Surry County-Petersburg City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cockes, Sarah C. Scarborough, 1963 

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SARAH SCARBOROUGH COCKES

  Mrs. Sarah Scarborough Cockes, 81, widow of Obie L. Cockes, of 231 Elm St., 
died at 8:30 a.m. today in Petersburg General Hospital, after a week’s 
illness.  She was born in Surry County, a daughter of the late Walter and 
Mildred Gwaltney Scarborough, and had made her home in Petersburg for 33 years.

  She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Gilbert Collett and Mrs. Ernest 
Lockett; a son, J. Wilton Cockes, all of Petersburg; a sister, Mrs. Susie S. 
Ames, of Richmond; a half-sister, three half-brothers, four grandchildren and 
four great-grandchildren.

  Funeral arrangements were incomplete this morning and will be announced 
later by J.T. Morriss & Son.


Sarah Catherine (SCARBOROUGH; Mrs. Obie L.) COCKES, of Petersburg, 
b. 8 Nov 1881, Surry Co., d. 10 Apr 1963, Petersburg, 
interred in Blandford Cemetery*, Petersburg, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

Additional information: 

*Find a Grave Mem. #61296652 

Her widowed step-mother, "Rhoda Leigh" Rosa Lee (DEWELL COCKES) 2m. Edward Lee 
   TENCH, 28 Aug 1913, in Dendron.  They are also buried at Blandford. 

Her father, James Walter SCARBOROUGH (1849-1912), is buried in 
   Union Christian Church Cemetery, Surry Co. 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 11266 (Petersburg #185). 

Her husband's (donated, 1959) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/c220o1ob.txt 


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