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MARGARET JANE COULSON was born July 10, 1856, and died of Bright's Disease on May 1, 1887, at the age of thirty. She married on November 1, 1879, at Port Deposit, Cecil County, Maryland, to EDWARD CAMERON KIRK who was born December 9, 1856, is Sterling, Illinois, and died July 20, 1933, at Merion, Pennsylvania, at the age of seventy-six. Edward Kirk was a professor of dental surgery at the Pennsylvania Dental School.
MARGARET JANE COULSON and EDWARD KIRK were the parents of the following children:
Ben Foster noted that a few of Margret Jane Coulson's personal belongings and photographs are in the possession of his mother, Elizabeth R. Foster, and that the family Bible of Margaret's parents, Jesse and Esther Coulson, is in the possession of his brother, Richard C. Foster. He also shared the following composition by Margaret, dated June 27, 1872, addressed to Miss E. C. Deady, Abingdon, Virginia. Margaret was approaching her sixteenth birthday when she wrote it:
Youth I think is the summer and Old Age the winter of life, though many may disagree with me on this point. In Youth we have neither sorrow nor troubles to bow down our happy hearts for they are then easily forgotten and the pleasures more than overbalance them. Care is not known and all wants are considered by our parents and all necessities provided for without any anxiety. It is then our thoughts are hopeful and the future bounded on all sides by promised pleasures. We have then not past time to regret and look back upon our childhood with the greatest interest. Our whole lives depend on Youth, therefore we should strive to have a good foundation laid so that we may be able to resist the many temptations of life and walk in the path of the honored and respected. In this period of life the young and thoughtless enjoy the many pleasures of their home circles. We then receive the kind trainings of our parents which are not appreciated when so young, but when we grow old we are thankful for all the kindness that they have so liberally bestowed upon us. The summer very quickly passes away to the autumn and winter of life, and the thoughtless careless ways of childhood are very soon bowed down with the troubles and sorrows of life. Such is the termination of childhood. One who in Old Age recalls a happy childhood enjoys a great pleasure in memory, by which he can drive away many unpleasant thoughts and almost imagines himself enjoying the sunny hours of childhood again. Memory is so dear to us then for it enables our minds to wander back through the past recalling all the bright and joyous days of Youth, that are past never to return. We at last pass the last seasons of life: and are seen leaning on the arms of death very soon to leave this dark and gloomy world for one more bright and beautiful.
John Eli Coulson, Margaret's brother, left two notes written upon this composition:
John E. Coulson, Dec 30, 1882. I wonder years hence, who will read this composition.
August 23rd 92. By chance I again read this. The composer has passed into the bright & beautiful land. Died May 1st, 1887. J.E.C.
JANE BRICKLEY was born September 1, 1863. She married on February 28, 1889, to LEVI M. JOHNSON.
JANE BRICKLEY and LEVI M. JOHNSON were the parents of the following children:
The following obituary on Paul Andrew Johnson appeared in The Midland Journal, Rising Sun, Maryland, on March 11, 1898:
Johnson.- On Sunday, March 6th, 1898, at the home of his parents, Harrisburg, Pa., Paul Andrew, son of Levi M. and Jennie E. Johnson died, aged 2 years and 8 days. He was a grandson of Sarah (Coulson) Brickley daughter of Eli Coulson.
ELI BRICKLEY was born April 13, 1867. He married on January 16, 1889, to LOUISE BOULDEN.
ELI BRICKLEY and LOUISE BOULDEN were the parents of the following children:
ELI COULSON was born May 13, 1867, died May 5, 1936, shortly before his sixty-ninth birthday and is buried at West Nottingham Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Colora, Cecil County, Maryland. He married in May of 1899 to FANNY RAMBO (daughter of ASA RAMBO and MATILDA FREEMAN) who was born June 11, 1874, at North East, Cecil County, Maryland, and died July 20, 1914, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of forty. She is buried at West Nottingham Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Colora, Maryland, with Eli's parents, WILLIAM PENN COULSON and ANNA M. nICKLE.
