections
of the SC Mobleys to the Feasters.
I'd love to correspond with anyone who is tracing these families.
Glenna Kinard, South Carolina
~~~~~
Reform, Alabama
April 7th, 1901
Mrs. A. A. Robinson
Ridgeway, S. C.
My dear Auntie,
You probably think that I have forgotten you, or at least that
I have forgotten to write. I assure you that I have done neither, as you
will see from this. I would be in sad condition could I forget those of my
nearest kindred, though they be some distance from me.
You have heard from home, before now, that I am in the picture
business, that is, I am taking orders for enlarging photographs. I am
working for the Chicago Portrait Company of Chicago. We canvass the country,
get the small pictures, and send them to the company to make into portraits.
We get 50 cents for every print, which consists of $1.98, that is for every
$1.98 worth of work to be done, we get 50 cents. We have headquarters at a
certain place, go out from there into the country Monday morning and get
back by Saturday night, thus staying out the week. I like the business
better as I become better acquainted with it. All kinds of people are to be
met with, so you see, we have a pretty good opportunity to study human
nature, both in its cultivated and uncultivated states. The country also is
quite interesting to me. I have crossed hills, valleys, running brooks and
rivers in great numbers since I have been out. The water running over the
rocks and boulders looks clear as crystal beautiful, really. I am a great
lover of nature, and anything unusual calls my special attention. I have
not made a fortune since I came, but I have enjoyed myself hugely. There
are some disadvantages connected with this business for instance, the lack
of a settled home. I am very fond of music, and I scarcely ever hear any
through the country. The music at the churches is fervent and devotional,
and very good of the kind.
My friend Holmes and I went to the Opera at Meridian, Miss.
about two weeks ago, and heard some very fine music by the orchestra. Music
runs all over me, filling my soul with higher and better thoughts.
I hear from home every week. The hearing from the "old folks at
home" and the knowing that they are well keeps me from being as homesick as
I would otherwise be. I received four letters from home last week. They are
always full of encouragement and love. No one has a greater devotion for
the home and its accompanying pleasures than I have. I only came here with
the hope that I could make some money by which I might better my condition
educationally.
I have three boon companions here engaged in the same business.
They are full of life and enjoy it in the fullest.
I visited all my kinfolks before I left home and found them
well.
Please write soon an tell me everything. Letters from my folks
are always very welcome.
Your loving nephew,
Chas. M. Feaster
Please address me at Jackson, Miss., Care of H. A. Panabaker.
(end)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Researching:
(1) Cobb, Gill, Harrison, Higgins, Fetner, Scott, Martin, McCants,
Porter, Rawlinson;
(2) Baxter, Bryant, Dillard, Eaves, Hampton, Lee, McDade, Tolleson,
Wells
(3) Dismukes, Hubbard, Latta (Branch 28), Jenkins, Kinard, Long/Lang,
Mauldin, Patton, Thaxton, Vickers, Wilkins, Wise
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hi, I am new to this list and am researching Christopher Coleman b 1831?
London, and his father Martin Christopher Coleman b abt 1797 Hanover,
Germany.
The father is believed to have been a soldier stationed in Germany and
that is where Christopher was born. However, it is the origins of the
father I am looking for and am trying to trace which regiment he may
have served with in order to hopefully find any reference to him in
regimental records.
Glenda
Australia
Hi Kathleen - - My husband (a Coleman) received a Certificate of his 25
Y-Chromosome Alleles, a map of the Haplogroup migrations thousands of years
ago, a list of any matches, and as more matches become available they send
more. Kim Coleman, the Administrator of the Coleman DNA Project has been
extremely helpful. Let's face it - this was all Greek to me!! I would
email her and she would help explain it. Your best bet would be to email
her at colemanmail(a)charter.net or www.colemanfamilies.org. Ask her
about the test before you sink around a hundred dollars into it. Make it
clear exactly who is the "Coleman." You? Your husband? Your son? Just
ask her anything. She was patient with me !!!!! There is a perfect match
to my husband - but - his name is Cummins. Rootsweb has a whole section on
Irish names that have been switched back and forth over time, and sure
enough "Coleman's" and "Cummin's" is
one of those names. It is a 99% chance that they shared the same ancestor
within the last 500 years. Email Kim. She can be more specific. - - Good
Luck - - Linda Coleman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathleen" <coleman1(a)stpaultel.com>
To: <coleman(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 11:27 PM
Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: [COLEMAN] Coleman Paper Trail and DNA
> Linda,
> If I have my son have the dna test, what kind of report will I receive
> from
> the company doing the test?
> Kathleen Coleman
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron and/or Linda Coleman" <rcoleman2(a)woh.rr.com>
> To: <coleman(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 1:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [COLEMAN] Coleman Paper Trail and DNA
>
>
>> Yes. The Vikings were all over Europe from 700 to the 1200's. France,
>> Germany, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and more all surely have the
>> Viking DNA since they would settle there for awhile and then some would
>> move
>> on. I would be interested in comparing my husband's DNA markers with
>> your
>> brothers. (You do know that yours is the exact same as your brother.
