Cocke family.

The Cocke family has long been prominent in Virginia society. Richard Cocke moved to Virginia in 1628; his grandson John Hartwell Cocke was a close friend of Thomas Jefferson and together they designed the Cocke family estate of Bremo, Fluvanna Co., Virginia. The plantation continued to prosper throughout the nineteenth century, with John Hartwell's son, Philip St. George Cocke (d.1861), continuing the tradition until the Civil War.

The Cocke family married into the prominent Pollard family of Alabama, and other families in Connecticut and North Carolina; and retained parts of the original Bremo plantation well into the twentieth century.