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Topic: William Michael Cocke


In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
 Cocke House - Langley
The William Cocke House was probably built soon after Cocke purchased the 300 acre tract from Frederick Kearns on October 8, 1847.
William’s father, Steriling Cocke represented Grainger County in the State House from 1815-1817, elected State Senate 1717-1819, and served as Attorney General for Tennessee’s 1st District from 1818-1833.
Cocke was clerk of Grainger County Circuit Court from 1840-1845.
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 William Cocke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1796, Cocke was chosen as a delegate to the convention that wrote the first Tennessee state constitution.
The newly formed government then selected Cocke to be one of the new state's initial senators, along with William Blount.
The Tennessee legislature duly reselected Cocke and Blount on August 2.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Cocke   (571 words)

  
 Cripple Creek, VA
We know this is our Charles Cocke because, in his Pension Application, he states that he served under Captain Herbert at the Battle of Point Pleasant.
In 1773, Charles and Ellender Cocke appeared as witnesses for Samuel Newell in the Fincastle County Court, for which they were compensated in tobacco.
Although Charles Cocke later moved further west, John Ewing remained in Montgomery County and his will was probated there in 1788.
home.southwind.net /~crowther/Cocke/_StateVA1.htm   (1000 words)

  
 Brazure Cocke (c.1694-1770)
William MERRITT appears in the Chatham Co. census, in 1790, 1800, and 1810, and the tax list of 1815.
Brazure's great-grandfather, Richard COCKE (c.1600-1665) came to Virginia from England prior to 1632 and settled on the James River, near present-day Richmond.
Cocke acquired a great deal of land in Henrico County and one such tract of land was Malvern Hill.
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 Our Family Tree - pafn46 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
William Cocke gave bond, 24 MAR 1772, for his marriage to Mary Maclin in Brunswick County, Virginia.
Cocke, whose short lived appointment as agent to the Chickasaws by President Madison was likely due to Jackson's recommendation, reports on the size of the Chickasaw tribe, and accounts for the payment just made.
Cocke, long-time resident of Hawkins County at his home known as Mulberry Grove (now inundated by a TVA lake), was one of the most important figures in Tennessee history in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries.
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 TN Encyclopedia: GRAINGER COUNTY
Several members of the Cocke family served in the state and national legislatures, including John Cocke (1796-1801, 1807-13, 1843-45), Sterling Cocke (1815-19), William Cocke (1813-15), and William Michael Cocke (1855-57).
Members of the Lea family associated with Sam Houston, founded a city in Texas, surveyed the Iowa territory, and taught at the University of Tennessee.
John Williams served as U.S. minister to Turkey.
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 History 150W--Colonial and Revolutionary Tidewater Virginia
Although William and Mary is known for being the oldest college in Virginia, there was actually an attempt made to start one before this college existed.
The Wren Building, which was the focus of our tour of the "old campus" of William and Mary, has been the victim of three fires: one in 1705, one in 1859, and one in 1862.
Its owner, William Rogers, was actually neither poor nor a potter; he was a former brewery owner who hired a crew of German immigrants from Pennsylvania to work for him.
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 Ancestors of Elizabeth Laird   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Michael Stoner had staked a claim on Stone River in the section now known as Clover Bottom.
Cocke rode in on April 17, to mutual thanksgiving, and Boone immediately sent Stoner and three men with a string of packhorses to lend assistance to Henderson's caravan....Henderson wrote in his journal: ' Camped that night in the eye of the rich land.
Michael Stoner, the famous Pennsylvania Dutch frontiersman of Kentucky, was nearly killed by attempting a prank in one of these excavations.
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 Virginians: The Family History of Capt. John Batte (1606-1653)
William successfully argued that he was neither a planter nor trader and was in no way in involved with his father and brother in the “adventure” that lost Danby’s money.
Cockes Road, Nottoway County, was named for Abraham Cocke Sr.
• Families of Ann Roper Williams and Thomas Fitzgerald, of Catherine Greenhill and Francis Jones, and of Unity Claiborne and Wood Jones.
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 Board of Trustees: Emeritus Members
William Graham, A.M. Samuel L. Campbell, M.D. George A. Baxter, D.D. Louis Marshall, M.D. Henry Vethake, M.D., LL.D. Henry Ruffner, D.D., LL.D. George Junkin, D.D. Hon.
NSL aims to heighten student awareness and interest in social responsibility and to increase the scope of volunteerism at Washington and Lee.
The Society is comprised of 31 students who serve as securities analysts and portfolio managers, and help to broaden awareness of investments within the WandL community by sponsoring speakers and making the group's presentations and operations open to the public.
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William Lawrence Montgomery was born 20 Mar 2005 in Columbus, OH.
Eric William Rapids was born 13 Dec 2005 in Westminster, MD. He is the 7th great grandson of Catesby Cocke.
She was married to James Skelton McDowell and was the 4th great granddaughter of Catesby Cocke.
www.cockecatesby.homestead.com /files/chronicle0206.doc   (1261 words)

