John was born in 1829 in Cheraw, South Carolina. John Coit ... He passed away in 1872.
John Taylor Coit graduated in law from Princeton University. He also had military training. Practiced law in Cheraw and was later admitted to the Texas bar around 1859.
He married Catherine Malloy "Cattie" Bunting in North Carolina in 1856. They had six children. Shortly after their marriage, in 1858 he moved his family to the plains of Texas near Dallas.
15 Jun 1858 • Collin County, Texas, USA JTC visited Dallas Co TX late spring 1858 to locate a new Texas home for his bride, purchasing 320 acres 15 Jun 1858 on Dallas/Collin Co line in Thomas J. Yager survey. While there, he stayed w. McKamys.
Along with three or four others, he was responsible for establishing the First Presbyterian Church in Dallas.
"The earliest marked grave in this cemetery is that of John Taylor Coit, a Princeton educated lawyer who moved to north Dallas from Cheraw, South Carolina in 1858. Originally buried on a bluff of the Trinity River, he was later reinterred in Frankford Cemetery where he is surrounded by other family members.
John Taylor Coit raised a company of Cavalry, which became Company E, 18th Texas Regiment under Colonel Nicholas Darnell and Lieutenant Colonel John Taylor Coit. Within a month of his son's birth, John Coit's regiment left Texas for Arkansas. He served with distinction there and (after having been captured at Arkansas Post and later exchanged) in 1863 in General Patrick Cleburn's Division, Army of Tennessee. He was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga and was in various hospitals until finally released and sent to San Antonio as a recruiting officer.
When he returned home, John Coit was in such poor health he was unable to farm. He leased his land and moved to Dallas, where he practiced law. He lived in a house he rented for twenty dollars per month from Maxim Guillot, on the corner of Elm and Jefferson." (Also see: "Services to Honor 17 Confederates", The Dallas Morning News, May 21, 1961.)
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* 1870 United States Federal Census Precinct 1, Dallas, Texas
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