Person:Francis Cockrell (1)

Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, 1900 census:^[3]

Cockrell, Frank M. Head 45 yrs (b. Aug 1854) (marr. 10 yrs) b. Texas (parents, b. Virginia) Comm. Agent (R.R.)

      Alice M. Wife 33 yrs (b. Oct 1866) (0 children) b. Pennsylvania (parents, b. Pennsylvania)

[+ 5 boarders]

Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, 1910 census:^[4]

Cockrell, Frank M. Head 55 yrs (marr. 20 yrs) b. Texas (parents, b. Virginia) Pres. (Scale Mfg.)

      Alice Wife 43 yrs (0 children) b. Pennsylvania (parents, b. Pennsylvania)

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Find A Grave.

   Frank M. Cockrell

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Texas, United States. Death Certificates, 1903-1982
   No. 50644.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Jackson, Missouri, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule: Twelfth Census of the United States, NARA Microfilm Publication T623. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration)
   ED 75, p. 7A, dwelling/family 102/135 (925 E. 8th St).
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Jackson, Missouri, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule: Thirteenth Census of the United States, NARA Microfilm Publication T624. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration)
   ED 168, p. 5A, dwelling/family ---/--- (3519 Campbell St).
5. ↑ Dallas, Texas, United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 43, p. 29A.

   There is a "Frank M. Cockrell," widowed, and close to the same age, boarding with a carpenter's family at 2651 East Side Ave in the industrial area, and listed as manager of an "electrical shop." Despite the similarities, I don't think this is him.

6.   Polk's Dallas (Texas) City Directory
   p. 107, 1886.

   Cockrell, Frank M. (S. H. Cockrell & Co.) vice-pres Dallas Cooperage Co. h Mrs. S. H. Cockrell

7.   Polk's Dallas (Texas) City Directory
   p. 173, 1891.

   Cockrell, Frank M. Capitalist (Pres., Cockrell Grain & Commission Co.; Pres., Dallas Elevator Co.; Pres. & Gen'l. Mgr., Todd Milling Co.; Pres., El Cabezon Mining Co.) office 301 Main r 239 S. Ervay cor Park

8.   Polk's Dallas (Texas) City Directory
   p. 457, 1933.

   Cockrell, Frank M r5735 Gaston av

9.   Dallas Morning News. (Dallas, Texas)
   Sect. 2, p. 1, 23 Nov 1935.

   Descendant of First Dallas Capitalist Dies Completing History of Local Pioneers
   Knew John Neely Bryan; Was at College When Lee Died
   
   Frank M. Cockrell, 81, only surviving son of Alexander and Sarah Cockrell, first capitalists of Dallas, and long interested in the history of his native city, died at 7:20 p.m. Friday at his home, 5735 Gaston. His death came just as he had practically completed his book-length history of "The Pioneers of Dallas."
   
   Mr. Cockrell's family is closely connected with the earliest history of Dallas and Texas. His father, a Kentuckian, settled here in 1848 after serving in the Mexican War. The original Cockrell league was west of the Trinity River toward Mountain Creek. In 1852 Alexander Cockrell bought the greater part of the ten townsite of Dallas from John Neely Bryan and began a notable career as real estate eveloper and investor in numerous enterprises of pre-Civil War days. Following his death his widow, Sarah Cockrell, managed the family affairs with remarkable skill and foresight. Before her death in 1892 she was head of a number of enterprises, incouding flour mills, a hotel, major interest in the old toll bridge over the Trinity River and other businesses.
   
   Knew City's Fouunder.
   
   Mr. Cockrell was perhaps the last citizen of Dallas who saw and knew John Neely Bryan, founder of the city and county of Dallas. As a child he often visited in the second Bryan home place east of the city. From Bryan personally and from other pioneer settlers he early became imbued with an interest in the lives and fortunes of the men and women who founded the community.
   
   He was educted in the local schools of Dallas and at Washington & Lee University. He was a student at the college in Virginia at the time its president, Gen. Robert E. Lee, died, and was one of the student guard of honor over the mausoleum where Lee is buried.
   
   Following his graduation from the law school of Washington & Lee University, Mr. Cockrell returned to Dallas. He entered the business world, however, rather than the practice of law. He was in the flour milling business for the greater part of his life, until his retirement a number of years ago.
   
   The discovery of gold in Alaska toward the end of the last century led Mr. Cockrell to go there. He lived in that country for three years, after which he returned to Kansas City to continue in the flour business. His wife, who was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Noble, died in 1911.
   
   Finishing History.
   
   Mr. Cockrell, long interested in the work of the Dallas Historical Society, had devoted his full time for the last few years in completing his history of the pioneers. In his home a specially lighted library and study was fixed up for him and his work. Here he wrote the book and prepared the manuscript for the publishers. For the last few months he ha been engaged in the reading of proofs and making correcions, an arduous task since he insisted on doing all the detail drudgery himself, in spite of failing eyesight.
   
   Some time ago Mr. Cockrell explained the purpose of the book which he saw practically completed, although it has not yet been released.
   
   "My motive," he said, "in writing the history has been to perpetuate the memory of the early settlers of Dallas, among whom were my own parents. The book embraces all the important events from the first visit of John Neely Bryan in 1839 until the year 1872. In other words it covers the pioneer period which more or less closed with the coming of the first railroad, the Houston & Texas Central."
   
   Mr. Cockrell is survived by four nephews, Clarence M. Cockrell, A Vardeman Cockrell, Frank N. Cockrell, all of Dallas, and Munroe F. Cockrell, Evanston, Ill., and two nieces, Mrs. Robert L. Kurth and Mrs. Sarah C. Green, Dallas.

10.   Dallas Morning News. (Dallas, Texas)
    Sect. 2, p. 1, 25 Nov 1935.

    Frank M. Cockrell and City Pioneers Lauded at Services
    Dallas Historian Paid Tribute by Pastor at Burial Ceremony
    
    Frank M. Cockrell, whose eighty-one years of life spanned almost the whole history of his native Dallas, was buried Sunday in Greenwood Cemetery, leaving behind him a record of his city's history that is touched in its presentation of facts with his personal knowledge of the events as they happened.
    
    Funeral services for Mr. Cockrell, who died Friday, were held at the family home, 5735 Gaston, where many of his contemporaries gathered to pay him their last respects.
    
    Dr. W. C. Martin, pastor, First Methodist Church, preached the funeral sermon, characterizing Mr. Cockrell as a link that connected the past with the present.
    
    "No matter what prominence Dallas may reach in the future," Dr. Martin said, "it owes a debt of gratitude to its early citizens who laid the foundations strong and well; to such men as this one, who insisted that spiritual values existed. Mr. Cockrell was pre-eminently a chronicler; he gathered the facts of early history and put them in a form to be preserved to posterity. Ot is an evidence of the youth of our city that the life of one man spanned it."
    
    Mr. Cockrell was perhaps the last citizen of Dallas who was a family friend of John Neely Bryan, founder of Dallas, and for the last several months he had reading proofs of his history, "The Pioneers of Dallas," which traces the city from its beginning.
    
    Clarence M. Cockrell, A. Vardeman Cockrell, Frank N. Cockrell, all of Dallas, and Munroe F. Cockrell, Evanston, Ill., are nephews of Mr. Cockrell, and Mrs. Robert L. Kurth and Mrs. Sarah C. Green, Dallas, nieces.