COLONEL WILLIAM COCKE.
Colonel Wm. Cocke was a son of Abraham Cocke, of Amelia county. Was
born in 1747, and died August 22d, 1828. He was an early pioneer of Kentucky;
active in the formation of the "State of Franklin," and afterwards
of Tennessee; served in two wars—the Revolution, in which he was a captain,
and the war of 1812, in which he volunteered, though an old man, and
was a member of the Legislature in four States—Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee and Mississippi. He was a member of the Virginia House of
Delegates from Washington county in 1777, and was United States Senator
from Tennessee, 1796-'7, 1799-1805. He was afterwards a judge of the
Circuit Court of Tennessee, and later removed to Mississippi, where he died.
