Polly Ann Couch

Female11 January 1848–31 January 1932

Brief Life History of Polly Ann

Polly Ann Couch was born on 11 January 1848, in Cowan, Franklin, Tennessee, United States. She lived in Civil District 15, Hardin, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 1, Hawkins, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 31 January 1932, at the age of 84, and was buried in Hawkins, Tennessee, United States.

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Sources (5)

  • Pollie H Arnatt in household of Jacob E Arnatt, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Polley Ann Couch, "Tennessee, Marriages, 1796-1950"
  • Pollie Ann Couch Arnott, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

Age 14

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

1863

Age 15

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Age 22

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English (Cornwall and Devon): nickname from Middle English couch(e) ‘hump, hunch’, used for a hunchback. In Cornwall and Devon it is usually pronounced as Cooch.

English (Cornwall and Devon): variant of Gooch .

English (Cornwall and Devon): from Middle English coche, couche ‘bed, couch, tablecloth’ (Old French couche, culche). It could have been a metonymic occupational name for someone who made such items or a nickname for a lazy individual. Alternatively, it could have been applied to someone who produced couchwork, a luxurious embroidery in which gold or silver thread and jewels were sewn into satin or silk robes.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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