  
 Opinion Flash; 01/31/2002
Judge: SUSANO First Paragraph: The plaintiffs, Cocke County homeowners, brought this action seeking compensation for damage caused to their home by blasting activity on their neighbors' property.
Upon the County's motion, the trial court dismissed the plaintiffs' complaint as to the County, holding that their action is time-barred.
Judge: WILLIAMS First Paragraph: The defendant appeals his conviction of aggravated robbery for the armed robbery of the Union Bank and Trust in Rickman, Tennessee.
www.tba.org /Opinion_Flash/op_2002/op-08_019.html   (2426 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Cochrane to Coey
Son of William Cocke; father of Frederick Bird Smith Cocke; uncle of
Father of John Alexander Cocke; grandfather of Frederick Bird Smith Cocke and William Michael Cocke; great-great-grandfather of William Alexander Cocke.
Great-great-grandson of William Cocke; great-grandson of John Alexander Cocke; grandson of Frederick Bird Smith Cocke.
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 Queries From East Tennessee Roots
WILLIAMS ­ DOTSON/DODSON ­ WOLFENBARGER: James A. Williams (b 1825, Grainger Co., TN) and wife Martha Mahala Dotson (b 1831, Grainger Co.), mar 1846, Grainger Co. In 1850 census, District 12, with dau Narcissa, son Samuel and a relative Joel Dodson.
William and Alice had several children Thomas, Celia, Maynard, Hobert, Mack, Clarence, George, Jeanette I have very little information on Alice Cox, I have no informatiom on Kizzie or Issac we beleive that Issac was never married but can find nothing on Kizzie any one that can help it will be greatly appreciated.
William age 31 BP SC Lue S. age 23 BP SC Harryet age 2 BP TN Mary E. age 6/M BP TN On 29 April 1890, William, aka William Thomas RODGERS, was killed by lightning in Loudon Co, possibly Greenbank, or the Blount Co, vicinity of Maryville.
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 Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts
Lloyd E. Williams ("Plaintiff"), who absconded while on bond, was tried, convicted, and sentenced on drug charges in absentia.
Barnes"), and half brother, Gary Williams, to quiet title to, and partition, four acres of land in Cocke County ("the property") that had been purchased by the plaintiff's parents ("the Barnes").
The Barnes son claims that a tenancy in common was created when the Barnes purchased the property, due to the fact that, according to the Barnes son, his parents were not then legally married.
www.tsc.state.tn.us /OPINIONS/tca/Ca1qtr2004.htm   (16288 words)

  
 William Michael Cocke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Michael Cocke was an American politician who represented Tennessee's second district in the United States House of Representatives.
He was born in Rutledge, Tennessee on July 16, 1815.
He held many local and state offices afterward, before dying in Nashville on February 6, 1896.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Michael_Cocke   (219 words)

  
 Ancestry of Henry Stratton
A plausible continuation of the ancestry of William Addams Reitwiesner
The numbering in parentheses is numbered from me and is based on the assumption that the connection posited by Pritchett is correct.
Sir William Mallory, of Studley and Hutton, Yorkshire
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 DESCENDANTS OF ROBERT PERKINS--7th Generation
Perkins, William G., the first Bishop of the Seventh Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born Jan. 11, 1801, in South Carolina, the son of Ute Perkins and Sarah Gant.
WILLIAM D. was born February 18, 1807 in Carter County, Tennessee, and died December 03, 1873 in Gault, Sullivan County, Missouri.
WILLIAM W. was born November 25, 1829 in Jefferson County, Alabama, and died May 26, 1910 in Jefferson County, Alabama.
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 Amazon.com: "Cocke County": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A HISTORY OF PIGEON RIVER POLLUTION Cocke County, located in eastern Tennessee, is a poor communi- ty in the Appalachian mountains.
Cocke County, to "break up and destroy all parties banded together in opposition to the laws of the Confederate Government and in...
Another native of the region, Mildred Haun, was from Cocke County, Tennessee, and was educated at Vanderbilt University,...
www.amazon.com /phrase/Cocke-County   (480 words)

  
 Oregon Judicial Department Appellate Court Opinions
With him on the brief were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, and Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General.
Cocke, 334 Or 1, 6-10, 45 P3d 109, (2002).
That inconsistency can pose problems in cases in which existing case law may be at odds with what the framers likely intended a constitutional provision to mean.
www.publications.ojd.state.or.us /A117769.htm   (5638 words)

