Okmulgee County, Oklahoma - Okmulgee Daily Times Newspaper July 10, 1942 ************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted to: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/okmulgee/okmulgee.html Transcribed & Submitted by:James Ethan Yell ==================================================================== Transcribed August 20, 2004 by James Ethan Yell ************************************************************************ OKMULGEE DAILY TIMES NEWSPAPER - OKMULGEE COUNTY OKLAHOMA Okmulgee Daily Times OKMULGEE COUNTY, OK Page 1 Column 3 July 10, 1942 Burial: July 11, 1942 NOTED OKMULGEE PIONEER DIES - ELIZABETH CAROLYN COTTRELL Funeral Saturday for Mrs. Elizabeth Carolyn Cottrell, was born May 31, 1858 in Hendris Ct. Indiana. Elizabeth lived at 309 North Central, long time resident's of Okmulgee and one of the city's true pioneers, died at the city hospital at 8:35 a.m. yesterday at the age of 84. Mrs. Cottrell came to Okmulgee April 13, 1903, more than 39 years ago with her husband Elias Cottrell, who died in 1932. The Cottrells said they selected Okmulgee as a promising place in which to enter business from reading about it in the newspapers, which told of laying out the townsite and predicting the incorporation of the Territory into a new state. Mr. Elias Cottrell established a small retail meat market, the Central Market, in the location now occupied by Siegel's store on East Sixth. In 1908 they moved the market to a new building where Newberry's store is now and established the first cold storage plant in Okmulgee. The market employed one horse carts for delivery and later had the town's first automobile delivery truck. The Cottrells were true pioneers of Okmulgee and like most of the real pioneers they both had the sense of humor that was necessary to cushion the hard knocks of the then frontier town, as evidenced by the fact that Mrs. Cottrell called her 3 room shack which was her first home in Okmulgee at the corner of Seventh and Porter, "My Mansion". In 1912 they moved to the present Cottrell home at 309 North Central. Funeral will be conducted at the First Christian church at 10:30 a.m. with the Rev. Ira A. Kirk officiating. The body will lie in state at the home from 9 to 10 a.m. Saturday. Burial will be in the Okmulgee cemetery under the direction of the Buchanan Funeral Home. Surviving is one sister Elizabeth Ann Morgan, 88, Springfield, Mo. Note: I have one census record for a child of this couple listing a child born abt 1879, family location Audrain County, MO; near his Uncle Jonathan John Cottrill/Cottrell and one step-brother Thomas Vanderberg and a birth record for Gentry County, MO showing baby born 26 April 1884 in Albany and named Harry Cottrill. Later census shows no surviving children. Age at which children died remain unanswered. Elias Cottrell/ Cottrill is one of 7 children born to Perry G. Cottrill and Nancy (?) of Chariton County, Missouri. If the census data is correct Elias was born there in 1852, record is unclear when Perry G. Cottrill's parents and most of his siblings moved from Ohio to Missouri, but they were all there in 1860 census. Perry G. Cottrill was one of 9 children of Elias and Heyley/Highly/Hilate/ Hila Greathouse. The families coming out of border areas of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania in the 18th century. This family maintained close connections with the family of John D. Cottrell/Cottrill & Barbary Greathouse until 1922. The areas in which Elias and Libbie (aka Elizabeth Caroline lived were 1860-Keytesville, Chariton County, Missouri; 1870-Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri; 1880-Audrain County, Missouri; 1884-Albany, Gentry County, Missouri; 1900-Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri, 1910-Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, 1920-Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma & 1930-Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. If you have any information on my family members please contact me. James Ethan Yell (ethanyell@hotmail.com)