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Cocke, Betty Burwell Page, 1841-1900,. Papers of the Cocke family [manuscript] 1846-1891.

Title: Papers of the Cocke family [manuscript] 1846-1891.

The collection consists almost entirely of letters between members of the Cocke family, particularly Bettie Burwell Page Cocke and John Bowdoin Cocke. The letters convey family news and comment on the difficulties of Reconstruction. One mentions the collapse of a portion of the state capitol and friends killed, and another from a captured officer reflects on the South's defeat, heroism of soldiers and the collapse of morale late in the war. Of interest are two 1871 letters from Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee describing health, family activities, and life in Lexington, Va. The collection also includes a ledger, 1882-91, from Belmead plantation, and a clipping desribing Edgewood, Nelson Co., the home of Joseph C. Cabell.

ArchivalResource: 56 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647962862 View

Cocke, Charles Hartwell, 1851-1896,. Papers of the Cocke family [manuscript] 1850-1895.

Title: Papers of the Cocke family [manuscript] 1850-1895.

Most of the papers consist of letters and receipts from John H. Powell, of the Richmond Female Institute, to John Bowdoin Cocke, and Betty Burwell Page Cocke, regarding tuition for their daughters. There are also letters from Charles Hartwell Cocke to M. Louise Cocke mentioning the burning of the Rotunda; from Philip St. George Cocke to John B. Cocke regarding an epidemic at U. Va., and a trip to Europe; and from Sally Elizabeth Courtney Bowdoin Cocke to Philip St. George Cocke and John Hartwell Cocke mentioning a reception for Zachary Taylor during a visit to Baltimore and Washington in 1850 and commenting on John Hartwell Cocke as "being at last weaned from the Yankees ..."

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647967202 View

Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866. Papers additional of John Hartwell Cocke [manuscript].

Title: Papers additional of John Hartwell Cocke [manuscript].

Additional manuscripts of John Hartwell Cocke: 1. 4 trays belonging to Miss Betty Cocke, Miss Louise Cocke, Mrs. Milton Elliott, Mrs. David Lymen, Mrs. Fourney Johnston -- 2. 4 trays belonging to estates of Mrs. Mazyck Wilson Shields and F. St. Julien Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 8 trays.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647956441 View

Cocke, Betty Page, 1872-1973,. Papers of the Cocke-Elliot family [manuscript], 1854-1992.

Title: Papers of the Cocke-Elliot family [manuscript], 1854-1992.

The collection contains personal and family correspondence, financial and legal papers, memorabilia, bound volumes, and genealogical and historical research material pertaining to the Cocke, Elliot and related Virginia families from the colonial period through the 20th century, as assembled by John Page Elliot. Correspondence consists chiefly of letters of sisters Betty Page Cocke and Lucy Hamilton Cocke Elliot. Other correspondents include John Hartwell Cocke, Philip St. George Cocke, John Bowdoin Cocke, John Tucker Bowdoin Cocke, Bettie Burwell Page Cocke, Mary Louise Cocke, Milton Courtwright Elliot, John Page Elliot, George H. Venable, and other Cocke and Elliot family members. Additional correspondents include Douglas Southall Freeman, Fiske Kimball, Thomas Nelson Page, U. Va. student Hermann Holst Swift, the Rev. Beverley D. Tucker, John Skelton Williams, and Edith Bolling Wilson. Topics in the correspondence includes the courtship of John Bowdoin Cocke and Bettie Burwell Page; a tour of Europe, Constantinople and Egypt, 1903; a tour to the western U.S., Canada and Alaska, 1905; a tour of England and continental Europe, 1937; the settlement of several Cocke family estates and an auction at "Bremo"; the suicide of a suitor of Betty Cocke; students who lived in Betty Cocke's boarding house; World War I, including life at the front and conditions in France, activities of an army doctor, offices of the American Fund for French Wounded, and the armistice; the life of Napoleon Drew, a former slave at "Belmead"; and the Japanese missionary work of the Rev. Beverley D. Tucker. Also Virginia politics and historic preservation particularly in regard to the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Women's Liberty Loan Organization, the Women's Section of the State Council of Defense, the Albemarle County Historical Society, the Albemarle County Chapter of the Red Cross, the Women's Organization for Prohibition Reform, and the Virginia War History Commission. Briefer topics of interest include the release of Jefferson Davis from prison; the disposition of Edward Troye's equestrian portrait of General Winfield Scott; Alexander Galt's bust of Philip St. George Cocke; Episcopal High School; the Alfalfa Club; and Woodrow Wilson's opposition to moving the University of Virginia's medical school to Richmond. Topics in the financial and legal papers include family stock and real estate holdings; the estate settlement of John Bowdoin Cocke; Atlantic Coast Railroad Company liens and garnishments, 1933-1938; specifications for houses designed by Eugene Brady; and Betty Cocke's opposition to proposed parking spaces in front of the U. Va. Rotunda. There are also original financial and legal documents, 1773-1948, for the related Blow Family of Norfolk, Va., and Browne family of "Four Mile Tree," Surry County, Va. Items from the genealogical and historical files of John Page Elliot include building plans, photographs and correspondence regarding "Belmead" and its conversion to St. Emma Military Academy for young black men; Philip St. George Cocke's appointment as a visitor to the Virginia Military Institute; a pedigree for John Hartwell Cocke's horse "Seagull"; a Confederate bond; and a drawing of an oveseer's cottage at "Four Mile Tree"; and portraits and photographs of family members, friends, and servants. Additional families represented in the genealogical files include Barraud, Burwell, Carter, Corbin, Grice, Nelson, Page, and Tayloe. Miscellaneous items of interest include John Bowdoin Cocke's Civil War pardon; a photograph and autograph of Fitzhugh Lee; a souvenir from the Jamestown Exposition; a form letter sent by Franklin D. Roosevelt, to Democratic supporters in October 1932; an autograph album of University of Virginia scenes and various U. Va. pins and ribbons.

ArchivalResource: 15000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647839171 View