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DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS COULSON
AND MARTHA WILEY
LINE OF SAMUEL COULSON AND TAMAR
ALLEN
JABEZ COULSON was born October 1, 1774, and died November 30, 1853, at the age of seventy-nine. He married May 31, 1798, to ANNA VANHORN (daughter of WILLIAM VANHORN and SARAH RUDROW) who was born May 12, 1778, and died March 29, 1846, at the age of sixty-eight.
JABEZ COULSON and ANNA VANHORN were the parents of the following children.
Henry J. Coulson noted that on "March 30, 1814, Jabez Coulson and his family moved from Mercer County, Coolspring Township, Pennsylvania, to Ohio, locating one half mile south- east of the town (as it is now known 1897) as Kensington, Columbiana County, Ohio. They built a log-cabin near a spring, located about forty rods south of the county line of Columbiana and Carroll Counties. The father and mother lived there until their deaths. They were buried at Sandy Springs cemetery located one mile north of Kensington, Ohio."
The following story was written by Mary J. Coulson Cartwright (daughter of John B. Coulson [10th child, above] and Rachel Rish and granddaughter of Jabez Coulson and Anna Vanhorn) and published in Henry J. Coulson's Lineage of the Coulsons.
Jabez Coulson and his wife, Anna (Vanhorn) Coulson, lived for some time in Mercer Co., Pa. The country was sparsely settled -- vast stretches of timber land lying between the humble abodes of the settlers, and the roads, if such they might be called, were often discerned only by the blazed trees along the way from one cabin to another.There were but few acres of cleared land and the cattle were allowed to browse in the woods. The cows were adorned with bells, which, however, were intended more for the convenience of the owners, than as ornaments for the animals for they served to betray the whereabouts of straying ones when they were tempted away into the forest.
One dull rainy Sunday morning grandmother judged from the sound of bells that the cows were going off to the woods before they had been milked, so she dressed quickly, thinking she would bring them back. This she attempted to do, running first after one, then another, trying in vain to turn them about.
Seeing her efforts were fruitless, she returned home; but after having traveled some distance, what was her astonishment and consternation to discover herself in the same place where she had left the cows and she was forced to acknowledge the unwelcome fact that she was lost. Again she started out and kept wandering on and on.
Meantime the family had arisen, missed her, and at once both began a search, hallooing, pounding on logs and going to the nearest neighbors who eagerly joined in with the distressed family to hunt the lost wife and mother.
The day, which seemed weeks to the lost woman, was fast passing, and O, how full of terror was the thought that she might have to spend the night in the woods, which was infested with wolves and some bears.
Lonely and frightened she pushed on till she was cheered in some measure by seeing a tree that was blazed. She determined to follow the blazed way, let it lead where it would.
Late in the afternoon, she came in sight of a cabin which she didn't remember ever having seen before. As she drew near the house a woman came running out to meet her and she was surprised and overjoyed to find that SHE WAS AT THE HOME OF HER NEAREST NEIGHBOR, MATTIE BARTLEY, WHO EXCLAIMED WITH DEEP ANXIETY, "WHY ANNA, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN! WE'VE BEEN HUNTING FOR YOU ALL DAY!" SHE HAD FOLLOWED THE BLAZES MADE BY HER OWN HUSBAND; AND SOON THERE FOLLOWED A HAPPY RE-UNION IN THE COULSON CABIN.
Mary J. Coulson Cartwright also wrote the following story about the family's encounter with a trapped bear. This story was also published in Henry J. Coulson's book.
The wolves were so numerous that grand-father could scarcely raise any hogs, so he dug a pit and placed a tilting lid over it. Then he would tie some fresh meat fast to the land and cover all over with leaves so carefully that the wary animals could not have the slightest suspicions that there was a trap about and in this way he caught a great many. One morning he went to examine the pit and looking down into it he beheld a great black bear.This was an exciting time for the family. They all proceeded to the trap, grand father armed with his musket; Job with an ax; Jehu the pitchfork and Anson a heavy club. Grandmother following after to watch the slaughter of Sir Bruin.
Grandfather shot him in the head but it failed to kill him and grand mother said she pitied him as he sat up on his haunches, quietly wiping away with his paw the blood as it oozed from the bullet hole in his brow. At the second ball from the old musket the bear fell over dead, and they all feasted on bear meat for some time.
Henry J. Coulson gave his own recollections of the family in Lineage of the Coulsons:
There were eleven boys and one girl in my great grand father's family; rather a strange fact that, there were eleven boys and each boy had a sister.Some time after the death of Anna Vanhorn Coulson in 1846, Jabez Coulson married ANN JANE LEE, no issue.I remember having seen of that family Job, Jehu, Anson, Tamar, Isaac, Saul, John, Samuel and Lot. I do not remember of having seen William, Hervey or Jabez V.
