COUTS COUSINS
IN MEMORY
OF OUR FRIEND, JAMES ARMSTRONG
A Bi-annual
Newsletter for the Descendants of the Couts Family #46
WELCOME-
It is
the goal of this newsletter to create interest in and share the research for
the Couts (pronounced Koutz) and Allied Family
genealogy. It can only be written with
the cooperation of each family member.
We encourage each of you to send in your family group sheets and enter
data as far back as you can find. The
information that you find within its covers will be as “true” as we can
prove. We gladly accept articles,
photos, genealogy lines, and family stories. We plan to complete this edition
to Newsletter #50 and then, we will end the series.
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I have a table made from Couts and Sons furniture store. I've had alot of compliments on the table I haven't seen another table like it (I LOVE MY LITHOGRAPH OF THE OUTSIDE PAINTING ON THE WALL! Barb) |
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It is wonderful to learn so much of the history of the Couts family. Do you have a copy the the small book abut JR Couts that was sponsored by the Citizens bank? I think it is called "A Man and his Monument" I do have one if you do not. Thank you for the effort that you put into keeping this story alive. |
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not sure which family I belong to... was given up by my parents Danile L. Couts and Jackie McLister... Know that my fathers mother was Betty Couts and I believe my grandfather was Reynoldo?? have a paper stating that I am Pechanga Indian... any info would be appreciated |
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Son of Robert Lee Shadrick and Geneva Lee Posey; |
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My dad was from Kendalville, Indiana and his dad was Ora Couts. His father was Fred Couts, also from northern Indiana. My father Dale Sr., was raised by Fred and Minnie Couts of Brimfield, Indiana. According to my dad, Fred had nine brothers and sisters, although for some reason they never got together. I would love to find some of our long lost relatives:-) |
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great site My mom’s maiden name is Cintra Lee Couts she was a only child raised by her grandparents I know his name was Cassias and his mother was Mona Green and his father was Alvin C Couts and they lived in Noble Indiana.I found some more names of there kids Arthur Helen Nelli paul and my grandmother Marjorie If anyone is related to us It would be awesome. my mother would do a cartwheel |
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I really enjoyed looking at your site and i admire all the hard work it took and takes.I am just starting out finding my roots.thank you |
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I descend from Anna Gertraude Kautz who married Christoph Kissling from Steinau, Hessen Germany. I have visited the town of Steinau and was given the key to visit the Church where
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To All My Koontz/Coontz, Kautz, Couts Cousins and Friends:
OHIO MILITARY RECORDS –John A. Couts d. 20 October 1920 Upper Sandusky Wyandot County, Ohio Bucyrus,
Crawford County, Ohio, Enrolled in Military: 24 June 1861 Discharged:
13 July 1864, Cleveland, Ohio 40 years of marriage to Mary A. Couts
Bible, Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio.
Mary’s maiden name: Borst, License issued 29 November 1860;
Samuel Couts- Witnessed. Children: Annie Lauren 23 October 1861, Ralph Vernan 27 June 1869,
Ulisses Grant
22 April 1865. Information
provided from Pat Evans, Library of Congress /DAR
INDEX TO SERVICEMEN OF WAR OF 1812, STATE OF OHIO, Page 50
COUTS, William: buried Couts
Cemetery, Washington Township, Tusc. Cou. Ohio, (Ohio > All counties > Tuscarawas County > Couts Family
Cemetery)WPA Records, New Philadelphia, (1945). Information provided from Pat Evans, Library
of Congress /DAR
FAMILY TREE MAKER Bobbye
K. Winterberg
Descendants of Jacob Youtsler
Generation No. 1
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/n/Bobbye-K-Winterberg/GENE11-0001.html
1. Jacob1 Youtsler died 18381.
He married (1) Mary Engleman. She died Unknown. He married (2) Sarah Freeman
Couts 02 Oct 1818 in Hardin Co. Ky.. She died Unknown.
Notes for Jacob Youtsler:
Entries relating to Jacob Youtsler
(Yutsler) are found on both Kentucky and Indiana.
