Bio:  M. A. Cockerham, Red River Parish
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LA GenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Feb 2000.

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M. A. Cockerham, of Red River Parish, was born in this State June 6, 1852.  He
was the youngest in a family of ten children born to John and Rebecca (Buil)
Cockerham, natives of South Carolina and Mississippi, respectively.  His
father had been a farmer all his like, and at an early day emigrated to
Louisiana.  He was a member of the Masonic order, Apostle Lodge No. 36, and
served as representative of Catahoula Parish for a number of years.  He died
June 19, 1880, his wife having died in February, 1866.  They were worthy
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Our subject was educated in
Greensboro, Ala.  Deciding to fight life's battles for himself, at the age of
twenty-one years, he took a position as clerk, which he held for six years,
when he decided to turn his attention to farming, and started out with 520
acres of land, 350 acres of which are now under cultivation.  He was married
October 14, 1875, to Miss Maggie E. Scheen, who was also born and raised in
this State, and they now have an interesting family of seven children: 
Steave, Percy, Henry, Clide, Nora, Viva and Lewis.  His wife is a worthy
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.  He is a member of the Masonic
order, Apostle Lodge No. 36, as was his father before him, having become a
Royal Arch Mason, representing his order in the Grand Lodge one year, and
commands the respect of all with whom he comes in contact.

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