THIRD GENERATION-Continued.

III. THE CHILDREN OF JOHN COCKE.2

I. WILLIAM COCKE3 m. Sarah Perrin,* 1695; died 1711.

In the course of the investigation of a subject like this, accompanied by published articles as the investigation progresses, new information is, of course, constantly obtained from old records, and more especially from the correspondence which is naturally developed with the scattered members of the connection who become interested in the family memoir.

We have just received from Lieutenant Champe Carter McCulloch, of the United States Army, a descendant of Col. Valentine Wood, and grandson of Edward Carter, of Blenheim, a very interesting letter, which gives us the children and descendants of John Cocke, and solves several very important collateral questions.

From this we learn that John Cox' (this line seems to have adopted this spelling) left a will on record in Henrico, dated February 19, 1691⁄2, and probated February 1, 1696. He had six sons: John, Bartholomew, Richard, William, Henry, and George, and wife, Mary Cox.

There is also on record the will of William Cox,3 dated February 10, 1711, probated June, 1712, which mentions son Stephen, daughters Martha, Mary Prudence, Judith, Elizabeth, and wife Sarah.

There is recorded in Goochland county the will of Sarah Cox, dated March 26, 1726, probated January 20, 1747. She mentions son Stephen, daughters Edith, Martha, Elizabeth, Mary, Prudence, and Judith. She appoints Henry Wood her executor, and the will is in the handwriting of Henry Wood (the clerk of Goochland county at that date, and father of Col. Valentine Wood), who married Lucy Henry, and was the grandfather of General Joseph E. Johnston, Beverly Johnston, of Abingdon,

* In Gloucester county, at the mouth of York river, opposite Yorktown, the old Perrin mansion is still standing in good condition. It is of the style of architecture so usual in Virginia during the reigns of the Georges-a large, brick building, two stories high, and four rooms on each floor, wainscoated and panelled. The house is in full view of Yorktown, at the mouth of Sarah's Creek, on the east side of Gloucester Point.

There are several graves of the Perrin family here, among them that of John Perrin, the epitaph stating that he died November 2, 1752, aged 63 years. See William and Mary Col. Quar., April, 1895. p. 254.

In a list of slave owners in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester, 1786, the largest slave-holders were John Page, 160; Warren Lewis, 143; John Perrin, 116; John Seawell, Sr., 39; Sam'l Cary, 39; Joseph Cluverius, 32, &c.

Major Wm. Farrar, of Henrico, d. 1715; Burgess 1700, 1701, 1702; son of Lt.-Col. John Farrar; had a brother, Thomas, who married Katherine, daughter of Richard Perrin. These had issue: Perrin Farrar (a child, in 1691).

Sarah Perrin was, no doubt, the daughter of Richard Perrin.

The Farrars (Ferrars) were of very distinguished English descent.

Valentine Wood Southall, and Dr. Philip Southall, of Amelia, and whose daughters married Edward Carter, of Blenheim, Albemarle county; William Meriwether, grandson of Col. Nich. Meriwether, of Hanover; and Wm. Pryor.

In the genealogy of the Wood family, it is stated that Henry Wood (for forty-odd years an attorney-at-law and county clerk of Goochland) married Martha Cox, 13 Oct., 1723, at Bremo, in Henrico county. Martha Cox, says the genealogy, was the daughter of William and Sarah Cox, of Henrico.

The genealogy proceeds: Valentine Wood (son of Henry) was baptized Oct. 23, 1724; William Finney, Stephen Cox, and Ann Hopper sureties; and married [Valentine Wood] to Lucy Henry, daughter of Colonel John Henry, January 3, 1764. At the baptism of other children of Henry Wood, one of the sureties is Judith Cox.

William Finney, referred to above, was the Rev. Wm. Finney, M. A., of the University of Glasgow, who married Mary Cocke, daughter of Thomas Cocke He was minister of Henrico Parish 1714-27.

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The foregoing facts negative of course the statement on p. 411 of our January article, that William Cocke,3 son of William Cocke, was the father of Martha Cox who married Captain Henry Wood.

