Brief Life History of Alfus King "Doc"
When Alfus King "Doc" Coleman was born on 16 April 1851, in Carroll, Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas William Coleman, was 29 and his mother, Louisiana Thomas, was 22. He married Annie Laura Simons on 19 September 1869, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Civil District 19, Carroll, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died in December 1924, in Carroll, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 73.
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- Alpheus Coleman in household of Thos W Coleman, "United States Census, 1870"
- Alfis K Coleman in entry for Clara or Clarissa Odella Traywick, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
- Alphus Coleman in household of Thomas W Coleman, "United States Census, 1860"
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1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
Irish and English: from the Middle English personal name Col(e)man, Old Irish Colmán, earlier Columbán, adopted as Old Norse Kalman. It was introduced into Cumbria, Westmorland, and Yorkshire by Norwegians from Ireland and probably spread widely across England. Ó Colmáin (‘descendant of Colmán’) was the name of an Irish missionary to Europe, also known as Saint Columban(us) (c. 540–615), who founded the monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy in 614. Columbanus is formally a derivative of the Latin for ‘dove’, seen in the name of the 6th-century missionary known in English as Saint Columba (521–597), who converted the Picts to Christianity. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Irish: from Mac Colmáin or Ó Colmáin ‘son (or descendant) of Colmán’.
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kalman or Kolman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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