ELI COULSON and FANNY RAMBO were the parents of the following children:
The following notice appeared in the Midland Journal (Rising Sun, Maryland) on May 5, 1899:
Eli Coulson, of Colora, and Miss Fannie Rambo, of North East, were married in Wilmington last Tuesday evening. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. F. B. Short.
ELI COULSON married second on March 31, 1916, to ELLA MAE PARSONS who was born May 29, 1900, in Oxford, Pennsylvania, and died May 20, 1982, in Elkton, Maryland.
ELI COULSON and ELLA MAE PARSONS were the parents of the following children:
NATHAN SIDWELL was born March 8, 1850. He married on December 24, 1875, to MARY DAVIS. They resided at Hickory Hill, Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1898.
NATHAN SIDWELL and MARY DAVIS were the parents of the following children:
Henry J. Coulson published the following wedding notice for Reba F. Sidwell (B, above) but does not recite from what newspaper it was obtained:
April 13, 1898, at Oxford, Pa., by Rev. W. R. Bingham, D.D., Mr. Walter P. McDonald and Miss Reba F. Sidwell, both of Hickory Hill.
OLIVER J. SIDWELL and LULA WHITE were the parents of the following children:
JOB B. SIDWELL was born July 15, 1854. He married on August 23, 1877, to IDA A. NESBITT who was born July 8, 1854. They resided at Sylmar, Pennsylvania, in 1898.
JOB B. SIDWELL and IDA A. NESBITT were the parents of the following children:
Henry J. Coulson published the following wedding notice but does not recite the name of the newspaper from which it was taken:
March 29, 1898, in the First Baptist Church, Oxford, by the pastor, Rev. William Barrows, Mr. Eri E. Dutton of East Nottingham, Pennsylvania, and Miss Anna L. Sidwell of Sylmar, Maryland.
The following obituary of Wilson J. Sidwell, written by his teacher, appeared in the Oxford Press, Oxford, Pennsylvania, on March 24, 1898:
Death came to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Job Sidwell, Sylmar, to claim their only son, Wilson, in his twelfth year, to be one of God's bright angels. While helping his father to haul straw recently he met with a serious accident, resulting in his death. The horse became frightened and being unable to control it Wilson was thrown from the wagon and the wheels passed over his body. His sufferings at time was intense. He was brave until the end, when a few minutes before he died he remarked to his father that he could not stand the pain longer. Wilson was a pupil at Cooper School at the time of his death, he being a bright and active student. He will be greatly missed at school as he was a favorite among all school-mates. He was a member of Sylmar Sunday School, attending every Sunday. His parents have the sympathy of this community. The interment was made at Rosebank cemetery Wednesday, 16th, services being held at Sylmar Church.
His Teacher.
ANNA E. SIDWELL was born February 23, 1857. She married AUGUSTUS CRAIG. They resided at Calvert, Cecil County, Maryland, in 1898.
ANNA E. SIDWELL and AUGUSTUS CRAIG were the parents of the following children:
BENJAMIN W. SIDWELL was born August 2, 1860. He married MARY TAYLOR. They resided at Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1898.
BENJAMIN H. SIDWELL and MARY TAYLOR were the parents of the following children:
LAVINIA R. SIDWELL was born February 3, 1864. She married JOHN HOLLAND.
LAVINIA R. SIDWELL and JOHN HOLLAND were the parents of the following children:
JOSEPH H. WHITE was born December 20, 1860. He married first on June 15, 1884, to CORDIE BAXTER.
JOSEPH H. WHITE and CORDIE BAXTER were the parents of the following children:
JOSEPH H. WHITE married second to REBECCA JANE PICKERING.
JOSEPH H. WHITE and REBECCA JANE PICKERING were the parents of the following child:
ALICE WHITE married on January 10, 1884, to ORVIL M. KILDAY.
ALICE WHITE and ORVIL M. KILDAY were the parents of the following children:
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