Mount Pleasant, Surry County, VA; William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 2 Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Mount Pleasant in Surry County William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Oct., 1906), pp. 87-88. Page 87. MOUNT PLEASANT IN SURRY COUNTY. At Mount Pleasant, in Surry County, formerly the residence of the Cocke family, is a large monument of prismatic shape, bearing the following inscription: NORTH SIDE. John Hartell Cocke =Elizabeth Kennon Born 25 Nov. 1749 Born 13 July, 1755 Died 9 Feb. 1791 Died 10 July, 1791 Sally =Nicholas Faulcon Elizabeth =Arthur Sinclair Mary Kennon =John Faulcon Ann Hartwell =M. M. Robinson Rebecca Kennon Robert Kennon Died in infancy Martha Ruffin Page 88. SOUTH SIDE. by Elizabeth Hartwell = Richard Cocke = By Elizabeth Ruffin Hartwell Ann = William Browne Benjamin, died unmarried of Four Mile Tree Elizabeth = Thornton Lucy = William Ruffin of Surry Rebecca = Richard Taliaferro Nathaniel = Thompson of Halifax Richard = Anne Claiborne John = Claiborne of Sussex Hartwell Cocke = Anne Ruffin John, Hartwell, Richard, Benjamin. Born Nov. 25, 1747 Died Feb, 9, 1791 Hartwell, Martha = D. Coleman, Robert Mary = Ed. Archer, Anne = Thomas Gray Elizabeth = Wm. Taliaferro. EAST SIDE. This stone Erected A. D. 1853 by John Hartwell Cocke, of Bremo, Fluvanna, Son of John Hartwell Cocke and Elizabeth Kennon; And by Philip St. George Cocke, of Belmeade, Powhatan, son of John Hartwell Cocke of Bremo and Ann Blaws Barraud. WEST SIDE. Honor Thy Father and thy Mother