Ugh - DUH! I really have not been operating on all four wheels lately! First, thanks to all of you who posted compliments on the block and commiseration on our car situation. Husband is out right now shopping for a new car. Son is still alive. All good.
Now, to refresh your memories, I'd told you that at the bottom of the November block, I'd put my great grandfather's initials and that he'd served in the 116th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War.
What I forgot to put in the post was the wonderful picture that we have of him and his wife, Cyntha Virginia Smith Cothren.
Cornelius Piet Cothren was born May 27, 1845 in Ramsay township, Fayette County, Illinois. His mother was Margaret D. Harris and his father was Calvin Cothran. Margaret and Calvin were divorced when Cornelius was still a toddler. Margaret later married George Washington Guthrie and they migrated to Cedar Vale, Chatauqua County, Kansas between 1860 and 1870. In the meantime, the war was upon them and Cornelius signed up with the Illinois Infantry, mustering in on August 14, 1862 at Decatur, Illinois. In this photo, he is wearing lapel pins that have his company number and another number. I believe that he was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic - a Union veteran's organization that formed after the war. Because of the regalia he is wearing and the flag pin on Cyntha's shirtfront, I like to think that they had this picture made on the 4th of July. Cornelius is buried at the Wadsworth Cemetery in Leavenworth, Kansas. Hope you enjoyed!
Now, to refresh your memories, I'd told you that at the bottom of the November block, I'd put my great grandfather's initials and that he'd served in the 116th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War.
What I forgot to put in the post was the wonderful picture that we have of him and his wife, Cyntha Virginia Smith Cothren.
Cornelius Piet Cothren was born May 27, 1845 in Ramsay township, Fayette County, Illinois. His mother was Margaret D. Harris and his father was Calvin Cothran. Margaret and Calvin were divorced when Cornelius was still a toddler. Margaret later married George Washington Guthrie and they migrated to Cedar Vale, Chatauqua County, Kansas between 1860 and 1870. In the meantime, the war was upon them and Cornelius signed up with the Illinois Infantry, mustering in on August 14, 1862 at Decatur, Illinois. In this photo, he is wearing lapel pins that have his company number and another number. I believe that he was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic - a Union veteran's organization that formed after the war. Because of the regalia he is wearing and the flag pin on Cyntha's shirtfront, I like to think that they had this picture made on the 4th of July. Cornelius is buried at the Wadsworth Cemetery in Leavenworth, Kansas. Hope you enjoyed!
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