COULTER, JOHN SUMMEY, Private, Company E, 3rd Regiment, NC Junior Reserves, Previously served as Private in Company B, 8th Battalion N.C. Junior Reserves. Transferred to this company on January 3, 1865, while a prisoner of war at Point Lookout, Maryland. Paroled at Point Lookout on January 17, 1865. Received at Boulware's Wharf, James River, Virginia, January 21, 1865, for exchange. Had not rejoined his company as of February 28, 1865. No further records Survived the war.[NCT 17:349]
He died on 25 October 1925 at the age of 79 in Catawba County, North Carolina.[Catawba Country Cemeteries, 8:73.] He was buried in Old St. Paul's Church Cemetery, Newton, Catawba County, NC. Inscription reads, in part: Elder in Reformed Church Confederate Soldier - Descendant of Martin Coulter, Sr. - [who] Came from Palatinate to America- 1749 - md Catherine Rosanna Boone ca 1756 - Citizen and Freeholder of NC - 1765. He was a jeweler and farmer and lived in Newton.
