1844 Estate of John Cockerham of Amite County.
Liberty Advocate, Liberty, Mississippi, November 23, 1844. [23]
1767 John Cockerham married Bramley. John was born in 1745 and Bramley was born in 1748. [1]
1808 John Cockerham, Hardy Coward, Samuel Slade, and William Cockran were granted passports to travel through the Creek (Native American) Nation, by the governor of Georgia. [2]
John Cockerham was shown on a plat map of Mississippi: Washington Meridian (West of Pearl River)(x,y)=(1,2) from lower left. Dated 1818. Nearby was Gardner and Thomas Pickett. [3] Also (x,y)=(1,5) and (1,3) on [4]
1810 John Cockrum and John Cockrum Sr lived in Amite, Mississippi. [5]
1811 John Cockerham Sr, John Cockerham Jr, Henry Cockerham, and Thomas Cockerham were among many who signed a petition to the Congress of the United States requesting that the Mississippi Territory be admitted as a state. [6]
1816 John Cockerham lived in Amite County, Mississippi. [7]
1816 John Cockerham Sr, of Amite County, Mississippi Territory, was among the signers of a petition to the Congress of the United States regarding a proclamation ordering removals from public lands. [8]
1816 John Cockerham was listed in the census for Amite County, Mississippi Territory with one male and one female over age 21 and one male and 2 females under age 21. [9] Another abstraction listed John Cockerham, John Cockerham Sr, Thomas Cockerham, and Henry Cockerham. [10] [11]
1820 John Cockerham [Sr] lived in Amite, Mississippi with 1 male and 3 females. [12]
1820 John Cockerham [Jr] lived in Amite, Mississippi with 6 males and 3 females. [13]
1820 John Cockerham Junior lived in Amite County, Mississippi in a household with males: 2 (under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), 2 (16 thru 25), and 1 (45 and over); and females: 1 (under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), and 1 (45 and over). [14]
1820 John Cockerham Senior lived in Adams [perhaps Amite] County, Mississippi in a household with free white males: 1 (45 and over); and free white females: 1 (under 10) and 1 (45 and over); and 14 slaves. [15]
1830 Jno Cookerham [Jr] lived in Amite County, Mississippi in a household with free white males: 2 (5 thru 9), 1 (10 thru 14), 1 (15 thru 19), and 1 (40 thru 49); and free white females: 1 (10 thru 14), 1 (15 thru 19), and 1 (20 thru 29); and 1 slaves. [16]
1830 John Cockerham [Sr] lived in Amite County, Mississippi in a household with free white males: 1 (90 thru 99); and free white females: 1 (10 thru 14), 1 (15 thru 19), and 1 (20 thru 29); and 24 slaves. [17]
1840 John Cockerham lived in Amite County, Mississippi in a household with free white males: 1 (20 thru 29) and 1 (90 thru 99); and free white females: 1 (15 thru 19) and 1 (60 thru 69); and 41 slaves. [18]
1840 John Cockerham [Jr] lived in Amite County, Mississippi in a household with free white males: 2 (15 thru 19) and 1 (50 thru 59); and free white females: 1 (under 5), 1 (20 thru 29), and 1 (30 thru 39); and 1 slaves. [19]
1840 John Cockerham [Jr] received a patent for land in Amite County, Mississippi in section 26, Township 3N, Range 4E. This was not listed in the newspaper notice of lands from the estate of John Cockerham Sr. [20]
1844 The estate of John Cockerham was administered intestate on September 23 in Amite County, Mississippi by Elijah Lamer(?). [21] [22]
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
Amite County, ss.
To all persons interested in the Real Estate of John Cockerham, Senior, deceased Greeting:YOU are hereby cited to be and personally appear before the Probate Court of said county.
On the Fourth Monday of January next, and show cause, if any you can, why the same should not be ordered to be sold, to-wit. The west half of the north west quarter of section number seven, in township number two, of range number five, east. The west half of the south west quarter of section number seven, in township number two, of range number five, east. The east half of the north east quarter section number eighteen in township number two, range number five, east. The south east quarter of section number seven, in township number two, of range number five, east. The east half of the south west quarterof section number seven in township number two of range number five, east. Lying and being in the county of Amite, and state aforesaid.
