Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cotton, Ira L. November 29, 1935
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Ionia Sentinel Standard-Sat. Nov. 30, 1935

Ira L. Cotton
Funeral services for Ira L. Cotton, 74, for 40 years  a guard and gate keeper at the
Michigan reformatory here; who died at his home 706 West Main street Friday, will be held
from the home Monday  afternoon, December 2 at 3 o'clock with Rev. Lewis B. Whittemore,
pastor of the Grace church, of Grand Rapids, officiating.

Mr. Cotton was born in Saranac, September 24, 1861, a son of Gilbert A. and Lucy M.

Cotton, His father was postmaster at Saranac and after his death the mother became
post mistress and following her death the son, Ira L.Cotton became postmaster and later
moved to Grand Rapids where he was in the wholesale grocery business until forty years ago
when he came to Ionia to become gatekeeper at the Michigan reformatory. In 1882 he was
united in marriage to Miss Ida E. Jenks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loren Jenks, of Saranac.
He was a member of the Royal Arconum, the modern Woodmen of America and of the vestry of
the St.Johns Episcopal church and also sang in the church choir for forty years until
the time of his illness which confined him to his bed.

Surviving him are to daughters, Mrs. John H. Seabrook and Mrs. John J. Walsh, of
Grand Rapids; a granddaughter, Mrs. Albert F. Hopkins, of Tuscaloosa. Ala.; a great-
granddaughter, Leslie Martheen Hopkins. of Tuscaloosa; a nephew, J. Clyde Watt, of
Ionia; a niece, Mrs.Henry Frost of Grand Rapids, and an uncle F .F.Cotton, oF Detroit.

Those who have been appointed as bearers for the services are: John Beattie, Gerald

Stebbins, Otto Perry, Harry Warns, Lloyd T. Smith and James K. Miller, Jr., of Grand
Rapids, and honorary bearers are Edward Haight, Sr., and John Inman.

Additional Comments:
Saranac Cem.-Lot#565

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