Cottonville Cemetery
Location: Cottonville Cemetery is located in Section 6, Preston Township, and is also known as Billings Cemetery. The cemetery is located on an un-named dead-end gravel road North of Cottonville Road and the northeast corner of 13th Drive in Section 6, Preston Township. It overlooks the southeast shore of Big Roche A Cri Lake. Cemetery was copied working from the west to the east, row 1 beginning near the southwest edge of the cemetery.
Donated by Joan M Benner and Hilda Skerven © 2001 October 18, 2001
Row 1COTTON Elmon
died 3 July 1865, son of WA & MB Cotton, aged 2 years and 3 months
COTTON Melinda B
died September 15, 1863, wife of WA Cotton, aged 24 years and 10 months
BILLINGS Doris
1933 - 1933
BILLINGS Chester G
1915 - 1915
BILLINGS Jasper
1904 - 1904
BILLINGS Family Marker
BILLINGS Ernest L
1860 - 1904 Ernest Lincoln Billings Obituary
Row 2
FALK Conrad J
1925 - (blank), ossw Dorothea, married July 19, 1947
FALK Dorothea E
1927 - (blank), ossw Conrad, married July 19, 1947
McCARTNEY Samuel
died 27 April 1851, aged 34 years
AMES Polly
died 6 January 1866
"In Memory of Polly Ames who died on January 6, 1866, aged 71 years, 11 months and 13 days." Gordie Klaus transcribed this stone in Sept. 2005. There is a foot stone and there doesn't appear to be a headstone, however, about two inches under the ground I found the Ames stone.
Row 3
FALK Henry
1912 - 1913
FALK Henry Fred
1919- ?
Row 4
GARDNER Family Marker
GARDNER Oliver
4 March 1811 - 17 Nov 1904
GARDNER Emeline
1834 - 1917 mother
GARDNER Mary E
1859 - 1922
COTTON Emulous
died 12 Dec 1888 aged 77 years Emulous Cotton Obituary
COTTON Caroline L
died March 10, 1884, wife of EP Cotton, aged 54 years Caroline Cotton Obituary
COTTON Little Anna
died 9 March 1862 (or 1867?), dau of EP & CL Cotton
COTTON Anna B
died 17 October 1867, wife of EP Cotton, aged 43 years and 6 months
COTTON Jared
died 16 March 1891, son of EP & CL Cotton, aged 23 years 9 months and 5 days Jeddie B. Cotton Obituary
Row 5
CALKINS Delbert C
19 October 1861 - 21 August 1938
MAFFIT Robert Alfred
26 April 1923 - 24 June 1998 PFC US Army WWII
MAFFIT Grace L See Obituary
1903 - 1967, ossw Alfred W
MAFFIT Alfred W
1903 - 1945, ossw Grace L.
Row 6
HENRIKSEN
Unknown
HENRIKSEN Connie
1913 -1913
Unknown (Infant?)
Unknown recent burial within the last 2 years, no marker, possibly an infant
Row 7
CONNELL Richard F
1927 - 1999 ossw Delores E, WWII Veteran
CONNELL Delores E
1927 - (blank)
Burials or Tombstones Since Oct 2001
ANDERSON Robert March 26, 1937 - May 12, 2002 US Navy Veteran
Source: Daily Tribune [Wisconsin Rapids, Wood Co., WI], Tuesday May 14, 2002
WITTENBERG Walter W. Jr. April 25, 1924 - August 18, 2001
Source: Adams County Times, August 22 2001, Page 6B