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Sarah Etta <I>Cottrill</I> Collins

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Sarah Etta Cottrill Collins

Birth
Glenville, Gilmer County, West Virginia, USA
Death
23 Jan 1933 (aged 84)
Petersburg, Petersburg City, Virginia, USA
Burial
Gilmer County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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my 2nd great-grandmother, I have her eyes! I grew up hearing stories about her and my grandfathers the 2 Hezekiah's and Hezekiah and Sarah Cline the cousins -

Her death certificate states burial Jan 25, 1933 Sand Fork my Grandmother also stated to me that was where she was buried & Her cause of death was : acute dilatation of the heart.
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Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia Chapter 114 An ACT to legalize the marriage of Andrew J Collins with Sarahetta Cottrill of Gilmer County, Passed March 3 1870 Whereas Andrew J Collins and Sarahetta Cottrill of the county of Gilmer being first cousins were on the nineteenth day of September eighteen hundred and sixty nine duly married in violation of the tenth section of chapter sixty three of the code of West Virginia and whereas said marriage would not have been in violation of law previous to the passage of said code and whereas at the time of said marriage said code had not been published and the provision prohibiting first cousins from intermarrying was unknown to said parties therefore Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia The marriage of the aforesaid Andrew J Collins with Sarahetta Cottrill is hereby legalized and made valid and said parties are exempt from any penalties incurred by them by their marriage aforesaid
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Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia - Page 128 Session Laws - Page 128
Journal of the House of Delegates - Volume 1870 - Page 233 Senete Bill 115
Gilmer County, West Virginia Marriage Records 1868-1873

Directions to cemetery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcolkhSlglM

Sand Fork Cemetery
176 Wabash St,
Sand Fork, WV 26430
rough guess on address but for GPS purposes it should get you to the cemetery
my 2nd great-grandmother, I have her eyes! I grew up hearing stories about her and my grandfathers the 2 Hezekiah's and Hezekiah and Sarah Cline the cousins -

Her death certificate states burial Jan 25, 1933 Sand Fork my Grandmother also stated to me that was where she was buried & Her cause of death was : acute dilatation of the heart.
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Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia Chapter 114 An ACT to legalize the marriage of Andrew J Collins with Sarahetta Cottrill of Gilmer County, Passed March 3 1870 Whereas Andrew J Collins and Sarahetta Cottrill of the county of Gilmer being first cousins were on the nineteenth day of September eighteen hundred and sixty nine duly married in violation of the tenth section of chapter sixty three of the code of West Virginia and whereas said marriage would not have been in violation of law previous to the passage of said code and whereas at the time of said marriage said code had not been published and the provision prohibiting first cousins from intermarrying was unknown to said parties therefore Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia The marriage of the aforesaid Andrew J Collins with Sarahetta Cottrill is hereby legalized and made valid and said parties are exempt from any penalties incurred by them by their marriage aforesaid
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Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia - Page 128 Session Laws - Page 128
Journal of the House of Delegates - Volume 1870 - Page 233 Senete Bill 115
Gilmer County, West Virginia Marriage Records 1868-1873

Directions to cemetery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcolkhSlglM

Sand Fork Cemetery
176 Wabash St,
Sand Fork, WV 26430
rough guess on address but for GPS purposes it should get you to the cemetery


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