>> Don't
>> waist your money having yours done !!) There is a Kuhlmon (German) in my
>> husband's Haplogroup - very near, but not near enough of a match. There
>> are
>> many spellings of the name, but when they came to America they all
>> anglicized their names. Check with your brother - would he like to
>> compare
>> markers? Thanks - - Linda Coleman
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <MStateler(a)aol.com>
>> To: <coleman(a)rootsweb.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 1:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: [COLEMAN] Coleman Paper Trail and DNA
>>
>>
>>> My Grandfather was a Colmon and insisted on spelling his name that way
>>> but
>>> when I lived in Germany I was told quite a few times by German people
>>> that
>>> my
>>> son looked just like the Colmans that lived in France. They pronounced
>>> it
>>> like, Coalmar. My brother had his DNA done and it came back Viking.
>>> Any
>>> information on this front?
>>> Marva Stateler
>>> _mstateler(a)aol.com_ (mailto:mstateler@aol.com)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> http://www.aol.com
>>>
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>>
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>
>
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Linda,
If I have my son have the dna test, what kind of report will I receive from
the company doing the test?
Kathleen Coleman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron and/or Linda Coleman" <rcoleman2(a)woh.rr.com>
To: <coleman(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [COLEMAN] Coleman Paper Trail and DNA
> Yes. The Vikings were all over Europe from 700 to the 1200's. France,
> Germany, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and more all surely have the
> Viking DNA since they would settle there for awhile and then some would
> move
> on. I would be interested in comparing my husband's DNA markers with your
> brothers. (You do know that yours is the exact same as your brother.
> Don't
> waist your money having yours done !!) There is a Kuhlmon (German) in my
> husband's Haplogroup - very near, but not near enough of a match. There
> are
> many spellings of the name, but when they came to America they all
> anglicized their names. Check with your brother - would he like to
> compare
> markers? Thanks - - Linda Coleman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <MStateler(a)aol.com>
> To: <coleman(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 1:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [COLEMAN] Coleman Paper Trail and DNA
>
>
>> My Grandfather was a Colmon and insisted on spelling his name that way
>> but
>> when I lived in Germany I was told quite a few times by German people
>> that
>> my
>> son looked just like the Colmans that lived in France. They pronounced
>> it
>> like, Coalmar. My brother had his DNA done and it came back Viking.
>> Any
>> information on this front?
>> Marva Stateler
>> _mstateler(a)aol.com_ (mailto:mstateler@aol.com)
>>
>>
>>
>> ************************************** See what's new at
>> http://www.aol.com
>>
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>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message
>
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>
are any of the coleman lines that you have researched of Dutch origin?
Kathleen Coleman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Ann Miller" <marymil(a)centurytel.net>
To: <coleman(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [COLEMAN] Isaac Coleman
> Sorry I don't have either of those names,
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "iw" <iw(a)epix.net>
> To: <coleman(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 11:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [COLEMAN] Isaac Coleman
>
>
>> Hello
>> Dose your Coleman have a Jane Scott Or Rueben Coleman
>> Thanks Irene
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ruth Halajian" <snobaby1(a)optonline.net>
>> To: <coleman(a)rootsweb.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 7:31 AM
>> Subject: Re: [COLEMAN] Isaac Coleman
>>
>>
>> >I don't know if this will help. There was a Isaac Coleman, listed as
>> > head of house-hold, living in New Bern, N.C. about 1790. Ruth
>> > Coleman Halajian
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On May 11, 2008, at 6:13 PM, Mary Ann Miller wrote:
>> >
>> >> Am looking for any information about the parents of Isaac Coleman b
>> >> 1802 possibly GA. Married Amelia Pendergrass 20 Oct 1831 Jackson Co
>> >> GA. After her death he married Rutha Martin. Any help would be
>> >> greatly appreciated.
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I don't know if this will help. There was a Isaac Coleman, listed as
head of house-hold, living in New Bern, N.C. about 1790. Ruth
Coleman Halajian
On May 11, 2008, at 6:13 PM, Mary Ann Miller wrote:
> Am looking for any information about the parents of Isaac Coleman b
> 1802 possibly GA. Married Amelia Pendergrass 20 Oct 1831 Jackson Co
> GA. After her death he married Rutha Martin. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG.
> Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.9/1417 - Release Date:
> 5/6/08 8:07 AM
>
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Am looking for any information about the parents of Isaac Coleman b 1802 possibly GA. Married Amelia Pendergrass 20 Oct 1831 Jackson Co GA. After her death he married Rutha Martin. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG.
Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.9/1417 - Release Date: 5/6/08 8:07 AM