Reuben Coleman, A Prominent Colored Citizen - Last evening, at 8:30 o'clock, Reuben Coleman (colored) departed this life, after a sickness of four or five months, at the residence of his son, Thornton Coleman, on South Spring street.
Mr. Coleman was born in Spottsylvania county, Virginia, in 1807, and removed to Springfield in 1856, and has resided here ever since. His employment was that of a shoemaker, and he has worked at his trade almost all the time. He was a man of good character - a member of the Union Baptist church. and always carried himself in a straightforward manner.
He leaves a large family, of which Mrs. R. H. Gorum, Mrs. W. H. Payne and Thornton Coleman, daughters and son, reside here, and two daughters, Mrs. F. J. McWorter of Pike county, Mrs. L. Bradford, of Lawrence, Kansas, and C. Coleman, a minister in Missouri.
- IL State Register, Springfield, IL, 7-13-1880
Reuben Coleman, A Prominent Colored Citizen - Last evening, at 8:30 o'clock, Reuben Coleman (colored) departed this life, after a sickness of four or five months, at the residence of his son, Thornton Coleman, on South Spring street.
Mr. Coleman was born in Spottsylvania county, Virginia, in 1807, and removed to Springfield in 1856, and has resided here ever since. His employment was that of a shoemaker, and he has worked at his trade almost all the time. He was a man of good character - a member of the Union Baptist church. and always carried himself in a straightforward manner.
He leaves a large family, of which Mrs. R. H. Gorum, Mrs. W. H. Payne and Thornton Coleman, daughters and son, reside here, and two daughters, Mrs. F. J. McWorter of Pike county, Mrs. L. Bradford, of Lawrence, Kansas, and C. Coleman, a minister in Missouri.
- IL State Register, Springfield, IL, 7-13-1880
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