When Lafayette Coulson was born about 1839, in White, Tennessee, United States, his father, Isaac Coulson, was 25 and his mother, Nancy Newman, was 27.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (North Midlands and northern England): variant of Colson .
Irish (Fermanagh): from a shortened form of McCool , with the addition of the English patronymic suffix -son in place of the Gaelic prefix mac.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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