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Larkin Davenport Cockrill was born in Spartenburg, South Carolina and at the age of 3 years his family moved to Kentucky, where he was educated and was married to Didamia Stamps, a local girl with whom he had fallen in love, date not known. There they became the parents of Elizabeth Laurene, Helen Marie, Theodore Guavarus, Olivia, Rebecca and William Cockrill. They then moved to Red Dirt, Bates County, Missouri where Ida Josephine, Robert Lafayette and Bruce Travis Cockrill were born, Here he became a Circuit Judge, an office which he held until 1853 when with thousands of others, joined wagons to head for California, locating at the head of Big Valley, in Sonoma County one mile north of the main county line. He built the first house right there. The town that built up there was named Bloomfield. There was a home two miles northwest and another one half a mile south east. The following year 1854, he was appointed Justice of Analy Township, in which Sebastopol and Forestville are also located. He held office until his death in 1886 after which his son Bruce Travis was appointed and held the office for several terms until he became a physician and surgeon and resigned the office to in Sebastopol. Larkin Davenport Cockrill was the first school teacher in Bloomfield also.
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