Re:PLEASE READ IMPORTANT UPDATE: Does anyone know any Cozort..not Cozart?
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Re: Does anyone know any Cozort..not Cozart?
8/05/01
Madeline, Adre and Mary are my fathers cousins.
They live Missouri and or Arkansas, he remembers that.
My uncle was born in 1929 in Hagerman, New Mexico, his name is Bobby Gene Cozart, as you see he changed the spelling of his last name.
I found out some very important information.
Please look at Website below.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmchaves/hagerman.htmhttp://www.rootsweb.com/~nmchaves/hagerman.htm
My Grandmother Sarah Frances Cozort , and Grandfather Robert Pinkly Cozort are buried the Hagerman, New Mexico.
My grandmother died the day after my grandmother gave birth to my Uncle Bobby Cozort. He spells it Cozart.
Also I am going to put in some Important information here.
Read below. Cozort is Not German, it is French.
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Cossairt is a French name, dating from the 1200s.
The family were Huguenots, or French
Protestants, and left France due to religious
persecution in the 1500s, I believe.They went
to the Low Countries to the north, now Belgium
and Holland, then to England, and to America in
the late 1600s.The name has changed to Cossart,
Cozart, Cozad, Cazort, Cozort, Cassatt and other
variations.
You can read about the early family in
biographies of the artist Mary Cassatt, a
descendant, and about some of the troubles in
France in a duPont biography, as well.(The
duPonts also had Huguenot origins.)If you are
lucky enough to ever find yourself at the Library
of Congress, it has a rare book on the Cossairts,
written by a family member.I bleive it is
called the Cossairt Collection, but don't hold me
to that.I don't know whether there are any
copies of it elsewhere.
Genie