Sussex-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cotten, James W., 1938 

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JAMES WASHINGTON COTTEN 

  DENDRON - Funeral services for James W. Cotten, 72, who died Monday, will 
be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Wakefield Cemetery.  He is survived 
by his wife, Mrs. Mary Collier Cotten; two sons, the Rev. E.T. Cotten of 
Cincinnati and Wilton Cotten of Dendron; seven daughters, Mrs. J.B. Ingram 
and the Misses Irene and Charlotte Cotten of Dendron, Mrs. R.L. Murphy of 
Wakefield, Mrs. Raymond Johnson of Woodville and Mrs. Roy Burgess and Mrs. 
Woodrow Laine of Richmond; four grandchildren, two brothers, David Cotten 
of Richmond and Albert J. Cotten of Greensboro, N.C., and a half-sister, 
Mrs. T.J. Dickerson of Dendron.


James Washington COTTEN, merchant & undertaker, 
b. 2 Sep 1865, Petersburg, d. 22 Aug 1938, Dendron, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 24 Aug 1938, 
"Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Aug. 24, 1938, p. 9 

*Wakefield list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

Birthdate from D.Cert. 19597 (Blackwater #7). 

Widowed, Rev. William E. ALLEN 2m. "Nannie" Nancy Thomas HOLLOMAN, 
   16 Dec 1863.  (Isle of Wight Co. #6) 

The 1870 Census gives age 9, b. VA.  (Hardy Dist., IoW.Co.) 

The 1940 Census gives inmate of Little Sisters of the Poor, age 74, b. KY. 


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