When Samuel Cline Cotter was born on 5 September 1805, in Greene, Tennessee, United States, his father, Dr James Riley Cotter Jr., was 42 and his mother, Rebecca Ellis, was 38. He married Susanna Oliver in 1826, in Owen Township, Clark, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 7 April 1856, in Greene, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Babb Farm Cemetery, Afton, Greene, Tennessee, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Irish (Cork): from a shortened form of Mac Coitir, earlier Mac Oitir ‘son of Oitir’, a Gaelicized form of the Old Norse personal name Óttarr (from ótti ‘fear, dread’). Old Norse Óttarr appears to have had two renderings in Gaelic, Ottar and Oitir. The former appears in Cotter, the latter in Cottier , but the record, especially of Cottier, suggests that the two names have sometimes been confused.
English: status name from Middle English coter, a technical term in the feudal system for a serf or bond tenant who held a cottage by service rather than rent, from Old English cot ‘cottage, hut’ (see Coates ) + -er agent suffix. However, in England the name is usually that of Irish immigrant families.
Possibly an Americanized form of German Kotter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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