ROBERT S. COLEMAN

Is a native of Stewart County,Tennessee. He was born March 8, 1829 and is the son of  William H. and Mary (Gatlin) Coleman. The father was a farmer by occupation, a native of North Carolina, who came west in 1816, and died in Stewart County, TN. in 1850 Robert S. Coleman was the only child of his parents, and his early life was spent upon the home farm. After becoming of age he was variously engaged in steamboating, clerking, and farming until 1855, when he began the study of medicine, and removing soon after to Henry County,TN., completed his preparatory studies there, he then attended the University of Nashville, and graduated from the medical department in 1862. He then accepted a postion in the confederate hospital service, but was taken prisoner in the fall of the same year at Fort Heiman, and paroled. He then continued the practice of medicine in Henry County, TN, until 1872 , when he came to Murray Kentucky. Where he has since resided, and enjoys the confidence of the community in his professional skill, and occupies an eminent postion as a surgeon, and citizen. November 7, 1856 he wedded Miss Fannie A Williams, of Henry County, TN. There are five children living of this marriage, John R. Coleman who graduated with honors from the medical department of the University of Louisville in 1882, a you man of fine social and intellectual worth, a thorough physician, has an extensive practice and bids fair to rise to distinction in his chosen profession. James H. Coleman, a counselor at law, with fine intellect and fair promise. Thomas E. Coleman, Mary A. Coleman and Fannie P. Coleman, all children of splendid sense. Robert S. Coleman is a member of the Masonic order. He is chairman of the board of health and has served as president of the medical association.