Deborah or Barbara Kells

Not a known child of Col. Henry Fox, III

Her name is seen as Barbara, Deborah, and Thebie. Miss Fox was the 2nd wife of John "The Emigrant" Cockrill and the mother of Maj. John Cockrill.

Family

Deborah Barbara Fox, parents unknown, was born BEF 1728 in New Kent County, VA, USA, and died AFT 1804 in Edmund's home, Antioch, Davidson, TN, USA.

She married

1. John Cockrill on 1757, [son of Thomas /Cockrill]. He was born 1726 in and died 1759 in Bedford, VA.
2. David Edward Collinsworth on 1759 in Virginia. USA, son of Edmund /Collinsworth/. He was born BET 1720 AND 1724 in VA or Ireland, and died AFT JAN 1785 in Richmond, VA, USA.
3. Mr. Sills or Kells

Children of Deborah Barbara /Fox/ and John /Cockrill/ are:

1. John Cockrill was born 19 DEC 1757 in Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, and died 11 APR 1837 in Nashville, Davidson County, TN, USA.

Children of Deborah Barbara /Fox/ and David Edward /Collinsworth/ are:

1. Edmund Fox Collinsworth was born BET 1750 AND 1760 in Montgomery County, VA, USA, and died MAR 1816 in Nashville, Davidson County, TN, USA.
2. John Collinsworth was born BET 1761 AND 1763 in Culpepper County, VA, USA, and died 06 SEP 1838 in St. Clair County, IL, USA.
3. Eleanor Collinsworth was born 20 APR 1764 in Montgomery County, VA, USA, and died 01 AUG 1832 in Montgomery County, VA, USA.

Biography

https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/118924/I1544/deborahbarbara-fox/indiv...

The following is from "Cockrill Genealogy, compiled by Granville Goodloe..., Arkadelphia, Ark.," published in American Historical Magazine, Nashville, Davidson, TN, USA, of October 1898.

"From the military records of the Dominion of Virginia, it appears that John Cockrill, who is said to have come to Virginia with Gen. Braddock, enlisted in Capt. Henry Harrison's company, October 8, 1756, being aged thirty years; height, five feet ten inches; a planter of Richmond County. This was under Lieut. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie's call for Virginia volunteers for the French and Indian war. There is very strong presumption that he was identical with the John Cockerell, or Cockerill, who came to Virginia and married Deborah Fox, before, or early in, 1757, which event he did not long survive, leaving a son John. His widow married David Collingsworth, who, dying, left a son Edmund. By her third husband, - - - Kells, she had no issue. She died at the home of her son, Edmund Collingsworth, in Davidson County, Tennessee. She was descended from the English Fox family; her mother was an Allison.... There is doubt about her given name; it may have been Barbara or Thebia." -

Source: Roberts, Larenda Lyles. Dallas Uncovered. Rebublic of Texas Press, 1994 and The Cockrell Connection By E. Kay Cockrell Kazmir.

Deborah or Barbara was the widow of John Cockrill (The Emigrant), mother of son Major John Cockrill Jr. born December 19, 1757 in Virginia, one of the founders of Nashville, Davidson, TN, USA. John Jr. married Ann Robertson Johnson, and he died in Nashville on April 11, 1837. Barbara's husband's John Cockrill's 1st wife was Susan Trapling, who he married in Bedford. He had two children with Susan, Susan and Simon. Susan Trapling Cockrill (mother) died when Simon (The Reverend) was about three years old. John remarried our ancestor, Deborah/Barbara Fox, soon there after and left his two children with their mother's family.

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Family history also indicated that Deborah/Barbara's sons, John Cockrill and her sons with David Collinsworth, Edmond and John Collinsworth, were among the early settlers of Nashborough (Nashville) TN, USA. Barbara is listed in history as Barbara (Fox) Cockrill Collinsworth Kells. She remarried after David's death. Allied lines listed are Fox, Cockrill, Collinsworth, Kells, Johnson, Thompson, Ewing, Gordon. Cockerill is listed as one of the 1st families of the American colonies.

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BARBARA FOX AND HER DESCENDANTS Posted by: Elena Rivier (ID 7453) Date: March 29, 2007 at 06:11:42 of 35517

The Deborah Barbara Thiebe Fox, from New Kent, Virginia that I am referring to was first married to a John Cockrill about 1757; the second marriage to a David Collinsworth about 1762; the third marriage to a Mr. Sills about 1765. Children from those marriages are related to the descendants of Francisco Fox thru Deborah Barbara Thiebe Fox's side. A Y-DNA test from a Francisco Fox descendant was made and it matched a Cockrell on the maternal side, which means that D.B. Thiebe Fox had at least one child with J. Cockrill and that marriage lasted about five years; the second marriage, in 1762, about two years (D. Collingwoth died in 1764) they had a child named Edmond Collinsworth in 1763; the third marriage, about 1765, may have been her last. I'll appreciate your comments and thank you in advance.

The research continues................

References

• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8352144/yester-nashville-names-cock...
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LKPW-ZBT
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• Armstrong, Zella (1918). Notable Southern Families. Chattanooga, Tennessee: Lookout Publishing Company. pp. 21–22. OCLC 994024199 – via Internet Archive. Archive.Org
• http://gedcom.surnames.com/burgess_jim/np277.htm
• Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Sep 20 2021, 19:47:29 UTC Deborah was born about 1728. She passed away about 1801
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fox-4929 with errors
• Ancestry has different dates of birth 1715 and date of death 1763 and place.Virginia
• Thought to be Native American.
• Zollicoffer Bond, Octavia (November 28, 1909). "The Cockrill Family". The Tennessean. p. 34. Retrieved April 15, 2018 – via Newspapers.com . https://www.newspapers.com/image/119255588/?terms=%22john%2Bcockril...
• GOODLOE, GRANVILLE. “COCKRILL GENEALOGY.” The American Historical Magazine 3, no. 4 (1898): 331–46. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45340456.
• https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/118924/I1544/deborahbarbara-fox/indiv... Cites
• 1. Title: Email petehamilton@hotmail.com Author: Pete Hamilton Allied Lines Cockrill,Collinsworth,Johnson,Gordon
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• 8. Title: "Three Early Day NASHVILLE Families" Author: Mrsl Irene MpMprrow Hoss

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