  
 Our Family Tree - pafn90 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
About the year 1855 his body was removed to the Gordon lot in Rose Hill Cemetery at Columbia, Tennessee.
Jane was a young widow when she met William Gordon and attended his wounds.
Represented Grainger County, Tennessee in the State House from 1815-17, elected State Senate 1817-19 and served as Attorney General for Tennessee's 1st District from 1818-1833.
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Pat'k thinks to be the father of Dr. Ledwell; Michael who ran his schooner under racing with another Captain, coming out of Ronne Bay, and was lost with all his hands; Patrick who died at Campbell River, British Columbia; Richard drowned in a river, lumbering somewhere in Canada, what Province, Mr.
He is however, living in the Southern Division of Davidson Co. where William's land was known to be and near Luke Ledwell, farmer, age 22.\par \tab\par Child of WILLIAM LEDWELL is:\par \pard\nowidctlpar\fi-1140\li1140\tqr\tx960\tqr\tx1140\tab i.\tab THOMAS\super 7\nosupersub LEDWELL, b.
She was born September 1851 in VA\super 87\nosupersub, and died of pneumonia 07 June 1938 at age 88 in Washington Co., TN\super 88\nosupersub.\par \par Notes for ROBERT LEDWELL:\par In 1880 Robert and Rebecca lived in Cocke Co., TN.
home.swbell.net /jenap/ledwell/jewell/rtf_updated_Ledwell_database.rtf   (14465 words)

  
 MyStudios -Artist Biographies Sponsored by Barewalls
Pieter Brueghel (or Breugel), the great Flemish artist of the sixteenth century, was born in Brueghel, near Breda.
According to the Dutch historian van Mander, he studied in Antwerp, first with the engraver Pieter Coecke van Aelst, and then, in about 1550, with Hieronymous Cocke.
By 1551, when he set out on a long trip to Italy, he was an active, registered member of the Antwerp Guild.
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 james - Name Index - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
William L. b.1846 - Faucette twn, Halifax Co, NC [Unknown] b.1615 - Wales, United Kingdom
William G b.1832 -, Warren Co., N.C. Willy b.1873 -
William Elbert b.1880 - Nash Co., NC William Thaddeus b.1854 - Halifax Co., NC Shecengost
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 Galleries Museums & Artists - PART1 Art in America - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Galerie Michael 430 N Rodeo Dr 90210 (310) 273-3377, fax (310) 273-0879 Mon-Sat 10-7, Sun 12-6 Dir: Julie Jackson Fine art works from the 17th to the 20th centurries.
G Artists exhibited: Frederick Gregory, Michael Gustavson, Gregory Hawthorne, Julie Hawthorne, Lisa Hawthorne, Rick Hirsch, Edmund Kara, Steve Kuntz, Jesus Moroles, Albert Paley, Barbara Spring BREA 1137.
Ace Gallery 5514 Wilshire Blvd, 2nd Floor 90036 (323) 935-4411, fax (323) 935-9988 Tue-Sat 10-6 Abstract expressionist, arte povera, pop, minimal, and conceptual artists from 1960 to the present, and established and emerging U.S. and international artists from 1980 to the present.
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 Chain of Command
See Cocke County NJROTC Organization Chart (.xls) (.pdf) for remainder of Staff Officer Corps
As an NJROTC Cadet, you are required to know every member of the Chain of Command (COC).
William Ivory, NCCS Mark Boesch or website creator.
www.cocke.k12.tn.us /NJROTC/chain_of_command.htm   (198 words)

  
 Franklin | Development & Alumni
Michael Fred Bolden and Tamara Lynn Wall Bolden
William Barden Fincher III and Rebecca Salley Fincher
William Jackson Taylor II and Mary Alice Crowe-Taylor
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 Jenkins Jubilee, Vol IV, Part 2
William Harrison served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
William Lemuel JENKINS, b 16 Aug 1848, Fork Shoals, SC, d 23 Dec 1916, Clarksville, GA. Served CSA, Pvt., Co A, 1st SC Inf; to Washington Co, TX after War, m/1 Ida CLAMPITT, who died 1883; retd to Fork Shoals area and m/2 Frances [Fanny] STANSELL, dau of Franklin G. and Ellen HIOTI STANSELL.
Jemima Williams JENKINS, b ca 1802, m James AYERS, mov to AL 1823-26, lv there thru 1830, in TN in 1834, and MS by 1841.
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 COURT OF APPEALS OF OREGON
Cocke, 334 Ore. 1, 6-10, 45 P.3d 109, (2002).
The Taking Issue, 5 Envtl L 515, 521 (1975) ("An examination of legal history in America and in England shows that the taking clause was specifically addressed to the problem of confiscation, rather than regulation, of property."); William Michael Treanor,
The Origins and Original Significance of the Just Compensation Clause of the Fifth Amendment, 94 Yale LJ 694, 708 (1985) (the just compensation clause "was to apply only to the federal government and only to physical takings").
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