Simon Cockrell (1745-1835) was an American Baptist minister and politician from

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Early life

Simon Cockrell was born in 1745.Cockrell, Simon (1745-1835)

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Career

In 1780, he was allowed to preach the Baptist faith in

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, when the official religion was the

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, as the

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was part of the

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until 1788. By 1782, he was given a license to marry in the same county.Lewis Preston Summers, ''Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800'', The Overmountain Press, 1992, p. 111

/ref> He served as a member of the

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from 1791 to 1793, and again from 1798 to 1800.

Death

He died in 1835 in

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, where he was buried.

References

1745 births 1835 deaths People from Washington County, Virginia People from Jackson County, Missouri Baptist ministers from the United States Members of the Virginia House of Delegates Baptists from Virginia {{Virginia-delegate-stub