It appears that William Cox, son of John, died in 1711. This explains the marriage of his daughter in 1723 at Bremo. He left a widow and a family of young children, who found shelter at Bremo with their relative Richard Cocke.3

2. JOHN COCKE,3 married Mary —; born c. 1670; died 1710. Issue: William, James, died 1713; Martha,* married Wilkinson; Robert.* We know nothing farther of any of these individuals, nor have we information about the other children of John Cocke. The family is said to have lived at Dutch Gap, and to have been the ancestors of the Coxes of Chesterfield.

The Cockes became also a very prominent family in Goochland (See Meade's "Old Churches"). This may be connected, however, with the large tract of land bought in this county in 1714 by Richard Cocke.3

THIRD GENERATION—Continued.

IV. THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM COCKE.2

I. WILLIAM.3 He may have been a son of William Cocke2 by his first marriage with Jane Clarke. If so, he was born about 1679. If his mother was Sarah Flower, he was not born before 1690. His two sisters were certainly by the second wife.

There was a "Captain William Cocke," of this period, who died in 1736. This may have been the person.

2. MARY COCKE, born c. 1690; married Obadiah Smith; died 1754. Her husband died 1746. Their wills are on record in Henrico county. They left a son named Obadiah Smith (died 1765) and a son named

Luke, who was the father of Obadiah* Smith3 (lieutenant in the Revolution, and a man of considerable property), whose daughter, Lucy Smith, married James Powell Cocke in 1777.

3. ELIZABETH COCKE, born c. 1692; married Lawrence Woodward. Their maternal uncle, John Flower, lived in James City county. In 1629 Christopher Woodward was a Burgess for Westover, and there was a Captain Henry Woodward in the French and Indian Wars, 1755-57.

The Rev. James Bacon, Eng., first cousin of the great Lord Bacon, married Martha Woodward, and had issue: Nathaniel Bacon, born 1620; died 1692; member Council in Virginia 1657; Burgess for York 1659; Acting Governor 1689. This was not the "Rebel."

THIRD GENERATION—Continued.

V. CHILDREN OF RICHARD COCKE, THE YOUNGER, of Old Man's Creek, Charles City county. This was just across the line from Henrico county, but, as already stated, the destruction of the Charles City Records has left us in the dark as to his descendants. We think he must have been the father of Anne Cocke,3 who married Robert Bolling, of Charles City, as no other member of the family, so far as is ascertained, had a daughter named Anne. Possibly James Cocke3 may have had a daughter Anne.

We have referred to Bolling Cocke, Acrill Cocke, Littlebury Cocke, &c., who lived in Charles City in the latter half of the eighteenth century.

VI. CHILDREN OF ELIZABETH COCKE.2

We know nothing of them.

Contemporary with this Third Generation were Captains Thomas and Christopher Cocke, of Princess Anne, William and Walter Cocke, of Surry, Secretary William Cocke, of Williamsburg, Pressley and Fleet Cox, of Westmoreland and Lancaster, and Maurice Cocke, of Middlesex.

CORRECTIONS.-On page 405, April No., it was not the widow of Colonel Richard Cocke, but the widow of Colonel Walter Aston [mother of Mary Aston, Richard Cocke's second wife], who married Colonel Edward Hill.

On page 407, for 1776 read 1676.

On page 410, Elizabeth and Martha Cocke3 married, respectively, Miles Cary and Joseph Pleasants.

LAND PATENTED.-About 1705 William Cocke and others patent 6,000 acres of land. ( (See Land-Book 10, page 407.)

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*On page 411 (January number) we state that he was the son of Obadiah Smith.1 confounded him with his uncle, Obadiah Smith, who died in 1765. There is a case reported in 3 Randolph's Reports involving some contest about the will of this Obadiah Smith.2

THE FLOURNOY FAMILY.

COMPILED BY FLOURNOY RIVERS, ESQ., PULASKI, TENN.

SOME OTHER DATA.-By the kindness of Prof. Henry M. Baird, of New York, the Huguenot author, full citations as to Lawrent Flournoy, the emigrant of 1562, and of his descendants for several generations, have been furnished from "La France Protestante," Volume II, columns 576-578. The edition quoted is the second, Paris, 1888.

"This great, this monumental, biographical work, as Prof. Baird terms it, entirely corroborates all heretofore published herein concerning this family, both as to names, dates, details, etc."

