Locality:
Realty Map: 27.08-2-17 Cultural Affiliation: Euro-American
USGS Map:
Grid Locus: G-3 Elevation: 1140 feet
UTM Easting: 594250 Aspect: Southwest
UTM Northing: 4134540
Site Dimensions: 100
by 140 feet
Survey Description:
Site consists of a large family cemetery with at least 85 graves. The observed monuments are notable for their
form and lengthy inscriptions. All of
the graves were surrounded by a brick enclosure. The enclosure has a concrete foundation and
iron gates interrupt the west and north walls.
A variety of monument types in the cemetery include box tombs, granite
and marble headstones, uninscribed fieldstone markers, metal markers, lawn-type
markers, and plaque markers. Two
unmarked graves were identified on the basis of ground surface
depressions. Other unmarked graves may
exist. All of the observed graves were
oriented to the northeast. Cemetery is
covered with mowed grass and historic plantings include cedar trees, periwinkle
and boxwoods. Site was field inspected,
photographed, and grave marker inscriptions were transcribed and compared to
previous documentation. Site size was
derived from local realty maps.
Survey Date: 8/98
Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No
Photographs: _x_Yes ___No
References: Roanoke
Valley Historical Society
1986 Roanoke County Graveyards Through 1920. Privately printed, RVHS, Roanoke.
Works Progress Administration of
Virginia, Historical Inventory, Roanoke County, Virginia, Document #242.
Additional Comments: Assigned
temporal period was based on the 1862 through 1998 range of death dates
inscribed on observed headstones.
However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone markers and unmarked
graves may reflect an earlier use of the site.
The cemetery is marked on the USGS Roanoke map sheet and labeled “cem.”
It is also marked on local realty maps and labeled as the “Cocke
Cemetery.” This cemetery is located on
the campus of Hollins College.
The cemetery was initially surveyed in 1937 by the Works
Progress Administration of Virginia and recorded as the “Cocke Graveyard” in
Document #242 of the Historical Inventory of Roanoke County, Virginia. The WPA file did not provide biographical
information for any of the observed graves, but reported that the older graves
were marked with uninscribed headstones and only the more recent graves have
inscriptions. The WPA file describes the
cemetery as “…a private burying ground for the Cocke family, and is enclosed
with a brick wall 50 x 50 feet x 5 feet tall and is kept in excellent
condition.” The RVHS also surveyed the
cemetery and documented biographical information derived from inscriptions from
28 headstones that predated 1921 (1986:
93-96).
Cocke
Cemetery (continued)
Marker Inscriptions:
Lucian Howard Cocke, Jr. Dorothy
Alice Latshaw
Son of wife
of
Lucian Howard Cocke Lucian
Howard Cocke, Jr.
And Daughter
of
Lelia Smith Cocke Alice
Maude Scott
Born May 24, 1889 and
Died March 14, 1969 Joseph
Woodwell Latshaw
“He does not die that can bequeath Born
Some influence to the land he knows.” Died
Her
gracious spirit yet outweighs
The
measure of her earthly days.
Charles Francis Cocke Frances
Tilghman
Son of Wife
of
Lucian Howard Cocke Charles
Francis Cocke
And Lelia Maria Smith Daughter of
Born June 10, 1886 Wilton
Ederton Mingea
Died February 3, 1971 and
“His worth, his honour, all the world approved.” Fannie Barron Tilghman
Robert Burns Born
Haec olin meminisse juvabit Died
I
was glad when they said unto me
Let
us go in the house of the Lord.
Lelia Smith Psalm
CXXII
Wife of
William Boyle Bagbey Helen
Louise Cobb
Daughter of Wife
of
Charles Francis Cocke John
Rainey
And Francis Tilghman Mingea
Born
At Roanoke, Virginia “With
Malice toward none,
August 29, 1915 With
Charity for all.”
Died Abraham
Lincoln
At Roanoke, Virginia (footstone: LCH)
Remember with love and thanksgiving
The earthly years of Lelia.
