Ephriam served in the civil war as a Union Volunteer from 20 June 1861 to 15 February 1864, in Company A, 39th Infantry. He fought in the battle of Antietam  where he was injured, and permanently carried a bullet in his leg. Ephriam Coleman was first married to Maria Losier who was born in Germany. So far I have gathered that he had 5 children with Maria who died somewhere between 1880 and 1885. In January 1884 Ephriam was sentenced to 1 yr 3 mos in the work house through PA Western State penitentiary, for Second Degree Murder. However according to the 1900 census he re-married a younger woman and had two children with her, and worked as a police man. He was a watchman who would yell "All is well". He died in 1909 an hour before he friends funeral (Nicholas Kelsch), for which he was supposed to be a pall bearer, of bronchial pneumonia. You can't make this up people...