When Nancy Barbour Cottle was born on 28 August 1876, in Elliott, Kentucky, United States, her father, Isaac Newton Cottle, was 35 and her mother, Margaret Mary Barber, was 33. She married Clarence Curtis Maxey on 20 August 1896. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Wells Mill, Floyd, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Ashland, Boyd, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. She died on 29 December 1961, in Prestonsburg, Floyd, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Ashland, Boyd, Kentucky, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English (South western England):
metonymic occupational name for an armorer, probably first derived from Old French cotel ‘coat of mail’; later examples may also derive from Old French cotel, coutel ‘short knife or dagger’ (from Late Latin cultellus), used to denote a cutler.
perhaps also a habitational name from written forms of any of the three places in Devon named Cotleigh or Cotley.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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