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Jesse Coleman

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Jesse Coleman

Birth
Starlington, Butler County, Alabama, USA
Death
1878 (aged 45–46)
Sumpter, Bradley County, Arkansas, USA
Burial
Sumpter, Bradley County, Arkansas, USA Add to Map
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Born —
aft 14 Sep 1832
Long Creek, Starlington, District One, Butler Co, AL

Married —
20 Aug 1854
Starlington, Butler Co, AL

Died —
aft 20 Feb 1877
Sumpter, Marion Twp, Bradley Co, AR

Buried —
Probably at Mann Cemetery in Sumpter, his wife being of that family.

Lived—
1832-1852: Butler Co, AL
1853: Bienville Psh, LA [1852(?)-1854]
1854-1861: Butler Co, AL
1861-1865: Civil War
1865-1869: Butler Co, AL
1870-1878: Bradley Co, AR

Civil War —
Jesse (I-17 Ala, Co. B) had been captured in Nashville Dec. 1864 (survived Franklin) and held as a POW at awful Camp Douglas, IL (1864-65). He fought at Shiloh, TN, and had a forehead contusion from Resaca (Atlanta), GA, in May 1864

"The Seventeenth Alabama Infantry, A Regimental History and Roster" —
"Coleman, Jesse, Private, enlisted September 14, 1861, at Montgomery. On January 7, 1862, he was granted a medical furlough for 20 days and sent ... to Rockford, Alabama. He was listed on the regimental medical register four times in 1864; February 5, diagnosis was pleuritis; on April 13, vulnus contusio; on August 3 with acute dysentery. In May he was slightly wounded on the forehead during the battle of Resaca, Georgia. He was captured at Nashville December 16, 1864, and imprisoned at Camp Douglas, Illinois."

Life in Arkansas —
Jesse and his second wife, Sellin (Glass), may have died in Sumpter in 1878 during the same "fever" that killed his neighbor in Sandtuck—John F. Wolfe, and two of his daughters, Elizabeth and Malinda—during the July-August cotton harvest.
Born —
aft 14 Sep 1832
Long Creek, Starlington, District One, Butler Co, AL

Married —
20 Aug 1854
Starlington, Butler Co, AL

Died —
aft 20 Feb 1877
Sumpter, Marion Twp, Bradley Co, AR

Buried —
Probably at Mann Cemetery in Sumpter, his wife being of that family.

Lived—
1832-1852: Butler Co, AL
1853: Bienville Psh, LA [1852(?)-1854]
1854-1861: Butler Co, AL
1861-1865: Civil War
1865-1869: Butler Co, AL
1870-1878: Bradley Co, AR

Civil War —
Jesse (I-17 Ala, Co. B) had been captured in Nashville Dec. 1864 (survived Franklin) and held as a POW at awful Camp Douglas, IL (1864-65). He fought at Shiloh, TN, and had a forehead contusion from Resaca (Atlanta), GA, in May 1864

"The Seventeenth Alabama Infantry, A Regimental History and Roster" —
"Coleman, Jesse, Private, enlisted September 14, 1861, at Montgomery. On January 7, 1862, he was granted a medical furlough for 20 days and sent ... to Rockford, Alabama. He was listed on the regimental medical register four times in 1864; February 5, diagnosis was pleuritis; on April 13, vulnus contusio; on August 3 with acute dysentery. In May he was slightly wounded on the forehead during the battle of Resaca, Georgia. He was captured at Nashville December 16, 1864, and imprisoned at Camp Douglas, Illinois."

Life in Arkansas —
Jesse and his second wife, Sellin (Glass), may have died in Sumpter in 1878 during the same "fever" that killed his neighbor in Sandtuck—John F. Wolfe, and two of his daughters, Elizabeth and Malinda—during the July-August cotton harvest.

Gravesite Details

Unmarked.
Long ago, all grave markers were removed.



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