OBITUARY FOR JOSEPHINE KEMPH COTTON
SOURCE: Clare Sentinel
DATE: Friday, November 14, 1941
The many friends of Josephine Cotton, who has been well known in the community for the last thirty-five years grieved to learn of her passing away Tuesday morning of last week.
Josephine was born the daughter of William Joseph and Mary Kemph in Bristol, Illinois on April 4, 1847, and was united in marriage to Moses Rose in Joliet, Illinois in 1863 and to this union in marriage came the birth of two daughters, Mae E. Rose and Lydia Rose, who have preceded her in death.
Left to mourn her loss were five children: Frank Edward Cotton, Howard Fred Cotton, and Edna L. DuChane, all of Clare, Michigan, Grace Pearl Cotton, of Flint, Michigan and Scott Amos Cotton, of Pontiac, Michigan. She was also survived by five stepchildren, one brother, thirty-five grandchildren, forty-four great grandchildren, eight great
great grandchildren and a host of friends.
During the Civil War her mother, father and four brothers entered the war, and she was left to mother a brother and three sisters. At the present time they are all living. Seth, 91 is in Absorkee, Montana, Charlotte, 89, of Lockport, Illinois, Jane, 86, of Lockport, Illinois and Ella, 84, of Bala, Kansas.
It was remarkable to listen to her wartime stories and hear her tell the many interesting tales and incidents of the war, as they all returned unharmed except one brother, Frederick, who was shot through the wrist which left him crippled for life. He reached the age of eighty-nine and died in his old home in Lockport, Illinois, in the year of 1921.
After the death of her husband in 1919, she traveled and visited many places of interest, including Niagara Falls and Century of Progress, etc., and her baby sister whom she had not seen for fifty years.
SOURCE: Clare Sentinel
DATE: Friday, November 14, 1941
The many friends of Josephine Cotton, who has been well known in the community for the last thirty-five years grieved to learn of her passing away Tuesday morning of last week.
Josephine was born the daughter of William Joseph and Mary Kemph in Bristol, Illinois on April 4, 1847, and was united in marriage to Moses Rose in Joliet, Illinois in 1863 and to this union in marriage came the birth of two daughters, Mae E. Rose and Lydia Rose, who have preceded her in death.
Left to mourn her loss were five children: Frank Edward Cotton, Howard Fred Cotton, and Edna L. DuChane, all of Clare, Michigan, Grace Pearl Cotton, of Flint, Michigan and Scott Amos Cotton, of Pontiac, Michigan. She was also survived by five stepchildren, one brother, thirty-five grandchildren, forty-four great grandchildren, eight great
great grandchildren and a host of friends.
During the Civil War her mother, father and four brothers entered the war, and she was left to mother a brother and three sisters. At the present time they are all living. Seth, 91 is in Absorkee, Montana, Charlotte, 89, of Lockport, Illinois, Jane, 86, of Lockport, Illinois and Ella, 84, of Bala, Kansas.
It was remarkable to listen to her wartime stories and hear her tell the many interesting tales and incidents of the war, as they all returned unharmed except one brother, Frederick, who was shot through the wrist which left him crippled for life. He reached the age of eighty-nine and died in his old home in Lockport, Illinois, in the year of 1921.
After the death of her husband in 1919, she traveled and visited many places of interest, including Niagara Falls and Century of Progress, etc., and her baby sister whom she had not seen for fifty years.
OBITUARY FOR JOSEPHINE KEMPH COTTON
SOURCE: Clare Sentinel
DATE: Friday, November 14, 1941
The many friends of Josephine Cotton, who has been well known in the community for the last thirty-five years grieved to learn of her passing away Tuesday morning of last week.
Josephine was born the daughter of William Joseph and Mary Kemph in Bristol, Illinois on April 4, 1847, and was united in marriage to Moses Rose in Joliet, Illinois in 1863 and to this union in marriage came the birth of two daughters, Mae E. Rose and Lydia Rose, who have preceded her in death.
Left to mourn her loss were five children: Frank Edward Cotton, Howard Fred Cotton, and Edna L. DuChane, all of Clare, Michigan, Grace Pearl Cotton, of Flint, Michigan and Scott Amos Cotton, of Pontiac, Michigan. She was also survived by five stepchildren, one brother, thirty-five grandchildren, forty-four great grandchildren, eight great
great grandchildren and a host of friends.
During the Civil War her mother, father and four brothers entered the war, and she was left to mother a brother and three sisters. At the present time they are all living. Seth, 91 is in Absorkee, Montana, Charlotte, 89, of Lockport, Illinois, Jane, 86, of Lockport, Illinois and Ella, 84, of Bala, Kansas.
It was remarkable to listen to her wartime stories and hear her tell the many interesting tales and incidents of the war, as they all returned unharmed except one brother, Frederick, who was shot through the wrist which left him crippled for life. He reached the age of eighty-nine and died in his old home in Lockport, Illinois, in the year of 1921.
After the death of her husband in 1919, she traveled and visited many places of interest, including Niagara Falls and Century of Progress, etc., and her baby sister whom she had not seen for fifty years.
SOURCE: Clare Sentinel
DATE: Friday, November 14, 1941
The many friends of Josephine Cotton, who has been well known in the community for the last thirty-five years grieved to learn of her passing away Tuesday morning of last week.
Josephine was born the daughter of William Joseph and Mary Kemph in Bristol, Illinois on April 4, 1847, and was united in marriage to Moses Rose in Joliet, Illinois in 1863 and to this union in marriage came the birth of two daughters, Mae E. Rose and Lydia Rose, who have preceded her in death.
Left to mourn her loss were five children: Frank Edward Cotton, Howard Fred Cotton, and Edna L. DuChane, all of Clare, Michigan, Grace Pearl Cotton, of Flint, Michigan and Scott Amos Cotton, of Pontiac, Michigan. She was also survived by five stepchildren, one brother, thirty-five grandchildren, forty-four great grandchildren, eight great
great grandchildren and a host of friends.
During the Civil War her mother, father and four brothers entered the war, and she was left to mother a brother and three sisters. At the present time they are all living. Seth, 91 is in Absorkee, Montana, Charlotte, 89, of Lockport, Illinois, Jane, 86, of Lockport, Illinois and Ella, 84, of Bala, Kansas.
It was remarkable to listen to her wartime stories and hear her tell the many interesting tales and incidents of the war, as they all returned unharmed except one brother, Frederick, who was shot through the wrist which left him crippled for life. He reached the age of eighty-nine and died in his old home in Lockport, Illinois, in the year of 1921.
After the death of her husband in 1919, she traveled and visited many places of interest, including Niagara Falls and Century of Progress, etc., and her baby sister whom she had not seen for fifty years.
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