Alonzo Curtis COTTON
Birth:
26 Aug 1849
N Shenango, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Death:
9 Aug 1920
Hartstown, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Burial:
12 Aug 1920
Hartstown Cem, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Marriage:
16 Aug 1916
Linesville, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Father:
Mother:
Notes:
Ruth Setterquist, 1318 Shelby Dr., Fairfield, CA 95433
CENSUS: 1850; 1860; 1870; 1880 No Shenango Twp, Crawford Co, PA
CENSUS: 1900 W Fallowfield Twp, Crawford Co, PA
CENSUS: 1910 W Fallowfield Twp, Crawford Co, PA, Hartstown Brough, m1,
mother-in-law, Mary A. Guild living in h/h
BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Crawford Co Death Records; State File #85909, occ. farmer
merchant, undertaker in Hartstown
NOTE: photo of Cotton Family Reunion was taken at the home of Alonzo Curtis
Cotton home in Hartstown (from Spencer E. Gee)
NOTE: some records state Curtis Alonzo Cotton; some Alonzo Curtis Cotton
MARRIAGE; Evening Republican, 26 Dec 1879, CCHS: 1st marr; md by Rev. J.B.
Drew; see notes for Lillian A. Guild
MARRIAGE-BIRTH: Crawford Co Marriage Records, Vol 16, Pg 31: 2nd marr; md by
W.O. Calhoun, Minister of the Gospel; application states applicants were
distant cousins
BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Hartstown Cemetery Index by Adelaide Courtney, 1962, CCHS
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: Joslyn's "Descendants of Henry Cotton", 1983,
Pg 27: Alonzo was a farmer near his father in No Shenango Twp; in 1879 was
a teacher in Hartstown; by 1900 moved to Hartstown where he was a landlord
and an undertaker; Lillian was a saleswoman; in 1910 he had a furniture
store in Hartstown; his mother-in-law, Mary Guild was living with him in
1900 & 1910; was known as "Curt" & was instrumental in establishing the
annual reunion of the descendants of Col. John Cotton
BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Tribune Republican, 10 Aug 1920: of Hartstown; d suddenly
Monday, age abt 71 yrs; was in furniture and undertaking business; mem of
local M.E. Ch, I.O.O.F., & Hartstown Grange; bur Hartstown Cem; survived by
Wife & sisters: Mrs. Roxie Dennis & Miss Linda Cotton, both of Linesville.
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised 1994,
Roger A. Johnson, Pg 19, 43, 44, 58, 59 (more in ref)
Lillian May COTTON
Birth:
3 Apr 1858
W Fallowfield, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Death:
21 Jul 1946
Hartstown, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Burial:
23 Jul 1946
Hartstown Cem, Crawford, Pennsylvania
Father:
Mother:
Notes:
RUTH SETTERQUIST, 1318 SHELBY DR., FAIRFIELD, CA 94533, 1/90; 10/98
NOTE: Was a school teacher in Hartstown, retired and member of Methodist Ch
BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Crawford Co Marriage Records, Vol 22, Pg 492 (2nd marriage)
NOTE: this marriage was her second & they stated in application that they
were distant cousins
NOTE: was previously married to Alonzo Curtis Cotton as his 2nd wife; They
were also related
BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Crawford Co Death Records, State File #59615
DEATH: Tribune Republican, 22 July 1946, CCHS
BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: "Hartstown Cem Index", Adelaide Courtney, 1962, CCHS:
OBIT: was survived by a neice, Mrs. Bertha Bowdish of Stockbridge, MI
(obit 1946, Trapani Papers, CCHS)
BIRTH: "McGinness & Scott Families & Their Branches", S.W.McGinness, 1891,
Pg 95, 96: rec'd education in public schools nr Mt Vernon, Knox Co., OH &
in Baldwin, Douglass Co, KS; entered Baker Univ at Baldwin, later entering
the teaching profession; teaches in the schools around her home & resides
with her parents.
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", 1983, Joslyn, p 27
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: Obit, Tribune Republican, 22 Jul 1946; d. Sunday
at her home in Hartstown, age 88, after a long illness; widow of Robert
Cotton; operated a furniture store in Hartstown for many yrs; member of
Hartstown Methodist Ch; survived by neice, Mrs. Martha Bowdish of
Stockbridge, MI; bur Hartstown Cem)
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: "Descendants of Henry Cotton", Revised, 1994,
Roger A. Johnson, Pg 31, 43, 44, 58, 59; member of the M.E. Church in
Baldwin & taught High School for a number of years; the Persons Scroll
credits her with having one ch while md to Robert Smith Cotton, but she would
have been well into her seventies when she married him; more in ref)
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Alonzo Curtis Cotton - Lillian May Cotton
Alonzo Curtis Cotton
was born at N Shenango, Crawford, Pennsylvania 26 Aug 1849.
His parents were Samuel L Cotton and Martha Naomi Hatch.
He married Lillian May Cotton 16 Aug 1916 at Linesville, Crawford, Pennsylvania . Lillian May Cotton was born at W Fallowfield, Crawford, Pennsylvania 3 Apr 1858 daughter of John Vance Cotton and Mary Wright .
Alonzo Curtis Cotton died 9 Aug 1920 at Hartstown, Crawford, Pennsylvania .
Lillian May Cotton died 21 Jul 1946 at Hartstown, Crawford, Pennsylvania .