Anna Jane Evans
1857 - 1919 (62 years)-
Name Anna Jane Evans [1, 2, 3] Birth 12 Mar 1857 Pennsylvania, USA 
[1, 2] Gender Female Death 21 Sep 1919 Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA Person ID I58709 Stewartsny Last Modified 2 Dec 2025
Father Joshua Evans, b. Abt 1813, Wales d. Jun 1870, Scranton, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 57 years) Relationship natural Mother Mary Davis, b. Abt 1818, Wales d. 8 Nov 1899, Parsons, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 81 years) Relationship natural Family ID F19421 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Edmund George Cotton, b. 12 Jul 1852, Llanover, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 17 Nov 1938, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 86 years) Marriage Abt 1879 [1] Children 1. Infant Cotton d. 15 Aug 1891 [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 2. Clarence Cotton, b. Abt 1880, Pennsylvania d. 19 Mar 1901, New York, New York (Age 21 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. Alma Beatrice Cotton, b. 23 Aug 1881, Hudson, Plains Township, Pennsylvania d. 2 Oct 1963 (Age 82 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. George Elwood Cotton, b. 18 Aug 1884, Parsons, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA d. 4 Mar 1946 (Age 61 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]5. Edna A. Cotton, b. 4 Apr 1888, Pennsylvania d. 2 Dec 1976 (Age 88 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]6. Anna Verna Cotton, b. 24 Apr 1894, Parsons, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA d. 12 Jun 1915, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 21 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F19541 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Dec 2025
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Notes - Newspaper Obituary - Monday, September 22, 1919 The Wilkes-Barre Record - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - Mrs. E. G. Cotton Dies Suddenly - Within nine hours after she had attended the funeral of her sister-in-law on the West Side, Mrs. Edmund G. Cotton, aged 55, died last evening at 9:40 o'clock at her home, 186 South Grant street, city, of apoplexy. Upon her return from the funeral she had complained of feeling ill and Dr. J. B. Tobias was summoned. She is survived by her husband, Edmund G. Cotton, who is employed as an engineer by the D. & H. Railroad Company. Three children, Edna, at home; Alma, a student at State College, and Elwood, who is employed by the government at Norfolk, Va., survive.
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, September 25, 1919 Wilkes-Barret Times Leader - Mrs. E. G. Cotton Buried - Mrs. E. G. Cotton was laid to rest in Hollenbeck cemetery yesterday afternoon. The funeral was held from her late home, 136 South Grant street where services were conducted by Rev. John B. Craven, pastor of Grant street Presbyterian Church. Several selections were rendered by a quarted composed of James Birmingham, Mr. Williams, Walter R. Johns and Ford Jones. There was a profusion of floral tributes.
- Newspaper Obituary - Monday, September 22, 1919 The Wilkes-Barre Record - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - Mrs. E. G. Cotton Dies Suddenly - Within nine hours after she had attended the funeral of her sister-in-law on the West Side, Mrs. Edmund G. Cotton, aged 55, died last evening at 9:40 o'clock at her home, 186 South Grant street, city, of apoplexy. Upon her return from the funeral she had complained of feeling ill and Dr. J. B. Tobias was summoned. She is survived by her husband, Edmund G. Cotton, who is employed as an engineer by the D. & H. Railroad Company. Three children, Edna, at home; Alma, a student at State College, and Elwood, who is employed by the government at Norfolk, Va., survive.
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Sources - [S1308] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Year: 1900; Census Place: Wilkes Barre Ward 9, Luzerne, Pennsylvania; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 0166.
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- [S1308] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Year: 1900; Census Place: Wilkes Barre Ward 9, Luzerne, Pennsylvania; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 0166.