James Madison Coleman was born on April 30, 1858 in Trigg County, Kentucky. He was one of seven children born to Alfred Boyd Coleman and Alpha Thomas Coleman. Both Alfred Boyd and Alpha were natives of Trigg County and Alfred Boyd was a farmer. Alpha was a daughter of Perry Thomas and was the oldest woman in Trigg County when she died in 1917.
James’ siblings were Mary Alpha Coleman, born in 1845 and married William F. Kennedy; Martha Jane Coleman, born in 1847 and married John Wylie Adams; Albert Thomas Coleman, born in 1850 and married Rhoda Josephine Lancaster; Peachie Ann Coleman, born in 1853 and married James Edwin Lancaster; Felix Grundy Coleman, born in 1855 and married Martha Jane Noel and William Stanley Coleman, born in 1861 and married Eliza Helen Davis and Martha Jane Edwards.
James’ parents owned a farm in the Canton community of Trigg County and James grew up working as a farm laborer on his father’s farm.
On November 10, 1881, at the age of 23, James married Susan Fannie Harris. Fannie was born on April 27, 1861 and was a native of Trigg County. Her parents were James Harris from Tennessee and Lurana Ariel Cromwell Harris from Christian County, Kentucky. James and Fannie had seven children: Cora Agnes Coleman, born in 1882 and married Otis Lee Edwards; Ira M. Coleman, born in 1883 and died at the age of 10; Myrtes Coleman, born in 1885; Lois Alma Coleman, born in 1886 and died at the age of nine months; Forrest Coleman, born in 1888 and married Elaine Cunningham; Beulah Coleman, born in 1890 and Elmer Homer Coleman, born in 1892 and married Marguerite Atwood.
James and Fannie lived with their family in the Canton community until 1891 when he moved his family to a farm in Graves County, Kentucky.
In Early September of 1893, the Coleman household in Graves County was invaded by the dreaded scourge of the time, typhoid fever. The disease attacked one after another of the family. Fannie and four out of six children were stricken down with the disease. For two months, James attended his wife and children as they suffered from the disease. On November 5, Fannie died. Just before Fannie died, James also came down with the fever. Ten days after her death, James started back on a journey to his father's home in Canton. The journey was a terrible ordeal for one in his condition, and after he reached his old home, he grew rapidly worse and after great suffering, he died on November 26, 1893 at the home of his father. James' parents had raised a large family of children to adulthood and James was the first one of them to die. On November 28, James and Fannie's ten-year-old son, Ira, also died from the fever.
James had died at the age of 35 and was buried in the Coleman-Allen Cemetery in Trigg County, Kentucky. Fannie had died at the age of 32 and was buried in the Dale Cemetery in Calloway County, Kentucky.
Fannie Harris Coleman tombstone
Front row, third person from left is Alpha Thomas Coleman, mother of James Madison Coleman
LINEAGE: (James Madison Coleman was the son of Alfred Boyd and Alpha Thomas Coleman. Alpha was the second child of Perry and Elizabeth Josephine Bridges Thomas. Perry was the third child of James and Mary Standley Thomas)
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