Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cotton, David 1927
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 5 Jul 1927

Former Lake Odessa Vet Is Killed Monday.

Splinter from Guard Rail Severs Jugular Vein as Car Leaves Road Near Grand 
Rapids.

The 27-year sojourn at the Michigan Soldiers’ home at Grand Rapids of David 
Cotton, 83 years of age and a Civil war veteran, was suddenly terminated Monday 
afternoon when a car in which he had been taken for a pleasure ride crashed 
through a guard rail on the Belmont road, near Grand Rapids, and a splinter 
severed the veteran’s jugular vein.  He was rushed to the Soldier’s home in a 
Rockford ambulance, but died shortly before reaching there.

Mr. Cotton served during the Civil war in the Third Ohio cavalry as a member of 
Company K, enlisting January 13, 1864, and being discharged August 23, 1865.  
He later made his home at Lake Odessa for some time, going to the Soldier’s 
home to make his residence in 1900, and had resided there since.  He is 
survived by one daughter, Mrs. Daisy Perkins, of Jackson, and a sister at 
Chicago.

He will be buried in the cemetery at the home, with full military ritualistic 
services, the funeral taking place Thursday.

The driver of the car, J. A. Lamoreaux, of Comstock park, was exonerated of any 
blame in connection with Mr. Cotton’s death.  Coroner H. C. Wolfe declaring 
that death was clearly accidental.  Two others in the car at the time it was 
wrecked was uninjured.


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