According to a letter from Reba Ward I received in April 2000 "George Sr. was a farmer - one of the tidbits I've found said 'tobacco farmer'. He didn't have time to fight a war - he fathered 13 children."
In "Old Land Records of Colbert County Alabama" Wm. H. Wharton is listed as buying a lot in Tuscumbia 3 Nov 1820 certificate number 732.
The following advertisment was published in "The Tuscumbian" 11 Mar 1824: "Doctors Clay & Wharton having associated themselves together in the Practice of Medicine, tender their services to the public in the different branches of their profession. In all cases requiring it, their united attention will be given without an additional charge."
"The Tuscumbian" newspaper, Friday 29 Oct 1824, and Friday 12 Nov 1824, list W.H. Wharton as editor.
1857 Nashville Business Directory pg. 219: "WHARTON, Dr WM H, office cor Sumner and Broad sts, res Demumbrane st, above High"
1859 Nashville Business Directory pg. 156: "Wharton, Wm H, MD, office and res Dumumbrane, S Field"
1867 King's Nashville City Directory pg 284: "Wharton William H. Jr. (J.C. Wharton & Co.) h Demonbreun b High and Vine"
"Wharton W.H. phys. h ss Demonbreun b S. High and S. Vine"1850 Tennessee Census: Wharton H. H. 54, Mary 39, Araminta 18, A.S. 20, Ann 14, Wm H 12, A.D. 10, Jos. D. Foulty? 4, Priscilla Theant? 3 VA/PA
1860 Tennessee Census: Wharton William 64, Mary 49, Araminta 27, Benj. Gilson 27 NC/T
1870 Tennessee Census: Wharton W.H. 73
Clayton's History of Davidson County . . . page 285 "Wharton (William H.) M.D., was born in Albemarle Co., Va., July 6, 1790; died in Nashville, Tenn., May 4, 1872. He was a graduate in medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and commenced the practice in North Alabama, at Tuscumbia. Removed to Nashville in 1843, he continued in active practice to his election of State Librarian for Tennessee. Dr. Wharton was an excellent practitioner, a man of integrity, and an active Christian gentleman."
Page 211 of the same reference has his date of death as 8 May 1871.
From "Northern Alabama Historical and Biographical Illustrated" 1888 by T.A. Deland and A. Davis Smith, on page 426, has the following: "The first white child born in Tuscumbia was Miss Anna Dickson, who married Dr. W.H. Wheaton, who died in Nashville since the late war. She was living but a short time ago."
The author is obviously referring to Dr. W.H. Wharton. I cannot tell if he has mistaken Ann Dickson for Priscilla Dickson, or if Priscilla was the first white child and the dates are incorrect. It seems he means Ann and not Priscilla, for Priscilla died in 1847, and in 1888 he says she was living "but a short time ago".
Obituaries From Early Tennessee Newpapers 1794 - 1851:
"Wharton, Mrs. P. consort of Dr. William H. Wharton. Died on the 6th inst. in the vicinity of Nashville"
The Politician and Weekly Nashville Whig (Wed 18 Aug 1847)
According to Phyllis "Jackie" Malone her father Lum asked his mother (Grandma Kelly) about what happened to his father. She said "some men had thrown him in the water". Jackie said she has checked but cannot find any record of this.
According to Phyllis "Jackie" Malone the name on his headstone is "Colman"
Phyllis "Jackie" Malone says she had a total of 19 children. Phillip was born when she was fifteen.
Phyllis "Jackie" Malone provided me a copy of a Homestead Certificate from the US Land Office, Pueble, Colorado dated 18 Dec 1915 to Launa K. Coleman for a 320 acre homestead.
According to Phyllis "Jackie" Malone Grandma "Kelly" Coleman told a schoolteacher in Colorado that used to come over to eat once in awhile that she (Grandma Kelly) was half Cherokee. Jackie does not know which parent was Indian.
