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Samuel Montgomery Whitfield Cocks

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Samuel Montgomery Whitfield Cocks

Birth
Yale, Sussex County, Virginia, USA
Death
2 Jan 1900 (aged 65)
Sussex, Sussex County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Yale, Sussex County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Samuel Montgomery Whitfield Cocks, born 1834, son of Nicholas Cocks and his wife, Susanna Champion. Samuel Cocks marrried Martha Randolph Prince, daughter of Joel and Martha (Owen) Prince, of Southampton County, Virginia. Samuel Cocks and his wife, Martha, were active members of Antioch Baptist Church. Samuel served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War, and he has a Civil War headstone. The house in which they lived, located near Antioch Baptist Church, is still standing and inhabited. Samuel and Martha (Prince) Cocks had childen listed below on this memorial plus a daughter, Lelia Prince Cocks, who is not linked to her parents and siblings because her burial location is unknown. Lelia married 12 Dec 1881 Solon W. Sykes of Sussex County, VA. According to the 1900 Federal census, Lelia (Cocks) Sykes was born in Feb 1862 and she died between 1900 and 1910 as she is not enumerated in the 1910 census. Born to Solon and Lelia Sykes were children: Sarah Randolph (1882 - 1963); Wesley Montgomery (1884 - 1962); Joel Prince (1886 - 1937); Leona Jackson (1887 - 1923); William Samuel (1889 - 1943); Mariah Elizabeth (1891 - 1930). Considering creating memorials for Solon W. Sykes and Lelia Cocks, his wife, with unknown burial location, so, that I can link them to parents and children. They are both buried in an unknow location in Sussex County, Virginia.
Samuel Montgomery Whitfield Cocks, born 1834, son of Nicholas Cocks and his wife, Susanna Champion. Samuel Cocks marrried Martha Randolph Prince, daughter of Joel and Martha (Owen) Prince, of Southampton County, Virginia. Samuel Cocks and his wife, Martha, were active members of Antioch Baptist Church. Samuel served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War, and he has a Civil War headstone. The house in which they lived, located near Antioch Baptist Church, is still standing and inhabited. Samuel and Martha (Prince) Cocks had childen listed below on this memorial plus a daughter, Lelia Prince Cocks, who is not linked to her parents and siblings because her burial location is unknown. Lelia married 12 Dec 1881 Solon W. Sykes of Sussex County, VA. According to the 1900 Federal census, Lelia (Cocks) Sykes was born in Feb 1862 and she died between 1900 and 1910 as she is not enumerated in the 1910 census. Born to Solon and Lelia Sykes were children: Sarah Randolph (1882 - 1963); Wesley Montgomery (1884 - 1962); Joel Prince (1886 - 1937); Leona Jackson (1887 - 1923); William Samuel (1889 - 1943); Mariah Elizabeth (1891 - 1930). Considering creating memorials for Solon W. Sykes and Lelia Cocks, his wife, with unknown burial location, so, that I can link them to parents and children. They are both buried in an unknow location in Sussex County, Virginia.


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