Relationship Record 23

Male/Husband}   Coleman, Samuel Lewis		Family History} Hancock
Female/Wife}    Cross, Mary (or Powers or Cooper)		Relationship Type} Marriage
Marriage: Date} Fam             1857	Place} Lincoln?,   , Nebraska
Ended: On Date} Exa 28 Jun 1902                      By} Death of husband		Source 1} 374 = 1870 USA cen Source 2}   18 = 1880 USA cen Source 3}   20 = 1900 USA cen Source 4} 461 = Death record Source 5} 224 = Obituary Source 6} 243 = Probate rec Source 7}   45 = Family notes Source 8} 1141=Family history
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Photo} None
Last Updated         by} Dan Hancock Date Updated}   9 Jun 2009 Date Created}  17 Jun 1994
Notes:  Samuel and Mary married in Nebraska in 1857 and lived there through 1865.  Four children apparently were born during those years, but only two them survived to 1870. Samuel and Mary moved to California in 1866 and settled their family in Wragg Canyon in the Berryessa Valley, then part of Napa County's Yount Township.  Seven more children were born there during the next 15 years. In 1870 Samuel's elderly father Phineas and older brother James were residing with Samuel and his family. The 1895 Official Map of the County of Napa, a portion of which is in the photograph at the right, shows that S. L. Coleman had a total of 467 acres in four pieces of land straddling or near Wragg Cañon.  The four pieces were 40 acres in Section 1, 147 acres in Section 2 plus another 240 acres in Section 2, and 40 acres in Section 35. Mary reported in the 1900 U.S. Census that she had had a total of 11 children, nine of whom were then still living.  Only their youngest three children (i.e., sons) were then still residing with their parents and working as farm laborers.  Samuel and Mary's granddaughter Nora fondly remembered Samuel often popping popcorn in their fireplace. In 1902 when Samuel passed away at age 67, they were still residing in their home in the lower part of the Berryessa Valley.  At that time they had 28 grandchildren.
Children:	Total # of Children} 11	Seq. # of Primary} 4
1st Child} Coleman, (Unknown)   2nd Child} Coleman, (Unknown)   3rd Child} Coleman, Irene Jane   4th Child} Coleman, Lucy Mildred   5th Child} Coleman, Martha E. (Mattie)   6th Child} Coleman, Addie B. (Belle)   7th Child} Coleman, Ida May   8th Child} Coleman, William Louis (Wellie)   9th Child} Coleman, Samuel Oswell 10th Child} Coleman, Henry Burton (Burt) 11th Child} Coleman, Roydon Carl (Roy)
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