Coleman-Pauley Family Papers, 1860-1999
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Coleman-Pauley family
Title: Papers, 1860-1999
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Curator of Special Collections.
Size of Collection: 2 cubic feet
Location Number: Mss./A/C692
Scope and Content Note
Collection includes correspondence, genealogy, newspaper articles, and other items related to the Coleman and Pauley families of both Pikeville and Louisville, Kentucky. The correspondence consists primarily of personal letters sent to Dr. Foster and Autheilia (Pauley) Coleman. These letters primarily discuss family concerns but touch upon topics such as World War II, Pike County elections, national politics, and religion. Also included with the collection are various medical articles written by Dr. Coleman, Pike County campaign posters, sermon excerpts, and religious notes.
Biographical Note
The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and campaign posters related to two prominent Pikeville families, the Colemans and the Pauleys. The Coleman family owned and operated a local department store and George Coleman, a banker, served a term as Pike Country treasurer. Members of the Pauley family operated a drugstore and Hi Pauley served in various elected positions within Pike County. These positions included mayor, county treasurer and county judge. The two families were united through the marriage of their children, Foster Coleman and Autheilia Pauley. After their marriage in the early 1930s, the young couple moved to Louisville, Kentucky in order for Foster to attend medical school. After finishing his degree, they remained in Louisville and Autheilia began to work as a teacher. A majority of the collection is family correspondence mailed to Foster and Autheilia. Foster Colemen, born in 1910, died suddenly in April 1972. Autheilia Coleman, two years Foster’s junior, passed away in May 2005.
Folder List
Folder 1: Personal Correspondence, 1876
Folder 2: Personal Correspondence, 1909
Folder 3: Personal Correspondence, 1934-1936
Folder 4: Personal Correspondence, 1937-1938
Folder 5: Personal Correspondence, 1939 – January-May
Folder 6: Personal Correspondence, 1939 – June-December
Folder 7: Personal Correspondence, 1940 – January-May
Folder 8: Personal Correspondence, 1940 – June-September
Folder 9: Personal Correspondence, 1940 – October-December
Folder 10: Personal Correspondence, 1941 – January
Folder 11: Personal Correspondence, 1941 – February-March
Folder 12: Personal Correspondence, 1941 – April-May
Folder 13: Personal Correspondence, 1941 – June-July
Folder 14: Personal Correspondence, 1941 – August-September
Folder 15: Personal Correspondence, 1941 – October-December
Folder 16: Personal Correspondence, 1942 – January-February
Folder 17: Personal Correspondence, 1942 – March-May
Folder 18: Personal Correspondence, 1942 – June-August
Folder 19: Personal Correspondence, 1942 – September-December
Folder 20: Personal Correspondence, 1943 – January-May
Folder 21: Personal Correspondence, 1943 – June-December
Folder 22: Personal Correspondence, 1944 – January-March
Folder 23: Personal Correspondence, 1944 – April-June
Folder 24: Personal Correspondence, 1944 – July-August
Folder 25: Personal Correspondence, 1944 – September-October
Folder 26: Personal Correspondence, 1944 – November-Dec.
Folder 27: Personal Correspondence, 1945 – January-February
Folder 28: Personal Correspondence, 1945 – March- May
Folder 29: Personal Correspondence, 1945 – June-August
Folder 30: Personal Correspondence, 1945 – Sept.-December
Folder 31: Personal Correspondence, 1946 – January-February
Folder 32: Personal Correspondence, 1946 – March-July
Folder 33: Personal Correspondence, 1946 – August-December
Folder 34: Personal Correspondence, 1947-1949
Folder 35: Personal Correspondence, 1953
Folder 36: Personal Correspondence, 1954 – January-June
Folder 37: Personal Correspondence, 1954 – July-December
Folder 38: Personal Correspondence, 1955-1956
Folder 39: Personal Correspondence, 1957 – January-March
Folder 40: Personal Correspondence, 1957 – April-December
Folder 41: Personal Correspondence, 1958
Folder 42: Personal Correspondence, 1959 – January
Folder 43: Personal Correspondence, 1959 – February, I
Folder 44: Personal Correspondence, 1959 – February, II
Folder 45: Personal Correspondence, 1959 – March-December
Folder 46: Personal Correspondence, 1960-1964
Folder 47: Personal Correspondence, 1965-1966
Folder 48: Personal Correspondence, 1968-1969
Folder 49: Personal Correspondence, 1971-1979
Folder 50: Personal Correspondence, 1980-1988
Folder 51: Personal Correspondence, 1997-1999
Folder 52: Personal Correspondence, Undated I
Folder 53: Personal Correspondence, Undated II
Folder 54: Personal Correspondence, Undated III
Folder 55: Business Correspondence
Folder 56: Financial Records
Folder 57: Poetry and Speeches
Folder 58: Religious Writings and Poetry
Folder 59: Medical Speeches and Articles, I
Folder 60: Medical Speeches and Articles, II
Folder 61: Medical Speeches and Articles, III
Folder 62: The Pike County News, I (8 June 1939 & 9 October 1947)
Folder 63: The Pike County News, II (23 Sept. 1965 & 25 Sept. 1969)
Folder 64: The Pikeville Sun (21 May 1936) & Pikeville School News (9 Oct. 1947)
Folder 65: Scope Weekly (6 April 1960) & News Express (26 May 1982)
Folder 66: Newspaper Clippings-Miscellaneous
Folder 67: Genealogy – Williamson and Pauley Families
Folder 68: Genealogy Notes, I
Folder 69: Genealogy Notes, II
Folder 70: Genealogy Notes, III
Folder 71: Genealogy Notes, IV
Folder 72: Miscellaneous
Folder 73: Medical School Notebook, 1932-1933
Folder 74: Essentials of Medicine – Textbook, 1942 edition
Folder 75: Scrapbook
Folder 76: Pauley Campaign Posters (ovsz.)
Subject Headings
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Coleman-Pauley family
Fort Knox (Ky.)
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Pike County (Ky.)
Presidents – United States – Election – 1944
Women – Employment
Women and religion
World War, 1939-1945 – Campaigns – Japan – Okinawa Island
World War, 1939-1945 – Public opinion