Job was a school teacher at one time, also his father before him. They taught in a time when the school-houses were built of logs; two logs being left out, the full length of the building along one and sometimes both sides, the space being covered with oiled-paper or oiled-cloth, for the purpose of admitting light, instead of windows.
The old school-house where the family attended school was located on the south side of the road that runs east and west along the south side of the old homestead, about 3-4 of a mile directly southwest of the southwest corner of the farm, probably 1-4 mile from the public road. There was also a new school-house built afterwards, not far from the old one. I remember of my grandfather saying that, they did not have shoes to wear in going to and from school in frosty and sometimes in snowy weather; they would run until their feet became cold; they then sat down, covering and rubbing as best they could their feet with their hands to get them warm, then run again until the same performance became necessary. They had only such clothing as their mother wove the cloth or spun the yarn and made. Oftentimes, the large family of boys were not supplied with sufficient clothing for all to attend school at the same time, some remained at home while others wore their clothing. In those old log school-houses, there were slab-seats, that is, logs hewn on one side and cut down on the other to a thickness of about two inches, without back (something like the present Pullman parlor car seats) supported by legs of the same; as many of these as could be comfortably spaced in a room about 16 by 20 feet, an open fire-place in one end of the building (the chimney being made of a pen of sticks, daubed inside and outside with mud built on the outside of the building) a goose-quill sharpened at one end served for a pen and pen-holder, an old time spelling-book, the Pilgrim's Progress often sufficed for their reading-book, their arithmetic ended with the Rule of Three (simple proportion) and a very few other books, the school-master, with a rod some five feet long, constituted the whole school outfit. But be that as it was, each one of that family could read, write, count and make use of moderately good language. That is not all, there was not one of that family of boys that would get drunk, spend his time or money foolishly. Each one married respectably, accumulated sufficient property to live comfortably all his lifetime, leaving sufficient means, that none of his children have suffered want.
They were honest, industrious, moderately religious, and highly respected by everyone living in their community vicinity. My great-grand-father (Jabez) and his wife [Anna VanHorn] belonged to the Friends or Quakers and raised their family as such, using the plain language. My mother Maria (Grimes) whose father and mother died near Gilford, Bucks, P.O., Ohio, while she was quite young, went to live with Uncle Job and Aunt Ruth [Howard], they having no children of their own, she remained with them until the time of her marriage. Uncle Job left to my mother five hundred dollars, and to my two sisters and myself one hundred, each the balance of his property being divided amongst his brothers and their children.
He died of palsy and was buried on Quaker-ridge, located near the old- stone-house belonging to Joseph Neil on the Augusta and East Rochester road, also his wife, Uncle Samuel and his wife and several other Coulsons, mostly descendants of.... Jehu, also some of the Holes, Chambers, Pims, Wickershams, Haldermans, Johns and Brogans. While Uncle Jehu and Aunt Catherine [Holland], Uncle Isaac and Aunt Elizabeth [Reeder], Jehues' son, Job, Mollie (Brown) George Coulson's first wife and their daughter, Grace Evabel were buried in the Teagarden grave-yard, between New Garden and Gilford.
My grand father and grand mother (Hannah Holland) their son Granville, their daughter Susan, my brother Hervey, Mahlon Reeder and his wife (Tamar Coulson). Robert Miller and his wife [Susan Holland], her father and mother and brother and wife, and a great many of the older Reeders, Hestons, Clempsons, Winders & Temples, were buried in Sandy Springs grave-yard, one mile north of Kensington.
Holland Miller was buried there also. There was at one time a school-house south-west of the south-west corner of the grave-yard some 200 feet and an old grave-yard close by in the corner of Clempson's field, but it was plowed up years ago.
It was a custom amongst the "Friends" not to allow marble or any, save a common sand-stone head-stone. I remember there being some broken in Sandy Spring not over twenty-five years ago.
It was said that grand father was never so joyous after his daughter Susan died.
My grand father and grand mother made use of the plain language in their family; a peculiarity I noticed, was their son William in addressing his mother invariably always used, thee, thou, thine, but in addressing his father, he was just as likely to use, you, your, he sometimes used them alternately during a short conversation with his father.
Aunt Ruth was what is sometimes called an old-fashioned-herb-doctor, and to her we accredit the existence of my sister Ida and myself on this mundane sphere. (She it was who frequently insisted that I should write and print this book no easy task.)
