DESCENDANTS OF SAMUEL COCKAYNE, SR. Compiled by Lonnie Kiger and Gail Yoho. Generation No. 1 1. SAMUEL1 COCKAYNE, SR. Child of SAMUEL COCKAYNE, SR. is: 2. i. SAMUEL2 COCKAYNE, b. 01 November 1737, England. Generation No. 2 2. SAMUEL2 COCKAYNE (SAMUEL1) was born 01 November 1737 in England. He married MARY LOWE 10 November 1761. Children of SAMUEL COCKAYNE and MARY LOWE are: 3. i. SAMUEL3 COCKAYNE, b. 26 August 1768; d. 11 June 1854. ii. WILLIAM COCKAYNE, b. 29 August 1762. Notes for WILLIAM COCKAYNE: William Cockayne went to sea at an early age and died unmarried of smallpox iii. CARTER COCKAYNE, b. 27 February 1764; d. 1850. Notes for CARTER COCKAYNE: Carter Cockayne died unmarried about 1850 iv. ELIZABETH COCKAYNE, b. October 1766; m. UNKNOWN MCKAIN. Notes for ELIZABETH COCKAYNE: Elizabeth married a man named McKain and moved to Kentucky. Generation No. 3 3. SAMUEL3 COCKAYNE (SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 26 August 1768, and died 11 June 1854. He married (1) MARTHA (BURBRIDGE) PRICE, daughter of COL. BURBRIDGE and MARY BROWN. He married (2) HANNAH MCDONALD ARNETT. He married (3) SARAH JONES Abt. 1791. Notes for SAMUEL COCKAYNE: Samuel Cockayne, the youngest son of Samuel and Mary Lowe Cockayne, came to Ohio County, Virginia (now Marshall County, WV) in 1798 and settled on a 324 acre tract of land owned by Adam Wolford and located in the southern part of the present town of Glen Dale, WV. Samuel married Sarah Jones about 1791, and has five sons, William, Samuel, Hiram, Bennett and Vincent Lowe Cockayne, as well as several daughters. He leased the 324 acre tract until 1816, when he purchased it from Wolford, who lived in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1817, he purchases an additional 100 acres to the north of the original tract from the Tomlinson family. This tract fronted on the Ohio River, and ran from the present site of 10th Street, Glen Dale, to about the southern boundary of the R-Arms Motel, and inclluded a strip of land between Little Grave Creek and the 100 acre tract. Bennett sold this tract to his father in 1840, so that Samuel Cockayne owned 539 acres at the time of his death in 1854. Samuel kept an "ordinary" or hotel at his home which is located just north of the Glen Dale Drive-In Theater. This was known as the "Andrew Jackson Inn". The oldest son, William, died in about 1857 [Feb. 21, 1856]. He was the father of Thomas T. Cockayne, who had a well-known orchestra in Wheeling in the late 1800's. Samuel and Hiram, the next two sons moved to Burlington, Iowa in 1840. Bennett Cockayne and Vincent Lowe Cockayne divided the 539 acre tract upon their father's death. Vincent received 236 acres and the orginal homestead, which he called "Valley Farm." Children of SAMUEL COCKAYNE and SARAH JONES are: 4. i. BENNETT4 COCKAYNE, b. 1805; d. 12 August 1875. ii. WILLIAM COCKAYNE, b. 1792; [d Feb. 21, 1856, Wheeling, Ohio Co., West Virginia. Buried Mt. Wood Cemetery, Wheeling. Wife, Lydia, interred there Mar 4, 1886. iii. SAMUEL COCKAYNE, b. 1801. iv. HIRAM COCKAYNE, b. 1803. 