the cotton family
george & mary cotton
parents of george, ralph c., and nellie
George's obituary from the Pawnee paper is included in a FindaGrave.com memorial. Apparently George and his wife took a trip from Table Rock to Las Vegas, Nevada to see their daughter and he took ill there. He was taken to Los Angeles for surgery but did not survive. He was 69.
OBITUARY-THE PAWNEE CHIEF
DECEMBER 10, 1915
Mr. George F. Cotton of this place, died at a hospital in Los Angeles, Calif., at 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning, aged 68 years. Mr. Cotton with his wife left here some three weeks ago for Las Vegas, Nev., to visit his daughter, Mrs. Dr. Roy Martin, who is superintendent of a hospital in that city. On his arrival a consultation was held and he was taken to Los Angeles to be operated on for gall stones.
Mr. Cotton had resided in this place for the past 22 years, coming from Superior, Neb. In both places he has been identified with the brick business. He is survived by a wife, two sons, George A. and Ralph C. of Table Rock, and Mrs. Nellie Martin of Las Vegas.
Funeral arrangements are as yet unannounced.
OBITUARY-THE PAWNEE CHIEF
DECEMBER 10, 1915
Mr. George F. Cotton of this place, died at a hospital in Los Angeles, Calif., at 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning, aged 68 years. Mr. Cotton with his wife left here some three weeks ago for Las Vegas, Nev., to visit his daughter, Mrs. Dr. Roy Martin, who is superintendent of a hospital in that city. On his arrival a consultation was held and he was taken to Los Angeles to be operated on for gall stones.
Mr. Cotton had resided in this place for the past 22 years, coming from Superior, Neb. In both places he has been identified with the brick business. He is survived by a wife, two sons, George A. and Ralph C. of Table Rock, and Mrs. Nellie Martin of Las Vegas.
Funeral arrangements are as yet unannounced.
Mary's obituary, again preserved in a FindaGrave.com memorial:
OBITUARY-THE NELSON GAZETTE
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1932
Mrs. Mary A. Cotton, widow of George Cotton, former Superior brick manufacturer, died Friday at Table Rock. The Cottons lived in Superior some thirty years ago and will be remembered by some of our older readers. There are suriving two sons, George A. of Hemingford, and Ralph C. of Table Rock, and one daughter, Mrs. Nellie Martin of Las Vegas, Nevada.
OBITUARY-THE NELSON GAZETTE
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1932
Mrs. Mary A. Cotton, widow of George Cotton, former Superior brick manufacturer, died Friday at Table Rock. The Cottons lived in Superior some thirty years ago and will be remembered by some of our older readers. There are suriving two sons, George A. of Hemingford, and Ralph C. of Table Rock, and one daughter, Mrs. Nellie Martin of Las Vegas, Nevada.
ralph cotton
Photo 192: This 1910 picture of the Mandolin Club includes Gertrude Norris Cotton, top row, 2nd from the left:
Photo 177: The Table Rock Band circa 1915. This was a town band; the high school band was not established until 1929. Ralph Cotton is unidentified as one of the members.
George and Mary Cotton are buried at the Table Rock Cemetery. Their children Ralph, George, and Nellie (Mrs. Roy Martin) are not. The whereabouts of their graves are unknown.
A social article from May 24, 1900 shows that Colonel George Cotton was baggage master at the depot. The senior Cotton being the brickmaster at the brick factory east of town, this is perhaps a reference to the younger Cotton:
