Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
NameCapt. George H. COTTRELL 
Birth25 Nov 1816, Cottrellville, St. Clair, Michigan3143,3145, year only
Death30 Apr 1907, Marine City, St. Clair, Michigan3146 Age: 90
BurialWoodlawn Cemetery, Marine City, St. Clair, Michigan3146
OccupationSailor (Captain)3146
Residenceof Marine City3142
FlagsEldest Child
FatherGeorge H. COTTRELL (1782-1848)
MotherArchange MENYS (1795-1883)
Individual Notes
• Died at home on Belle River Ave. of a stroke of Apoplexy.3146
• He was known all over the lakes, although he had not sailed a boat for nearly forty years. His life was like clockwork; he was temperate and surefooted and until very recently he enjoyed excellent health and the possession of all his faculties. He was a sailor in the old days and knew all the hardships but his constitution was rugged and his nerve steady. A stroke of apoplexy brought death.
Capt. Cottrell was born in 1816. He began his life as a sailor in 1826 when he shipped on the schooner William H. Harrison, which loaded the first wheat taken to Chicago [incomplete from this point].3145
• He was known all over the lakes, although he had not sailed a boat for nearly forty years. His life was like clockwork; he was temperate and surefooted and until very recently he enjoyed excellent health and the possession of all his faculties. He was a sailor in the old days and knew all the hardships but his constitution was rugged and his nerve steady. A stroke of apoplexy brought death.
Capt. Cottrell was born in 1816. He began his life as a sailor in 1826 when he shipped on the schooner William H. Harrison, which loaded the first wheat taken to Chicago [incomplete from this point].3145
Spouses
Individual Notes
• When she was 17 years old Mrs. Cottrell came with her parents to Michigan, the family settling in what was afterwards named Cottrellville township, in which Marine City is located.3144
Marriage23 May 1839, Buffalo, Erie, New York3142, marriage only,3143,2501, p 4
Marr Memoin or near Buffalo; aboard the schooner Harrison
Marriage Notes
• George and Submit were married 23 May 1839 aboard the steamer “William H. Harrison,” a vessel of the Ward family of Marine City MI.2501, p 6
ChildrenEber Ward (1841-1933)
Josephine H. (1843-1929)
George H. (1846-1876)
Mariette (1848-1892)
Joseph P. (1851-1906)