| | In 1907, Coleman married the former Jane Young, and the couple had three children, Jane Birdie Coleman (born 1908), Louis Coleman, and Elliot D. Coleman, II.<ref name=lahist/> Coleman died in Ferriday, in Concordia Parish, from which Tensas Parish was carved in 1843. He is interred at the Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi.<ref>'The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' May 27, 1963.</ref> | | In 1907, Coleman married the former Jane Young, and the couple had three children, Jane Birdie Coleman (born 1908), Louis Coleman, and Elliot D. Coleman, II.<ref name=lahist/> Coleman died in Ferriday, in Concordia Parish, from which Tensas Parish was carved in 1843. He is interred at the Natchez City Cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi.<ref>'The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' May 27, 1963.</ref> |
| − | Some Coleman descendants still reside in Tensas Parish. His great-grandson, Elliot Coleman, IV, who was born some four years after Coleman’s passing, died in 2009 at the age of forty-two.<ref>{ | + | Some Coleman descendants still reside in Tensas Parish. His great-grandson, Elliot Coleman, IV, who was born some four years after Coleman’s passing, died in 2009 at the age of forty-two.<ref>Elliot D'Evereaux Coleman, IV, obituary, ''The Natchez Democrat,'' October 3, 2009.</ref> |
| − | Elliot D'Evereaux Coleman, IV, obituary, ''The Natchez Democrat,'' October 3, 2009.</ref> | |
| | In 2005, Ferriday publisher [[Sam Hanna|Sam Hanna, Sr.]], filed one of his "One Man's Opinion" columns about Coleman's historical legacy.<ref> | | In 2005, Ferriday publisher [[Sam Hanna|Sam Hanna, Sr.]], filed one of his "One Man's Opinion" columns about Coleman's historical legacy.<ref> |