This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cotton, Ramsey Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mAB.2ACE/2468 Message Board Post: MINUS R. COTTON Was born in Christian county in 1841 and located in Madisonville in 1869, since which time he has engaged continuously in the leaf and strip tobacco business at this place. He exercised prudence in business and ecomony in living and has accumulated a large estate. He owns one of the handsomest homes to be found in this section of the county, an engraving of which appears elsewhere. Mr. COTTON was married in 1876 to Miss Nannie I. RAMSEY, and has one child, a son. Mr. COTTON is a ruling elder in the Christian church and takes great interest and pleasure in his religious life. He was President of the Hopkins County Bank, but resigned on account of his health. At present, Mr. COTTON is the head of the firm of COTTON & RAMSEY Bros., tobacco dealers, whose purchases this season will reach the enormous amount of 1,500,000 pounds. (Source: Madisonville Hustler, Fri., Feb. 24, 1893) note: An etched portrait accompanys this article. prb