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Note: Despite the ring of conviction in the following write up, the index car ds do not reflect full confidence in this marriage. See other referenc es to Mr. Cocke as marrying Elizabeth Poythress, granddaughter of John Poy thress (BF) and Mary Batte [Batte 142]. Even her birth rank among siblin gs comes into question as Susanna is give the A among the cards.
Write up with Trial Chart of the Descendants of Francis Poythress Prepar ed April 1977 by R. Bolling Batte found in Virginia State Library, Archiv es Division Accession Number 29493 transcribed by John M. Poythress:
211 11 Elizabeth Poythress
Shown as a child of Joshua and Elizabeth (Robertson) Poythress in the not es on the Robertson family made by Gov. Wyndham Robertson. Elizabeth (Robe rtson) Poythress was the governor�s aunt. He certainly would have had pers onal knowledge of her children. Several printed accounts of the Cocke a nd Poythress families state that James Cocke, son of Benjamin, married Eli zabeth Poythress, daughter of Joshua, without identifying the Joshua, a nd that they had a daughter Elizabeth Cocke who married Jacob Hoffma n. As to this last couple there can be no doubt. In 1955 I ran across a mo nument tin the cemetery in Leesburg inscribed: "In memory of Jacob Hoffman /and his wife/ Elizabeth Cocke/and their children/erected by their grand-d aughter/1928." If the mother of this Elizabeth Cocke had indeed been the d aughter of any Joshua Poythress at all she would have to have been the dau ghter of Joshua 211 1. She could not possibly been the daughter of Josh ua 211 and Mary Short, for their daughter Elizabeth (as we shall see late r) married Simon Fraser in 1775. Elizabeth Poythress who married James Coc ke is said to have died in 1800. Tentatively I place her here."
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I have vacillated between keeping her attached and letting her drift, b ut until the matter has been fully examined at the fundamental source refe rence or new information comes to light, I will leave her attached as a sp ouse of this James Cocke. Whether she is the mother of her children is an other matter.
It is possible that James Cocke married both Elizabeth's. It seems unlike ly that the matter would not have excited family historians of the a ge to make note, but many things have not been noted.
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