Joseph Hiram DAVID was born on 28 May 1854 in Gentry County, Missouri. He died on 21 Nov 1922 in Missouri. He married Catherine Henry STEVENSON on 4 May 1872.
Catherine Henry STEVENSON [Parents] was born on 11 Feb 1854 in Indiana. She died on 18 Jul 1928 in Beloit, Mitchell County, Kansas. She was buried in Jul 1928 in Elmwood Cemetery, Beloit, Mitchell County, Kansas. She married Joseph Hiram DAVID on 4 May 1872.
They had the following children:
M i Thomas Isaac DAVID was born on 25 Oct 1874 in Missouri. He died on 21 Aug 1937. M ii John William DAVID was born in Sep 1876. He died in 1928 in Kansas City, Kansas. F iii Lottie Jane DAVID was born on 30 Aug 1878. She died in Jul 1971. M iv Jacob Wesley DAVID was born in 1881. He died in 1966. F v Hattie L. DAVID was born in Feb 1886. M vi John Henry DAVID was born on 23 Aug 1887. He died on 11 Jul 1897. M vii Grover Cleveland DAVID was born on 21 Mar 1888. He died in Mar 1948 in East St. Louis, Missouri. F viii Ethel Pearl DAVID was born on 8 Jan 1891. She died on 1 Apr 1969. M ix Elmer DAVID was born on 21 Mar 1893. He died on 23 Sep 1931 in East St. Louis, Missouri.
James COULTER [Parents] was born in 1829 in Illinois. He married Mary Ann.
Mary Ann was born on 6 Sep 1834 in Illinois. She died in 1860. She married James COULTER.
Robert B. ELLIOTT.Robert married Elizabeth COULTER.
Elizabeth COULTER [Parents] was born in 1834. She married Robert B. ELLIOTT.
Charles PRESTON.Charles married Mary Jane COULTER.
Mary Jane COULTER [Parents] was born in 1849. She married Charles PRESTON.
Celestia POST was born on 3 Apr 1831 in Guilforn, New York. He married Mary Adelia COULTER.
Mary Adelia COULTER [Parents] was born in 1859. She died on 17 Feb 1859 in Old Salem, Washington Co., Illinois. She married Celestia POST.
George Fleming COULTER [Parents] was born on 20 Aug 1807 in Robertson, Tennessee. He died on 1 Jan 1889 in St. Clair, Illinois. He was buried in Marissa Cemetary in St. Clair Co., ILL. He married Sarah Sophia ARMOUR on 10 Sep 1833 in Randolph County, Illinois.
Richard Kleinschmidt <rk445@yahoo.com>, a Coulter Family Member, provides the following obituary:
Obituary:
MARISSA MESSENGER
MARISSA ILL., JANUARY 11, 1889
NUMBER 85
ILLINOIS HISTORICAL LIBRARY
SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS
FRONT PAGEGEORGE FLEMING COULTER
"The memory of the just is blessed." Of him who is the noble subject of this brief sketch it may be truly said that he was one "that feared God and eschewed evil."
He was born in Robertson Co., Tenn., August 20th, 1807. His Father, Robert Stuart Coulter, a lineal descendant of the Scottish House of Stuart, enlisted in the Continental Army at the age of six- teen and served all through the hard- ship of the Revolutionary war. His mother was Margaret Fleming, daughter of George Fleming, an Englishman whose grandfather was a knight, and had been a soldier in some of the old English wars, and was descended from the English House of Fleming.
George Fleming, a high churchman in faith, married Mrs. Brown, whose maiden name was Sidneh Rosine, one of the Swedish covenanters who early settled Philadelphia. During the French and Indian war the Indians killed her first husband and child, and setting fire to her dwelling. compelled her to move with them to Quebec, where they sold her to the French Governor for five French crowns. In 1769 she with other prisoners were exchanged. Gen. Philip Schuyler won her lasting gratitude by (next column) generous and timely assisting when she started on her dreary journey to Philadelphia; as she expressed it- "In the old Desolation."
George Fleming Coulter was the worthy son of these heroic ancestors. He was a man of unblemished honor from first to last. In 1818, on account of their anti-slavery principles, his father's family removed from Tennessee to Illinois. George Coulter was one of the three men who cast the first Abolition votes in this section of St. Clair County. The ambition of his boyhood was to obtain a scholastic education, but circumstances denied him its fulfillment. Yielding to the inevitable, he took up the burdens of life without complaint, and became to the world the plain, matter of fact, practical farmer; yet he lived much in the realm of fancy charmed with its mystic splendors-the creation of a refined and vivid imagination. Possessed of the finest sensibilities he was a lover of music, poetry and art. Among his favorite quotations were: "The quality of mercy is not strained; it droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven. It is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes." Thrice Is he armed who hath his quarrel just," and "I would not count that man among my friends, who needlessly sets foot up- on a worm."
He was a lifelong sympathizer with the wrongs and sufferings of dumb animals.
