This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cotton, Ramsey, Fowler Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mAB.2ACE/2395.1 Message Board Post: Minos R. COTTON is dead. After months of suffering he passed into the Great Beyond early last Saturday morning. Mr. COTTON was one of the well known, highly respected and much beloved citizens of Madisonville. He was born and reared on a farm in Christian county, where he had but few natural advantages, but being a man of will and energy he made for himself a name among the people. For a while after reaching his majority he engaged in teaching school and in that profession was quite successful. It was not long, however, before he engaged in buying and putting up tobacco. For several years he has been at the head of the firm of COTTON & RAMSEY as tobacco dealers. In this he has made a comfortable fortune and leaves his wife and son a handsome estate. His money was all made in a legitimate way. No man ever had any dealings with Mr. COTTON who was not impressed with the entire honesty and uprightness of the man. It has been the good fortune of the writer to have had large deali! ngs with the deceased in times past, and we can say that no man ever was more honorable in these dealings than was Mr. COTTON. He was indeed and in truth a christian gentleman. He had for years been a leading member in the Christian church at this place. He aided the cause which he espoused with both time and his money. As a husband, father and neighbor he set an example that might well be imitated by others. The remains were taken Sunday morning to the church in which he had so long and so often worshipped, where a short funeral service was conducted by the Rev. Sam FOWLER, the pastor, after which all that was mortal of this good man was deposited by kind friends in the Odd Fellow's cemetery. Peace to the memory of this good man. (Source: Madisonville Hustler, Fri., Jan. 4, 1895)