She was Cotton’s third wife and from Pittsfield at the time of their marriage. 607She was dismissed from the First Church of Pittsfield to Dalton on 17 May 1841.455 On 1 June 1880 she is an 80 year old widow whose parents were both born in Connecticut. She is living in Lyon, Wisconsin on the farm of her son E. L. Moody, 46, his wife Jane E., 33, and children James C., 10, and Etta E., 8. 877

Was she the daughter of Deacon Josiah Lawrence and born 16 Feb 1800 in Pittsfield?

He became a member of the Congregational Church of South Hadley in May 1819. In 1827 he married Dorcas Goodman who died in 1828. He was still living in South Hadley at the time of his marriage to Lucy Tinker in Chester in May 1830.848 He and Lucy then settled in Hinsdale where their first six children were born and then moved about 1838 to Pittsfield, where their last child was born 25 June 1839. Lucy died 15 August 1839 and in June 1840 Cotton married Experience Lawrence in Pittsfield. He and Experience then moved to Dalton, Massachusetts. 455 They settled in Geneva, Wisconsin. 607 On 1 June 1860 Cotton is a 65 year old farmer in Geneva, Wisconsin, living with Experience, 60, Reuben T., 29, Edward L., 26 and William, 25. 878On 1 June 1870 Cotton, age 70 was farming in Geneva, Walworth County, Wisconsin. Living with him were Experience, 70, Edwin 36, Jane, 24, James, 11 months and Reuben, 39. William married in 1867 and left home. 876Cotton died in 1875.

He moved to Dalton in 1840, Onondaga Valley, NY in 1842, Darien, New York ca 1850 and in 1854 to Geneva, Wisconsin.