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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...California. Witness never claimed Choctaw blood; if he has Indian blood, does not know it. Hi3 father went from Broadford, Ky., where grandfather lived, to Virginia, and was raised by a bachelor uncle, whom witness remembers. Father married mother there and lived there several years; remembers father's Uncle Richard, a United Pontes army surgeon, who died of cholera during the Black Hawk war. The nation, October 12, 1903, filed copies of records of Harrison County, Ky., certified October 5, 1903, viz: Deed of August 26, 1800, by Francis Coleman and Elizabeth, his wife, of that county, to John McKinley, of 100 acres of land; decree of March 8, 1813, for distribution in probate of the estate of Francis Coleman, deceased, to his widow, Elizabeth R., and the several heirs, David Humphries and his wife, Polly, Covington Coleman, Whitehead Coleman. America Coleman, Richard Coleman, Lizabeth G. Coleman, Robert S. Coleman, Francis Coleman, N. C. Coleman, Harriett Coleman, report July 10, 1818; by David Humphries, guardian of minors Robert S., Francis, Ann C., and Harriett Coleman; deed of March 9, 1831, by John Bedford and wife Mary to Francis S. Coleman, all of Harrison County, Ky., for 160 acres of land in that county; deed of partition. October 4. 1841, of a tract of land in Harrison County, Ky., in severalty, executed by Whitehead Coleman and Francis S. Coleman and Ann, his wife; deed of July 16, 1855, executed in Cooper County, Mo., by Francis S. Coleman and wife Ann. to persons named and described as the heirs of Elizabeth S. Coleman, deceased, of all the grantor's interest in two described tracts of land in Harrison County, Ky. March 16, 1904, counsel for Coleman moved to strike from the record the foregoing testimony of R. L. Coleman, for want of...
