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The following item on Miss Zitella COCKE , is from THE STORY OF ALABAMA , A HISTORY OF THE STATE, Volume III , ( Page 200 )By Marie Bankhead OWEN , Copyright 1949 , LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY , INC. , New York .
" Cocke, Zitella , author , was born in Perry County; daughter of Woodson St. George and Mary Elizabeth (Binion)Cocke, the former a planter, wh died at Marion 1867; niece of Hon . Jack F. Cocke , for sixteen years State senator from Montgomery district; brother of Madison Cocke,a member of the Fourth Alabama Regiment, who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, and of John Binnion Cocke , who was educated at Marion Institute and the University of Alabama , enlisted in the Twentieth Alabama Regiment in 1863 , was made lieutenant of Company G , was promoted to captain, participated in the battles of Jackson, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and Nashville , and left the service as a member of General E.W. Pettus' staff, became a farmer after the war, was elected sheriff of Perry County in 1879, was appointed postmaster by President Cleveland, 1885-1889, was assassinated by being shot in the back while crossing a street in Marion in 1893. The name Cocke , in another spelling, was among the Normans who came with William the Conqueror, to England. The first ancestor in England was an officer in the Battle of Hastings. In the reign of Edward III, the Cockes appear among the gentry of England, always soldiers. "
The above is an accurate transcript of less than a half page of the cited book.
Page 201 , approximately three times the length of this excerpt , relates some history of the Cocke family in England and the connection with the name Coke of Littleton . Connections with the Madisons and Flemings , deBinion , LaForce , Binyon, Forson families.
Page 201 is too long for easy retyping and I have no scanner . I will gladly FAX or snail mail the full entry to anyone who would be interested.
Mordecai R. Arnold mordecaiarn@msn.com
503 Rosswood Drive
Mobile , Alabama 36606
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