Carl Clarence Cottrell history

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Roswell Fenner Cottrell (1814-1892) was one of the pioneers of the Seventh-Day Adventist church. He was the son of John Cottrell (1774-1857) and Mary Polly Stillman (1779-1852) and a brother of Solomon Gates Cottrell (1803-1887). That would make Roswell F. Cottrell a great-uncle to Carl C. Cottrell. Carl C. Cottrell was not an Adventist when he married Myrtle Ida Cady who was. Carl converted after their marriage and became a very active Adventist and an elder of the Poy Sippi SDA church.
Click here to to find information about the Cady Adventist connection and the Poy Sippi church. Roswell F. Cottrell was raised as a Seventh Day Baptist and kept the seventh-day Sabbath all his life. In 1851 he accepted the hope of the second coming of Christ and joined the group that eventually developed into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It was Roswell Cottrell's chief delight to write. His poetical contributions have been read and sung by believers everywhere with delight. Roswell F. Cottrell was ordained in 1854 at Mill Grove, NY and at his death in 1892 near Ridgeway, NY he had been an ordained minister for 34 years. Until his death he was an active worker for the SDA church, mostly in the states of New York and Pennsylvania. Roswell F. Cottrell has been described him as a "powerful" preacher a writer of the superlative degree. Click here for the story of his oldest son Willett Stillman's Civil War experience. Raymond Forrest Cottrell, great-grand-son of Roswell Cottrell accomplished Cottrell genealogy research beginning in the 1930's and in 1965 published A Brief Sketch of Cottrell Family History. Click here for A Brief Sketch of Cottrell Family History.