John Rainey Hayward Thalia
Stewart Hayward
Son of Daughter
of
Charles W. and Mary S. Charles
W. & Mary S.
Hayward
September 5, 1883
November 13, 1944
For He shall give His Blessed
are the pure in heart,
Angels charge over thee, for
they shall see God.
To keep thee in all thy ways Matthew
5:8
Psalms 91:11 (footstone: TSH)
(footstone: JRH)
Cocke
Cemetery (continued)
Rose Mary
Susan Hayward
Hayward Daughter
of
James Charles
L. & S.V. Cocke
1889 – 1916 Wife
of
“Underneath are the Charles
W. Hayward
everlasting arms.”
(footstone: RHJ)
“Her
ways are the ways of
pleasantness,
and all her
paths
are peace.”
(footstone: MSH)
Mary Sully Hayward Dove
Pauline
October 25, 1889 Wife
of
February 7, 1976 H.M.
Bower
Blessed the Lord, O my soul:
And all that is within me,
Bless His Holly Name. Blessed
are the pure in
Psalm 103, Verse 1. Heart
for they shall see God.
Samuel King Funkhouser Jane
Harwood
Son of Wife
of S. King Funkhouser
Abraham Paul and Minerva King Daughter of
Funkhouser Lucian
H. and Lelia Maria Cocke
Born Born
Harrisonburg, Virginia At
December 4, 1882
Died Died
Roanoke, Virginia At
February 1, 1958
Honor, truth and nobleness of mind Kind, wise and true as truths own
heart
Were his in abundance A
soul that here
Chose
and held fast the better part,
And
cast out fear.
Swinburne
She had the intelligence to know
her duty and the courage to perform.
(brass plate affixed to cement at foot
of grave with inscription: Jane Cocke
Funkhouser / Organizing Regent / May 9, 1921 / Nancy Christian Fleming Chapter
/ Daughters of the American Revolution
Cocke
Cemetery (continued)
Sara Cobb Johnson Lucian
Howard
Daughter of Son
of
Dr. John M. Johnson Charles
L. and Susanna V.
And Mary Willis Cobb Born
Of Atlanta, Georgia at
Born
Feb. 7, 1865 Died
Died Roanoke, Virginia At
Jan. 18, 1944
Wife of “He
that hath executed true judgement
Lucian Howard Cocke between
man and man, hath walked in my
“The best portion of a good life statutes, and hath kept my
judgements,
Is the little nameless to
deal truly; he is just, he shall
Unremembered acts of kindness and love.” Surely live, saith the Lord
God.”
Mother of Ezekiel
18.8-9
Dr. Hugh Johnson Hagan “Thou
livest in all hearts, for
Willis Cobb Hagan all
men to know
This
earth has never borne
A
nobler man.
Tennyson.
Lelia Maria Cocke Large
headstone next to four smaller stones
Wife of and
surrounded by boxwoods. Large headstone
Lucian H. Cocke has
fallen and inscription could not be read.
Daughter of
Francis H. and Mary Stuart Smith
Born
At the University of Virginia _____ of
March 18, 1859, Davis:
Died 1862
At Roanoke, Virginia 12
Days
April 5, 1899 Gone
down while
“For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place yet day. Jer. 15.9
The flood may bear me far, (spalled,
partially illegible headstone)
I hope to see my pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.” Elmore
“Let her own work praise her.” Lankford
Son of
Uninscribed fieldstone T.H.
and L.B.
Lankford
Born
Died
Dec.19, 1884
Unmarked depression Unmarked
depression Dislodged, eroded
headstone
lying
on ground surface next
to Elmore Lankford headstone
Cocke
Cemetery (continued)
Charles Lewis Eloise
Kelly Cocke
Son of Wife
of
Susie Wilson Charles
Lewis Cocke
And and
daughter of
Marion Estes Cocke Mary
Born April 19, 1908 and
Died March 14, 1975 Joseph
L. Kelly
(footstone: CLC) Born
Died
(footstone: EKC)
Thomas Wyndham Jamison In
memory of
Son of Mary
M. Pleasants
Hazel Francis Airheart Daughter
of
And William
H.
