Matilda Harris Cossett
abt. 1812- aft. 1880
Matilda Harris Cossett (Cossitt) (abt. 1812- aft. 1880) was born about 1812 in Tennessee. She married Louis Capet Cossett, a distant relative of Azuba Hart, Wilford Woodruff’s step-mother, and they had six children. She died after 15 Jun. 1880. Her proxy temple ordinance work was initiated by Wilford Woodruff on 1 Jun. 1870.
Matilda Harris (K8YZ-JHS), “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 11 May 2022). Matilda Harris Cossett, Wilford Woodruff Papers (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/matilda-harris-cossett, accessed 11 May 2022). Pearl Steele Cossitt, The Cossitt Family: A Genealogical History of Rene Cossitt (Pasadena, California: 1925), p. 20; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org, accessed 11 May 2022). 1850 U.S. Census, Tippah Co., Mississippi, p. 1088, Matilda Cossitt; FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 11 May 2022). 1880 U.S. Census, Sand Hill, Tippah Co., Mississippi, p. 29, Matilda Cassitt; FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 13 May 2022).
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