This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#189657) Reuben F. Cocklin 1822-1910 <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=189657> AUTHOR: volunteer DATE: 4/11/2008 at 21:00:22 Surnames: COCKLIN,BECK,CHRISTIE,REXROTH THE WAPELLO TRIBUNE, Wapello, Iowa. Friday, March 11, 1910, Page 1 Reuben F. Cocklin was born in Perry county, Pa., March 30, 1822, and departed this life at his home in Grandview, Iowa, Saturday, February 26, 1910, aged 87 years, 10 months and 27 days. On Dec. 2, 1847, he was united in marriage to Margaret Beck at Clintonville, Venenigo county, Pa. In 1854 he removed to Iowa locating at Burlington, where he resided until the year 1859, when he removed to Grandview, residing there continuously until his death. Mr. Cocklin enlisted in the 19th Iowa Infantry in 1862, being a member of the company G in that regiment, serving three years to the close of the war. He was a brave and faithful soldier, and took a part in every engagement of his company and regiment. He was taken prisoner of war with his company at the fight of Sterling farm, near Morganza, La., in 1863, and remained in the rebel prison there for ten months until discharged. Mr. Cocklin is survived by five children. They are Leutica Christie, Clark Cocklin, Mary Bell Rexroth and Clinton Cocklin, all of Grandview, and George W. Cocklin, of Muscatine, Ia. Aside from his children, he is survived by his wife and one brother, Lewis Cocklin, of Griswold, Ia., and 13 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. He was always a loving and devoted father, striving to make a pleasant home. His long residence in the community had given him a very wide circle of friends, everyone of whom knew him as a generous neighbor and faithful friend ever ready to lend a helping hand to those in need. So while we have sorrow yet it is not as those who have no hope, for it is written, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."