Cocke County, Tennessee
A PROUD MEMBER OF TNGENNET, INC.
A view of the Cocke County Courthouse.
Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee 1853
"Cocke county was named, for Gen. William Cocke, a native of Virginia, and an emigrant to Holston. He has been repeatedly mentioned as having participated in. the military, civil, legislative and Judiciary services of Virginia, North-Carolina., Franklin and Tennessee, where he was known as an efficient and zealous officer, from his debut at Long Island, to his seat in the United States Senate, which he held for twelve years. He will be seen, thereafter, as one of the Circuit Judges for Tennessee. A member of her Legislature at the commencement of the Creek war in September, 1813, after assisting to pass an act to authorize an augmentation of the forces to march against thee Creeks, and to protect the defenseless settlers in the most exposed part of the Mississippi Territory, and repel invasion, he, at the rise of the Legislature, though above sixty years of age, and before visiting his home in East Tennessee, volunteered his service as a private in that war, and acted therein most bravely and usefully. He was afterwards appointed United States Agent to the Chickasaws. He afterwards settled in Mississippi, and represented his county in its legislature. In private life, he was most "hospitable and benevolent."
We are in need of documents collected from outside Cocke County pertaining to the area before the 1879 courthouse fire which destroyed all county records.
On Dec 30, 1876, a fire destroyed the Cocke County courthouse, taking with it all the records. (All except old deed book #17, which a lawyer had taken home to work on a case.) With those records went much of the information that we researchers need to piece together our family trees.
But not all the information is lost. In addition to old deed book #17, there were records that did not belong to the county that survive. These include church records, military records, state records, and even records in other counties and state that refer to Cocke County.
The purpose of this page is to serve as a central repository for information from all sources about Cocke County and its people from before the courthouse fire. If you have information to contribute, please submit it to the site co-hosts. Please submit source of each document with as much data as possible, including the sources, date of document, names involved, and a brief abstract. This will help other researchers find their Cocke County roots “BEFORE THE FIRE”.
If you would like credit and be willing to share other data you might have concerning Cocke County please submit your name, email address, and the type of data you have.
Please submit your data to:
bjreece@bellsouth.net sharonmc2002@aol.com
COCKE COUNTY HISTORIES
|
|
Includes data collected before the 1876 courthouse fire
Can You Identify the location of this Photo?
Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee index and lookups
Links to Cocke County Family's Web Sites.
|
Search this site
or
the web
powered by FreeFind |
|
Site search Web search |
Off-site Links
Cocke County
Microfilms at TSLA
Cocke Co DATA
USGenWeb Archives
Digital Library Cocke County
Dover, Augustus C. & Mary Jane Mode
Biography
Green, Wade
Biography
History of the Synod of Tennessee - Deaths Mentioned in,
from 1817 to 1887
Literary Instutions of the TN Synod - From History of
the Synod of Tennessee 1890 with Institutions, Surnames and Histories
Brighthope Furnace -
Store Ledger is in Greene County, TN but contains a lot
of Cocke Co. Families.
Captain James Cuming's Company of Volunteer Mounted Gun Men, War of 1812
Captain William Gillenwaters Company of Volunteers in the East TN Militia
- War of 1812 Roster
Captian George Argenbrights' Company of Riflemen in the TN Militia
- War of 1812 Roster
Cocke County Query Board
http://www.tngenweb.org/bbs/cocke/webbbs/queries/index.cgi
Post your queries here
A link to all mailing lists
Cocke Message Board-- Genforum
This site is one nominations to the TNLHN best sites
TNLHN Commitment to Excellence Award site.
Please consider voting for us.
Web site maintained by
Joyce G. Reece & Sharon McCormack
Co Hosts for Cocke County, Tennessee
You are our
visitor
Last updated on 10/23/2008
Above three wonderful photos courtesy of Brandi Hargrove.