NameJAMES (2) COTTON
Birth19 Mar 1864
Misc. Notes
Mary Ann, who was born on 3 October 1892.4 Mary died on 23 Sept 1989 and is remembered on a common gravestone with her sister Doris and brother Francis;5
Clara Elizabeth, who was born on 2 November 18946 and died on 9 November 1898 at the young age of four;7
Charles (who signed his name on his attestation as “Charlie”8);
Mildred Hannah, who was born on 20 July 1900.9 On 21 March 1928, Mildred, who was a
nurse, married Robert Archibald McCaughan, who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.10 Sadly, Mildred died from influenza and pneumonia on 8 January 1929, four days after giving premature birth to her son, who also died;11
Francis Hugh, who was born on 8 November 190212 and died on 11 November 1968.13 He does not appear to have married;
Edward James, who was born on 28 October 1904.14 He married Edith McIlwain and died on 5 February 1965, apparently from cancer;15
Sidney William, who was born on 15 July 1907.16 Sidney was a farmer and appears to have resided with several of his siblings.17 He married Verna Coburn, and died in 2001;18
George Earnest Jackson, who was born on 12 June 1909.19 George was also a farmer.20 He married Reta I. Taylor and died in 1980;21
Eleanor Susanna, who was born 29 April 1911.22 She married Lincoln Colin Beaton on 15 March 1947, had two daughters, and died on 8 September 1983;23
Doris E., who was born on 15 February 1916, shortly before her oldest brother Charles had enlisted to fight in the Great War. Though she married a Mr. Reid, she is buried with her siblings Francis and Mary in Navan, Ontario. Doris died on 2 October 2007.24
Spouses
Birth5 Feb 1871
Death18 Mar 1962