She was born and reared in Winn Parish.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at the Old Union Baptist Church near Winnfield. Interment will be in the Old Union Cemetery under the direction of Southern Funeral Home of Jonesboro.
Survivors include four sons, Rev. J. A. Cockerham of Winnfield, A. W. Cockerham of Shreveport, David E. Cockerham of Jonesville, and Milburn M. Cockerham of Winnfield; three daughters, Mrs. Alice Franklin of Winnfield, Mrs. Mary Lou Drewitt of Winnfield and Mrs. Mary Bell Bourdin [sic Mille Belle Bourdier] of Morgan City; 28 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren.
Her husband, Henry M. Cockerham, better known as "Uncle Bud," died in 1937.
Published in The Monroe News-Star (LA), Thursday, August 23, 1956
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NOTES: Mrs. Cockerham's death certificate lists her as Jelena Virginia Creel Cockerham (death date shown above), age 86 years. Available records typically name her as Piety J. She was shown as three months old in the 1870 census for Winn Parish, LA, enumerated on September 5, 1870. The 1900 census for Winn Parish gives her birth month/year as June 1871. Thus, her grave marker evidently has the wrong birth year and certainly has the wrong death month. She married Henry Maxwell Cockerham on December 27, 1889 in Winn Parish, LA.
She was born and reared in Winn Parish.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at the Old Union Baptist Church near Winnfield. Interment will be in the Old Union Cemetery under the direction of Southern Funeral Home of Jonesboro.
Survivors include four sons, Rev. J. A. Cockerham of Winnfield, A. W. Cockerham of Shreveport, David E. Cockerham of Jonesville, and Milburn M. Cockerham of Winnfield; three daughters, Mrs. Alice Franklin of Winnfield, Mrs. Mary Lou Drewitt of Winnfield and Mrs. Mary Bell Bourdin [sic Mille Belle Bourdier] of Morgan City; 28 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren.
Her husband, Henry M. Cockerham, better known as "Uncle Bud," died in 1937.
Published in The Monroe News-Star (LA), Thursday, August 23, 1956
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NOTES: Mrs. Cockerham's death certificate lists her as Jelena Virginia Creel Cockerham (death date shown above), age 86 years. Available records typically name her as Piety J. She was shown as three months old in the 1870 census for Winn Parish, LA, enumerated on September 5, 1870. The 1900 census for Winn Parish gives her birth month/year as June 1871. Thus, her grave marker evidently has the wrong birth year and certainly has the wrong death month. She married Henry Maxwell Cockerham on December 27, 1889 in Winn Parish, LA.
Inscription
JELENA VIRGINIA
COCKERHAM
JUNE 18, 1869
SEPT. 22, 1956
"AUNT PIETY"
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Rev John Allen "Harrison" Cockerham
1890–1988
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Arnold Wylie Cockerham
1894 – unknown
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Herbert Frank Cockerham
1896–1953
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Anna R. Cockerham Hearne
1898–1938
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Alice Cockerham Franklin
1902–1990
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David Eugene Cockerham
1904–1978
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Mary Lou Cockerham Drewett
1907–1978
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Milburn Maxwell "Jack" Cockerham
1910–1963
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Millie Belle Cockerham Bourdier
1910–1973
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