William Henry COCKRILL

ABOUT 1841 - Sep 1850

Father: James Anderson COCKRILL
Mother: Elizabeth BLACKBURN 

 
                                                 _William COCKRILL _+
                            _Anderson COCKRILL _|
                           |                    |_Frances JONES ____
 _James Anderson COCKRILL _|
|                          |                     _Joseph VENABLE ___
|                          |_Rebecca VENABLE ___|
|                                               |_Lucy DAVENPORT ___
|
|--William Henry COCKRILL 
|
|                                                _Samuel BLACKBURN _+
|                           _Robert BLACKBURN __|
|                          |                    |_Mary HINMAN ______
|_Elizabeth BLACKBURN _____|
                           |                     ___________________
                           |_Ellender MURPHY ___|
                                                |___________________

Notes:

Lucinda Ellender Claypool in a recollection of her childhood, describes the death of her brother:
  In September '50 my brother died, was not sick but two or three days. Them days you could not get a doctor because we lived out in the country. Of course I was always sick and he was always well. I remember he went in the evening for the cows. The cows run out on the prairie. There we had no mountains but everyone owned so much woods and had prairie land. When the prairie gets afire the flame is like waves of the ocean, only it is so terrible. Well, as I saying, he went for the cows, Of course I wanted to go with him. He got some wild grapes, and not being ripe he would not let me have any, for he said it would make me sick as I had the ague. It was very hot weather. He was taken sick at daylight, cramping, nothing relieved him. He wanted me to get him water out of the spring and hide it so no one would see him drink it. He told me not to cry as he was going to die, so I stood nigh but did not cry then for I thought if father came it would make him well, as we had been looking for him to come. He died very hard, it was the first person I had ever seen die. Oh, how lonesome I was.  

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