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COTTLE (JAMES AND HARRY)
Five generations ago, great-great-grandfather James Cottle, Sr., and his brother, Harry, came to Michigan and the Chippewa County area of Pickford from Canada. James, Sr., was born and raised in Devonshire, England. His wife is buried in Goderich, Ontario, and James is buried here in Cottle Cemetery. James and his wife, Mary Ann Walters, came here about 1884. Both brothers bought farms from the railroad company.
James Cottle moved his family into the old log house, better known as the old Oak Rao farm on the Town Line. He cleared land and built a home four and a half miles west of Pickford on his 160 acres. The Cottles had eight children: Walter, Charles, Reuben, Roland, Annie, Dorothy, Lucy, and Nellie (the youngest and only child born in Pickford).
The children grew up and married. WALTER moved to Detroit. REUBEN and ROLAND went to Minnesota. DOROTHY became Mrs. William Moore and lived in Gladstone. LUCY became Mrs. William Collins and lived in Gladstone. ANNIE married Carl Sass and lived in Rudyard. NELLIE married Harry Murphy and lived in Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. She is the only child of James Cottle, Sr., still living and she resides in California with her daughter. CHARLES married Annie Ducette of Green Bay, Wisconsin, at St. lgnace in 1892. He purchased 40 acres from his father and built a home on it.
CHARLES and Annie Cottle had five children: Walter, Carl, Alice, Nesta, and Clifford. Clifford died at the age of seven in 1918. Walter married Marie Jashon who had three children. Alice married Lyle Thomas and later Walter Moore. She had two children, Lyle, Jr., and Delores Thomas Cohen. Nesta married James Anderson and had four children: Orville, Elwin, Elizabeth Anderson King (all of Sault Ste. Marie), and Robert of Chicago. Nesta is now deceased, as is Walter. Carl married Ethel Beamish of Donaldson shortly after the death of his mother in1930. CHARLES lived on the farm until his death in November 1944. He was 12 years old when he came to Pickford and never went back to Canada until October 1944.
Walter lived with Carl and Ethel until he married. Carl purchased another 60 acres of the old farm which made his farm 100 acres. Carl and Ethel had five children: Virgene, Laraine, Barbara, Gerald, and Charles, Jr. Virgene married Marvin MacDonald and has three children: Carol MacDonald Whitson, Wayne, and Steve*. Laraine married Merlin Galer and they have four children: Sheila, Dana, Douglas, and Jeri Lynri*. They live in the home they built on the site of the old log house James Cottle built. Barbara married Coe Callentine of Ohio who was stationed at Kincheloe Air Force Base, and they have three children: Dennis, Coe, Jr., and Carl*. At present they are at Selfridge Air Force Base in Michigan. Gerald bought his father's farm and also lives in a new home he built on the original farm. He married Sharon Storey and they have two children, Cami Lynn and Brent Carl*. (Another son, Brad, was killed in a farm accident when he was four.) Charles married Alice Soderland and they have two children, Rhonda and Randy*, and they live in Saginaw. Carl Cottle was employed as a custodian at the Pickford Public Schools and also helped his son on the farm until his death in April 1972.
Through all these years, the farm has remained in the hands of descendants of the original family.
James' brother, Harry, and his family settled on the farm Alex Cottle has now. The old woodshed on the farm was Harry Cottle's house. Harry's children were Ephraim, William, Jane (Mrs. John McLean), John, Richard, Ann (Mrs. Gordon), and Martha (Mrs. Meldrum Allen). Martha is the only one living and she resides in Phoenix, Arizona.
EPHRAIM COTTLE married Viola Sabin. Their children were Edith, Russell, Cecil, Tyson, and Vern. Edith married Percy Harrison and lives on a farm west of Pickford. They had eleven children: Earl, Delphina (Mrs. George Roe), Hatvey, Otto, Victor (deceased), Ivan, Clayton, ldena (Mrs. Marvin Dodds), Elda (Mrs. Vern Bailey,) Edith (Mrs. Edith Izzard), and Leroy. Ivan and Idena live in Pickford. Ivan married Betty Jean Beacom and their children are Trinda (Mrs. Donald Thompson) and Joann. Idena married Marvin Dodds and their children are Roger, Marilyn, Sherry, Cindy, and Daniel. Russell married Reta Harrison. Their children are Elliott, Alex, Belva (Mrs. James Rutledge), and John. Elliott married Elda McKenzie and they have three children: Richard, Dennis, and Marjorie (Mrs. Dale Williams of Alpena)*. Richard* martied Marcie Hanson and lives in Pickford. Elliott lives south of Pickford and is employed by Michigan Limestone of Cedarville. Alex married Delores Allen and their children are: Cheryl (Mrs. Edward Cate), Allen, Dana (Mrs. Lester Beyer), Martin, and Lisa*. They live on the original Harry Cottle farm west of Pickford, making four generations on the farm. Belva married James Rutledge and also lives west of Pickford. Their children are Gary, Ronald, Roger, and Leanne*. John married Sandra Crawford and lives in Detroit. Their children are John, II and Robyn*. The Russell Cottles moved from the Harry Cottle farm in 1952 and now live in Pickford.
Cecil Cottle married Ellen Raynard and lives on a farm west of Pickford. Their children are: G. Ephraim, Norma (Mrs. Neal Music) and Verna (Mrs. Earl Campbell). Ephraim married Margaret Beacom and they live on a farm west of Pickford. Their children are Erwin (deceased), Glen (deceased), Donald, and Gary*. Verna married Earl Campbell and their children are: Julie and JoAnn*. They live in the Soo. Norma lives in Florida.
Tyson (deceased) married Celia Hill and resided in Sault Ste. Marie. Their children are: Clarence (deceased), Jean (Mrs. DuWayne Lee), Edie Lou (Mrs. Mike Piper), and James.
Vern married Mary Jane Mosses and lives in St. Ignace. Their children are Ivan (deceased), Catherine (Mrs. Floyd Paquin), Helen (Mrs. Otto Hyslop), Bonnie (Mrs. Logan Jarrad), and Ruth.
COTTON
Alfred Cotton was born in Boston, County of Norfolk, Province of Ontario, Sept. 21, 1868. Mrs. Cotton (Mary Thomas) was born Sept. 11, 1873, In Semco, County of Brant, Ontario. They were married in Brantford, Ontario, Oct. 5, 1893. They came to Pickford in 1897 and settled in Stirlingville on what is known as the Sweeney place. They then moved to what is now known as the Ray Dodds' farm. They later moved toward Stalwart and lived near what is known as Diamond Spring Corner.
They had four children: CLARA BELLE Polyen, SARAH KATHERN, JOHN ALFRED, and EVA ELIZABETH Lloyd. SARAH married James Raynard and they had two children: Tillie (Mrs. Lester Huyck) and William (deceased). Later she married Joseph Rye.
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