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THOMAS MORGAN COULSON was born April 4, 1838, and died January 8, 1882, at Emporia, Kansas, at the age of forty-three. He married on December 5, 1865, to ETTA ROGERS. They were the parents of the following children:
RACHEL BROWN JOB was born September 12, 1809, and died June 15, 1857, at the age of forty-seven. She married on October 17, 1827, to HENRY PAXSON in a Quaker ceremony.
RACHEL BROWN JOB and HENRY PAXSON were the parents of the following children:
ANN ELIZA JOB was born February 23, 1815, and died December 23, 1839, at the age of twenty-four. She married on May 26, 1836, to ASBURY BLAKE.
ANN ELIZA JOB and ASBURY BLAKE were the parents of the following children:
SOPHIA MILLER JOB was born February 24, 1817, and died in 1844 at approximately twenty-seven years of age. She married in 1840 to ABNER MILNER.
SOPHIA MILLER JOB and ABNER MILNER were the parents of the following children:
MARGARET AMELIA BLACKBURN married REUBEN GRIFFITH of Chester County, Pennsylvania.
MARGARET AMELIA BLACKBURN and REUBEN GRIFFITH were the parents of the following children:
RACHEL MARY COULSON was born in November of 1814 and died July 29, 1853, at the age of thirty-eight. She married in 1837 to ROBERT HINDMAN.
RACHEL MARY COULSON and ROBERT HINDMAN were the parents of the following children:
JOHN THOMAS COULSON was born July 31, 1816, and died December 21, 1895, at the age of seventy-nine. He married on October 19, 1839, to MARGARET TOSH who was born January 16, 1818, and died May 19, 1860, at the age of forty-two. There were no children of this marriage.
JOHN THOMAS COULSON married second on January 21, 1867, to SOPHIA McVEY who was born July 28, 1834.
JOHN THOMAS COULSON and SOPHIA McVEY were the parents of the following children:
JAMES ABNER COULSON was born July 23, 1818, and died April 19, 1884, at the age of sixty-five. He married on April 23, 1843, to ESTHER ANNA SIDWELL who was born August 20, 1822, and died May 19, 1885, at the age of sixty-two. Esther was his first cousin, daughter of his Aunt Lavinia Coulson Sidwell.
JAMES ABNER COULSON and ESTHER ANNA SIDWELL were the parents of the following children:
JESSE ROBERT COULSON was born August 17, 1820, at West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland, and died November 5, 1888, at Port Deposit, Cecil County, Maryland, at the age of sixty-eight. He married January 11, 1854, to ESTHER ELIZABETH STERRETT who was born September 23, 1822, and died February 9, 1900, at the age of seventy-seven.
JESSE ROBERT COULSON and ESTHER ELIZABETH STERRETT were the parents of the following children:
Ben Foster, Jesse Robert Coulson's great, great grandson, wrote the following:
Jesse Coulson....at an early age wanted to keep store, so at age fourteen he walked from West Nottingham to Rock Run, where there was a store kept by a Mr. Steele, and asked the proprietor for a situation. Mr. Steele kept him for the day then took him home. He later worked Mr. Steele until school started but took every opportunity to keep working at the store throughout his school years, so Mr. Steele finally took him as a partner.Jesse and Elizabeth became owners of a small farmstead in Port Deposit, 7th District, in Rock Run, north of the intersection of the road to Liberty Grove and the road to Battle Swamp, containing, according to a survey made in 1911, about sixty-six acres. I have not traced this property, which may have come to Jesse and his wife through the estate of her father.
A receipt for $33.37, dated 1837, and a payment of a mortgage note of $1230 held by J. Tome, also in 1837, may refer to some purchase of land.
In 1857 he purchased of Robert Smith his half share in two houses and a stable for $700.00, which they had bought of J. W. Whitecock. By 1877, Jesse owned 174 acres in the area of Port Deposit.
Jesse and Elizabeth had two children: Margaret, who married Edward C. Kirk, and John Eli, who died unmarried. [In addition], they kept Carrie Kirk [Margaret's youngest daughter] after her mother died. John Eli worked at the store with his father, then after his father's death a certain William T. Coulson, who was presumably a cousin.
The William T. Coulson referred to is William Thomas Coulson, the son of Jesse's brother James Abner Coulson. More about the store can be found under his name in the ninth generation. The store was featured in the Commercial and Industrial Review of Northern and Western Maryland (about 1896). John Eli "is identified with the K.G.E." The Reviewe noted that both men "as business men and citizens have proven themselves in every respect worthy of the esteem in which they are held."
Ben Foster continues:
Later in life John E. Coulson fell on evil days and became the town drunkard. His last job was on the town wharf. In 1970 a senior citizen remembered him as "somewhat erractic." Charles Vance, an elderly black man (d. 1958), well remembered John Coulson as he had brought the man home at night and put him to bed. John Coulson drowned in a canal in March of 1911.
Ben Foster noted the following regarding the homestead of Jesse and Esther and other items of interest:
The homestead of Jesse and Esther Coulson was located near the town and nearby was the Sterrett family burying ground, which had been found with the help of Charles Vance, mentioned above. The house burned to the ground in 1970 and the grave markers in the cemetery were smashed by vandals, so as of this writing (1996 ) there is probably nothing to draw an interested visitor to the spot.
Henry J. Coulson reprinted the following on the death of Esther Elizabeth Sterrett Coulson from the Cecil Whig, Elkton, Maryland, of February 17, 1900:
Mrs. Esther E. Coulson, a very aged lady of the Seventh district, and widow of the late Jesse R. Coulson, died at her home near Port Deposit, Friday morning, last week, aged 78 years. One son, John E. Coulson, of Port Deposit, survives her.
In the same paper under notes of Woodlawn:
The remains of Mrs. Esther Coulson were laid to rest in Hopewell Cemetery on Monday.
And under notes of Port Deposit:
Mrs. Elizabeth Coulson died Friday morning, last week, and was buried on Monday. Funeral services were held at her late residence at 1:30, Rev. A.S. Mowbray officiating. Mrs. Coulson was for many years a member of the Methodist Church, always ready to help in every way possible. She leaves one son. Her bearers were T. J. Vanneman, Z. T. Stephenson, Adam Peeples, S.D. Fisher, Wm. Patton and Dr. Carson.
SARAH JANE COULSON was born March 13, 1824, and died April 19, 1877 or 1878, at approximately fifty-three years of age. She married October 18, 1860, to ANDREW J. BRICKLEY.
SARAH JANE COULSON and ANDREW J. BRICKLEY were the parents of the following children:
WILLIAM PENN COULSON was born March 26, 1831. He married on December 19, 1861, to ANNA MATILDA NICKLE, who was born March 4, 1840.
WILLIAM PENN COULSON and ANNA MATILDA NICKLE were the parents of the following children:
William Penn was a storekeeper at West Nottingham. The store is marked on the 1877 Cecil County Illustrated Atlas in West Nottingham, with his residence just to the north, near the corner of the Harrisville Road and Liberty Grove Road. The building has been demolished.
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