James Tyrell Coulter Sr.

James Coulter, another son of Alexander Coulter SR., m'd Catherine Tunnell in 1792 (notice the date here) Their 15 children included the Thomas Coulter of Sale Creek. Catherine Tunnell was born in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1777, the daughter of William Tunnell and Mary Maysey. James Coulter and Catherine Tunnell were married in 1794 near Robertsville. (Note: If there is Robertsville in NC then that is town they were married in for I have a copy of the marriage book for Rutherford Co. NC were they were married, Janet). They lived on the Holston River, then in Sequatchie Valley, and later near her brother Robert Tunnell, near Harrison. James Coulter died in Arkansas in 1849 after moving there with most of the rest of his children in the 1830s. Catherine Tunnell Coulter had died in 1826. (Note: James was killed while move cattle to Texas for his son-in-law William Munkres. William had James daughter Margaret Coulter in c1831. The time of James death there was fight with cattle rustle. James kill a few and one them kill him. The date for this was during the year of 1849 near Little Rock, Arkansas).

James COULTER (Apr 1, 1772 - 1849) bd. Apr 1, 1772, Green River, Rutherford Co., NC d. 1849, Cain Hill, Washington Co., AR & Catherine TUNNELL (Jan 31, 1777 - Sep 12, 1826) bd. Jan 31, 1777, Fairfax Co., VA dd. Sep 12, 1826, Rhea Co., TN brd. Sep 1826, Rhea Co., TN m. Jul 6, 1792, in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Found in Rutherford County, North Carolina Marriage records 1779-1867. Not in TN but NC..

(this came from records that other folks had or from Notable Southern Families by Armstrong the fact of Cane Hill, is wrong for James did not die in Cane Hill but livid there )

At the time of this marriage East Tennessee was part of North Carolina. East Tennessee/North Carolina start to become what is now Tennessee after or about 1800.

James Coulter did die in 1850 but in 1849 move cattle to Texas. William Monkres and his wife Margaret Coulter move to Cherokee County, Texas and that is where James Coulter and sons were taking the cattle. James is buried some where near Little Rock, Arkansas but when I was told his sons and men came back dugging up body taking it back to Cane Hill. But can not prove this.

Janet

James Coulter, son of Alexander Coulter SR., m'd Catherine Tunnell in 1792 (notice the date here) Their 15 children included the Thomas Coulter of Sale Creek. Catherine Tunnell was born in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1777, the daughter of William Tunnell and Mary Maysey. James Coulter and Catherine Tunnell were married in 1794 near Robertsville. (Note: If there is Robertsville in NC then that is town they were married in for I have a copy of the marriage book for Rutherford Co. NC were they were married, Janet).

They lived on the Holston River, then in Sequatchie Valley, and later near her brother Robert Tunnell, near Harrison. James Coulter died in Arkansas in 1849 after moving there with most of the rest of his children in the 1830s. Catherine Tunnell Coulter had died in 1826. (Note: James was killed while move cattle to Texas for his son-in-law William Munkres. William had James daughter Margaret Coulter in c1831. The time of James death there was fight with cattle rustle. James kill a few and one them kill him. The date for this was during the year of 1849 near Little Rock, Arkansas).

Children; 10 Dau. & 3 Sons; 2 Deceased Infants

Property 1: 1805, Rhea county TN tax list

Property 2: 1819, Roane county TN tax list

Residence: 1829, Moved to Cain Hill AR with all children except the oldest, Thomas.

Death: Spring of 1849. Moved to Arkansas in the 1830's

1830 census

«b»James Coulter«/b» Not Stated, Rhea, Tennessee

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1840 census

James Coulter Cain Hill, Washington, Arkansas

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James Coulter, (b 1772) and wife Caty Tunnell, b 1-31-1777 Virginia., daughter of Wm. and Mary (Maysey) Tunnell, moved from N. C. to Tennessee. about 1797 with the Tunnell family. They had fifteen children: ten daughters, three sons and two who died as infants. The three sons were James, b about 1797, d 1839 Arkansas., m Mary Moore; Alexander, b 1817, d 1838 Arkansas., never married; Thomas, who remained in Tennessee. and is the ancestor of so many Coulters in Hamilton County Tennessee. This Thomas Coulter, b 1799, d 1876 Hamilton County Tennessee., m Rebecca Parks (b 1793, d 1880) and had the following children: Thomas Jefferson Coulter, b 1816 d 1887, m 1st Anna Gamble, 2nd Providence Jane McDonald; James P. Coulter, b 1817 d 1864, m Mary Ann McDonald b 1821 d 1910; Margaret Coulter, b 1819 d 1903, m Charles Hutcheson, b 1817 d 1896; Ruth Coulter, b 1829 d 1907, m Issac LaFayette Hutcheson; Caty Coulter, b 1823, m J. R. Hickman; Robert W. Coulter, b 1820, m America Amanda Cliff; John Jerome Coulter, b. 1827 d. 1909, m Arabella Hickman; Milo Coulter, b 1825 never married. "Doris Hetzler"

