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Show COTTRELLS HOME ! FR0M0HI0 TRIP, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Cottrell re- turned home Stinday from a mos.t . enjoyable visit in the east with theit ' son, Fred, and family, Fred being a1 professor of soeialogy and govern-! ment in Miami university, located at' Oxford, Ohio. The weather back J there was mild and spring-like, for the most part, but some sub-zero weather was encountered. They! greatly missed L'tah's sunshine,! however, having witnessed only twoj unny days in the 2C days they were in the middle west. While they were in the east Fred attended an important soeialogy con-! vention in Philadelphia, and the elder; Cottrells also enjoyed a visit to the' old home of Mr. Cornell's parents,' concerning which visit the Camden j (Indiana) Record gave space to the: following: "The Doctors Kennedy and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kennedy had as their 1 pre-Xmas guests their cousins, Mr. j and Mrs. William F. Cottrell of Mil-! ford, L'tah, and their son and wife,' Mr. and Mrs. William F. Cottrell jr.,; of Oxford, Ohio. This was their, first visit to the home place of the j senior Mr. Cottrell's parents. His; parents were both born and reared! in the Woodville neighborhood on. adjoining farms. His mother has one. ! brother still living, Edward Kennedy! of Burrows. One morning was spent, with him, enjoying hearing of the; family he knew so little about, being j left an orphan at nine years. Mr.! 1 Cottrell's father was a carpenter by J trade and built the house on the old ! Kennedy homestead in 1856, which ! still stands and is in a good state of! I preservation. Later he built the! Brown church in Rock Creek town- ; ship which is a land mark in that , vicinity." Incidentally, the Brown : church mentioned was the theme for! the old song, "Little Brown Church! ! In the Vale." J |