The schoolteacher mentioned above was Lum's teacher in a one room schoolhouse. She wrote Lum a letter which he never replied to. Jackie wrote her much later when the teacher was very old. She got "the nicest letter in reply". The teacher said the homesteads Grandma Kelly, Phillip, and Nanny had were sold to a cattle company. After that her (the teacher's) son bought it. The sign "Coleman Ranch" was still standing, but Grandma Kelly's house was gone.
From an e-mail from Dad to me and Jan Parker 6 Sep 00: "Kevin sent me a picture, ostensibly from Colorado circa 1929 showing my Grandmother Coleman holding me. Talked to,Aleene. She said that Grandmother Coleman and my Uncle Philip had left Colorado on about 1920 and moved to Farmington, New Mexico. Chapter two of this adventure tale has Aleene giving birth to twins only one of which survived, Charles. Evidentally Aleene was in very serious condition so my Mom and Dad made a fast trip to New Mexico with me at about age 3 months. So the picture Kevin has of an infant in Grandmother Colemans arms is me in Farmington NM vice Colorado."
Twelfth Census of the United States lists Philip Coleman as head of household with his mother and six brothers and sisters. He was 31 years old, a farmer, and could read, write, and speak English.
Never married. According to Val McAtee of Hailey, Idaho, he cared for Grandma Coleman until she died.
Phyllis "Jackie" Malone told me during the depression "Mac" got her father, Lum Coleman, a job in the lumber industry in Oregon. He was working steady and making good money when Uncle Phillip called to ask Lum to come back home to take care of Grandmother "Kelly" Coleman. Lum ended up staying to work with Uncle Phllip.
Phyllis "Jackie" Malone has a copy of the original Homestead Certificate dated 18 Dec 1915 for 320 acres in Colorado.
According to Dad's short autobiography: "Philip was my mother's oldest brother and her favorite. Uncle Philip lived with us in Vallejo in 1943 for a while. He never married. He looked like the classic movie marshall. I guess one of my fondest memories was going fishing with Uncle Philip at the foot of Lemon Street in Vallejo and listening to him tell of the early days in the West, that is, times around the turn of the century."
Death Certificate lists date of birth as 1869. Coleman family Bible lists 1868.
Died in infancy.
Died in infancy.
According to a letter from Val McAtee in May, 2000 "Uncle Ira ran away from home at a very young age and my mother located a daughter of his who lived in Parma, ID and died in Boise. She was married to a Johnson. Deceased."
Had a large farm. He hired two boys to work on the farm - Martin and Newton Coleman. Phyllis "Jackie" Malone says James Wilson is supposed to have said the Coleman boys were getting too familiar with his daughters and should marry them.
Ran a bookstore in Franklin for many years. Later ran one in Murfreesboro, then in Memphis.
Never married.
Drowned in the Mississippi River at 24 years old. Worked at the US seed loan office in Memphis. Rumored to be suicide.
References:
(1) Burkes Peerage.
(2) Index Card to Salt Lake Temple Records, No. 8532, Book 4 N, page 373.
(3) Index Card to Salt Lake Temple Records, No. 3801, Book 4 H, page 165.
Historical Notes:
(1) Sir Robert Harrington was a Knight of the Bath, and 3rd Lord Harrington.
References:
(1) Burke's Peerage.
(2) Index Card to Salt Lake Temple Records, No. 8532, Book 4 N, page 373.
(3) Index Card to Salt Lake Temple Records, No. 12479, Book 6 R, page 572.
(4) Index Card to Salt Lake Temple Records, No. 2206, Book 4 X, page 100.
Historical Notes;
(1) Sir John Harrington is 2nd Lord Harrington.
Phyllis "Jackie" Malone says he was a German immigrant.
Death certificate lists occupation as farmer, place of death as home, and that he was never in the armed forces.
Died at her son Arthur's house in Kentucky. She had been visiting there for 7 months. Usual occupation listed on death certificate is housekeeper.
Marriage Notes for Joseph Nathan Marsh and Georgia Ann BALDWIN-173248
Married 66 years.
References:
(1) Ancestral Roots, page 73.
(2) Magna Charta, page 381, 1975.
(3) Burke's Peerage.