Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cotton, Margaret R. Vaughan, 1932 

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MARGARET ROSA VAUGHAN COTTON 

   FRANKLIN - June 27 - (Special) - Mrs. Margaret Rosa Cotton, age 71, widow
of the late J.S. Cotton and daughter of the late Mrs. Margaret and Hilary 
Vaughan, of Southampton County, died today at her home in Sycamore vicinity 
after an illness of seven weeks.  She was a devote Christian and a faithful 
member of Sycamore Baptist Church. 

   She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Hinton Schram of Chuckatuck; Mrs. 
Clarence Cobb, Mrs. Samuel Lankford and Mrs. Presley Eley, and three sons, 
W.O., Pat and Dellie Cotton, all of Franklin. 

   Funeral services will be conducted from Sycamore Baptist Church Tuesday 
afternoon at 3:30 o’clock by her pastor, the Rev. Gordon Price, assisted by 
the Rev. R.D. Stephenson, of Franklin.  Pallbearers will be her six grandsons, 
Irvin Lankford of Norfolk; Samuel and Hudson Lankford, James and Harry Cobb 
and Russell Cotton. 

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FUNERAL SERVICE FOR MRS. COTTON 

Widow of J. S. Cotton, Long Prominent In Social and Church Circles 
   of Southampton, Claimed By Death Yesterday. 

  FRANKLIN, Va., June 29. - (Special) - Mrs. Margaret Rosa Cotton, aged 71, 
the widow of J.S. Cotton and the daughter of the [late] Mrs. Margaret and 
Hillary Vaughan of Southampton county, died Monday at her home in Sycamore 
vicinity after an illness of seven weeks.  She was a devoted Christian and a 
faithful member of the Sycamore Baptist church. 

  She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Hinton Schram, of Chuckatuck; Mrs. 
Clarence Cobb, Mrs. Samuel Lankford and Mrs. Presley Eley; three sons, W.O., 
Pat and Dellie Cotton, all of Franklin. 

  Funeral services were conducted from the Sycamore Baptist church yesterday 
at 3:30 o'clock p.m. by her pastor, Rev. R.D. Stephenson of Franklin. 

  Pallbearers were her six grandsons, Irvin Lankford, of Norfolk; Samuel and 
Hudson Lankford, James and Harry Cobb and Russell Cotton. 

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MRS. MARGARET ROSA COTTON 

  In the home of Mr. and Mrs. S.W. Lankford of the Sycamore community, on 
Monday morning, Mrs. Margaret Rosa Cotton quietly passed away in her 71st 
year after an illness of about two months.  During this time the loving and 
tireless ministry of family and friends attested to the esteem in which she 
was held by the community in which she had lived for more than seventy years. 

  Mrs. Cotton was a faithful and consistent member of Sycamore Baptist Church 
and was interested and helpful in all the various activities of the church, 
particularly loyal to the Woman's Missionary Society.  The patience with which 
she bore her suffering gave every indication of a mind resigned to the will of 
her Heavenly Father. 

  The funeral services were conducted from Sycamore Church by her Pastor, Rev. 
Gordon L. Price, assisted by Rev. R.D. Stephenson of the Franklin Baptist 
Church.  The active pallbearers were her grandsons, Russell Cotton, Harry and 
James Cobb, Irvin, Samuel and Hudson Lankford.  Four of her granddaughters, 
Misses Bernice Schramm, Clara and Clarice Lankford and Margaret Eley, carried 
the flowers, and a number of friends served as honorary pallbearers. 

  She was laid to rest beneath a mound of lovely flowers, beside her husband, 
James S. Cotton, who died 21 years ago. 

  Mrs. Cotton is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Clarence Cobb, Mrs. S.W. 
Lankford with whom she made her home, Mrs. Presley Eley of Franklin and Mrs. 
Hinton Schramm of Suffolk; three sons, W.O., D.C., and Pat Cotton of Franklin; 
one sister, Mrs. W.T. Harcum, and four brothers, James Henry, R.T. and J.C. 
Vaughan of Franklin and W.F. Vaughan of Norfolk, besides 30 grandchildren and 
two great-grandchildren. 

  The sympathy of the community is extended to her family, her friends and 
loved ones. 


Margaret Rosa (VAUGHAN; Mrs. James Sephas) COTTON, 
b. 31 Oct 1861, Southampton Co., d. 27 Jun 1932, at home, Sycamore, 
interred in the COTTON family cemetery*, opposite Sycamore Baptist Church, 
   28 Jun 1932, 
donated obit, dateline June 27, 1932; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 10, No. 86, Wed., June 29, 1932, p. 5 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 27, No. 38, Fri., July 1, 1932, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-34): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.txt 

A photo of her gravestone - added by Judy McKinley - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #64382070, which gives buried in Sycamore Baptist 
   Church Cemetery. 

D.Cert. 14623 (Franklin #43) gives her father as Hilliard. 


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