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SUE’S NEW PAGE~
Now would be the perfect time to check out our new link to Sue Lay. Sue has inherited books and stacks of genealogy materials on the Couts / Mosely families. She is currently sorting and adding as much information as she can to her new web page as possible. The letter below is an excellent example of genealogy that must of us have not seen.

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Watching British sitcoms, I have heard a phrase that I believe to be safe as houses. I had always assumed it to be an idiom with which, as an American, I was unfamiliar. Recently, reading a British historical novel set in the late 1800s, I read the phrase "safe as Couts'." Have I been victim of a mondegreen? If not, who is Couts and what does the phrase mean? Nope. A mondegreen isn't the culprit here, but rather an enduring and productive cliché.

Coutt's & Co. is Britain's oldest private bank, distinguished by the fact that it's where the Royal Family stashes its hoard (a bit smaller these days, one presumes, now that they've got to pay taxes like the commoners). Its main branch is off Trafalgar Square in the geographic heart of London, on the Strand opposite the Savoy Hotel. The gossip magazine Hello! has an online version now, which reported in May 2001 that Coutt's is about to install a cash machine inside Buckingham Palace for the convenience of the palace staff. (The staff are probably the only exceptions to the general rule that one must have at least GBP500,000, or twice that in assets, to open an account at Coutt's.) All this to say that Coutt's is regarded as an exceedingly safe place to store one's money.

That makes Coutt's a fitting blank-filler in the expression as safe as..., along with a wealth of other options that have been recorded since 1600. In roughly chronological order from 1600 to 1910, here are some from Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (8th ed.) and Farmer & Henley's A Dictionary of Slang:
a mouse in a mill
a mouse in a malt-heap
a crow in a gutter
a mouse in cheese
the bellows
coons
houses
the bank (Coutt's is obviously a variant)
a church

Some of these are obviously more transparent today than others; as is typical of slang, references to contemporary events or objects are clear to their users, but are obscured by the passing of time. This expression means 'perfectly safe', but some of the variants refer to physical safety, whereas others are used in the context of 'a sure bet'. As safe as houses, first recorded in 1859, has endured in both meanings to the present day. Partridge quotes Hotten's A Slang Dictionary as an explanation of its origin, saying that the meaning may have arisen "when the railway bubbles began to burst and speculation again favoured houses." Perhaps Coutt's is a safer bet, however: in the late 1980s in England, after the stock market crash and the bust of the housing speculation boom, I heard owners of homes with negative equity saying "as safe as mattresses." Wendalyn

We are a small international team researching the men of the First Minnesota Regiment.

Currently we try to identify a group photo of veterans who attended the reunion of 1897 in Gettysburg.

Jacob Kouts might be on it. He has lost his right arm due to a wound he suffered at the battle in Gettysburg.

However, this veteran we are searching could be somebody else, there are 2 or 3 options.

Do you have any further information about Jacob Kouts which could help us to identify him?

Have you ever come across a photo of that time showing an one-armed man related to your Kouts research?

Hello, No I haven't, but I would be happy to put your email or a story in our newsletter, one going out next week, about Jacob Kouts. He must have descendants out there with pictures. Merry Christmas, Barb Couts Evans

Thank you. Certainly you can use the text of my email for your website or your newsletter, you also can copy the text of Jacob's bio from the First Minnesota website and use the link. Jacob became very old and was one of the last survivors of that regiment. Since he had moved to California we have not found more traces in Minnesota. He might have come to some of the reunions of the veterans though. Let's see if we'll be lucky eventually.

1. JACOB² KOUTS (BARNHART¹)¹ was born 1842 in Ohio², and died 09 Aug 1921 in Long Beach, Los Angeles, CA³. He married (1) MARGARET C KOUTS⁴. She was born 1843 in Indiana⁴.

1. Ancestry.com, U.S. Public Records Index, Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005, Online publication - Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.Original data - Compiled from various U.S. public records.

2. Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006, Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: <a href="http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm-catalogs/census/1910/">NARA</a>.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1910.T624, 1,178 rolls. Los Angeles Assembly District 70, Los Angeles, California, ED , roll T624_81, part , page .

3. Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000, Online publication - Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.

4. Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006, Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: <a href="http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm-catalogs/census/1910/">NARA</a>.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1910.T624, 1,178 rolls. Los Angeles Assembly District 70, Los Angeles, California, ED , roll T624_81, part , page .