Frank Elmer Jamison and
Born Nov. 8, 1938 Martha
Smoot
Died June 7, 1987 Pleasants
I have fought a good fight, Born
I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith. Died
2 Tim. 4:7
(footstone: TWJ) For
thou art my hope,
O
Lord God,
Thou
art my trust
From
my youth
Psalms
LXXI 5
(Footstone: MMP)
William Henry Pleasants Sacred
to the memory of
Born at Piquenoque, Va. Miss
Martha A. Pleasants
Jan. 29, 1831 Born
Died at Hollins College, Va. In
Henrico Co.,
Nov. 26, 1915 Sept.
29, 1817.
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.” Died
“Great is the cause, and great thine aim: at Hollins Institute
Thrice Happy, if success shall claim Feb. 23, 1898.
Its due reward: yet honored still “Blessed are the dead which
May be the labor and the will.” Die in the Lord from hence
Forth: Yea, saith the Spirit
That they may
rest from
Their labours,
and their works
Do follow
them: Rev. XIV:13.
(footstone: MMP)
Cocke
Cemetery (continued)
Sacred to the memory of In
memory of
Dr. Harry B. M.
Lousia Parkinson
Pleasants Wife
of
Born Rev.
James F. Parkinson
Nov. 24, 1855. Daughter
of
Died James
& Elizabeth Cocke
Oct. 15, 1909. Born
Requiescat in peace.
(footstone: HBP) Died
Feb.
5, 1893.
“Blessed
are the pure in heart
for
they shall see God.”
In memory of Betty
Maria F. Parkinson Of
blessed memory
Daughter of Daughter
of
Reverend James F. James
Spottiswoode
And and
Louise Taylor
M. Louisa Cocke Parkinson Born
at
Born
August 1, 1858
Died Died
at
January ?, 1946
Behold God is my salvation
I will trust and not be afraid. (Footstone: BT)
Isaiah 12;2
(footstone: MFP)
In memory of Little
Kirvin
Our Little Charley. Son
of
Born April 7, 1871 C.H.
and E.R.
Died March 22, 1879 Cocke
Child of Born
Charles W. and Mary S. Hayward
Grand-Child of Chas. L. and S.V. Cocke Died
“Safe in the arms of Jesus” June
1, 1876
(Footstone: CWH) “Of
such is the Kingdom
of
Heaven.”
P (maker’s
mark: Salem, Va. /
(small marble stone with footstone) Footstone: KC)
Cocke
Cemetery (continued)
Joseph Augustine Turner Mary
Van Fossen Masters
Son of Beloved
wife of
Leila Virginia and Joseph
Augustine Turner
Joseph Augustine Tuner Daughter
of
November 21, 1875 Mary
Van Fossen
October 21, 1937 and
Hollins College, Virginia Frank
Martin Masters
He worked with vision
As an educator and a
Citizen, he found Levavi
ocules
Strength in Christian
Faith, he had enthusiasm Mary
V. Turner
For life and devotion 1905 1998
For his fellow men. (metal
marker)
Luise Rath Bonnet Joseph
Augustine Turner
May 14, 1898 Son
of
February 19, 1978 Mary
Van Fossen Masters
Daughter of and
Lelia Turner Joseph
Augustine Turner
And Born
Erich Rath Died
Wife of Ellis A. Bonnet Charleston,
U.S. Consul
Buried in Duranco Susanna
P. Turner
Mexico 1913 1998
(metal
marker)
Mangus John
Pettus Barbee
“And be ye kind one to another, Born
Tenderhearted, forgiving one another
Ephesians 4:32 Died
May
23, 1903.
Cary F. Mangus Susie
Cocke Mangus The Lord lift up His
countenance
1911 1998 Born Nov. 23, 1913 upon thee and give thee
peace. Numbers 6-26
Died
Elizabeth Cocke Susanna
Virginia Cocke
Wife of Born
John Pettus Barbee
Born Died
January 11, 1863
Died President
of
February 3, 1938 Hollins
Institute, 1901-1911
Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give and Hollins College,
1911-1933
Thee a crown of life.
