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OBITUARY FOR MATILDA EDNA ARNOLD COSBY - Mrs. Matilda Edna Cosby, 86, of 1112 Columbia
Street, died in St. Elisabeth Hospital at 7:05 Tuesday. She had been in failing health
several years and a patient in the hospital since March 26. Born in Lauramie Township,
near Stockwell, she was a life resident of the county and had lived in Lafayette, 62
years. She was married in 1895 to Ira L. Cosby who died in 1930. Mrs Cosby was a
graduate from Stockwell and Glendale College for girls at Iveydale, Ohio. She was a
member of the Methodist church, and last February 22, received a 50-year membership pin in
the DAR. Surviving are a son Lee H. Cosby of East Detroit and two sisters., Mrs Hortense
Wilkerson, and Mrs. William Bartholomew