Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
NameSubmit WARD 3614,3768
Birth9 Jul 1819, Keene, Essex, New York3769,5010,5012
Settlementabt 1836, St. Clair County, Michigan5012 Age: 16
Memoat age 17
Death11 Sep 1902, Marine City, St. Clair, Michigan3769 Age: 83
Death18 Sep 1903, Marine City, St. Clair, Michigan5010 Age: 84
BurialWoodlawn Cemetery, Marine City, St. Clair, Michigan3769,5012
FatherZael WARD (1791-1861)
MotherSusan PAGE (1791-1873)
Individual Notes
• When she was 17 years old Mrs. Cottrell came with her parents to Michigan, the family settling in what was afterwards named Cottrellville township, in which Marine City is located.5012
Spouses
Birth25 Nov 1816, Cottrellville, St. Clair, Michigan3769,5011
Death30 Apr 1907, Marine City, St. Clair, Michigan3770 Age: 90
BurialWoodlawn Cemetery, Marine City, St. Clair, Michigan3770
OccupationSailor (Captain)3770
Residenceof Marine City3768
FlagsEldest Child
FatherGeorge H. COTTRELL (1782-1848)
MotherArchange MENYS (1795-1883)
Individual Notes
• He was known all over the lakes, although he had not sailed a boat for nearly forty years. His life was like clockwork; he was temperate and surefooted and until very recently he enjoyed excellent health and the possession of all his faculties. He was a sailor in the old days and knew all the hardships but his constitution was rugged and his nerve steady. A stroke of apoplexy brought death.
Capt. Cottrell was born in 1816. He began his life as a sailor in 1826 when he shipped on the schooner William H. Harrison, which loaded the first wheat taken to Chicago [incomplete from this point].5011

• Died at home on Belle River Ave. of a stroke of Apoplexy.3770
Marriage23 May 1839, Buffalo, Erie, New York3768,3769,5010
Marr Memoin or near Buffalo; aboard the schooner Harrison
Marriage Notes
• George and Submit were married 23 May 1839 aboard the steamer “William H. Harrison,” a vessel of the Ward family of Marine City MI.5010
ChildrenEber Ward (1841-1933)
 Josephine H. (1843-1929)
 George H. (1846-1876)
 Mariette (1848-1892)
 Joseph P. (1851-1906)
Last Modified 17 Oct 2005Created 6 May 2025 using Reunion 14 for Macintosh
Updated 6 May 2025
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