Researcher:  Ben Varner

The H.S. Varner family lived in Cottonwood from the 1890s until the late 1950s.  Harry S. Varner was the schoolmaster of Cottonwood School for fifty years. Wife was Eva Varner; children: Homer, Walter, Mabel, Flora, Esther, Leo, and Durward.  Brother Will and his wife, Sallie, farmed in Cottonwood also.