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William Forrest Coleman

Posted by Woody Coleman on July 21, 2009 at 10:20am

William Forrest Coleman; Planter, Cattleman, Businessman, and American Consulate at San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Born in 1864 in Carroll county, Georgia, He was the son of William Allen Coleman,(1st Georgia Cavalry), and Cynthia Florence Riggs. He refugeed with his parents and older brother, John William,after the Civil War to Spanish Honduras where the Confederate colony of Medina,(now part of San Pedro Sula), was planted. He married Yndalecia Paredes, daughter of Juan Angel Paredes and Dominga Paz, a prominent family of Spanish Honduras. He brought the first automobile to San Pedro Sula.

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