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By permission, the text below is excerpts from a book,
The Colemans of North Hamilton County Tennessee by Cy Yarborough.
Editor's notes are my additions based on reports people have given me or I have researched - Wes Coleman
(411) Nancy was born 03/03/1862, in Bakewell, TN. She was the only child from Benjamin Franklin Coleman's second marriage. It was difficult for her to identify with her other half-brothers and sisters as a child because there was such an age gap. She was 16 years younger than her closest older half-sibling and 13 years older than her nearest younger half-sibling.
From what her descendants reported, she had a fairly lonely and sad childhood. Her father left to join the Union Army a month before she was born and wasn't home permanently until she was 3 years of age. Her mother died when she was 10 years old, leaving her alone with her then 54 year old father who was unable to adequately take care of her. It was reported to Cy that from that time until her marriage she was shuffled around from one relative to another.
Nancy's grandfather, D. S. Jones, had given Nancy and her mother 30 acres in Bakewell in 1872 where the Cincinnati Southern Railroad (now Southern Railway) would eventually build in a few years. Nancy was involved in a lawsuit with the railroad in early 1878. The railroad was suing for right-of-way and Nancy was countersuing for her fence being torn down and damage being done to property on her land. Both sides apparently won as the railroad had to rebuild her fence and pay damages for the property damaged, but Nancy was forced to deed the railroad a corner of her property comprising 2.17 acres for the railroad right-of-way.
It was the remaining land Nancy apparently lived on after her marriage to William M. Evans on 09/01/1878, in Bakewell. Francis Clarion Bandy, a lay minister of the Bakewell commmunity at that time, officiated the wedding.
Bill was born 10/11/1856, in Soddy, TN. As far as is known, Nancy and Bill lived in the Bakewell-Soddy area for the rest of their lives. Bill pursued farming as well as coal mining as an occupation. He died on 11/14/1928, at the age of 72. Nancy died 9/23/1935, at her daughter's home in Red Bank, TN. She was 73 years, 6 months and 21 days old when she died. She was buried in the Varner Cemetery, on Back Valley Road in Soddy, TN.
(411)Nancy Easter Coleman Evans and husband William M. Evans had these children:
(1065) 1. Mary Elizabeth Evans b. 07/19/1879 in Soddy, TN (1066) 2. Jane Evans b. 03/02/1881 in Soddy, TN (1067) 3. John H. Evans b. 03/11/1883 in Soddy, TN (1068) 4. Guss Evans b. 10/17/1885 in Soddy, TN (1069) 5. James Evans b. 05/?/1889 in Soddy, TN (1070) 6. Ida Evans b. 12/15/189O in Soddy, TN (1071) 7. Ola Evans b. 05/18/1893 in Soddy, TN (1072) 8. Blanch Evans b. 11/22/1899 in Soddy, TN (1073) 9. Marshall Baxter Evans b. 07/02/1902 in Soddy, TN
(1065) Mary Elizabeth Evans was born 07/19/1879, in Soddy, TN. She grew up in the Soddy-Bakewell area and married William J. Martin. Mary and Will were lifelong residents of the Soddy area and members of the Soddy Methodist Church. Will died first followed by Mary who died 7/25/1968, at the age of 89 years and 6 days. She was buried in the Varner Cemetery, Back Valley Road, in Soddy, TN. They had 1 child who died young, the name of which is unknown.
(1066) Jane Evans was born 03/02/1881, in Soddy, TN. She grew up in the Soddy-Bakewell area. She married Richard Griffith on 12/5/1904, in Graysville, TN. Richard was born 4/19/1882, in Sale Creek, TN. As far as I know Jane and Richard lived in the Sale Creek area most of their married lives. Richard died 3/6/1942, in Chattanooga, TN, just a month before his 60th birthday. Jane died 1/30/1980, 2 months before her 99th birthday. Both were buried in the Welch Cemetery, Bakewell.
(1066) Jane Evans and husband Richard Griffith had two children.
(1074) 1. Robert Griffith, b. 10/07/1905, in Sale Creek, TN (1075) 2. Lucille Griffith, b. 09/25/1908, in Sale Creek, TN
(1074) Robert Griffith was born 10/07/1905, in Sale Creek, TN. He died 4/7/1965, in Chattanooga, TN, at the age of 59 years and 6 months. He never married.
(1075) Lucille Griffith was born 09/25/1908, in Sale Creek, TN. She married Claude William Mathis, on 7/25/1925 in Alton Park (Chattanooga), TN. Bill was born 11/17/1903, in Chattanooga, TN. He died 1/1/1946, in Chattanooga, at the age of 42. Lucille lived in Chattanooga.
(1075) Lucille Griffith and husband Claude William Mathis had:
(1076) 1. Billye Jane Mathis, b. 06/15/1927, in Chattanooga, TN
(1076) Billye Jane Mathis was born 06/15/1927, in Chattanooga, TN. She married Kenneth Hemphill on 11/30/1952, in Chattanooga, TN. Kenneth was born 6/21/1928 in Texas. They now reside in Tampa, Florida. They have 1 child.
(1067) John H. Evans was born 3/11/1883, in Soddy, TN. He was raised and educated in the Soddy-Bakewell area and married Jessie Aline Davis on 6/1/1912. Aline was born 4/20/1893, in Whitwell, TN.
John and Aline lived in Soddy all of their married lives. John worked as a coal miner most of his life. He retired from coal mining and was a member of the United Mine Workers local. He and Aline were members of the Soddy Methodist Church.
