Margaret Langley COTTEN^[1]

1923 - 2011  (88 years)

• Name	Margaret Langley COTTEN
  Nickname	Langley
  Birth	24 Apr 1923	West Point, King William Co, VA   [1]
  	Langley was delivered at 12:00am on 24 April 1923 by Dr. A. S. Hudson at her parents' home in West Point, Virginia.
  Gender	Female
  Death	24 Dec 2011	Rochester, Monroe Co, NY   [2]
  	Langley died at Wesley Gardens, a nursing home in Rochester, New York, at 43 minutes past midnight on 24 December 2011. Cause of death was noted as "failure to thrive" as a consequence of dementia. She was 88 years old at the time of her death.
  Cremation	27 Dec 2011	Rochester, Monroe Co, NY   [2]
  	Her remains were cremated on 27 December 2011 at Mt. Hope Crematory in Rochester, New York.
  MEMS	24 Apr 2012	Kinston, Lenoir Co, NC
  	The family gathered at Pine Lawn Memorial Park in Kinston, North Carolina on 24 April 2012, in remembrance of Langley's birth, to share memories of her and to scatter her ashes at the site of the grave marker that she shares with her husband, Paul. Each of her daughters took some of Langley's ashes to scatter in favorite places they had shared with her.
  Person ID	I7	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Robert Claude COTTEN, Sr.,   b. 24 Feb 1892, Waverly, Sussex Co, VA d. 5 Mar 1968, Portsmouth City, VA (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Marguerite LeClere FEREBEE,   b. 8 Jul 1898, Portsmouth City, VA d. 8 Feb 1981, Kinston, Lenoir Co, NC (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	8 Sep 1917	Washington, DC   [3]
  	The couple was married later that same day by Rev. F. Paul Langhorne, a Baptist minister, at 5226 Illinois Avenue in Washington, DC.
  Photos » Slide Show		Marguerite & Claude Cotten, spring 1947
  		Bob Cotten & Langley Cotten Gabriel, June 1975
  		Bob Cotten & Langley Cotten Gabriel, late 1990's
  Family ID	F6	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Paul Hermann GABRIEL, Jr.,   b. 6 Jan 1923, Wilmington, New Castle Co, DE d. 4 Apr 1975, Kinston, Lenoir Co, NC (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	19 Dec 1942	Richmond City, VA   [4, 5]
  	The couple was married at 8:00pm on Saturday, 19 December 1942, by Rev. Theodore F. Adams at the First Baptist Church Chapel in Richmond, Virginia. Joe Horton and Ruth Van Ness stood as witnesses to the marriage. A wedding reception followed at the Thomas Jefferson Hotel in Richmond.
  Children	1. Elizabeth Langley GABRIEL   2. Paula Logue GABRIEL   3. Margaret LeClere GABRIEL
  Photos		Langley Cotten Gabriel, wedding portrait 1942.
  		Paul & Langley, 1971.
  Family ID	F3	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Margaret Langley Cotten, c.1929
  		Langley, c.1937.
  		Langley's 70th birthday portrait.
  		Langley Cotten Gabriel, age 87.

  
  

• Notes

  Resided: April 1940, Richmond City, VA

  
  

• Sources

  [S24] Margaret Langley Cotten, Virginia birth certificate, no 17317 (1923). [S3153] Margaret Langley Cotten Gabriel, Monroe Co, NY death certificate no. 215749 (2011). [S2646] Robert C. Cotten - Marguerite L. Ferebee, DC marriage license & minister's return no. 80425 (1917). [S22] Paul Herman Gabriel, Jr. - Margaret Langley Cotten, Virginia certificate of marriage no. 34919 (1942). . [S3232] Certificate, Paul Herman Gabriel, Jr. - Margaret Langley Cotten marriage of 19 December 1942. .