Aza Coleman Biographical Sketch from Beers History of Warren County, Ohio
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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 24 September 2005

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part V. Biographical Sketches
Deerfield Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)

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AZA COLEMAN, retired farmer, Lebanon, Ohio. He was born in Fayette Co., Penn., March 26, 1811. His father, John Coleman, was a descendant of a German family that came quite early to Pennsylvania; his mother, Margaret Savage, was the daughter of a family from Wales. In 1821, the parents and the children, Joseph, Nancy, John, Aza (our subject) and Josiah, came down the Ohio on a raft to Cincinnati; from there they went to Lebanon, where they lived one year, then going to the country north of that town, renting land here and there, as they were too poor to make any purchase for a home. In 1832, our subject married Anna Scott, daughter of Thomas Scott, quite a prominent man at that time. In 1833, he moved to a place north of Mason, Ohio, where he began to work for himself, from the low state of poverty; he was a man of great energy, strength and pluck, ambitious and attentive to his business; commencing with a colt and $140 at the time of his marriage, he persevered diligently, labored daily and yearly unceasingly, in the swamps and wilderness, until, by the effect of tiling, log-rolling, grubbing and stump-pulling, he possesses a farm of 320 acres in one tract, one of the best cared for and productive in the county; he saved his means, bought land by small tracts, looked to the welfare of his children by being able to provide each with a farm. The issue of the first marriage were five children—an infant, Caroline, Mary, Granville and Maggie A.; only two of these grew to womanhood –Caroline (now deceased), who married George Guntle, and Mary, who married her cousin,

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John Coleman; the families of these two are located on two fine farms, each of 200 acres, near Indianapolis, Ind., given them by our subject. In 1843, our subject was married to Sarah Coulson, daughter of William Coulson, an early settler in the county; to this union eight children have been born—Sylvester, Sarah M., Louisa, Fletcher, Louis F., William T., Charles F. and Eva B.; only four of these arrived to the state of maturity—Sarah M., L F., W. T. and C. F. Sarah M. was married to William Benedict, now deceased, who lived, during his life, on her place of 100 acres, near Mason; after his death, she married M. A. Jameson, now Treasurer of Warren County; the family now live in Lebanon; L F.. is a teacher by profession; W. T. is a farmer living on the homestead place; C. F. is Deputy Treasurer of the county. Our subject has spent an active life in the church, and was a man eager for public improvements; the fine roads and pikes of Deerfield Township are attributed in a great degree to his influence and energy. The misfortune of losing a limb by a thrashing machine in 1856 made him only the more energetic. Now, at his fine home in Lebanon, where he has lived for six years, great is the satisfaction to him that his life has been one of health, pleasure, success and prosperity; a Christian in life, always a Republican in politics, true and generous to his fellow-men, charitable to the needy, and has a record of honesty and uprightness in all his dealings.

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