Rev. 2.10. I
will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from
I have fought a good life, I have finished whence cometh my
help. PS.121.1.
My course, I have kept the faith 2 Tim. 4.7 He that doeth the will of
god abideth forever.
1
John 2.17.
Cocke
Cemetery (continued)
Sally Lewis Cocke Charles
Lewis Cocke
Daughter of Feb.
21, 1820. May 4, 1901.
Charles L. and Susanna V. Cocke Founder
Born of
In Richmond, Va. Hollins
Institute.
July 25, 1845, “O,
good gray head which all men knew
Died O,
voice from which their omens all men drew
At Hollins Institute, Va. O,
iron nerve to true occasion true
July 29, 1900. O,
fallen at length that tower of strength
“My presence shall go with thee and I which stood foursquare to all the winds
that blew
will give thee rest.”
Exodus XXXIII-14. Such
was he whom w deplore
“To live in hearts we have left behind the long
self-sacrifice of life is o’ver.”
is not to die.” “Blessed
are the dead which die in the
Lord
from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit,
That
they may rest from their labours: and
Susanna Virginia Cocke Their
works so follow them.” Rev.: 14:3
Wife of
Charles Lewis Cocke In
memory of
Daughter of Prof.
Joseph A. Turner
Susannah Burton Born
And in
Greenville Co.,
Joseph Corbin Pleasants; Aug.
6, 1839:
Born Died
In Henrico County, Virginia at
Hollins Institute
January 26, 1820. May
5th 1878.
Died “The
path of the just is as the
At Hollins Institute, Virginia, Shining light that
shineth
January 5, 1906, more
and more unto to
Her children arise up and call her blessed. the perfect day.” Proverbs IV:18
Give her of the fruit of her hands: (footstone: JAT)
And let her own
Works praise her. – Proverbs 31: 28.31
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they
Shall see God – Matthew 5:8
In memory
Of Rosa
P. Smith
Leila Virginia Turner Born
March 25, 1850,
Wife of Died
And daughter of Prof. Joseph A. Turner Wife of Rev. W.R.L.
Smith
Chas. L. & Susanna V. and
daughter of
Cocke C.L.
& S.V. Cocke.
Born Edith
Rose
Feb. 25, 1844 Daughter
of
Died Rev.
W.R.L. and R.P.
Oct. 21, 1899 Smith
Be thou faithful unto death Born
And I will give thee Died
Feb’y 14, 1884
A crown of life, Rev.2:10
(footstone: LVT)
Cocke Cemetery
(continued)
In memory In
memory
Of of
Leila Turner Rath Erich
Rath
Wife of Born
in
Erich Rath,
May 30, 1872. Died
July 3, 1937.
“Her children arise up and Music
was his language,
call her blessed.” “Gemutlichkeit”
his way.
Ellis Andrew Bonnett, Jr. Mary
Robbins Cocke
Son of Beloved
wife of
Ellis A. and Louisa Rath Dr.
John Alexander Cocke
Bonnett Born
September 29, 1925
September 20, 1955 Died
“I will lift up mine
eyes unto (footstone: MRC)
the hills from whence
cometh my help.
Marion Estes Cocke, Jr. Charles
Lewis Cocke
Son of Son
of
Susie Wilson Charles
H & Ella R.
And Cocke
Marion Estes Cocke Born
Born February 14, 1910
Died September 20, 1988 Died
“but the fruit of the spirit
Is love, joy, peace, ___” He
that dwelleth in the secret
Gal. 5:22-23 place
of the Most High shall abide
(footstone: MFC) under
the shadow of the Almighty.
Ps.
XCI:1.
So
nigh is grandeur to our dust
So
near is god in man
When
duty whispers low, Thou must
The
youth replies, I can.
Margaret Cocke Charles
Henry
Daughter of Son
of
Charles Henry Cocke Chas.
