Capt. Martin Coulson and Violet G. Shepler

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Husband Capt. Martin Coulson ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 6 Oct 1830 - near Brownsville, Fayette Co, PA 3
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       Marriage: 4 Mar 1857 3

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Wife Violet G. Shepler ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 20 Aug 1833 1 2
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         Father: Capt. Joseph Shepler (1807-1892) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
         Mother: Mary Blackburn (1807-Aft 1890) 1 5 6 7 9

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Children

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1 M Joseph S. Coulson ^{1 3}

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2 F Margaret E. Coulson ^{1 3}

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         Spouse: [Unk] Adams (      -      ) 3

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3 M Alfred Kerr Coulson ^{1 3}

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Martin Coulson

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He was born on a farm on the National road, situated about one mile east of Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and there learned the blacksmith's trade of his father, who had followed that vocation all his life.
At the age of eighteen years he left home, and, taking a position on a steamboat, was rapidly promoted. For thirty-three years he served as engineer on the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers, having run on the Missouri river for sixteen years, and during the last seven years of his river life he was captain.
After marriage he and his wife resided in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, (where they moved in the highest social circles), until 1888 when he purchased a farm, about two miles west of Monongahela. He gave special attention to stock raising, and owned nearly fifty blooded trotting-horses. The place consisted of 260 acres, surrounded by a good fence of pine and cedar, which he had erected, and he also erected the buildings on the farm.
In politics Mr. Coulson voted with the Democratic party.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 567.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 309.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 697.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 566.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 635.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 308.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 568.

8 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 157.

9 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 97.