5. United States, Bureau of Land Management, Minnesota Land Records, Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997, Online publication - United States, Bureau of Land Management. Minnesota Land Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997.Original data - United States. Bureau of Land Management. Minnesota Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patents. General Land Office Automated Records Project, 1995.

6. Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006, Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: <a href="http://www.archives.gov/publications/microfilm-catalogs/census/1910/">NARA</a>.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1910.T624, 1,178 rolls. Los Angeles Assembly District 70, Los Angeles, California, ED , roll T624_81, part , page .

7. Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004, Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900.T623, 1854 rolls. San Bernardino, California, ED 243, roll T623 97, page 9B.

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Jacob W Kouts
Company	D
Enlisted	05/20/61
Discharged	05/05/64
Rank	Corporal
Wounds	wounded
Battle Wounded	Gettysburg 7/2-arm, right elbow
Nativity	USA,OH
Born	07/04/42
Died	08/09/21
Died Where	CA,Long Beach
Hometown	St Cloud
Vocation	farmer?

Jacob Kouts was born in Mansfield, Ohio, on July 4, 1842. He was 19 years old and living in St Cloud, MN, when the war began. He was mustered into Company D on May 20, 1861. Jacob was about 5' 10" tall. He had a light complexion, light colored hair and blue eyes.

He was shot near his right elbow on July 2, 1863, during the regiment's charge at Gettysburg. The bullet just missed his elbow joint. It then traveled up his arm about three inches. He and many of the other wounded men from the First Minnesota were sent to Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia to recover. He was back in the ranks by Oct but he was bothered by the wound for the rest of his life. Jacob was mustered out with the regiment on May 5, 1864.

Jacob married Adelaide M sawyer on June 1, 1866. Five years later, on June 23, 1871, they were divorced.

The 1870 census reports that Jacob was living in Pleasant, IN. On Oct 3, 1871, Jacob married Margaret C Davis in Logansport, Cass County, Indiana. They had three children, Thomas (1/20/1873) and Leroy (12/6/1875). A daughter, born in 1877, died when she was two years old. The 1880 census records that they were living in Koutts, Porter County, IN. By 1888, they had moved to Ontario, CA.

Jacob's arm never recovered from the wound he suffered at Gettysburg. On Nov 1, 1896, in order to save his life, his arm was amputated 6" above his elbow. Being right handed, he was unable to do much work after that.

The 1910 roster of the veterans gives his street address at that time as 439 E 46th Street in Los Angeles. The 1917 roster of the surviving veterans of the First Minnesota lists his address as 1246 E 2nd St, in Long Beach, California. The 1920 census lists only Jacob living in Long Beach, CA. Apparently Margaret had died by then. On August 9, 1921, he died in Long Beach.

Sources:

Roster of the First Minnesota Infantry, 1910.

Letter from Henry D O'Brien to William Lochren, Minn Hist Soc, Aug 6, 1863.

Roster of the Survivors, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 1917.

National Archives, Washington DC, Military pension file, Jacob Kouts.

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 ; Web page at http://www.coutsfamily.com

12 Marker Y-DNA Matches


One Step Mutations

Country (Number of Entries)	Comment	Your Matches
Germany (4183)	-	2

Two Step Mutations

Country (Number of Entries)	Comment	Your Matches
Germany (4183)	-	4

25 Marker Y-DNA Matches


3 Step Mutations

Country (Number of Entries)	Comment	Your Matches
Germany (1665)	-	1

37 Marker Y-DNA Matches


3 Step Mutations

Country (Number of Entries)	Comment	Your Matches
Germany (1030)

12 Marker Y-DNA Matches


One Step Mutations

Haplogroup	Country	Comment	Count
R1b1	Germany	-	1

Two Step Mutations

Haplogroup	Country	Comment	Count
R1b1	Germany	-	1

3 Step Mutations

Haplogroup	Country	Comment	Count
R1b1	Unknown Origin	-	1

4 Step Mutations

Haplogroup	Country	Comment	Count
N	Russia	Altai (Siberian)	1

Haplogroup Descriptions
N This haplogroup is distributed throughout Northern Eurasia. It is the most common Y-chromosome type in Uralic speakers (Finns and Native Siberian). This lineage most likely originated in northern China or Mongolia and then spread into Siberia where it became a very common line in western Siberia.

R1b1 Haplogroup R1b1 is the most common haplogroup in European populations. It is believed to have expanded throughout Europe as humans re-colonized after the last glacial maximum 10-12 thousand years ago. This lineage is also the haplogroup containing the Atlantic modal haplotype.

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