Path of the assassins

[IrishJim011]

None of the official records, censuses or city directories have her middle initial as "T". The only place I found it was in just one of the mutliple newspaper articles announcing her retirement in 1901. However, they also call her "Mrs. Margaret T. Coleman", so it could be an error. As was previously noted here, there's no record of her marriage, or ever being married, except for this article calling her "Mrs", and her niece's obituary calling her Coleman Davidson. The 1880 & 1900 censuses both list her as single, not widowed or married, but they are not the most accurate source of information.

On a different note, I also found an article (The Evening Times, Washington, DC Jun 16, 1896) where she is mentioned along with a number of federal employees who were quickly filing to become naturalized U.S. citizens:

"Aliens In The Offices. Clerks in a Hurry to Become Naturalized Citizens. Those who hold good, soft, high-salaried positions in the various executive departments of the government, but have never considered it necessay to become citizens in order to cement their grip upon these lucrative places, are now making strenuous efforts to put themselves upon a voting basis. The clerks down at city hall have recently been overrun with this class of business..."
"...a patriotic organization of this city decided to take vigorous action in the matter of aliens holding government positions..."
"...General Grosvenor introduced in the House a resolution, which was passed, calling upon the head of each executive department to furnish Congress with a complete list of all aliens employed under their supervision. This caused many clerks, who had permitted their first declarations to slumber, to become panic-stricken, and they hastened before the judges authorized to act in such cases..."
"...Margaret Coleman, sixty-five, of Meath, Ireland..."