James Coulter Jr or Sr.own land near Fayeteville, Ar. 160, acres, 80, acres and 80,acres.

James Coulter land records in Arkansas

Title Transfer

Issue Date: 8/20/1838

Land Office: Fayetteville

Cancelled: No

Mineral Reservations: No

Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)

Issue Date: 8/20/1838

Land Office: Fayetteville

Cancelled: No

Mineral Reservations: No

Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)

Issue Date: 8/20/1838

Land Office: Fayetteville

Cancelled: No

Mineral Reservations: No

Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)

Excerpt from "Early Settlers of Cane Hill" published in 1993

Posted 24 Sep 2012 by Ann Erdman

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The Coulter family from East Tennessee had fifteen children. Some of them may have grown up before they moved to Arkansas, but most of them grew up and married here.

Jemima was the one who eloped from the Truesdale home the night that Jane (Sarah Jane) Truesdale married young White McClellan, to marry Bob Moore, who was from Pennsylvania. They lived before the war at Clyde, but when their home was burned by Federal soldiers, they bought the lot and built the house where Miss Kate now lives. Their daughter Callie (Mrs. Frank Braly) remembers that there was much fighting at the time their house was burned and there were many dead and wounded around the house. A Colonel Jewell died there, a Federal officer from Kansas. At one time there were six coffins on their porch.

There were no sons in that family, and when Uncle Bob and Jemima or Aunt Dick as she was called, were old, the daughters, with Miss Mat at their head, cared for the parents and kept the home together. Miss Lizzie taught school for many years. May married Dr. Griffith.

Ann Coulter married J. B. Russell. There is more about them in another place in this manuscript.

Marian married John Lewis, a pioneer blacksmith of Fayetteville whose home was where the old stone store was, the building now occupied by Hunt's. His blacksmith shop was across the street to the north. Will Lewis came to Cane Hill to live with his uncle, Maurice Wright, and later married Mr. Wright's daughter. After her death he married Lizzie, daughter of G. W. M. Reed of Fayetteville, and they bought the place on Jordan's banks that had been Uncle Pylant's home before the War, and built the house still standing, belonging to Virgil Walker. They reared their children here, and in later years moved to Siloam Springs.

Ruth Coulter married Maurice Wright, a brother of Mr. Wright, whose family was murdered. They owned the Lon Moore place, then the place where Ollie Russell lives. Mr. Wright taught school for a time and was for some years a merchant. The firm name was Wright and Lewis.

Rebecca Coulter, too, spent her days at Cane Hill. She married Dr. Kirby and their home was south of Clyde, the farm still known as the Kirby place. Two of their sons, Tom and Chris, stayed on at Cane Hill when they married and had homes of their own. Thomas and his wife Jennie lived on the old home place when their children were growing up by moved later to the house that Chris Kirby built on the old Hill property. The Mehaffys live there.

On the list of Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Washington County is the name of Christopher Kirby. The name of the Mr. Kirby who married Rebecca Coulter a Henry Franklin and he was too young to have been a soldier in that was. But it is possible that this Christopher was his father and that he came here when an old man to live with his son. This seems likely, since Henry Franklin and Rebecca named one of their sons James Christopher.

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This younger Chris Kirby and his wife (Mollie Irwin) live on Flat Rock branch near where Hazel and Tony Baucum lived, then for several years in a 2-story house directly in front of the Lewis home. Mr. Kirby then bought Mrs. Hill's place, staying some years in the old house before building the house standing nearer the street.

Another Kirby son, Will, married Jennie Irwin, sister to Mrs. Chris Kirby and Charlie Irwin.

Polly married a Mitchell and lived in Missouri. Margaret married a Monkress and lived in Texas. Eliza married a Gilbreath. There were three sons: John (wrong), James, and Alex. This doesn't account for all of the fifteen, but perhaps they all didn't come to Arkansas.

