I579: Joseph Greene COCKRILL (ABOUT 1789

Joseph Greene COCKRILL

ABOUT 1789 - ABOUT 1860

BIRTH: ABOUT 1789, Nash Co., NC
DEATH: ABOUT 1860, Barren Co., KY

Father: William COCKRILL
Mother: Frances JONES

Family 1 : Nancy FOSTER

MARRIAGE: 26 Aug 1817, Barren Co., KY

 
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                     _William COCKRELL _|
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 _William COCKRILL _|
|                   |                    _Walter ANDERSON _
|                   |_Hannah ANDERSON __|
|                                       |_Mary TRAVIS  ____
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|--Joseph Greene COCKRILL 
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|_Frances JONES ____|
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Notes:

From ANDERSON, COCKRILL, MOFFETT, SMITH & Allied Families of Northern Virginia -- VOLUME 1: Cockrill Families of Northern Virginia, by James A. Burgess (James A. Burgess, Arizona: 2002), page 296:

Will for Joseph Greene COCKRILL, Barren County, Kentucky Wills Book 4, page 88:

I Joseph G. COCKRILL being of sound mind and memory do make and publish this as my last will and testament hereby revoking all others. After my death it is my desire that my body be decently buried and that my just debts be paid. I give to my beloved wife 1/3 of the tract of land on which I now live to be laid off so as to include the dwelling house. I give to my wife all the property of every kind and description to which my direct [?] seized and posessed except as above stated she is to have 1/3 of my land. If my wife shall have [?] by me then the prospered heir devised to her at her death shall go to such after I request that my son Travis COCKRILL act as executor of this my will above said.
6 May 1857 in the Presence of J P Bates, William Jackman. Will Proved 8 Mar 1859.

NOTE: This will was very hard to read.

Early Kentucky tax records for Joseph G. Cockrill which have been extracted from a microfilm copy of the original tax books:

ALLEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY TAX RECORDS
YEAR	NAME	LAND	WATERCOURSE	ENTERED	WM/B16/TB/H	TVALUE

1815	Cockrille Joseph	100	W. Creek	G. Lee (surveyed by A. Clayton)	1 - - 2	300

1816	Cockrill Joseph	100	W. Creek	G. Lee (surveyed by A. Clayton)	1 - - 2	360

1817	Cockrill G. Joseph	94	W. Creek	G. Lee (patented by W. Cockrill)	1 1 2 1	925

1818	(missing)

1819	Cockrill Joseph	100	W. Creek	G. Lee (surveyed by A. Clayton)	1 1 2 3	1325

1820	Cockrill Joseph	100	W. Creek	G. Lee (surveyed by A. Clayton)	1 1 2 3	1300

1821	Cockrille Joseph G.	100	W. Creek	G. Lee (surveyed by A. Clayton)	1 1 3 2	1300

1822	Cockrille Joseph G.	100	L. Creek (Allen and Monroe Cos.)	N. Short	1 1 4 1	1080

1823	Cockrille Joseph G.	127 1/2	B. Fork? (Barren Co.)		1 1 5 1	1711
	WM= White Male over 21; B16 = Blacks over 16; TB == total Blacks; H = Horses

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