5. v. VINCENT LOWE COCKAYNE, b. August 1807; d. 21 September 1886. Generation No. 4 4. BENNETT4 COCKAYNE (SAMUEL3, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 1805, and died 12 August 1875. He married SARAH PRICE 13 April 1826. She was born 1809, and died 27 May 1884. Notes for BENNETT COCKAYNE: Bennett Cockayne received 303 acres to the north, of orginal farm, including the 115 acre, the 100 acre tracts and 88 acres of the orginal 324 acre tracts. He built his residence in about 1850 and a barn (which stood on the present site of John Marshall High School) at about the same time. He married Sarah Price (1809-1884) in 1826. They had three sons, Alexander Cockayne (1827-1855) who graduated from the law school of the University of Virginia. He taught the first school in Glen Dale located in the present home of Samuel A. Cockayne across from John Marshall High School. Bushrod Washington Cockayne (1829-1830) was the second son of Bennett and Sarah Cockayne. The youngest was Samuel A. J. Cockayne (1841-1904) as well as six daughters, three of whom were married. Samuel A. J. Cockayne married Hannah Jane Alexander of West Alexander, Pa. in 1863. She gave the name "Glen Dale Farm" to the property on which they resided, and this is the derivation of the name of the town of Glen Dale, West Virginia. Bennett served as postmaster at Moundsville from 1841 until 1849 and kept a general store in what was then Elizabethtown. Upon Sarah Price Cockayne's death in 1884 Samuel A. J. Cockayne inherited the 303 acre tract. He built the small white house across from the north end of John Marshall High School in which John and Lisa presently reside.(1984) Children of BENNETT COCKAYNE and SARAH PRICE are: 6. i. SAMUEL A.J.5 COCKAYNE, b. 24 July 1841; d. 22 November 1904. 7. ii. ALEXANDER COCKAYNE, b. 14 January 1827; d. 15 September 1855. iii. BUSHROD WASHINGTON COCKAYNE, b. 14 June 1829; d. 30 July 1830. iv. ELIZABETH COCKAYNE, b. 1831; m. UNKNOWN KEYSER. v. MARY COCKAYNE, m. UNKNOWN CHAMBERS. vi. LIDA COCKAYNE, m. UNKNOWN TAYLOR. vii. SARAH L. COCKAYNE. Notes for SARAH L. COCKAYNE: Sarah Cockayne, daughter of Bennett and Sarah, never married viii. MARTHA ELLIS COCKAYNE. ix. ISABEL COCKAYNE, b. 1843; d. 1852. 5. VINCENT LOWE4 COCKAYNE (SAMUEL3, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born August 1807, and died 21 September 1886. He married (1) LOUISA JOHNSON LYNN Abt. 1838. She was born 02 February 1811, and died 06 February 1863. He married (2) LYDIA MCKEE 1864. She was born 21 November 1825, and died 16 August 1907. Notes for VINCENT LOWE COCKAYNE: Vincent Cockayne was the first bank president of Marshall County, serving as president of the Marshall County Bank from 1881 until his death in 1886. He married Louisa Johnson Lynn (1811-1863) in about 1838. By this marriage, he had two sons, William Lynn Cockayne (1839- 1871) and John Randolph Cockayne (1843-1864) both of whom died unmarried, as well as a daughter Alcinda (1841-1927) who married Shepherd McMechen (1827-1874) in 1868. Shepherd inherited the original McMechen homestead from his father Benjamin McMechen, who died about 1855. The land that Shepherd owned included the present sites of the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation and the West Virginia portion of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad yard in Benwood, WV. Their daughter, Mary Lynn McMechen, born in 1869 married Clifford G. Stokes, and lived in Baltimore, Maryland until her death, without children, in 1931. Vincent remarried in 1864 to Lydia McKee (1825-1907) By this