When Elizabeth Cockrell was born on 27 October 1824, in Huntington Township, Ross, Ohio, United States, her father, Peter Cockrell, was 32 and her mother, Catharine Riley, was 27. She married William Chesnut on 10 June 1846, in Ross, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Bourneville, Ross, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Twin Township, Ross, Ohio, United States in 1910. She died on 13 February 1916, in Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, United States.
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English: nickname from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English cokerel ‘young cock’ (see Cocke ).
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