In disposition he was impulsive, but most generous. The cause of the poor and the oppressed was ever before him. The Indian, the Negro and all the heathen were subject of his pity and his prayers. During the later years of his life when bodily infirmities made sleep impossible he spent the long hours of the night in prayer for others, especially his loved ones and friends. When we say friends we mean acquaintances, for his neighbors freely testify. "He had not an enemy in the world." He view- ed every person in the best light imputing to them the best motives, and was the last to take up an evil report concerning his neighbor.
He had five brothers, two of whom died in infancy. Those remaining were James, who with himself founded Coulterville, Archibald, who formerly owned the place now occupied by George Nevin, Sr., and Robert Stuart, father of Dr. A. P. Coulter of Marissa. There were five sisters; Mary Howard, Elizabeth East, Sidneh Edwards, Margaret and Jane McMillan. These all lived noble lives and made the name of Coulter a synonym for honesty, truth and purity of heart.
George F. Coulter married in Sept., 1833, Sarah Sophia Armour, daughter of John Armour, who founded the city of Sparta, a man of uncommon information and intelligence. They had seven children, four of whom died in early in- fancy, and the remaining three live at and near the homestead.
He was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and lived in accordance with the testimony of that faith.
Though the light of day had been dim to him for many years, the inner light grew brighter and cleaner, as was manifest by his reverent and frequent quoting of the Scriptures and Psalms which had been his comfort in times of trouble. On the Saturday before his death he asked that the fourth chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews be read. After the reading he repeated the 15th verse "For we have not an High Priest which can not be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin," and looking up with a smile he remarked "Two negatives make an affirmative." Referring to the twice using the word "not" in that verse.
He was sinking at that time, and gradually grew weaker, until the morning of January 1st, he passed peacefully away at ten minutes before three o'clock at the age of eighty one years four months and eleven days.
Wholly dependant upon the mercies of God in Christ, when at least he entered death's river he was not alone, for in his lifetime he had spoken to one
Good Conscience to meet him there.
Sarah Sophia ARMOUR was born on 10 May 1811. She died on 7 Mar 1902 in Marissa, Illinois. She married George Fleming COULTER on 10 Sep 1833 in Randolph County, Illinois.
They had the following children:
F i Maria COULTER was born on 13 Sep 1841. She died on 3 Nov 1912. M ii George Armour COULTER was born on 2 May 1845. He died on 2 Apr 1909. F iii Emily COULTER was born on 1 Aug 1851. She died on 26 Jan 1892.
Robert Stuart COULTER Jr. [Parents] was born on 20 Sep 1809 in Robertson, Tennessee. He died on 14 May 1852 in Lively Grove Township, Washington County, Illinois. He was buried in Old Salem Cem, Washington, Illinois. He married Isabelle WYLIE.
Isabelle WYLIE [Parents] was born on 26 Apr 1810 in New Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. She died on 10 Jan 1890 in Marissa, Illinois. She was buried in Old Salem, Washington Co., Illinois. She married Robert Stuart COULTER Jr..
They had the following children:
M i John R COULTER was born about 1826 in Oakdale, Ill. M ii Robert COULTER was born about 1828 in Oakdale, Ill. M iii John Wylie COULTER was born on 4 Sep 1830. He died on 30 Nov 1896. M iv Philip COULTER was born about 1830 in Oakdale, Ill. M v James Riley COULTER was born on 26 Feb 1832. He died on 30 Nov 1903. M vi Arthur Parks COULTER was born on 24 Feb 1836. He died on 14 Nov 1907. F vii Martha COULTER was born on 1 Sep 1838. She died on 8 Aug 1924. F viii Susan COULTER was born about 1840 in Oakdale, Ill. M ix Samuel Leiper COULTER was born on 14 Aug 1840. He died on 6 Nov 1908. F x Margaret Elizabeth COULTER was born about 1842 in Oakdale, Ill. She died in Hooper, Colo. M xi Phillip Melancthon COULTER was born on 4 Apr 1845. He died on 10 Feb 1913.
Katsuo KIMURA [Parents] was born on 16 Feb 1930 in Hiroshima, Japan. He married Nobuko IWAMURA.
Born in Hiroshima, his teacher asked him to go to a factory away from the center of the town that day to help out because there was a shortage of men. When the bomb was dropped, his teacher and all the other children in his class were incinerated except for a few other kids who played hooky from school that day.
He is a hibakusha, meaning that he is an A-bomb survivor.
Nobuko IWAMURA [Parents] was born on 23 Feb 1935 in Nagoya, Japan. She died on 25 Mar 1997 in Tokyo, Japan. She married Katsuo KIMURA.
They had the following children:
F i Tomoka KIMURA was born in 1963 in Japan. F ii Kayo KIMURA was born on 12 Mar 1966.
John Alexander WYLLIE was born on 31 Aug 1846. He died on 19 Oct 1906. He married Emily COULTER.
Emily COULTER [Parents] was born on 1 Aug 1851. She died on 26 Jan 1892. She married John Alexander WYLLIE.
John WYLIE.John married Sarah LEIPER.
Sarah LEIPER.Sarah married John WYLIE.
They had the following children:
F i Isabelle WYLIE was born on 26 Apr 1810. She died on 10 Jan 1890.