Florence McCotter's obituary, Eaton County, Michigan
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SUBJECT: Florence Baker MCCOTTER
SUBMITTER: Cathy McCotter Pouls
EMAIL: japouls@prodigy.net
DATE: Jul 06, 1999
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SURNAMES: MCCOTTER, BAKER
Florence Elina Baker was born at Vermontville, Michigan, November 24, 1854,
the daughter of David M. Baker and Marion Sanford Baker, pioneers of Eaton
County. She received her schooling in the Hastings, Nashville and Vermontville
schools. When 19 years of age she was united in marriage to James Howard
McCotter, whose parents were colonists of Vermontville. To this union three
children were born, Agnes K., Leila K., and Howard K. After the panic of
1873, which left them bankrupt, they started to better their fortune in
the woods on the west line of Eaton County. After eight years of frontier
life they moved to Detroit where Mrs. McCotter became an active member
of a small Presbyterian society. After three years, they moved to Pontiac
where she became active in Sunday School and general church work in the
First Presbyterian Church. The McCotters lived in Pontiac 13 years and
then moved to what, at that time, was the new location of the Ferry Seed
Farm, three miles south of the Village of Rochester.

Wherever Mrs. McCotter lived she always took a keen interest in the welfare
of her neighbors. When she found no Sunday School for the children of the
women at the Ferry Seed Farm, she helped organize and maintain one in a
nearby school house. Her home, also, became headquarters for all sorts
of neighborhood activities.

After being away from Vermontville 29 years, they moved back to the old
home town where Mrs. McCotter again became an active worker in the Congregational
Church. They remained in Vermontville for three years, then bought their
present home in Charlotte. Here they joined the First Congregational Church
and for 12 years have been among its most honored and respected members.

To the very end of her journey she maintained a lively interest in every
constructive agency working for a better social order. She did not ask
for rest nor even for release from suffering. Her chief regret, that she
must go when there was so much work to be done. Will the incident of death
rob her of the opportunity to carry on? Nay! The great desires of the spirit
will not be marked.

The funeral was held Saturday afternoon at the home on West Lawrence Avenue.
Burial was made at Vermontville, Rev. Roth officiating.