Walter Creath COCKRILL

7 Aug 1852 - 23 Mar 1947

Father: James Anderson COCKRILL
Mother: Mary Mark MYERS

Family 1 : Alice M. BOUNDS

  1.  Albert Nathan COCKRILL
  2.  Mary Ellen COCKRILL
  3.  Charles Melville COCKRILL
  4.  Eva May COCKRILL
  5.  William COCKRILL
  6.  Irene COCKRILL
  7.  Adelaide COCKRILL
  8.  Mildred Alice COCKRILL
  9.  Bertha COCKRILL 
 
                                                 _William COCKRILL _+
                            _Anderson COCKRILL _|
                           |                    |_Frances JONES ____
 _James Anderson COCKRILL _|
|                          |                     _Joseph VENABLE ___
|                          |_Rebecca VENABLE ___|
|                                               |_Lucy DAVENPORT ___
|
|--Walter Creath COCKRILL 
|
|                                                ___________________
|                           _John D. MYERS _____|
|                          |                    |___________________
|_Mary Mark MYERS _________|
                           |                     ___________________
                           |_Sarah (MYERS) _____|
                                                |___________________

Notes:

From Sonoma County Deed Index:
Grantor -- Walter C. Cockrill
Grantee Instrument/Date Book Page
Powell, Ransom Deed Jan 25 1875 48 315

From his obituary in The Sacramento Bee, March 27, 1947, p. 23, c. 4:
  Funeral services were held today in Oakland for Walter C. Cockrill, 94, descendant of a pioneer California family and a former resident of Sacramento County. Cremation followed. Cockrill died Sunday in Oakland. Prior to his retirement 20 years ago. Cockrill was a farmer in the Orangevale and Wilton Districts of Sacramento County. Previously he had farmed in El Dorado County. His father arrived in California during the gold rush. He returned to Missouri and married. The couple came to California and settled in Santa Rosa in 1851 where Cockrill was born August 7, 1852. His wife was the former Alice M. Bounds who died in 1928. Cockrill leaves his daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Stephan of Sacramento and Bertha Cockrill and Mrs. Mildred Saurer, both of Oakland; his sisters, Mrs. Kate Heacock of Modesto and Mrs. Elizabeth Bell of Long Beach; and two grandchildren.  

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