L. & S.V. Cocke
And Born
Ella Kirven Cocke Died
Born October 3, 1891 at
Hollins Institute
Died March 27, 1971 “what
doth the Lord require of thee
“The Lord is my shepherd; but
to do justly, to love mercy,
I shall not want.” And
to walk humbly with God?” Micah VI:8
Psalm 23:1 (footstone: CHC)
Cocke
Cemetery (continued)
Elie Rosalie Marion
Estes Cocke
Wife of Son
of
Chas. Henry Cocke Chas.
H. & Ella K. Cocke
Daughter of Born
James and Thirza Gray Kirven Died
Born Jan. 7, 1854 Teacher
- Administrator
At Rome, GA
Died Sept 7, 1941 1897
- 1952
At Hollins College “…and
he will make thy righteousness to
“My presence shall go with thee go forth as the light and thy
justice
and I will give thee rest.” As
the noon day.” Psalms 37:6
(footstone: ERC) (footstone: MEC)
Susie Wilson Cocke John
Hollins
Wife of Infant
son of
Marion Estes Cocke S.H.
& E.R. Cocke
Born June 20, 1884 Born
Died Aug. 7, 1973 Died
Daughter of
Serena Hutcheson “Suffer
little children to come unto me.”
And (footstone: JHC)
Dr. John Thompson Wilson
“But the salvation of the righteous Little Marian
is of the Lord: He is
their strength Daughter
of
in the time of trouble.” C.H.
& E.R. Cocke
Psalms 37:34 Born
(footstone: SWC) March
25, 1881.
Died
“It
is well wit the child.”
(maker’s
mark:
Footstone: MC)
Sacred to the memory of Sacred
to the memory of
Emma Augusta, Julia
Romney Downman
Daughter of Daughter
of
G.F. and J.A.L.W. Mertins J.B.
and H.J. Downman
Of Evergreen, Ala. Of
Faquier Co.,
Formerly of Colmar Born
Nov. 24, 1820.
In Posen, Prussia Died
And
Beloved wife of “Blessed
are the dead which die in the Lord,
William Taylor Thom. Their
works follow them.”
Born June 13, 1862 Rev.
14.13
Died April 13, 1883 (footstone: JRD)
“Blessed are the pure in heart.”
(footstone: EAT)
Cocke
Cemetery (continued)
Sacred to the memory of Sacred
to the memory of
Wm. Taylor Thom Emma
Mertins Thom
Of Faquier Co., Virginia. Daughter
of
Son of William
Taylor &
John Catesby & Emma
Augusta Thom
Ada Matilda Thom Born
Born April 27, 1849 Died
Died July 2, 1939 (footstone: EMT)
(footstone: WmTT)
Martha Louisa C. Charles
Henry Cocke
Neill Neill
Daughter of 1906
- 1968
Charles Henry Cocke Son
of
And William
Cecil
Ella Kirven Cocke and
Wife of Martha
Cocke Neill
William Cecil Neill (footstone: CHCN)
Mar. 25, 1881 –
“Love is eternal.” Elizabeth
Brown Trout
(footstone: MLCN) Wife
of
Hugh
Henry Trout, Jr.
Dr. Philip Cocke Trout 1914
- 1971
Son of Daughter
of
Dr. Hugh Henry Trout Elizabeth
Page Brown
And and
Leonora Cocke Trout Charles
McCormick Brown
Dr. Hugh Henry Trout, Jr. TROUT
(large memorial stone)
Son of in
memory of Leonora Cocke Trout
Dr. Hugh Henry Trout 1884
- 1925
And Wife
of
Leonora Cocke Hugh
Henry Trout
Leonora
Trout Bolster
Herman Alvin Bolster
Theodore
Pauli
Headstone not observed during 1998 survey, Only son of
but documented by the RVHS: H.L.
and E. Pauli
Charles Woodward
1837 – 1913
Louisiana Field Artillery C.S.A. Died
“What doth the Lord require of thee but to do
justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly wit “Blessed are the dead, That died
thy God.” Micah 6:8 in
the Lord.”
(footstone: T.P.)