Richard Coleman Carlisle
Born Dec. 5, 1835 died Aug. 21, 1906.
Fourth child of T. A. and Kitty Carlisle. Coleman graduated from the Citadel in 1855 and graduated from the medical department of the University of New York. Coleman served in the Civil War as an assistant surgeon in 1862 and commissioned a full surgeon in 1864. He participated in twenty battles. He was captured and held prisoner for two months, and put in a dungeon in Baltimore, and afterwards he was exchanged. After the war, he returned to Newberry and married Emma Elizabeth Renwick, daughter of Col. J. S. Renwick, on Sept. 16, 1869.
Coleman and Emma had eight children:
John Renwick Carlisle b. Sept. 27, 1870 d. Oct. 19, 1909
Satilla Fidella Carlisle b. Oct. 12, 1871 d. Aug. 8, 1873
Mary Emma Carlisle b. Oct. 16, 1877 d. May 9, 1953
Thomas Bernard Carlisle b. Nov. 30, 1879 d. June 13, 1952
Twin boys - died at birth - Nov. 21, 1882
Richard Coleman Carlisle b. Dec. 20, 1883 d. Aug. 27, 1956
Hubert Toland Carlisle b. Aug. 20, 1888 d. Feb. 17, 1985From his obituary: Dr. R. C. Carlisle died at his home, on Tuesday evening, August 21st, 1906, after a week's illness of acute indigestion. Dr. Carlisle was a practicing physician and was largely interested in farming - the largest land owner in the county. He was largely interested in many of the industrial and banking enterprises of this city, begin a director in the National Bank and also in the Newberry mills and director and vice president in the Exchange Bank. He was not only a man of large affairs and a successful practitioner but he was a good neighbor and popular man, and his death causes great regret in the county, where he has so long occupied a position of prominence and usefulness.
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Coleman's Civil War Information
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