When Helen Amanda Coulter was born in 1857, in Bartlett, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Addison Coulter, was 30 and her mother, Martha Louisa Wilson, was 21. She married Thomas Newton Patton about 1878. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Shelby, Tennessee, United States in 1870. She died on 21 February 1939, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Scottish (Lanarkshire and Ayr): habitational name from Coulter in Lanarkshire or Culter, Aberdeenshire.
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