Cotton DNA Project

FAMILY 12B

1 William Cotton, b. ca. 1614, England, d. Dec. 19, 1678, Rockingham Co., NH

...+ Elizabeth Ham

...2  John Cotton, b. ca. 1652, Rockingham Co., NH, d. Sept. 14, 1714, Rockingham Co., NH

......+ Sarah Hearle

......3  Solomon Cotton, b. bef. 1680, NH, d. June 26, 1754, Rockingham Co., NH

.........+ Margaret Fernald

.........4  Benjamin Noys Cotton, chr. Dec. 21, 1718, Rockingham Co., NH, d. 1760

............+ Elizabeth Levitt

............5  Benjamin Noys Cotton, b. May 14, 1758, NH, d. July 13, 1846, Wayne Co., OH

...............+ Dolly Smith

...............6 Theodore Cotton, b. Sept. 24, 1802, Grafton Co., NH, d. July 11, 1879, Ionia Co., MI

..................+ May Lewis

..................7  Zara Luzerne Cotton, b. May 29, 1834, Onondaga Co., NY, d. Sept. 4, 1905, Montgomery Co., AR

.....................+ Eliza Ann Powell 

.....................8  William Elmer Cotton, b. Jan. 1, 1896, Montgomery Co., AR, d. Dec. 28. 1958, Garland Co., AR

........................+ Annis Zonia Viola Ward

........................9  Jack Wallace Cotton, b. Aug. 2, 1921, Okmulgee Co., OK, d. Dec. 27. 1974, Montgomery Co., AR

..........................+ Lula Bell Mathis

..........................10  BRUCE NICHOLAS COTTON

The paper trail for this family indicates that they belong to family 12, but the y-chromosome mismatch would suggest that a non-paternal event occured in this line.