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Descendants of Obediah Overton Cotton

Generation No. 2

2. ABSALOM LEONDERS² COTTON (OBEDIAH OVERTON¹)¹ was born July 25, 1855 in Mississippi¹, and died September 29, 1907 in Somerville Co. Tx¹. He married MARY ELIZABETH JAMES¹, daughter of HUGH JAMES and CYNTHIA FARMER. She was born January 17, 1861¹, and died March 07, 1918 in Somerville Co. Tx¹.

More About MARY ELIZABETH JAMES:
Burial: White Church Cemetary, Somervell County¹

Children of ABSALOM COTTON and MARY JAMES are:

	i.	ANNIE L.³ COTTON¹, b. 1877¹.
3.	ii.	HOSEA COTTON, b. 1880; d. 1927.
4.	iii.	THURMAN (SHORT) COTTON, b. 1882.
5.	iv.	CASSIE COTTON, b. Abt. 1885; d. 1946.
6.	v.	NANCY M. (DOLLIE) COTTON, b. April 05, 1889.
	vi.	VIRGIL COTTON¹, b. February 01, 1892¹; m. MABEL WELLS¹.
	vii.	MYRTLE MAE COTTON¹, b. May 29, 1893¹.

Notes for MYRTLE MAE COTTON:
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Myrtle Cotton was deaf. Her sister, Vida, said that she remembers hearing Myrtle make the sound of a rooster crowing when she was very small so it is believed that she was not born deaf but that it was the result of an illness she had when she was very young. She went to the school for the deaf in Austin and all the family learned sign language so they could communicate with her. When her mother died, she left Austin and went to live with her sister Cassie Cotton Walker in west Texas. When Cassie died, Myrtle went to live with her brother, Lawson Cotton who lived in Fort Worth, Texas.

7.	viii.	VIDA ESTER COTTON, b. November 18, 1895.
8.	ix.	LAWSON RAY COTTON, b. January 10, 1898, Eulogy Bosque Co. Tx; d. December 03, 1993, Parker County.
	x.	CARLESS AUSTIN (CURLY) COTTON¹, b. November 03, 1902¹; m. CAPTOLIA SELF¹.
	xi.	OLIVER COTTON¹, b. Unknown¹.

Notes for OLIVER COTTON:
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Oliver Cotton died at age 6 years.

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