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June 18, 1928
Re: Cotton Genealogy
Dear Brother Elmer:
It has been some time since I heard from you and I wonder how you all are. We are all well and have no reason to complain as to the way the world is using us.
I have recently become interested in the genealogy of the Cotton Family but find I am lacking in some information needed to complete the line. My brother, your Uncle Robert, knows more about it, I guess, than anybody else in the family. Can you give me his present address? I want to write to him but since his marriage have not heard from him and do not know at the present time his post office address. Perhaps you or Otho can help me in respect to the following information.
As I understand it, our recent genealogy runs as follows:
Our great grandfather was John Cotton, who after the Revolutionary War, moved to Austentown, Ohio, where he died February 1, 1831. His wife was Lucy Little, who died at Austentown October 9, 1835.
Our grandfather was Joshua T. Cotton, who was born at Plymouth, Massachusetts and died at Ossian, Indiana, in 1856. I understand our grandmother was a Williamson, who was born in Ohio. Do you know what her full name was; when she was born; and when she died?
Do you know when and where our father, John Cotton, was born? I know that he died at Heller’s Corners, Allen County, Indiana, in January 1881. I would like to know the exact date.
I know that your mother’s name was Eliza A. Knox and that she died in May 1922. Otho W. and Lola (Mrs. A. W. Jackson) and you are the surviving children of that marriage. I have not heard from Otho for years. Does he live near you? I would write him too if I knew his exact address. Lola, I understands, lives in Fenville, Michigan. If possible, let me have Robert Cotton’s addresses and give me as much of the above information as you can and as soon as possible.
With my cordial best wishes and kindest regards to you and your family and Otho and his family, and hoping to hear form you soon, believe me.
Faithfully yours,
signed Joseph B. Cotton
To- Mr. Elmer K. Cotton, Churubusco, Indiana
Based on this letter, I started to investigate my Cotton family line and after over thirty years of research, I have proven the Cotton Family Genealogy back to the mid-16th century and have had our genealogy confirmed by the Descendants of the Mayflower, the Order of Founders & Patriots and at least ten other lineage societies. In addition, I have undergone extensive DNA testing to determine the ancient origins of the male line of my Cotton origins.
What follows in the FAMILY HISTORY menu are the DNA origins of my Cotton line from 1000BC to about 1100AD. Followed by Cotton Family origins from 1125AD to 1344AD to the genealogically proven Cotton Line for 11 generations beginning 1520.
MENU HEADINGS UNDER FAMILY HISTORY
- COTTON ORIGINS
- 1st GENERATION: LONDON
- 2nd GENERATION: DERBY
- 3rd GENERATION: BOSTON MBC
- PLYMOUTH ANCESTORS
- PLYMOUTH COTTONS
- BURIAL HILL GRAVES
- AREA ONE
- AREA TWO
- AREA THREE
- 13 Ephraim Little
- 14 Charles Jackson
- 15 Lucy (Cotton) Jackson
- 16 Margaret ‘Peggy’ (Dyer) Holbrook
- 17 Mary Dyer
- 18 Martha (Sanders) Cotton
- 19 Col. Theophilus Cotton
- 20 Capt. Charles Dyer
- 20 Bethiah (Cotton) Dyer & son
- 21 Joanna Cotton
- 22 Hannah (Sturtevant) Cotton
- 23 Rev. John Cotton
- 24 Pricila (Watson) Cotton
- 25 David Barnes Cotton
- 26 Thomas Smith-Cotton
- 27 Josiah Cotton
- 28 Rachel (Barnes) Cotton
- 29 Lydia (Parker) Cotton
- 30 Mary Cotton
- 31 Rossiter Cotton
- 32 Three sons of Dr. Rossiter Cotton
- AREA FOUR & FIVE
- AREA SIX
- AREA SEVEN & EIGHT
- MAYFLOWER CONNECTION
- BURIAL HILL GRAVES
- PLYMOUTH COTTONS
- 4th GENERATION: PLYMOUTH
- 5th GENERATION: PLYMOUTH
- 6th GENERATION: PLYMOUTH REVOLUTIONARY WAR
- 7th GENERATION: PLYMOUTH REVOLUTIONARY WAR & OHIO
- 8th GENERATION: OHIO WAR OF 1812 & INDIANA
- 9th GENERATION: INDIANA CIVIL WAR
- 10th GENERATION: INDIANA
- 11th GENERATION: COLORADO
- POTENTIAL PARALLEL LINE
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