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Cazenovia Republican
Thursday, 24 September, 1874

         DIED
         
         COTTON - At his residence at Cotton's Station,
       September 1st, 1874, WILLARD COTTON, aged 80
       years.
       
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The Syracuse Daily Journal
Friday, 4 September, 1874

         Death of WILLARD COTTON
         
         Died, in Lenox, Tuesday morning, September 1st, 1874,
       WILLARD COTTON, in the 81st year of his age. He was born
       at Hartland, Windsor county, Vermont, June 3d, 1794, came
       with his fathers' family to Chenango county, N.Y., in 
       1802, went to Skanteales in 1806, married in Lenox, Madi-
       son county, N.Y., in 1816, to MISS ELIZA HALL, daughter
       of JUSTUS HALL, esq., moved to Lenox in 1819, where he
       has resided since. MR. COTTON belonged to a family of
       ten children, two of whom died in infancy, and eight lived
       to adult age, and to become heads of families. Five have
       died within a few years, between eighty and ninety years
       of age. Three sisters still survive, aged from 75 to 82.
       Besides several children deceased, one son and three
       daughters are still living. MR. COTTON has been engaged
       during the latter part of his life in all the great re-
       forms, both moral and political, of the age in which he
       lived. He engaged with all the energies of his vigorous
       and active mind in the anti-slavery cause at its commence-
       ment, and lived to see the progress and successful termi-
       nation of one of the grandest revolutions that ever took
       place in this or any other period of the world's history.
       And the cause of temperance which has for so many years
       enlisted the untiring exertions of all good men, found
       in MR. COTTON one of its earliest pioneers and most
       earliest and efficient supporters. After a long life of
       usefulness he has gone "to that bourne from which no
       traveller returns," lamented by his family and by the
       community where he had so long made his home. The funeral
       is appointed at MR. COTTON'S late residence, and half
       past two o'clock this (Thursday) afternoon, September
       3d.
       
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