I92: Robert Lafayette Briggs COCKRILL (22 Aug 1849

Robert Lafayette Briggs COCKRILL

22 Aug 1849 - Oct 1901

OCCUPATION: Policeman
BIRTH: 22 Aug 1849, Pleasant Gap, Bates Co., MO
DEATH: Oct 1901, San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA
BURIAL: Petaluma, CA

Father: Larkin Davenport COCKRILL
Mother: Didamia Sarah STAMPS

Family 1 : Ella L. HOAG

MARRIAGE: Santa Rosa, CA

Infant Male COCKRILL

 
                                                   _William COCKRILL _____+
                              _Anderson COCKRILL _|
                             |                    |_Frances JONES ________
 _Larkin Davenport COCKRILL _|
|                            |                     _Joseph VENABLE _______
|                            |_Rebecca VENABLE ___|
|                                                 |_Lucy DAVENPORT _______
|
|--Robert Lafayette COCKRILL 
|
|                                                 _Dr. Timothy STAMPS ___
|                            _Timothy STAMPS ____|
|                           |                    |_______________________
|_Didamia Sarah STAMPS _____|
                            |                     _Charles DODSON _______
                            |_Millicent DODSON __|
                                                 |_Carolina Lucy MORGAN _

Notes:

"...now in San Francisco." History of Sonoma County (1880). A member of the 1853 Hagans-Cockrill Wagon Train. From William Aaron Cockrill’s autobiography (supplied by Rebecca Aileen Cockrill):
	Robert was a Police Sergeant for many years and was stationed at First and Brannan Streets, where the Pacific Mail ships that ran to Chile and to the Orient. The British Ships, the Occidental and the Oriental Line docked at these piers also. Sergeant Cockrill married a Hoag girl. They had a son born to them, but he died as a baby and is buried in Petaluma and I think its father and mother both sleep there. I know they have died years ago.
From the Sonoma County Deed Index:

Grantee -- R. L. & B. Cockrill, et al:
Grantor	Instrument/Date	Book	Page
Cockrill, D. dec. [?]	Deed Jun 15 1888	115	121

Grantee -- Ella Cockrill:
Grantor	Instrument/Date	Book	Page
Cockrill, Robert L.	Deed Sep 28 1901	193	492

Grantor -- Ella Cockrill (At this time I am not sure if this Ella Cockrill is Robert's wife or perhaps an unknown daughter.):
Grantee	Instrument/Date	Book	Page
Hoag, E. W.	Deed Oct 26 1909	263	191

From the San Francisco Daily Morning Call, July 20, 1890, p. 8, c. 3:
	CORPORAL COCKRILL One of the most efficient members of the harbor police force of this city is Corporal Robert L. Cockrill, who is on duty at the Pacific Mall Dock. Corporal Cockrill, whose picture is here presented was appointed on the police force in May, 1880, and served in Captain Short's watch for seven years. In 1887 he was transferred to the harbor police, and on October 1, 1889, he wa promoted to be corporal and assigned to the present position at the Mall Dock.

From The San Francisco Call, October 22, 1901, p. 11, c. 4:
	Corporal Cockrill Dies. Corporal Robert Cockrill died at his residence, 415 Lyon street, Sunday night after a long illness from cancer. The funeral will take place from the late residence of the deceased at 12:45 o'clock this afternoon. The cortege will proceed to Odd Fellows Hall, thence to the Tiburon ferry. The remains will be interred in the cemetery at Petaluma. Cockrill joined the police department in 1880 and was promoted to corporal in 1889. He was stationed at the Pacific Mall dock, where he made many friends. He was 52 years of age and leaves a wife to mourn his loss. He was a brother of the late ex-Chief of Police Cockrill.

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