Harriet Emma “Hattie” Martin

Brief Life History of Harriet Emma “Hattie”

When Harriet Emma “Hattie” Martin was born in August 1868, in Iowa, United States, her father, Elijah Strong Martin, was 45 and her mother, Dorcas Moore, was 41. She married Clifford M Cottrell on 5 November 1895, in Kay, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, United States for about 20 years and McPherson Township, McPherson, Kansas, United States in 1950. She died in 1961, in Sedalia Township, Pettis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Sedalia Township, Pettis, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Clifford M Cottrell
1860–1940
Harriet Emma “Hattie” Martin
1868–1961
Marriage: 5 November 1895
Granderson Martin Cottrill
1900–1981
Viola Cottrill
1901–1989

Sources (15)

  • Hattie E Cottrill, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Emma Martin, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
  • Harriet Emma Martin Cottrill, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1884 · There is now a Capital Building

The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.

English: variant of Marton .

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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