"Uncle" was a veteran of the War between the States. He was well loved. He and his 2nd wife, Julia Archibald Coleman, died when their horse-powered buggy collided with a train in Grapevine, TX.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txtarran/military/coleman_william_cooper.pdf
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-25179-17780-50?cc=1983324
According to the person who reported the death, C.F. Coleman ( Calvin Franklin Coleman?) , WC's mother was "McCleary"
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