Rev. William COTTINGHAM
M, b. 1795
Rev. William COTTINGHAM, son of Elisha COTTINGHAM Sr., was born in 1795 in Richmond County, North Carolina. He was a well-known Methodist Circuit Minister. When the Cottinghams came to Bibb County they immediately established a Methodist church in 1819. This church was called "Cottingham's Church" until around 1840. The name was changed to Wesley Chapel and it was active until about 1990. It is still there in the woods and is used for singings and homecomings. There is a Cottingham cemetery in the woods which contains the graves of Elisha, Jr., his wife Nancy (Parker) Cottingham and their children. William Cottingham stayed in Bibb County until at least 1835. He resided for a time in Talladega.1 He and John H. COTTINGHAM moved with Jesse Anderson BROWN from Marlboro County to Wells Creek, Stewart (now Houston) County, Tennessee, by 1806 when they appeared on a tax list in Capt. Graham's Company. William had 190 acres. Other names with possible connections were Fred Barfield, James Barfield, John Graham, Enoch and Benjamin James.2
Rev. William COTTINGHAM was included on a tax list in in 1809 in Capt. Warden's District, Stewart (now Houston) County, Tennessee. William was taxed for 190 acres on Wells Creek and one white person.
Rev. William COTTINGHAM and John H. COTTINGHAM were included on a tax list in in 1811 in Capt. Warden's District, Stewart (now Houston) County, Tennessee. Both were living on Wells Creek, where William was accessed for 100 acres.
William Cottingham's name appears on a petition to Congress signed 29 Dec 1817 by inhabitants of Montgomery County, Alabama. It included the names of his father and brothers John and Elisha, Jr. They later moved to Bibb County.
Elisha COTTINGHAM Sr., Elisha COTTINGHAM Jr., John H. COTTINGHAM and Mordecai LEWIS moved from Tennessee to Montgomery County, Alabama Territory, by 29 December 1817. They signed a petition to Congress on that date stating "your petitioners humbly Shewth that we have emmegrated from different parts of the union and Settled our Selves in the poor Broken & remote parts of the Alabama Teritory Montgomery County being generally of the poorer Class we doubted Success in Setling in the richer Soil below. wee pray that you would devise a plan in your wisdom that we might obtain a preference for a time prescribed by you to pay the Stipulated price as its generally belived the lands aluded too will never be sectioned by government & your petitioners will ever pray." Signed: Thomas Cash, Elisha Cottingham, Thomas Rayfield, Mordica Lewis, Adam Wilson, William Cottingham, Elisha Cottingham Junior, John Cottingham, James Hallmark, William Burckhalter, Evan Gaskill, John Blake, William Tabor, William Armstrong, Gref Johnson, Thos Hargiss, James W. Henderson, John J. Henderson, James Johnson, and William W. Capshaw. Note that Montgomey County was created 6 Dec 1816 by the Mississippi Territorial Legislature and covered much of central Alabama including present day Bibb County.3
Rev. William COTTINGHAM appeared on a census, enumerated 1860, in the household of his daughter Matilda COTTINGHAM in Jackson County, Texas. His was listed as a Methodist miinister, age 65.
Rev. William COTTINGHAM was included on a tax list in in 1809 in Capt. Warden's District, Stewart (now Houston) County, Tennessee. William was taxed for 190 acres on Wells Creek and one white person.
Rev. William COTTINGHAM and John H. COTTINGHAM were included on a tax list in in 1811 in Capt. Warden's District, Stewart (now Houston) County, Tennessee. Both were living on Wells Creek, where William was accessed for 100 acres.
William Cottingham's name appears on a petition to Congress signed 29 Dec 1817 by inhabitants of Montgomery County, Alabama. It included the names of his father and brothers John and Elisha, Jr. They later moved to Bibb County.
Elisha COTTINGHAM Sr., Elisha COTTINGHAM Jr., John H. COTTINGHAM and Mordecai LEWIS moved from Tennessee to Montgomery County, Alabama Territory, by 29 December 1817. They signed a petition to Congress on that date stating "your petitioners humbly Shewth that we have emmegrated from different parts of the union and Settled our Selves in the poor Broken & remote parts of the Alabama Teritory Montgomery County being generally of the poorer Class we doubted Success in Setling in the richer Soil below. wee pray that you would devise a plan in your wisdom that we might obtain a preference for a time prescribed by you to pay the Stipulated price as its generally belived the lands aluded too will never be sectioned by government & your petitioners will ever pray." Signed: Thomas Cash, Elisha Cottingham, Thomas Rayfield, Mordica Lewis, Adam Wilson, William Cottingham, Elisha Cottingham Junior, John Cottingham, James Hallmark, William Burckhalter, Evan Gaskill, John Blake, William Tabor, William Armstrong, Gref Johnson, Thos Hargiss, James W. Henderson, John J. Henderson, James Johnson, and William W. Capshaw. Note that Montgomey County was created 6 Dec 1816 by the Mississippi Territorial Legislature and covered much of central Alabama including present day Bibb County.3
Rev. William COTTINGHAM appeared on a census, enumerated 1860, in the household of his daughter Matilda COTTINGHAM in Jackson County, Texas. His was listed as a Methodist miinister, age 65.
Last Edited=1 Oct 2021
Children of Rev. William COTTINGHAM
- Gideon Wesley COTTINGHAM b. 16 Nov 1819
- Matilda COTTINGHAM b. 1823
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