James Bryant Russell, whose wife was Anna Coulter, lived in Clyde, on the farm that Barbs (?) Colburn owns, in the house that was torn down when Buford Colburn built the new house. The house was not large and there were seven children in the family, yet somehow they managed to take in and care for eight orphans, children of relatives, giving them the same educational advantage they gave their own children. Four of these orphans were children of Letitia Coulter Meyers - Mrs. Russell's sister -: Kathrine, Will, Jim, and Em; two were grandchildren --- Willie and Tom May; and two were children of Mr. Russell's brother John --Melinda and Pulaski. The May children had a Negro, Smith, and they brought him with them. Also, Mrs. Russell had two Negroes to help with the work, Jeff and Cynthia.

Uncle Russell was good at propagating apple trees and for some years ran a nursery. His son "G" and family lived in the home with him when he was old, and about 1880, possibly earlier, they traded places with Sam Cole, and Uncle Russell's last years were spent at that place, the one Mr. Artz bought from Mr. Karnes.

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At this wedding at the Trousdale home, Jemima Coulter was a bridesmaid. Before the festivities were over, she slipped out unnoticed, out to where a young man, Bob Moore from Pennsylvania, waited with a horse. In another minute both were on the horse, Jemima "riding behind", and away they galloped through the darkness to the nearest place to be married. Running away to get married seemed to be the rule in the Coulter family, for the simple reason that Mr. Coulter had a habit of forbidding a marriage as soon as he heard of the plans. Jemima's sister married a Mr. Kirby who had planned to run away with Sarah Jane Trousdale. So none were left lonely.

Excerpt from Goodspeed's "History of Benton County" published in 1889

Posted 24 Sep 2012 by Ann Erdman

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In 1830 James Coulter came from East Tennessee and settled on the place where Joseph Moore now lives. The next year James B. Russell, his son-in-law, with other relatives followed. Mr. Russell is still living. After living one year near Rhea's Mills, he removed to near where Boonsboro now is, and has since been identified with that community. In 1832 a school-house was built near Boonsboro, and Maurice Wright, a brother-in-law of Mr. Russell, was the first teacher. The next year Mr. Russell himself taught the school. Here attended the youth for the whole Cane Hill neighborhood, but not long after two schools were established, one at the White Church and the other at Elm Spring or Salem Church.

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By daylight on the morning after the murder people from the surrounding country began to come in, and by noon hundreds, perhaps a thousand, had assembled. That night a council of old citizens was held, and the question of public safety was discussed in all its phases. The powerless condition of the courts was recognized, and after a long debate it was decided to take the matter into their own hands. A committee of thirty-six discreet and reliable citizens was selected to direct investigations and to punish the criminals should they be apprehended. The names of the members of the committee, as given by Col. James P. Neal, are as follows: Mark Bean, Rev. Andrew Buchanan, James Coulter, Levi Richards, Rev. Samuel Harris, Robert Bedford, John R. Pyeatt, Lewis Evans, John D. Moore, Rev. B. H. Pierson, William Oliver, Garvin Dunn, Leander Burnham, James Buchanan, James Hamilton, Aaron Parks, Robert Parks, T. C. Wilson, James Mitchell, William D. Crawford, Samuel Carnahan, James Crawford, Sr., Henry E. Campbell, John Tilly, Sr., Thomas Tiner, Rev. Thomas W. Norwood, William Crawford, Richard Bean, M. W. McClennan, Robert Buchanan, Isaac P. Spencer, William Munkress, Samuel Marrs, John Campbell, Henry E. Campbell and John Latta. Rev. Samuel Harris was chosen president of the committee.

James Coulter Sr was helping William move to TX. When in a gun fight over the Cattle James was killed near Little Rock, Arkansas." From Conrad Russell: "The Coulter family came to Ark in 1830. Settled on a place about one mile from the present village of Cane Hill. The Munkers came with the Coulter family or with the Russell, Wright and other Kin from TN. Margaret Munkers was a daughter of James Coulter and wife. Maurcie Wiright and James Byant Russell (my greatgrandfather) also married Coulter girls Ruth Wright and Ann Russell. (Ann and Ruth was James Coulter daughter too). The Munkers and Russells joined the church in 1832 September. Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1832-35. The day not given this leads me to believe that Munkers and Russells came the same year, Probably together. They came from Knox County and Rhea County, TN. Were farmers or owned land. The Coulters bought horses in Arkansas and sold them in Texas. Some of the Kin helped to drive them to Texas.

1830 United States Federal Census

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