Background
Cottle was born in Missouri and arrived in Texas with his parents, Jonathan and Margaret Cottle, several siblings, and three cousins July 6, 1829 where he settled in DeWitt"s Colony on the Lavaca River.
Cottle was born in Missouri and arrived in Texas with his parents, Jonathan and Margaret Cottle, several siblings, and three cousins July 6, 1829 where he settled in DeWitt"s Colony on the Lavaca River.
Cottle received a league of land at the headwaters of the Lavaca River near Gonzales on September 12, 1832. One source () says the marriage was annulled. When Mexican troops arrived south of Gonzales in September 1835, Cottle was one of the messengers sent to gather reinforcements.
He returned to fight in the Battle of Gonzales on October 2, 1835.
In February 1836 he lent a yoke of oxen to Captain Mathew Caldwell"s company.
He enlisted in the Gonzales Ranging Company under Lieutenant George C. Kimbell on February 24, 1836 and rode with thirty-two others to the Alamo on March 1, 1836.
The twins died in infancy.
Nancy Curtis Oliver Cottle later married again to John C. Cooksey. Cottle County, Texas is named for him.