NameMartha COLE
Birth Date1806
Birth PlaceRandolph County, North Carolina
Death Date12 May 1886 Age: 80
Burial PlaceEagle Point, Jackson County, Oregon, John Mathews Pioneer Cemetery
Spouses
Birth Date29 Nov 1829
Birth PlaceBoone County, Missouri
Death Date24 Feb 1894 Age: 64
Death PlaceJackson County, Oregon
Burial PlaceEagle Point, Jackson County, Oregon, John Mathews Pioneer Cemetery
OccupationCW Soldier, Co. 1, 1st Oregon Infantry,Reverend
Notes for Martha COLE
MAIDEN NAME: COLE [not nickname]
FIRST HUSBANDS LAST NAME: WOOLEY
SECOND HUSBANDS LAST NAME: SHOCK
ON MARKER: Martha Shock WOOLEY
Daughter of Rachel Williams and Mark Cole of Randolph County, North Carolina. She married Rev. Hawkins Shock and Michael Wooley; all her children were with Wooley.
On Find A Grave.
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Notes for Hawkins G. (Spouse 1)
CO. 1.
1st Oregon Inf.
Post 47 Medford GAR
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Hawkins G. Shock, son of David Hurst Shock and Cynthia Gibson Shock, left his Boone County home for Oregon.
Paternal grandparents:
John Shock (1771-1854)
Mary Polly Sheley (1779-1863
Rev. Hawkins G. Shock wrote this song in 1854 & sent it back to his family in Boone County Missouri.
"Then I parted away from you
In sorrow grief and trouble too
You gave to me your parting hand
And wished me safe to Oregon
And on our journey we did steer
Over hills & valleys & rivers clear
Through a desert place & a barren land
We steered our course for Oregon
When we got there there was ice & snow
It rained, it hailed & winds did blow
And some of us did weep and cry
Staying here with cold we all shall die
But thank the Lord here health we found
We have landed here both safe and sound
To a wholesome place and a welcome soil
Here is milk here wine both corn & oil
Ten thousand new graves we found
Built up with Fremont works around
Which makes us think in days of old
Some Christian race has passed this place
I have nothing strange to write to you
Since preaching is here & religion too
We are here in peace and all as one
With the Indian tribes of Oregon
My love to you I can't unfold
It is like some ring that made of gold
Its round its pure i has no end
So is my love to you my friend."
On Find A Grave.
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