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- The community was greatly shocked last Monday when it learned
that Ormanzo
- COTTRELL, a well known citizen of Milton Junction
had dropped dead at his shop just after he had gone to work for
the day. For a long time he had been in poor health. He had not
regained his normal health and strength after a sever illness
last winter. He was endeavoring to pick up his work again, perhaps
exerting himself beyond his strength, when he was stricken with
heart failure May 3, 1915.
- Mr. COTTRELL was born in Almond, Allegany Co. N.Y.,
March 14, 1851. He
- was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth McHENRY COTTRELL,
the third child born to them. One sister died in early life;
the other, Mrs. Lucinda CRANDALL, wife of Deacon Henry
CRANDALL, lives at Milton. When Mr. COTTRELL was
one week old his mother died. His Aunt, Miss Sarah COTTRELL
came into the home and cared for the motherless household. When
Ormanzo was two and one half years old his father removed to
Utica, Wis., and when he was seventeen he came to Milton. Ever
since he has lived in the vicinity of Milton and Milton Junction
with the exception of four years when he was engaged with his
brother-in-law, Mr. CRANDALL, in business in Dennison,
Ia.
- On November 23, 1882, he and Miss Ida B. TANNER were
united in marriage.
- Three children were born to them, the first one dying in
infancy. The other two, Howard L. and Mrs. Helen HULL
are living.
- In the winter of 1868, The Rev. Darwin E. MAXSON held
revival meetings at Milton.
- During these meetings Mr. COTTRELL was converted and
in April 1868, was baptized in Clear Lake and joined the Seventh-day
Baptist church at Milton. When the Milton Junction Seventh-day
Baptist church was organized he became one of its constituent
members and was ever loyal to its principles. He tried, in his
daily life and work, to exemplify the life and spirit of his
Lord and Christ. He served the church as its chorister at two
different times, in all about ten or twelve years.
- Mr. COTTRELL was a carpenter by trade. Several fine
residences in Milton
- Junction and Milton are monuments to his skill and his conscientious
work. For several years he has worked at wagon repairing.
- Mr. COTTRELL was a quiet, unassuming man who won,
cherished and held friend-
- ships. He was a thoughtful and kind friend and neighbor.
His affection for his aunt, who was really a foster mother to
him, was especially marked. No son could be more solicitous for
his mother than Mr. COTTRELL for his aunt's comfort and
convenience.
- The husband and father has passed on a little ways ahead.
He leaves in lonliness and
- grief his faithful companion, the two children, his sister,
and aged step-mother, Mrs. Rebecca COTTRELL, and a half-brother
and a half-sister, Eldon COTTRELL and Mrs. Lorena MILLS.
The community mourns his death.
- Farewell services were held at his late home on Wednesday
afternoon, May 5, 1915,
- at two o'clock and at the Milton Junction Seventh-day Baptist
church at two-thirty, and were conducted by his pastor, Rev.
Henry N. Jordan, assisted by Rev. G. W. Burdick, a former pastor.
Buriel was in the cemetery at Milton Junction. Out of the high
regard in which he was held by the business men of Milton Junction,
their business places were all closed during the hour of the
funeral. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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