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excerpts from "Recollections of Breathitt", by J. Green Trimble...
The Cockrell family was one of the most prominent ever lived in Breathitt County. There were ten brothers, nine of whom came from Virginia to Kentucky in the early part of the nineteenth century. Four of these, John, William, Simon, and Jerry, settled in what is now Breathitt County. A fifth, Daniel, was killed in the War of 1812, and the remaining four of the nine, Joseph, ALexander, Morgan and James, moved to Missouri. Joseph was the father of Hon. F. M. Cockrell who was United States Senator from Missouri for thirty years. (another page), page 13, Simon Cockrell married Miss Polly Smith, and the result of their union was eleven children named as follows: Paulina, Louisa, Jeremiah, Vardaman, John, Miles, James, Elisha, Logan, McKinley, Harrison, Simon, Benjamin, Franklin (called Dock) and Henry, all of whom married and had families except Miles. Vardaman and Miles emigrated to Missouri about 1835, and the latter was killed in a fight at Independence, MO, leaving a widow and two sons who returend to KY in 1843.
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