Thomas Edward COTTLE

Notes:

                   Source:
   Birth:  Plain City Ward Records, F 026,388.  However, difference between Ward Rec. and IGI on DOB & Place:  Ward says Bridport and IGI says Bradpole used IGI info.
Ward listed DOB 5 Nov but IGI listed DOB as 2 Nov 1856 assumed Ward to be correct.  IGI: Batch T999172 sht       94 Family History S13
   Burial Date:  Ancestral File.
   SP date: Sealing sheet in family file.

**AFN PROBLEM:
   Bapt date: AFN has 7 Apr 1864.

Historical Note:
    Flora came to Utah with her parents with an ox team in Captain Duncan's Company in 1862.  She lived with her parents in a dugoutuntil she met and married Thomas Edward Cottle.  They settled on the same ground he first built a two room adobe house, cellar, corrals, artisan well and so on.  Thomas later built a brick home (for his second wife).  [Note by Annie Jane Cottle Stock]:  She lived with her parents in Plain City in a dugout, about where Wm. Hunt lives now.  She lived there until her marriage to Thos. E. Cottle.  They settled on the same ground which my father later built a brick house which stands at this writing.   Flora England Cottle died of child birth
4 May 1896 (when Reubin Francis Cottle was born).

This article was found in the papers of LaPriel Roberts:

Jane Pavard - England           From the Daily Heralk, November 27

Mother England

A worthy woman leaves this world for a better one.

       Editor Heerald:  We have the sorrowful duty to record the demise of a worthy woman whose virtues will survive her long in the loving memory of her wide circle of friends and acquaintenaces.  There died in this city, Wenber County, Utah, on November 20, 1992, of congestion of the lungs, Jane Pavard, the beloved wife of Father John England.  The deceased was born, August 22, 1815, at Stafford near Yeovil, Someersetshire, England.  She was married at the same place, May 4, 1834, and at her death was the mother of 15 children, seven sons and eight daughters and grandparent to 37.
       Sister England was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Laatter-day Saints in 1848, at Bridgeport, Dorsetshire, England, by Elder George Kendall.  Mother England emigrated to Utah in 1862 in company with her husband and a portion of her family, in Captain Duncan's company and settled in this place, having been preceded to Utah by her eldest daughter Annie who crossed the plains in the handcompay in 1857.  Two years afterwards, her son, John, crossed the pllains and assisted to build the first telegraph line that crossed the Rocky Mountains to Utah.  They thus materially assisted their parents to gather to the home of the Saints.
       Sister England was surrounded at the time of her death by all of her family, and was fully conscious of the great change impending.  Her suffereings lasted about 27 days........  respect to all that remained of Mother England.  Yea; of very truth a city is left to mourn.  The services were opened by solemn music, and prayer by Elder A. Knight.  Bro. John Spiers then gave a very feeling and eulogistic review of the deceased's life and usefulness curing the last 17 years.  He was followed by Elder P. C. Green, and Bro. Wm. Geddes.  Bp. Shurtliff closed the seervices, but was so affected that his feelings were unexpressed.  The funeral cortege then moved to the graveyard, and the setting sun passed below the western horizon, as they hid in the tomb all that waas left of that good and faithful servant.  Mother and Sister England.  She died a true Latter-day Saint, having also been a member of the Rellief Society.

It is not the tear at this moment shed,
       When the cold eaarth has just been laid o'er her,
That can tell, how beloved was the wife that's fled,
       Or how deep in our hearts we deplore her,
Tis the tear through many a long day wept,
       Tis the one remembrance fondly kept,
Then all other griefs have faded.

Shortly after her settlement in Plain City, Sister England was ordained and set apart as a midwife, under the hands of Elder John Carver, and, by the dictation of the Spirit of God, who promised the blessings of success in all her administrations, which promis haas been fully vereified in a singular manner.  She was unlearned, even in the commonest rudiments of language or science, was unassuming,
(Omission and the rest of this excerpt from newspaper clipping was lost.