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Larkin Davenport
Cockrill was born in Spartenburg, So. Car. Jan. 4, 1800. He married Didamia
Stamps in Kentucky, date not known. They moved from Kentucky to Missouri and
Bruce Travis Cockrill, the youngest child was born in a village named Red Dirt,
Bates Co., Missouri on Jan. 4th 1852. In 1853 the family crossed the plains in
a covered wagon, settling in Bloomfield, Sonoma Co., Calif., where Larken
Davenport Cockrill built the first house in what afterward became the town of
Bloomfield. There was a family by the name of Woodson located in the next
valley west some three miles, who were shortly ahead of the Cockrill family in
locating in that locality.
Bruce Travis Cockrill,
on June 26th, 1877, in San Rafael, Marin Co., Calif., married Martha Diantha
Bellingham. She was born in or near Winchester, Ontario, Canada, on the 16th
day of Jan., 1858. Her father was Aaron Bellingham, born in Londonderry, Derry
Co., Ireland on the 31st day of October, 1831. His family migrated to Canada
when he was seven years of age and he came to California in 1857. His wife, the
mother of Martha Diantha Cockrill, was born Jan. 4th, 1822, in Matilda
Township, County of Dundee, Province of Ontario, Canada. Aaron Bellingham died
May 28, 1899 and his wife, who was Clemmenza Fleming, nee Redmond, a widow when
he married her, died in Petaluma, Calif., April 30, 1894. The Bellingham family
is of English blood, so far as we have any record. We have the family tree back
to the time of Richard the Lionhearted. The record shows some of the ancestors
to have fought at Battle of the Boyne and several of them have been knighted
and Baroneted and after migrating to Ireland the family established a Castle,
that being Castle Bellingham and [I will] probably never will see it. The
Bellingham family is also known on the Pacific Coast, the City of Bellingham. A
large lumber producing city and port in the State of Washington is named after
a Bellingham, a cousin of Martha Diantha Bellingham Cockrill. Larken Davenport
Cockrill became a Judge after settling in Bloomfield and held that office until
his death in 1886. At the time of his death, his son, Bruce Travis Cockrill was
appointed Judge of that township and held the office for some 20 years or more.
He became a Physician and Surgeon in middle life and was considered a very
successful medico, having a large following in Western Marin and Sonoma
Counties up to the time of his death Dec. 28th, 1923, in Santa Rosa,
Calif.
The following children were born to Bruce
Travis Cockrill and Martha Diantha Bellingham Cockrill.
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William Aaron Cockrill
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born
July 28th., 1878 in Bloomfield, Sonoma Co., Calif.
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Lora
Tallman Cockrill
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born
Friday, Feb. 20th, 1880 in Santa Rosa, Calif.
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Obe
Anson Cockrill
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born
Friday, Dec. 2nd, 1881 in Bloomfield, Calif.
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James
Travis Cockrill
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born
May 22nd, 1883 in Bloomfield, Calif. He was killed accidently near Bodega,
Calif., dying on Sunday Jan. 19, 1908.
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Ella
Lyndon Cockrill
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born
in Bloomfield, Calif., June 26, 1887 and she died from Diptheria on Dec. 18th,
1888 in Bloomfield.
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Robert
Lafayette Cockrill
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born
April 12th, 1889 in Bloomfield, Calif.
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George
Bellingham Cockrill
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born
Dec. 22nd, 1895 in Petaluma, Calif.
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Bruce
Larkin Cockrill and Logan Davenport Cockrill
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were
born in Bloomfield, Calif. on Feb. 14th, 1899, being twins. Larkin died in
Santa Rosa on [space]
and Logan died in San Francisco, Calif., on Jan 10th,
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MARRIAGE RECORDS OF ABOVE
CHILDREN
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William Aaron
Cockrill
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married Lulu Ida Colburn in Bloomfied,
Calif. on Feb. 11th, 1903 and are the parents of the following children:
Willa Idaleen Cockrill Buckley, born in Bloomfield,
Calif., on July 18th, 1907; Homer Travis Cockrill, born in Bloomfield, Cal on
the 6th of June, 1909 and Wilbert Donald Cockrill born in Bloomfield, Calif.,
on the 23rd day of January, 1916.
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Lora Tallman Cockrill
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married Thomas McCready in Bloomfield,
Calif., on the 28th of November, 1900. They were later divorced and she married
Martin Black. There is one daughter the result of the McCready marriage,
Margaret Jane McCready, and she has one daughter, Alice, who is now
married.
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Obe Anson Cockrill
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married Vera Pellascio, in Bloomfield,
Calif., on the 7th of November, 1906. They had three children, Lyndon James
Cockrill, born June 28th, 1907. She has divorced two husbands and is
contemplating marrying a third. Anson Boyd Cockrill born July 6, 1909 and died
from whooping cough on August 26th, 1909 in Bloomfield, where he was born.
Martha May Cockrill was born in San Rafael, Calif., on the 6th of August, 1910
and she died following an operation for appendicitis in Petaluma, Calif., on
Oct. 29th, 1927.
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