[3] In 1830, at the age of seventeen,[1] she married Chapman Coleman, U.S. marshal for Kentucky under President John Quincy Adams.

[3] Upon the death of her husband and the subsequent marriage of her eldest daughter, she took her younger children to Europe, where she devoted herself to travel and the study of European literature and the languages.

Coleman spent much time in Paris, and had the entrée to the court circle,[1] though they lived in Germany for the purpose of the children's education.

[1][2] Daughters Eugenia, Judith, and Sallie assisted their mother in translations, including some of Luise Mühlbach's works, relating to Frederick the Great.

[1] She was also one of the select committee sent from Baltimore to petition President Andrew Johnson on behalf of Jefferson Davis, then in prison.

[2] She died at Louisville, Kentucky on February 13, 1891, aged 77,[2] leaving numerous descendants, among them sixteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.