marriage, he had two daughters, Caroline (Mrs. William W. Weightman)(1865-1936) and Emily Vincent (Mrs. William Martin Riggs)(1868-1948) both of whom died childless. Children of VINCENT LOWE COCKAYNE and LOUISA LYNN are: i. WILLIAM LYNN5 COCKAYNE, b. 11 February 1839; d. 03 March 1871. Notes for WILLIAM LYNN COCKAYNE: William Lynn Cockayne died in 1871 unmarried ii. JOHN RANDOLPH COCKAYNE, b. 27 August 1843; d. 31 October 1864. Notes for JOHN RANDOLPH COCKAYNE: John Randolph Cockayne died 1864 unmarried 8. iii. ALCINDA C. COCKAYNE, b. 1841, April 1927. Children of VINCENT LOWE COCKAYNE and LYDIA MCKEE are: iv. CAROLINA AMELIA5 COCKAYNE, b. 1865; d. 1936; m. WILLIAM WEEKS WEIGHTMAN; b. 1865; d. 1937. v. EMILY VINCENT COCKAYNE, b. November 1867; d. 1948; m. WILLIAM MARTIN RIGGS, 07 September 1893; b. 1852; d. 1923. Generation No. 5 6. SAMUEL A.J.5 COCKAYNE (BENNETT4, SAMUEL3, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 24 July 1841, and died 22 November 1904. He married HANNAH JANE ALEXANDER March 1863, daughter of ANDREW ALEXANDER and PAMILLA GILFILLAN. She was born 1835, and died 1917. Notes for HANNAH JANE ALEXANDER: Hannah Alexander was from West Alexander, PA daughter of Andrew and Pamela Gilfillan Alexander Children of SAMUEL COCKAYNE and HANNAH ALEXANDER are: 9. i. SAMUEL ALEXANDER6 COCKAYNE, b. 25 December 1876; d. 1953. ii. ELLA PAMILLA COCKAYNE, m. DR. THOMAS H. MEIGHAN. iii. SARAH PRICE COCKAYNE, m. CHARLES A. SHOWACRE. iv. GERTRUDE COCKAYNE, m. CHARLES C. SCHWOB. v. DORA COCKAYNE, d. 1947. 10. vi. IRENA COCKAYNE. 7. ALEXANDER5 COCKAYNE (BENNETT4, SAMUEL3, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 14 January 1827, and died 15 September 1855. He married AMELIA CARR. Child of ALEXANDER COCKAYNE and AMELIA CARR is: 11. i. BENJAMIN6 COCKAYNE, b. 1853; d. 1923. 8. ALCINDA C.5 COCKAYNE (VINCENT LOWE4, SAMUEL3, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 1841 in April 1927. She married SHEPHARD MCMECHEN 1868. He was born 1827, and died 1874. Children of ALCINDA COCKAYNE and SHEPHARD MCMECHEN are: i. MARY LYNN6 MCMECHEN, b. 12 January 1869; m. CLIFFORD G. STOKES, April 1912. ii. SHEPHERD VINCENT MCMECHEN, b. 16 September 1874. More About SHEPHERD VINCENT MCMECHEN: Burial: 1878 Generation No. 6 9. SAMUEL ALEXANDER6 COCKAYNE (SAMUEL A.J.5, BENNETT4, SAMUEL3, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 25 December 1876, and died 1953. He married BEULAH SMITH 14 October 1919 in McMechen, West Virginia, daughter of JOHN SMITH and ELIZABETH WALLACE. She was born 14 October 1881, and died 1945. Children of SAMUEL COCKAYNE and BEULAH SMITH are: i. JOHN BENNETT7 COCKAYNE, b. 14 October 1923; m. LISA HOFMAN, 1952. ii. SAMUEL A. J. COCKAYNE, b. 29 November 1921; d. 03 November 2001. 10. IRENA6 COCKAYNE (SAMUEL A.J.5, BENNETT4, SAMUEL3, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) She married CRAIG SHAW, son of JAMES SHAW and HANNAH SHIELDS. Children of IRENA COCKAYNE and CRAIG SHAW are: i. SAMUEL COCKAYNE7 SHAW, b. 10 August 1913, Marshall County, West Virginia; d. 23 December 1995. ii. ALEXANDRA CRAIG SHAW. 11. BENJAMIN6 COCKAYNE (ALEXANDER5, BENNETT4, SAMUEL3, SAMUEL2, SAMUEL1) was born 1853, and died 1923. He married SARAH BROCKMAN. Child of BENJAMIN COCKAYNE and SARAH BROCKMAN is: i. CHARLES ALEXANDER7 COCKAYNE, b. 1879; d. 1949.