During the summer of 1864 when the dysentery caused so many deaths in our vicinity, she doctored us with that pleasant old-fashioned (in its pure state) castor-oil in quantities sufficient we thought to disintegrate the bowels of the whole earth while old Dr. Robertson of Hanover, doctored our brother, Hervey and our Aunt Susan, both of whom died.
It was during grand fathers sickness of that year he was tormented, (the effect of the medicine) with what he described as an animal, between a pole-cat & a mink that seemed to stick its head out and say "it ain't the dysentery."
This reminds me while recovering from typhoid-fever in 1885 the doctor being drunk gave me an overdose of arsenic which required four persons to hold me in bed. I meanwhile imagining that I was on the P.F.W.&C.&C.L.&W.Ry crossing at Massillon and that the train was taking my legs off. Such feelings are indescribable. There can be nothing warmer than an overdose of arsenic.
My uncle, Granville Bentley, who was named after a school teacher by that name, died of brain fever. My uncle Samuel Holland married to Carrie Towers of Kansas City. Her father and mother lived and died there. She together with her two daughters and some of her near relatives are still living there. Samuel lived on one side of the river and worked in the car-shops on the other. He was conductor on the C&P Ry, also of some western roads. Shortly after their marriage they came to Ohio to farm his father's farm.
They lived in the house on the north side of the railroad, but she having been raised in town, and he having been used to working on the railroad, and both having contracted the ague, they soon became tired of Ohio and moved back to Kansas City where he died some years afterward of flux and was buried there.
DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS COULSON AND MARTHA WILEY
LINE OF ISAAC COULSON AND ELIZABETH PAINE
JACOB COULSON was born in 1754 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, died in 1811 and is buried in Grayson County, Virginia. In 1776 he married ELIZABETH JENNINGS.
JACOB COULSON and ELIZABETH JENNINGS were the parents of the following child:
DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS COULSON AND MARTHA WILEY
LINE OF JOHN COULSON AND RACHEL BROWN
ISAACHER COULSON was born June 19, 1768 or 1769, at West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland. He married UNKNOWN UNKNOWN and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
ISAACHER COULSON and UNKNOWN UNKNOWN were the parents of the following child:
DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS COULSON AND MARTHA WILEY
LINE OF JOHN COULSON AND RACHEL BROWN
THOMAS COULSON was born in June of 1770 at West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland. He settled in Greenville, Green County, Tennessee. He married UNKNOWN UNKNOWN.
THOMAS COULSON and UNKNOWN UNKNOWN were the parents of the following children:
DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS COULSON AND MARTHA WILEY
LINE OF JOHN COULSON AND RACHEL BROWN
ABNER COULSON was born December 3, 1771, at West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland. He died November 7, 1832, at the age of sixty. On March 24, 1798, he married ELIZABETH HAINES who died August 8, 1840. The marriage was reported as follows in the minutes of Nottingham Monthly Meeting:
At Nottingham Monthly Meeting held at Little Britain, 24, of 11, Month 1798. Testimony: WHEREAS Elizabeth Coulson (late Haines) had a birth right among us the people called Quakers, but not sufficiently attending to the principals of Divine Truth, in her own breast, which would have persuaded her from deviation, give way so far as to keep company with & marry a man not in membership with us, by which conduct we testify she has disowned herself from being a member of our religious society, untill she may be favored to condemn the same to the satisfaction of this meeting, which is our desire. Signed on behalf of this meeting by Jos. Churchman, Clk.
ABNER COULSON and ELIZABETH HAINES were the parents of the following children:
DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS COULSON AND MARTHA WILEY
LINE OF JOHN COULSON AND RACHEL BROWN
JOHN E. COULSON was born October 19, 1774, at West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland, and died before April of 1848 in Greenville, Green County, Tennessee, when his will was probated. He is buried in Blount County, Tennessee. He married on February 8, 1798, to RACHEL COULSON "a Coulson cousin" who was born December 25, 1774. It is unknown at this point who Rachel's parents were. One possibility is that she is the granddaughter of Joseph Coulson and Mary Allen. Joseph mentions his granddaughter, Rachel Coulson, in his will. Another possibility is that she belongs to the line of Isaac Coulson. Theodore M. Coulson, grandson of John E., advised that John E. Coulson followed the Quaker faith.
Irene Coulson Johnston reported that John married second Sylvania Wood on October 14, 1844. Henry Coulson advises that Sylvania married John E.'s son, John. Johnston adamantly reported that this is incorrect.
JOHN E. COULSON and RACHEL COULSON were the parents of the following children:
The family of John E. Coulson and Rachel Coulson moved from West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland, sometime after the birth of their fourth child, Achoah, in 1806, but before their son John Coulson's birth in February of 1808.
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