Charles married Ardella Frances COCKE. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: B0B0B66981A8BA45946639F8B79921579A66
• Residence: Bef 1884, Downey, Los Angeles, California
• Residence: 1884, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Notes:

He was a successful rancher, horse raiser and dairyman. He ahd an artesian well and a pond with boats on it. He had tracks on which he pushed little cars of feed for the cattle.

Residence:
He lived on a small farm three or four miles south of Downey, CA.

John married Sarah HOLCOMB. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: FB06D33C1CE5A647BE949E42391ADADE3B80
• Residence: 1839, Missouri
• Residence: 1854, California

Notes:

"William Henry Cocke came from Missouri west in 1850 with a small party, and rode horseback all the way. He spent a years out looking over the land. His father-in-law James Loftus, started with the party, but sickened with cholera and died in the vicinity of Kansas, and was buried along the trail. William Henry Cocke reached California, looked the land over and returned to Missouri, having been gone for a year. His wife, having no word in all this time, feared he was dead until he suddenly appeared one night while they were having supper. They emigrated to the West in 1854 when my father Francis Nathan was five years old. He spent the year of 1853 disposing of his property and in organizing a wagon train, of which he was to become the Wagonmaster. In the spring of 1854, all being ready, they started for California on the Overland Trail, coming through Salt Lake City. William Henry rode horseback all the way, supervising the wagon train, but his family came in a covered wagon drawn by horses.William Henry died at the age of forty-five while in Nevada on a cattle buying trip. Grandmother reached his side an hour before his death. She lived to be 74 years old, at the home of her son James Cocke, in Downey, California. William Henry had sent a telegram to her but it was held for two days in the local post office by carelessness, and did not reach his wife in time. She reached his side one hour before he died. He was buried in Nevada. The family intended to remove the remains to California later. This was never done." Author believed to be George Cocke, grandson of William Henry Cocke.

Died:
Other entries state that he died in Dayton, NV on 17 Feb 1863.

William married Cornelia Ann LOFTUS on 18 Oct 1838 in Hopkinsville, Christian, Kentucky. Cornelia (daughter of James LOFTUS and Mary) was born on 25 Aug 1822 in Staunton, Virginia; died in Jun 1896 in Downey, Los Angeles, California; was buried in Downey Cemetery, Downey, Los Angeles, California. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: B199665E8F2EF84A838AD4CD9676B177EFC3

Notes:

Cornelia's mother died when she was fourteen years old and she was sent to boarding school for two years, meanwhile corresponding with William Henry Cocke whom she had met before she left. When Cornelia was sixteen, Chastain Cocke and James Loftus III, fathers of the young couple, held a conference and decided to let William and Cornelia marry. This took place Oct 18, 1838. Cornelia was sixteen and William was nineteen. Cornelia's father explored four states and finally bought four quarter sections of land for his children. Cornelia's land was in Jefferson County, MO., border on the Mississippi. There their first child, of eleven in all, was born. Later they moved to Clinton, Henry County, Mo., and from there started to California with a small party that went on horseback all the way. James Loftus was one of this Party. When in the vicinity of Kansas, he died of cholera and was buried along the trail. William reached California, looked over the land and returned to his home, having been gone for one years. His wife, with no word, had feared he was dead, until he suddenly appeared one night in the fall of 1851. He spent the year of 1858 disposing of his property and in organizing a wagon train, of which he was to become the Wagonmaster. In the spring of 1854, all being ready, they started for California on the Overland Trail, coming through Salt Lake City. William Henry rode horseback all the way, supervising the wagon train, but his family came in a covered wagon drawn by horses. William Henry first settled in Three Rivers, where he was in the cattle business for a number of years. There was a slump in cattle prices and he lost heavily. For a time the lived in Santa Rosa. He made a cattle buying trip to Nevada, was taken ill with pneumonia, and died Feb 17, 1863. Cornelia arrived an hour before his death. He was buried temporarily at Silver City, Nevada; the intention was to bring home his body later, but they never did. The family moved to San Luis Obispo, County in 1866 and settled on the Big Morro Creek, six miles north of Morro Bay.

Birth:
Other sources indicate birth date of 31 Aug 1822.

Buried:
She is bured in the same plot as her son James, his wife, and several member sof their family.

Died:
She died at the home of her son James.