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L. R. Coleman, a resident and merchant of Glimp, Tenn., was born March 20, 1844, in Haywood County, and is the son of John A. and Susan (Pettus) Coleman. The father was born in Virginia in 1813, and came to Haywood County, Tenn., in 1838, remaining there until 1857, when he moved to Lauderdale County and located at Fulton, and in 1872 moved to Arkansas, where he died in 1878. The mother was also a native of Virginia, but died in Haywood County, in 1856. Our subject was of Irish descent. He remained on the farm with his father until twenty-one years of age, when he married and commenced farming for himself, continuing until 1873, when he commenced merchandising at Fulton, continuing four years; then was a merchant at Henning, Tenn., for six years, and in 1883 moved to Glimp, where he is still a successful merchant, and, in connection with his business, is running a large saw-mill. Mr. Coleman was a magistrate in the Third District for a while, and after moving to the Tenth District, was elected, in 1885, magistrate. In 1866 he married Fannie Pettus, and they have had eight children, viz.: Mattie, Vennie, Hewett, Cecil, Ida, Susie, Lester and Lettie; the last two are twins. Mr. Coleman is a substantial citizen and a self-made man, and has accumulated his property by his own untiring energy and judicious management. He served three years and a half in the Confederate Army, in the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Fulton, Lodge No. 359, and of the K. of H., at Henning. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman are active members of the Missionary Baptist Church. He is politically a Democrat, and a man of influence and fine social standing.