Many sources are found tracing his whereabouts. From an unknown book there is a
story called "Five Years' Search of the Records" by Isaac N. Youtsler .
Because the story calls WIlliam Youtsler's
children " a large family of boys and
girls", I speculate that this article was written in the 1880's, when Wm.
Henry's children were young. Most of what Isaac wrote can be documented,
although he is mistaken in the beginning of his story when he says that Jacob Youtsler came over from Holland in 1682 with William Penn.
This Jacob lived from the mid 1700's to the 1820's as far as can be documented.
Another source is the obituary of William Henry Youtsler, grandson of Jacob. It is found in the Meade
County Messenger and is copied in the book, Meade Co. Cemeteries. It and
another source state that Jacob settled the "forgotten town of North Hampton
on Ohio" in Harrison Co. , IN. The reason North
Hampton is forgotton is that it was destroyed by
flood.
The number of children Jacob had is in question. Isaac says Jacob's children were William, John, Phoeby,
Kate and Susan. A pedigree I found in Corydon Library shows a daughter
Mary. I have notations of marriages for Phoebe (Spinks) and Kate (Catherine
Riley). One source says Phoebe's husband's name was Henry, but another says
Francis L. But both last names were Spinks. I also found a Henry and an Abraham
Youtlser that are the right age to be Jacob's
offspring.
Jacob himself appears in a marriage
record in 1818 to Sarah Couts in Hardin County, KY. This most probably
is a second marriage. The pedigree that mentions Mary Youtlser
says she is the daughter of Jacob Youtsler and Mary Engleman. Her birth is close to William's so Mary is likely
the mother of William also. From various copies of correspondence I have from
Ralph Stiles' collection, no one seems to have documentation on Mary Engleman.
More About Jacob Youtsler:
Burial: Unknown, LaRue Co., KY
Fact: 1800, Hardin Co. Ky Tax list (Yutsler)2
Fact 1: 1796, came to Ky from Pa. w/ Road, Hodgens, Trammet, Lynn et
al-settled Hogensville3
Fact 2: 19 Mar 1797, Michael Yotszer marries Dorothy
Harris in Hardin Co.4
Fact 3: Jan 1799, Susannah Yotsler marries Hankerson Reed in Hardin Co. KY5
Fact 5: 25 Jan 1802, Dau. Catherine Youtsler marries James Riley6
Fact 6: 1804, Jacob moves himself and family to Harrison Co. IN7
Fact 7: 01 May 1807, Jacob Yutsler buys a tract of
land in Harrison Co. In., 192a fractional23,5,28
Fact 8: 1813, Jacob Yutsler on Harr.
CO. tax list, 126 acres, 3 horses9
Fact 9: 02 Oct 1818, Jacob Yutsler marries Sarah
Couts in Hardin co. KY10
Fact 10: 01 Jan 1821, dau. Phoebe Yutsler
marries Henry Spink (surety Wm. Yutsler)11
Will: 31 May 1838, Hardin County will book E
Will Proven: 19 Nov 1838, Hardin County will book E
Notes for Sarah Freeman Couts:
Submitter: Tom Wilbur
Subject: More Circumstance . . .
Message: After I typed the foregoing message, I noticed something else . . .
Jacob Youtsler also was mentioned in the Harrison
County deeds. According to Jones' Hardin Marriages, "Yutsler,
Jacob and Mrs. Sarah Coutz" married, 1819. I
presume Sarah's first husband was Henry Couts, who died about 1815. His will is
in Jones' Hardin Wills (and mentions Wilson Boman and
Henry Boman--who really were Bomar
[the mistake was by the Hardin clerk, not by Jones]). Anyway, she was named
Sarah Freeman when she married Henry Couts. I might also point out that Philip
Freeman married Susanna Couts. (About 1833 Philip and Susanna went to the
Jackson Purchase part of Kentucky. They appeared to have several children.)
UNCLE HENRY
HENRY COUTS is the key for the proof of the Couts
Families ties to each brother and sister in Tennessee. He is also the key to
tie Johannes Detrich Kautz
Couts. Here is his information.
