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Show Funeral Services Held In Tabernacle Mon. For Rachel Holt Cottam Funeral services were held in the St. George stake Tabernacle, on Monday, March 30th for Rachel Holt Cottam, 85. Mrs. Cottam died Sunday morning following several weeks illness of causes incident in-cident to old age, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. B. Prince. Bishop Byron H. Taylor, of the Center ward was in charge of the services, with Albert E. Miller and George F. Whitehead as the speakers. Music, under the direction di-rection of Mae A. Pace, consisted of a trio by Melba Baker, Mary Lou Schmutz and Jane Pace; a violin solo by Barbara Tweedie; solo, Vernon Worthen; vocal duet, Adrene Cottam and Mary Lou Schmutz. Prayers were by Arthur Cottam and John T. Woodbury Jr. The grave was dedicated by George E. Miles. Born in North Ogden Rachel Holt Cottam was born June 14, 1856, at North Ogden, Utah, a daughter of James and Parthenia Overton Holt. Her parents par-ents moved to Washington to help raise cotton in 1862. Due to malaria ma-laria fever from which they suffered, suf-fered, they moved to Long Valley. Here they were robbed of their sheep and cattle and driven out by the Indians. They returned to Washington, where her father was very successful in growing the best cotton. Rachel was his best (Continued on page eight) Rachel Cottam Dies (Continued from first page) cotton picker. At the end of the week, she would walk to St. George to exchange the cotton she had earned for material to make some article of clothing. Later the family moved to Hamblin, where she spent her young womanhood with the excep tion of a part of two winters spent at St. George attending school. She married George T. Cottam Cot-tam in the L. D. S. Endowment house in Salt Lake City, Oct. 6, 1874 and made her home in St. George. She and her husband did much in the building up and development de-velopment of this section in the erecting of public buildings, es pecially the Dixie junior college. She was an officer in the Relief Society for a number of years and a member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Husband Died In 19S4 Her husband died in 1934, just following the celebration of their 60th wedding anniversary. Of her 12 children, eight survive. They Tames F. Cottam, Veyo; are: James r Mrs. Ada Pace Prince, Mrs G B. Petty and Mrs. B. F. Mclntyre, of Salt Lake City; Mrs F. H. Petty, Cedar City; Dr. J. M. Co -tarn, Van Nuys, Calif.; Mrs Albert Al-bert E. Miller and Mrs. A. B. Prince of St. George. Also 46 Sandc'hildren and 39 great-grand-, children and one brother H IX Holt, of St. George; all of whorn were here tor the services. ' Pallbearers were six gran and ten granddaugters were h orary pallbearers. |