"BLUE GRASS" (KY.) FLOURNOYS.

MATHEWS FLOURNOY'S DESCENDANTS. Of these, the line of the first and ninth children, Robert, of Georgia, the oldest, and Elizabeth Julia (Henry), the youngest, have been traced in the July Magazine, 1895. The compiler possesses full tables of the descendants of all the others, but space is lacking. The third child, John James, left no descendants. The history of the litigation over his will appears on page 69, the July number. Of the remaining children:

Samuel Flournoy, second child of Mathews, married Nancy Ann Martin, daughter of John Martin, Scott county, Ky., and left Nancy, who married Keel. She left a large family. James married Martha Halloway and left children in Missouri and Kentucky. Mathews married Milly Graves; died in Louisiana, 1833; left no descendants in Kentucky and Missouri. Jack and Samuel M. (twins), of whom Jack died young, and Samuel M. removed to Mississippi, married Minerva Waddlington; removed to Texas; died in Wood county, Texas, about 1877. He lived in Nacogdoches county, Texas, for a time, where he raised a company of volunteers for the Mexican war. Left many descendants. Rachel F., daughter of Samuel F., Sr., married Carter Keel in Illinois;

left large family. Amelia married Stewart White; died in Louisville. Emily married Micajah Pendleton; died in Kentucky. Patsy Cassandra married Eli Hart. [Did she then marry Fallis?] She died in Kentucky. Agnes married Jesse S. Fallis, and died in Kentucky, leaving two sons, Stuart, residing in Louisville, and Samuel M., a physician and merchant in Kaufman county, Texas. Martha M. married Randolph A. Hankla, he, in February, 1895, was living, at the advanced age of eighty-two; left descendants.

David John Flournoy, Mathews F.'s third child, married Cassandra Conn, daughter of Thomas Conn, of Bourbon county, Ky. They lived, died, are buried at Georgetown, Ky. They left twelve children, to-wit: (1) Thomas Conn Flournoy, an ornithologist of note, a general of the Creek War of 1813, never married. (2) Elizabeth Julia F. married Rev. George Blackburn, Baptist minister, and left David F. Blackburn, Elizabeth B., Prudence B., Notley Ann B., Cassandra B., and George B., whose descendants in turn have multiplied. (3) Mathews Wells F., physican, removed from Kentucky to western Missouri, after marriage with Henrietta Blackburn; married second, his cousin, Mary Ann Conn, and there are descendants of both marriages. (4) David John F., Jr., called “Jack," Baptist preacher, born 1800, Scott county, Ky., married Elizabeth Cunningham in 1826, and died February, 1862, at his home Laconia, Ark., leaving six children: Mary C. F., Robert C. F., Letitia F., Elizabeth F., Thomas Yandell F., and David John F. These two last left no descendants, dying unmarried. Their mother died 1865. (5) Notley Maddox F. married argaret Kean in 1826, and left Thomas Conn, George Kean, Martha, and Notley, all of whom, except Martha, left descendants. (6) Sally Conn Flournoy never married, and is dead. (7) Patsy Cassandra F. married Reuben Ford, Georgetown, Ky., and left descendants. (8) Agnes Adeline F. married Dr. James Conquest Cross, died 1851; he died 1855. They left James C. Cross, who had James, Thomas Flournoy, and Clay Rice Cross, Little Rock, Ark. (9) Thompson Breckenridge Flournoy, of Arkansas, was temporary Chairman of the Democratic National Convention which met at Charleston, S. C., April 23, 1860. He married, first, Francis Ann Blackburn, who left children; and second, Elizabeth Blackburn, and there are descendants of both unions. He died August 2, 1860. (10) Letitia Grayson F. married Louis D. Hall, Woodford county, Ky., and left descendants. (II) Davidella Flournoy married Alexander Barkley Montgomery. They finally separated. She is now 85 years old, living at San Diego, Cal., with her son William. Of her nine children, Gertrude, David John, Alexander, Mary Jane, Alexander, Jr., and Oscar, died young; William, Victor, and Davidella Montgomery (she married Hamilton) all have descendants. (12) Mary Jane F., the youngest child of David John Flournoy, Sr., died at the age of 16. His descendants are multitudinous, including great-granchildren.