She was the daughter of Annie E. Bradshaw Pearson and E.W. Pearson, businessman, civic leader, and founder of the Burton St. neighborhood in West Asheville, North Carolina. She created scrapbooks dating between 1930 and 1960.

Annette had two siblings, Iola (Pearson) Byers and Edward Walton Pearson Jr,
She married Clifford Walter Cotton on 19 Mar 1942 in Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina.

Her son Clifford W. Cotton II was the donor of her photograph albums to the History Harvest Collection, Buncombe County Special Collections, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, NC.

Source: Portrait of Annette Pearson Cotton, ca. 1940s. BCSC ID: MS403.001A photo 33
source: Buncombe County Library
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To read about Annette's father and mother click here: https://www.irememberourhistory.org/businesses-organizations/edward-w.-pearson-sr


To see her collection of photographs, click here: https://archive.org/details/ms-403-001-a-scrapbook/mode/2up