Evaline (Love) Coleman's death certificate states that she was born in May of 1826 in Henry County, Tennessee. Evaline's father’s name was Robert Love and she was likely born into slavery. Evaline married a man named George Coleman and they had nine children together. Evaline and George moved to Missouri sometime before 1877. By 1910, George had died and Evaline was living just outside Ash Grove, in the household of her son James Coleman, who was working (along with his oldest sons) at the nearby facility of the Ash Grove Cement Company (US Census for Boone Township, Greene County, Missouri, 1910). Evaline's death certificate indicates that she died two years later on December 13 and was buried on December 14, 1912, in the Berry Cemetery in Ash Grove.
Grave Marker: Evaline Coleman's specific place of burial within the Berry Cemetery is unknown and there is no individual headstone for her. However, Evaline is memorialized by the inscription of his name (shown below) on the new monument, installed in 2017, for individuals interred in unmarked graves in the Berry Cemetery.
