===== Thomas Marshall Cotton =====

//Manuscript heading: Thomas Cotton, Esq.//

  * **Born:** October 2, 1782
  * **Died:** December 15, 1848
  * **Buried:** Cotton Cemetery, [[FranklinMS|Franklin Co]].

Thomas Marshall Cotton arrived in Mississippi between 1795 and 1803, marrying Lucretia Robertson. He lived in [[franklinms|Franklin County]] by 1816 and served as its representative in the Mississippi House during the 1826 session. The 1850 [[franklinms|Franklin County]] Census lists Thomas, described as idiotic living with his brother Willis Cotton.

//Source: Trip Through The Piney Woods, PDF p. 26.//