Williams Creek and the other tract was on or near Beaverdam. The Wilkes County tract was on or near Harding Creek. In 1818, Hezekiah added another tract on or near Williams Creek. In each year, he paid for one poll, himself, and owned 13 slaves. 9 Hezekiah made his will in 1817. He did not mention Eliza probably because she had already died. When she died and where she died and was buried are not known. In the will, Hezekiah identified Elizabeth as his daughter. She was single. She had two married sisters and two brothers. Elizabeth’s dowry- like legacy was: “I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Elizabeth Cooksey, one Negro fellow Stephen, one Negro Wench Ester, and her two children Davy and Sudy, one Negro Wench Bet, one Negro [fellow] Harry and their increase; four Milch Cows, one Horse, also one Bed & furniture, and her Saddle and Bridle, which are already in her pofsession; together with all her clothing or apparel; to her heirs and afsigns, forever.” 10 In 1820 Elizabeth no longer lived with her father. 11 Instead, she lived in the William Parks household in nearby Lincoln County. She was enumerated as female age 16-25 and William, male age 26-44. The other household members possibly were an overseer and William’s child from an earlier marriage. William Parks owned 14 slaves. 12 Add probably was his wife. Hezekiah died in Warren County before 3 January 1825, the date witnesses swore they had watched him years earlier make his mark. 13 His place of burial is not known. 9 “Georgia, Property Tax Digests, 1793-1892,” database, Ancestry.com (access through participating libraries : 10 April 2019), images, Hezekiah Cooksey in Capt. Griers District No. 158, 1817 & 1818; citing unpaginated Warren County, Georgia, Tax Digests, 1817 & 1818, Cooksey image 66 of 78 (1817) and image 77 of 87 (1818). Also, Paul K. Graham, Atlas of East and Coastal Georgia Watercourses and Militia Districts (Decatur, Georgia: The Genealogy Company, 2010), 49. 10 Hezekiah Cooksey will, DAR documentation file, Reba Bradley Hicks, National no. 592046. 11 1820 U.S. census, Captain Robert Hills District, Warren County, Georgia, p. 298, Hezekiah Cooksey Senior; digital image, Ancestry.com (access through participating libraries : 27 February 2019), citing NARA microfilm publication M33, roll 7. 12 1820 U.S. census, Lincoln County, Georgia, p. 165, William Parks; digital image, Ancestry.com (access through participating libraries : 27 February 2019), citing NARA microfilm publication M 33, roll 7. 13 Oath of witnesses to Hezekiah Cooksey will, 3 January 1825, in documentation file supporting membership application of Reba Bradley Hicks, National no. 592046, on Hezekiah Cooksey, approved December 1974; National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Office of the Registrar General, Washington, D.C.
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