It is further ordered that this citation be published in the Liberty Advocate and Woodville Republican, for the time prescribed by law.
WITNESS the Honorable John WALKER, Judge of the Probaie Court of Said county, at the Court House thereof, on the fourth Monday of October, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
Issued, this 28th, October, 1844.
S. R. DAVIS, Clk.
By B. W. Smith. Dep'y Cl'k.
November 2, 1844.
Research Notes:
Some notes for John Cockerham Junior are included in the notes above.
A Cockerham genealogy reports the names of their children [24]:
John Cockerham, Sr. and his wife(s) had nine children: 1) Henry, married Cynthia Chadwich; 2) Thomas, 1st wife unknown, 2nd married Mary Valentine; 3) John, Jr., married Nancy Tarver; 4) Nancy, married Westley Tarver; 5) David Bent, married Jane D. Chadwich; 6) Judith, married Thomas Tarver; 7) Sarah, married John Cockerham; 8) Elizabeth, married Allen Tarver; and 9) Phoebe, married James Sanders.
The Emmett genealogy [25] argues that John Cockerham Sr (1770-1843), who died in Amite County, Mississippi, was a son of William Winn Cockerham (1748-1819), despite conflicts with ages reported in census records. Other researchers suggest that John Cockerham of Amite County, Mississippi (1735-1843), spouse of Elizabeth Brambly, was a son of William Cockerham (1688-1757) and Mary Wynne, son of William Cockerham II (1659-1706). We do not know which, if either, is correct and seek further information to clarify these relationships.
The relationship to Thomas Cockerham, if any, is unknown.
1820 Thomas Cockerham lived in Amite County, Mississippi in a household with males: 2 (16 thru 25) and 1 (45 and over); and females: 1 (16 thru 25) and 1 (45 and over). [26]
1840 Thomas Cockerham lived in Amite County, Mississippi in a household with males: 1 (30 thru 39) and 1 (80 thru 89); and females: 1 (50 thru 59). [27]
Robert Wolfe has a DNA-matched cousin who is a descendant of John (?-1843) through son Thomas to son Ivy.
[1] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, [AncestryRecord].
[2] Mrs Mary G Bryan, "Passports Issued by Governors of Georgia 1785 to 1820," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 45-2 (1957), 81-83, at 82.
[3] U.S., Indexed Early Land Ownership and Township Plats, 1785-1898, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] U.S., Indexed Early Land Ownership and Township Plats, 1785-1898, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Mississippi, State and Territorial Census Collection, 1792-1866, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[6] John Porter Bloom and Clarence Edwin Carter, compilers, The Territorial papers of the United States, Vol. 6, 253-255, [URL].
[7] Mississippi, State and Territorial Census Collection, 1792-1866, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[8] John Porter Bloom and Clarence Edwin Carter, compilers, The Territorial papers of the United States, Vol. 6, 671, [URL].
[9] Mrs Jerome Esker, "Census of 1816, Amite County, Mississippi Territory," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 33-4 (1945), 105-106, at 105.
[10] Mrs Jerome Esker, "Census of 1816, Amite County, Mississippi Territory," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 34-2 (1946), 55-57, at 55, and 56.
[11] Mississippi, State and Territorial Census Collection, 1792-1866, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[12] Mississippi, State and Territorial Census Collection, 1792-1866, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[13] Mississippi, U.S., State Archives, Various Records, 1820-1951, 1845 Census, [AncestryRecord].
[14] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[15] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[16] United States Federal Census, 1830, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[17] United States Federal Census, 1830, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[18] United States Federal Census, 1840, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[19] United States Federal Census, 1840, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[20] U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[21] Mississippi, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[22] Mississippi, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current, [AncestryRecord].
[23] Liberty Advocate, Liberty, Mississippi, November 23, 1844, page 3, [NewspapersClip].
[24] Lorris G. Cockerham, Patricia A. Cockerham, Katherine C. Barnette, The Cockerhams: South of Liberty, (2000), 11, [GoogleBooks].
[25] Emmett E. Cockrum, A History and Genealogy of the Cockrum Family in America, (1979), 8, [FHLBook].
[26] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[27] United States Federal Census, 1840, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].