Laura Placidia (Clark) Cotten (1816 - 1864)

Born 1816 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, United States

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Died 19 Apr 1864 at about age 48 in Township 1 Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Laura was born in 1816. She was the daughter of James Clark and Arabella Toole. She passed away in 1864.

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• Laura Placidia (Clark) Cotten, born 1816, died 1864, is buried at Calvary Church Cemetery, Tarborough, North Carolina, Quadrant 4, Memorial ID 94771475. [1]
• Genealogy of the Clark Family names among the children of James West Clark, born 1769, died 1845, and Arabella E. Toole, born 1781, died 1860, (daughter of Henry I. Toole, of Edgecombe): "Laura Placidia, born 1816, died 1864; married, 1832, John W. Cotten, and left Margaret E., married J. A. Engelhard; Arabella C., married Wm. D. Barnes; Florida, married Wm. L. Saunders, and John W., married Elizabeth Frick." Wheeler, John Hill. Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians. Columbus, OH: 1884, p. lxii. Archived at [2]

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4B2-25G : 24 December 2020), Laura P Cotton, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).