John died 11/18/1967, at his home in Soddy, at the age of 84 years, 8 months and 7 days. He was buried in the Varner Cemetery, Back Valley Road, Soddy.
(1067) John H. Evans and Jessie Aline Davis had four children:
(1077) Mary Agnes Evans, b. 01/05/1914, in Soddy, TN (1078) Roberta Pauline Evans, b. 08/15/1915, in Soddy, TN (1079) William J. (Peanut) Evans, b. 09/28/1918, in Soddy, TN (1080) John Evans, b. lO/?/1924, in Soddy, TN
(1077) Mary Agnes Evans was born 01/05/1914 in Soddy, TN. She married a distant cousin, Marvin Frank "Red" Coleman. Their family is covered elsewhere in this writing.
(1078) Roberta Pauline Evans was born 08/15/1915, in Soddy, TN. She grew up in Soddy and married McKinley Cunningham on 5/7/1943, in Rossville, GA. McKinley was born 12/19/1916, in Dayton, TN. Pauline and McKinley made their home in the Chattanooga area most of their lives. Pauline works at the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library. McKinley was a foreman for the Tennessee Valley Authority, before his death on 9/23/1971, in Chattanooga at the age of 54. They had 3 children.
(1079) William J. (Peanut) Evans was born 09/28/1918, in Soddy, TN. He grew up in Soddy and married Vivian West on 08/24/1940, in Rossville, Ca. Vivian was born 8/15/1922, in Daisy, TN. They now reside in Daisy, TN. No children.
(1080) John Evans was born lO/?/1924, in Soddy, TN. He died of a ruptured appendix while playing football in his front yard around the age of 16 or 17, approximately 1941. Never married.
(1068) Guss Evans was born 10/07/1885, in Soddy, TN. He grew up in the Soddy Bakewell area and married Mattie Elizabeth Newman on 10/16/1906, in Hamilton County, TN. Mattie was born in Graysville, TN. Guss and Mattie lived most of their married lives in Chattanooga, TN. They are now deceased.
(1068) Guss Evans and wife Mattie Elizabeth Newman had one son:
(1081) 1. Newman Ralph Evans, b. 07/04/1912, in North Chattanooga, TN
(1081) Newman Ralph Evans was born 07/04/1912, in North Chattanooga, TN. He grew up in Chattanooga and married Marie Mayo on 10/16/1935, in Chattanooga. Marie was born 2/13/1913, in Chattanooga. They both lived in and around Chattanooga and remained there in the 1980s. Newman Ralph Evans and wife Marie Mayo had two children.
(1069) James Evans was born 5/?/1889, in Soddy, TN. He grew up in Soddy and married Annie Bremen. Jim and Annie lived in Louden, TN, for a number of years. Jim died 1/8/1914, in Louden. They had no children.
(1070) Ida Evans was born 12/15/1890, in Soddy, TN, she died in Soddy on 3/1/1892, at the age of 1 year, 2 months and 14 days.
(1071) Ola Evans was born 5/18/1893, in Soddy, TN. She grew up there and married 1st Edward Clements, also of Soddy on 12/10/1925, in Hamilton County, TN. She married 2nd Harrison Reno (or Reneau) of Soddy. Ola lived in the Soddy area most of her life but now resides in a rest home in Sarasota, Florida.
(1071) Ola Evans and first husband Edward Clements had one son:
(1082) 1. Wallace Clements, b. 9/?/1927, in Soddy, TN
(1082) Wallace Clements was born 09/?/1927, in Soddy, TN. He married and had four children, two boys and two girls. He lived in Sarasota, Florida.
(1072) Blanche Evans was born 11/22/1899, in Soddy, TN. She grew up in Soddy and married Clarence S. West on 12/21/1919. Clarence was born in Daisy, TN. Blanche and Clarence lived most of their married lives in the Red Bank, TN area where Clarence was a traveling salesman for the Gilman Paint Company. Blanche died 12/15/1958, nearly 1 month after her 59th birthday. Clarence died 11/?/1965.
(1072) Blanche Evans and Clarence S. West had four children:
(1083) 1. Clarence Allen West, b. 03/23/1920, in Chattanooga, TN (1084) 2. Glen E. West, b. 01/31/1922, in Chattanooga, TN (1085) 3. William West, b. 09/?/1924, in Chattanooga, TN (1086) 4. David Guss West, b. 8/23/1929, in Chattanooga, TN
(1083) Clarence Allen West was born 3/23/1920, in Chattanooga, TN. He married Nell Liederman and lived in Chattanooga. They had 2 children.
(1084) Glen E. West was born 1/31/1922, in Chattanooga, TN. He grew up in the Chattanooga area and married Betty Jean Kyle on 10/21/1945, in LaFayette, GA. Betty Jean was born 11/29/1926, in Chattanooga. They presently reside in Chattanooga where Glenn is a technician for South Central Bell. They have 2 children.
(1085) William West was born 09/?/1924, in Chattanooga, TN. He grew up in the Chattanooga area but drowned in a boating accident at Hale's Bar Dam, on 5/30/1950, at the age of 25. Never married. No children.
(1086) David Guss West was born 08/23/1929, in Chattanooga, TN. He grew up in the Chattanooga area and married Elizabeth Faye Revis in Chattanooga, TN on 2/14/1981. Elizabeth was born 10/18/1948, in Chattanooga, TN. They presently live in Chattanooga where Guss is an employee of DuPont. He has 1 step-daughter.
(1073) Marshall Baxter Evans was born 07/02/1902, in Soddy, TN. He died 10/6/1902, in Soddy, at the age of 3 months and 4 days.
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