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Note N282 Index
Writing on certificate is not very legible. Middle name source.
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Obituary for Phillip Miles Cotton
FUNERAL HELD AT MILLER
Miller - The funeral services for Miles Cotton was held April 22 at United Methodist Church with the Rev. Richard Trotter officiating. Interment was in GAR Cemetery.
Pallbearers were George Niederauer, Mike Sisk, Myron Waring, Wayne Fawcett, Herley McCarl and Roy Yearous.
Reck Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Cotton was born Feb. 2, 1905, at Parker, the son of Phillip and Lucy Cotton. At the age of four, he moved with is family to Pleasant Valley Township in Hand County. He was baptized in Pleasant Valley Congregational Church. He attended rural school and was graduated from Miller High School.
On Aug, 28, 1929, he married Ethel Nelson and they had three son and two daughters. He served as Ohio Township clerk from 1938 to 1970.
Cotton died April 19 at an Aberdeen hospital where he had been hospitalized since March 16.
Survivors include his widow; two daughters, Mrs. Ralph (Barbara) Zieger and Mrs. Warren (Carole) Skinner, both of Miller; one son Jerry in the Air Force in Taiwan; three brothers, Ross, Miller; Wales, Aberdeen; John, Portland, Ore.; two sisters, Mrs. Lyle (Catherine) Haigh and Mrs. H. W. Crecelius (Alcinda), Sacramento, Calif.; eight grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister and infant twin sons.
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Note N288 Index
Normal City is a neighborhood located in Center Township which is located in Muncie.
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Obituary for Albert Dresbach
Freeport Journal Standard
Freeport, Illinois, November 27, 1940
ALBERT DRESBACH, MT. CARROLL
Mt. Carroll, Ill. Nov. 27 - Albert Dresbach, 67, passed away about 11 o'clock Tuesday night at his home in Mt. Carroll.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the home. Rev. James A Foard, pastor of the Mt. Carroll Methodist church, will officiate and burial will be made in Oak Hill cemetery.
Albert Dresbach was born near Mt. Carroll on September 21, 1873, and spent his entire life time in this community.
He is survived by his widow; one daughter, Mrs. Earl Sword; one son, Wallace; a sister, Mrs. Warren Moore, all of Mt Carroll, and a brother, Frank Dresbach of Aberdeen, S. D.
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Death Notice Alice Mae Dresbach
The Arizona Republican, (Phoenix, Arizona) July 31, 1899
DEATH OF MISS DRESBACH
Miss Alice Dresbach died of consumption Saturday morning at 5 o'clock, about six miles north of the city on the Black Canyon road at a ranch where she has been stopping for some time. Deceased was about 26 years of age and came here some time ago hoping to experience an improvement in her health. Her brother in Kansas City was immediately informed of her death and is now en route to this city. The remains have been embalmed and are awaiting his arrival. They will probably be taken to Illinois for interment.
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Death Account for Clyde W. Dresbach
Daily Nevada State Journal
Reno, Nevada - November 28, 1903
MURDER NEAR WELLS
'Dresback, driver of the stage between Sun Creek and Wells, was discovered in the bottom of the vehicle near the latter place November 24. From all appearences the man had been murdered.
Death Account for Clyde W. Dresbach
Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada) December 1, 1903
KICKED TO DEATH
AN ELKO COUNTY STAGE DRIVER MEETS AN AWFUL FATE
Clyde W. Dresbach, a stage driver at Wells, went to sleep in his stage and a sudden lurch threw him over the dash board where he was kicked to death by a horse.
The accident occured on Tuesday and he was not found until the following Friday, the team still standing by the body.
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Note N457 Index
David's listed birth date range from October of 1859 to October of 1863
A brief biographic memorial of Joh. Jonas Rupp - birth year 1859
1860 Census, age 6/12 in July of 1860 - birth year 1860
1870 Census, age 10 in July of 1870 - birth year 1860
1880 Census, age 20 in June of 1880 - birth year 1860
1900 Census birth listed as October of 1863
1910 Census, age 50 in May of 1910 - birth year 1860
1920 Census age 58 in January of 1920 - birth year 1861,1862
Grave Marker birth year 1863 (findagrave.com)
From the person who listed the findagrave memorial:
"Someone e-mailed me the info a few years ago.
I went to the recorder's office this morning and looked up his death certificate. His initial is S. and his birth year is 1859. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. He died of asphyxiation by illuminating gas - suicide - at his home at 3449 Garnett St. in the city of Los Angeles, CA. The informant was Grace B. Woody who also lived at 3449 Garnett St. He was a retired rancher who had lived in California for 30 years. He was buried in Artesia Cemetery on July 7, 1925. The undertaker was Bede A. Johnson of Los Angeles, His death certificate no. is 6549, vol. 232.
I've changed his Findagrave page. I can transfer his page to you if you have a Findagrave member number. If you don't, it's free to join.
Cora Dresbach is buried in grave 10 next to David. She was born in Illinois and died of septicemia. Her doctor was J.F. Groover. There is no death certificate for her. They weren't done in Los Angeles county prior to 1906.
Infant Dresbach is buried in grave 10 with Cora. There is no birth or death record so the child must have been stillborn."