Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed., 1885
Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY.
Graves Co.

D.P. COULTER, Graves County, county clerk, was born May 1, 1839, in 
Graves County, Ky.  He is a son of Henry N. and Eliza R. (Alexander)
Coulter.  The father was born in Catawba County, N.C.; he died in 1867,
aged seventy-six.  The mother was born in Lincoln County, Ga.  She died
in 1875, aged seventy-seven.  At the breaking out of the war our 
subject enlisted in Company D, Second Kentucky Infantry, and served till
the end of the war.  He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson,
Hart's Ford, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap and all the
battles till the fall of Atlanta, after which his command became
mounted, and so continued till the close of the war.  He then returned
to Graves County and continued farming till 1874, when he was appointed
deputy county clerk, and elected in 1882.  Mr. Coulter was married
August 20, 1868, to Miss H.A. Mayes, of this county.  This union has 
been blessed with four children, two sons and two daughters.  He is a
member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Masonic fraternity, 
I.O.O.F. and Knights of Honor.

Coulter Alexander Mayes
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Catawba-NC Lincoln-GA

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