Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Cota, Henry S. 1837 - 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

HENRY S. COTA, farmer on section 16, Aetna Tp., was born in Carroll Co., Ohio, 
in 1837.  His parents were 

born in France, emigrated to the United States and settled in the Buckeye 
State, where his father was 

drowned while laboring in the river service.

Mr. Cota was in his infancy and his mother bound him to a man named Adam 
Hardesty.  He was so very young 

that he lost all trace of her and does not know that he has a relative by 
blood on the earth.  He remained 

with Mr. Hardesty until he was 18 years of age, when he was released from his 
bonds and found employment in 

Paulding Co., Ohio, and was there occupied for five years.

In the fall of '61 he enlisted in the 68th Ohio Inf., serving three years, and 
receiving honorable 

discharge.  Leaving the army he spent a few months in Paulding Co., Ohio, and 
in the spring of 1866 he came 

to Aetna Tp., and bought 40 acres of land, which he has increased to 80 acres, 
with 30 under the plow.

Mr. Cota was married July 4, 1867, to Isabel, daughter of William and 
Elizabeth (Woodcock) Shoeck, natives 

of New York.  Mrs. Cota was born Feb. 1, 1843.  Of six children born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Cota four are living, 

born as follows:  Rousseau was born June 10, 1868; George W., Dec. 1, 1875; 
Milton E., May 12, 18--; Retta 

E., June 30, 1881.  John, born March 13, 1870, deid Nov. 4, 1882; Guy E., born 
Jan. 21, 1878, died Oct. 10, 

1879.

The character and conduct of the life of Mr. Cota have been such as to secure 
him the advantages always 

accruing to a man of upright and honorable dealing.

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