Father: Larkin Davenport COCKRILL
Mother: Didamia Sarah STAMPS
Family 1 : John MCREYNOLDS
_William COCKRILL _____+ _Anderson COCKRILL _| | |_Frances JONES ________ _Larkin Davenport COCKRILL _| | | _Joseph VENABLE _______ | |_Rebecca VENABLE ___| | |_Lucy DAVENPORT _______ | |--Olivia Goldsmith COCKRILL | | _Dr. Timothy STAMPS ___ | _Timothy STAMPS ____| | | |_______________________ |_Didamia Sarah STAMPS _____| | _Charles DODSON _______ |_Millicent DODSON __| |_Carolina Lucy MORGAN _
Notes:
Her name is often listed as Olivina in Jeanne Miller's notes, and it appears that her son, Henry, knew her as such. She died about 6 months after Henry's birth.
Olivia Goldsmith Cockrill was a member of the 1853 Hagans-Cockrill Wagon Train. From William Zilhart's diary for April of 1853, p. 1: |
At Butler, then to Mulberry the 26th, then went with Olivia Cockrill on a fishing trip, while sitting on the bank fishing, the bullets whistled over our heads. Then we traveled to the West Point and stopped there on the 27th.... On the fourth of May it rained very hard in the morning. We passed some Indian dwellings. Miss Olivia Cockrill and I went to see the Indian dwellings. They were very well fixed and comfortable in their houses...
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Her sister, Ellesif, was said to be the first person buried in the Bloomfield Cemetery in 1860, however, Olivia's stone in the same cemetery (which for many years laid on the ground broken and nearly buried), showed an earlier date. It turns out that Olivia was first buried in the schoolyard and then removed to new cemetery when it was created.
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