John H. COTTINGHAM Jr.1

M, b. circa 1832
Relationship
1st cousin 3 times removed of John Kennedy BROWN Jr.
Charts
Thomas Brown, Sr. Descendants Chart
     John H. COTTINGHAM Jr., son of John H. COTTINGHAM and Obedience BROWN, was born circa 1832 in Alabama. He was a Methodist minister in Lowndes County, Alabama.

John H. COTTINGHAM Jr., James Wesley COTTINGHAM and Charles Washington COTTINGHAM were mentioned in a letter received by Arthur W. Bell, Sr. from his father Augustus Poole Bell in March 1929: "The name of your mother's father's family is Cottingham. I knew two of her uncles in 1868. Washington and Wesley. They were living on the old home place. Their father had died. The old man was well off, owned a medium sized plantation and slaves to cultivate it. He lived in a nice house. He gave your mother¹s father, John Cottingham, a good education and made a Methodist preacher out of him. The accomplished young John Cottingham met and married a Miss Caldwell, the first child was a son, Rufus. Four years later, in October 1858, the second child was born, a daughter Mary, destine to be your mother. Your mother and her brother Rufus were, in build, features and complexion purely Cottinghams. Their father, Their Uncle Wash, and his son Warner, were the same all alike. Wesley didn¹t look to be any kin to them. They were all honorable men. John, your mother¹s father, was poor; he barely made a living at preaching, and he wouldn¹t work. He had a little property. He died when your mother was three years old. Her grandfather gave her a Negro youth. Her mother married after the war was over, a young man five or six years her junior, after having the offer of a man who was tolerably well to do. But she chose Snead because she thought he would be good to her two children, which he was, and exception in that respect, but he was a poor worker and no manager. It was her management that kept soul and body together, she wore the breeches, she advised him and forced him too. Our Uncle Rufus died January 1875 from relapse of pneumonia in Dallas, Texas."2
Last Edited=22 Feb 2012

Citations

  1. [S212] Lyn Moore, "Brown-Cottingham Family," e-mail to John K. Brown, 17 June 1998.
  2. [S723] Daniel Mahar, "A letter received by Arthur W. Bell, Sr. from his father Augustus Poole Bell in March 1929."

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