THE WILL OF
HENRY COUTS ~ evidence and connection THIS INFORMATION CONNECTS HENRY,
CHRISTOPHER (CHRISLEY JR.), SUSAANAH, and MARGARET COUTS
Hardin county Kentucky, April 8th one
thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
In the name of God, Amen
Henry COUTS being in
perfect mind and memory and knowing that it is appointed for all men to die, do make this my last Will and Testament. First, I bequeath my body to the dust and my
soul to God from whom I received it and that after my funeral Expences and all my debts are paid, I give and bequeath as
follows to wit; to my well beloved wife, Sarah COUTS, the use and enjoyment of
my whole estate, real and personal, during her natural life. And at her decease, then, I give my nephew
Christopher COUTS, the value of one fourth part of the tract of land whereon I
live, the said land to be valued and to be paid him in property at its real
value. One fourth part. Item, I give to Henry Whitman, son of Mary
Whitman, $15 to be paid him in property at its real value and after the several
bequeaths are paid that then, I give the
residue of my estate, both real and personal to my niece, Sussanah
COUTS, and Daughter to my sister
Margaret COUTS, to her and her heirs forever.
My Will and desire is that my wife, Sarah COUTS, and my well beloved and
trusted friend John Hadgen, act as my Executors in
this my last Will and see that my
desires in the distribution of what it has pleased to bless me with shall be complyed with. Signed sealed and delivered in the presence
of Essa Hubbard Squire LaRue
Wm. Payne. Henry Couts -Seal
At a County Court began
and held for Hardin County at the Court House in Elizabethtown on Monday the
9th of November, 1818. The within
instrument of writing purporting to be the last Will and testament of Henry
COUTS, deceased, was produced in court and proven by the oaths of Essa HUBBARD, Squire LARUE, and William BAYNE, to be the
last and testament of said COUTS and ordered to be recorded and that I have
truly recorded the same in my office.
Attest, Saml HAYCRAFT, Jr. C.H.C.C.
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Ony Hadgen around Hardin County, KY was Robert Hadgen, Justice of the Peace.
Kentucky
Tax List ~ 1790
Henry Couts, 1 white male over the age of 21; 4 horses owned;
cattle owned 7 Lincoln County; Waterway Sugar Creek. Peter Couts 1 white male over the age of 21;
1 horse owned Lincoln County; Sugar Creek.
Others on Sugar Creek- Joseph Bledsoe Jr., James Crafford; Daniel Cooley John Craig, Alex Colleir, James Collier William Camden, John Denton. Other waterways close: Licking Waters, Gilberta Creek, Dicks River Licking Run, Boones Creek, and
Clear Creek.
Henry Couts, believed son of Dietrich Kautz,
married Sarah Freeman, dau of Elisha Freeman Jan. 29,
1787 Lincoln Co. (Hardin Co. ) Ky. No living Children Died in
Elizabethtown , Hardin Co. Ky 1818.
Henry Countz and
Ann Bowman, Aug. 4, 1778; Henry Counce and Cath. Ramback, Sept. 3, 1779- Maryland Records Washington Co.
E:35 Oct. 1803 Henry Coutz of
Garrard Co. from James Dysart of Lincoln Co. (KY,No. Carolina) 200 acres on Buffalo Creek in Hardin County.
(Henry's deed of acquisition for 200 acres of land is most interesting
, since Detrick?? has 200 acres and no visible
means of aquiring it.
The deed was in Hardin Co.
EARLY
KENTUCKY HOUSEHOLDERS 1787-1811
Henry is listed with Detrick and Daniel
Couch-Couts
name date book/page im
Henry Couts
9 Sep 89
2.04
1
Henry Coutch 25 Nov 92 3.04 1
Henry Couts
7 May 94
3.06 1
Henry Couts
1 May 95
1.03
1
Henry Couts 96 4.04 1
Aug 1810/Feb. 1811 CENSUS 1810 Hardin Col Ky page 289 Henry Coutz
10011=11010=00
1 male under 10 years-0males 10-16-omales
16-26-1male 26-45 and 1malel 45 and upwards; 1female under 10 years, 1females
10 to 16- 0 females 16 to 26 year one female 26 to 45 and o females 45 and
upwards.
Elisha?/ or / Dietrick??
Will Book C Pages 210-211 Harden Co. Ky. April 8, 1814 Henry Couts
last Will and Testiment.
July 23, 1814 Phillip Freeman and Susanna
Couts. Surety Henry Couts (niece?)
April 8, 1816 George Freeman and Nancy Freeman surety Henry Couts
Nov 9, 1818 Probate: Henry
Couts deed will proven in court Will Book C pages209-211 Hardin Co. Ky
Oct. 2, 1819
Mrs. Sarah Couts (widow) married Jacob Yutzler
Hardin Co. Ky page 72 May 25, 1829 Estate of Henry
Couts sued by Chrisley Couts Jr. Nephew, Hardin Co. Ky Page 147-148 Deed Book L
Two Centuries in Elizabetthtown and
Hardin County, Kentucky by Daniel Elmo McClure, Jr.
Henry Couts married Sarah, daughter of Elisha Freeman,
pioneer settler in Hardin Co. Ky, Hennary (Henry)
Couts died in 1818, leaving widow, Sarah, no children. According to Judge Mather ,
Couts and Freeman were neighbors to Thomas Lincoln-father of Abraham.
Elisha Freeman, believed to have been one of the first white men
to visit Severns Valley and one of the earliest
settlers in the area of Freeman's Creek, made entry for 400 acres on December
20, 1782, on the watercourse Nole Linn Creek. A second entry was made on the same date for
400 acres on the same watercourse.
William Freeman was one of the earliest settlers in the Valley and must
have come in April of 1779. He has a
Creek and a Lake named for him.
Another Revolutionary War soldier who came to Hardin Co. was
Thomas Bailey, from Va, born
in 1759, died in 1825, and settled in the Mill Creek section of the
county. Thomas Bailey married Nancy
Gentry, a sister to Sally Gentry, who married James Smith. ? Fleener and
Benjamin Wright was found in the same area as Freeman and Bailey- what became
Elizabeth R
Henry Couts, [ probable son of Dietrich Kautz], married Sarah Freeman, dau
of Elisha Freeman Jan. 29, 1786 Lincoln Co. (Hardin Co. ) Ky. No Children Died in
Elizabethtown , Hardin Co. Ky 1818.
Henry Countz and
Ann Bowman, Aug. 4, 1778; Henry Counce and Cath. Ramback, Sept. 3, 1779- Maryland Records Washington Co.
E:35 Oct. 1803 Henry Coutz of
Garrard Co. from James Dysart of Lincoln Co. (KY,No. Carolina) 200 acres on buffalo Creek in Hardin County.
(Henry's deed of acquisition for 200 acres of land is most interesting
, since Detrick?? has 200 acres and no visible
means of acquiring it. The deed was in
Hardin Co.
HENRY COUTS VOL 18 KENT. GENERAL #3 JULY/SEPT 1976 PG 107
VOL 1 KENT PIONEERS AND GENERAL RECORDS #4 OCT 1979 page 6
(KY,No. Carolina) 200 acres on BIt is
believed that Detrick lived out his life with Henry.
Hardin
county, Kentucky Will book "C" 1816-1821, by Mrs. Frances Terry Ingmire
Hardin county Kentucky, April 8th one
thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Kentucky
Tax List
Henry Couts, 1 white male over the age of 21; 4 horses owned;
cattle owned 7 Lincoln County; Waterway Sugar Creek. Peter Couts 1 white male over the age of 21;
1 horse owned Lincoln County; Sugar Creek.
Others on Sugar Creek- Joseph Bledsoe Jr., Jfames
Crafford; Daniel CooleyJohn
Craig,Alex Colleir, James CollierWilliam Camden, John Denton. Other waterways close: Licking Waters, Gilberta Creek, Dicks River Licking Run, Boones Creek, and
Clear Creek.
MATERIALS CAN BE SENT TO: BARBARA COUTS EVANS, 4171 Glidden Lane Yuba
City, CA 95993 (530) 751-1903 (fax same) E-mail: bevans@coutsfamily.com ;
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