This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Coleman, Fincher, Cooper, Perry, Collins, Rea Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UeB.2ACI/3147.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for your reply. I am at a brick wall with Noah. Going by a statement on the pension file of his widow Jane Fincher Coleman contains a deposition by his mother in law saying that Noah was generally known as to be illegitimate and that he used both Coleman and Billing's as surnames. The Greenville County, South Carolina 1810 census pp.110, lists a Richard Fincher household as well as a John Billings household. In the 1820 Greenville County census, pp. 113, Noah's widow Jane (as you stated) was apparently listed as using the Billings surname. I don't know if there is a relationship or not. (I do have the estate papers on the guardianship of Eliza and Mahala.) I do have their descendants. Just can't find anymore information on Noah Coleman. A. D. Smith