Lulu was born in Blue Grass, Vermilion Co., Illinois, now extinct. She moved, from Walnut, Crawford Co., Kansas, to San Francisco, California, in 1885, getting a job, in a ready-to-wear store there, where she met a wealthy Mexican, E.J. Altamirano, whom she married, on June 12, 1895, in Santa Barbara, California. He took her, to his home, in Mexico City, Mexico, where he kept her captive, until Jordan Cottle helped her escape, then married her, on August 25, 1899, in Yuma, Arizona. Jordan was eighteen years her senior. They lived, most of their married lives, in San Francisco, California. Her neice, Anna Crew (Kendall) Carson, drove to San Francisco, and brought Lulu back, to live with her, in Parsons, Kansas, in 1940, at Lulu's request, because Lulu had become almost blind, and found it very difficult to take care of herself. Lulu lived with Anna, her husband, Joseph, and their two younger children, Mary, and John Joseph, over their funeral home, in Parsons, falling on the back stairs, and dying from a severe head injury, due to a cerebral hemorrhage. She had been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. She was the fifth, of eight children, and had only two sisters. She was Methodist, but not a church-goer, after leaving home, in 1885, but went to Sunday Mass, with Anna, and her family, at St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church, in Parsons. She was buried out of the Methodist Church, at Cherryvale, in Fairview Cemetery there, where her parents, and her two sisters, are buried. She rests beside her husband, Jordan, whose urn is buried there, with whom she had a wonderful marriage. May she rest in peace.
Lulu was born in Blue Grass, Vermilion Co., Illinois, now extinct. She moved, from Walnut, Crawford Co., Kansas, to San Francisco, California, in 1885, getting a job, in a ready-to-wear store there, where she met a wealthy Mexican, E.J. Altamirano, whom she married, on June 12, 1895, in Santa Barbara, California. He took her, to his home, in Mexico City, Mexico, where he kept her captive, until Jordan Cottle helped her escape, then married her, on August 25, 1899, in Yuma, Arizona. Jordan was eighteen years her senior. They lived, most of their married lives, in San Francisco, California. Her neice, Anna Crew (Kendall) Carson, drove to San Francisco, and brought Lulu back, to live with her, in Parsons, Kansas, in 1940, at Lulu's request, because Lulu had become almost blind, and found it very difficult to take care of herself. Lulu lived with Anna, her husband, Joseph, and their two younger children, Mary, and John Joseph, over their funeral home, in Parsons, falling on the back stairs, and dying from a severe head injury, due to a cerebral hemorrhage. She had been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. She was the fifth, of eight children, and had only two sisters. She was Methodist, but not a church-goer, after leaving home, in 1885, but went to Sunday Mass, with Anna, and her family, at St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church, in Parsons. She was buried out of the Methodist Church, at Cherryvale, in Fairview Cemetery there, where her parents, and her two sisters, are buried. She rests beside her husband, Jordan, whose urn is buried there, with whom she had a wonderful marriage. May she rest in peace.
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