Elisha COTTINGHAM Jr.
M, b. circa 1793, d. 10 November 1870
Elisha COTTINGHAM Jr., son of Elisha COTTINGHAM Sr., was born circa 1793 in North Carolina.
Elisha married Nancy PARKER, daughter of John PARKER and Sarah "Sally" BROWN, circa 1816 in Tennessee.
A deed registered 24 Nov 1823 from Allen Barker of Humphreys County to William H. Burton [Halliburton?] of Henderson County, Tennessee, a 25 acre Quit Claim. On 28 Feb 1812 Drury Barker of Humphreys did give a title bond to Elias Lane of Humphreys for 25 acres lying on a branch of Big Richland Creek known as Dry Creek and being all of grant No. 18213 to said Drury Barker by the State of Tennessee, which said title was assigned to Elisha Cottingham 6 Feb 1814 and by him made over to said William H. Burton on 28 Feb 1816. Further that Younger Barker began the administration of the estate of Drury Barker and that before the estate was settled, Younger Barker died and Allen Barker was appointed administrator of his estate. Witnesses were Jonathan G. Holland and Jonathan Thompson.1
Elisha Cottingham, Jr.'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 William and John. They later moved to Bibb County.
Elisha COTTINGHAM Sr., John H. COTTINGHAM, Rev. William 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.2
Elisha COTTINGHAM Jr. died on 10 November 1870 in Bibb County, Alabama. He was buried in Cottingham Family Cemetery, Bibb County, Alabama.
Elisha married Nancy PARKER, daughter of John PARKER and Sarah "Sally" BROWN, circa 1816 in Tennessee.
A deed registered 24 Nov 1823 from Allen Barker of Humphreys County to William H. Burton [Halliburton?] of Henderson County, Tennessee, a 25 acre Quit Claim. On 28 Feb 1812 Drury Barker of Humphreys did give a title bond to Elias Lane of Humphreys for 25 acres lying on a branch of Big Richland Creek known as Dry Creek and being all of grant No. 18213 to said Drury Barker by the State of Tennessee, which said title was assigned to Elisha Cottingham 6 Feb 1814 and by him made over to said William H. Burton on 28 Feb 1816. Further that Younger Barker began the administration of the estate of Drury Barker and that before the estate was settled, Younger Barker died and Allen Barker was appointed administrator of his estate. Witnesses were Jonathan G. Holland and Jonathan Thompson.1
Elisha Cottingham, Jr.'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 William and John. They later moved to Bibb County.
Elisha COTTINGHAM Sr., John H. COTTINGHAM, Rev. William 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.2
Elisha COTTINGHAM Jr. died on 10 November 1870 in Bibb County, Alabama. He was buried in Cottingham Family Cemetery, Bibb County, Alabama.
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Children of Elisha COTTINGHAM Jr. and Nancy PARKER
- Charlotte COTTINGHAM b. 1817
- Huldah COTTINGHAM b. 1819, d. b 1874
- Rebecca COTTINGHAM b. 17 Feb 1822, d. 31 Mar 1890
- John Pinkney COTTINGHAM+ b. 10 Jun 1824, d. 28 Jun 1888
- James Monroe COTTINGHAM+ b. 25 Jun 1826, d. 5 Jan 1910
- Moses Lambert COTTINGHAM+ b. 17 Jun 1828, d. 29 Aug 1911
- Harvey Pressley COTTINGHAM+ b. 17 Jul 1836, d. 2 Feb 1879
- Catherine COTTINGHAM b. 1837
- Appy Caroline COTTINGHAM b. 1838, d. 1920
- Elisha D. COTTINGHAM III b. 1840, d. 1864
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